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X Factor: What happened to the past winners?

So James Arthur has fought off double-pronged attacks from a 9-foot tall, perma-tanned, blubbing scouser and a midget bible-basher with weirdly angular hair to become the winner of X Factor 2012. And doesn’t he seem delighted about it? No, he doesn’t. He just continues to shuffle around sulkily like a grumpy teenager who’s been told [...]...More

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Charlie Brooks condemns I’m A Celebrity for going ‘too far’

The new I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Queen of the Jungle Charlie Brooks has lashed out at the show’s producers for involving her daughter in the one of the show’s trials. Brooks’s daughter Kiki was hidden behind one of four doors in a jungle trial while she and Eric Bristow tried to [...]...More

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BBC and ITV confirm their Christmas Day schedules

Although these days there are a million TV channels and programmes can be recorded or viewed on catch-up with ease, there is still a great deal of interest in what the BBC and ITV have got planned for us on Christmas Day. Well today we found out. The BBC lead with the now-traditional Doctor Who [...]...More

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New BBC Red button options lets you catch up with off-air channels

The BBC has launched a new Connected Red Button service. Hitting Virgin Media’s TiVo box first, it adds a host of new functionality to the established digital TV feature. First up, the new Connected Red Button will let you catch programmes on channels that are off-air, including the BBC children’s channels, BBC Three and BBC [...]...More

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The 10 Best Musical Moments On TV

Forget the X Factor, forget the Brit Awards, forget Top Of The Pops (what do you mean, you have already?) – when it comes to great, memorable musical moment s on your tellybox all of them come from non-musical shows. Supposed ‘musical programming’ is all well an good but it’s the times when the music [...]...More

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Helen Flanagan booted out of I’m A Celebrity with the worst bushtucker performance. Ever!

Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan became the latest contestant to leave the jungle maintaining that she was proud of her performance despite having achieved the worst performance in the bushtucker trials ever. Appearing a little dazed and confused as she left the camp to be interviewed about her time on the show, Flanagan described [...]...More

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The 10 Best I’m A Celeb Moments

With the current series of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here proving a little thin on classic moments we thought we’d trawl the archives to find some highlights from previous series. Now, admittedly, this list contains a lot of eating trials but, let’s be honest, they are always the best bits. And we [...]...More

RIP Larry Hagman. Dallas’ JR Ewing hangs up his cowboy hat

ALL IMAGES: PRESS ASSOCIATION Larry Hagman has died at the age of 81.  The actor who spent more than a decade playing TV villain JR Ewing suffered from cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. He died in hospital on Friday afternoon according to a family statement. Born in Texas, Hagman battled alcoholism for many years. Even on the [...]...More

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The truth about Brian Conley’s I’m A Celeb exit finally revealed

After days of avoidance, obfuscation and evasion the real reason why Brian Conley left I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here has been revealed, by Conley himself. Speaking on Daybreak he said that producers had removed him from the show after he refused to take prescribed anti-depressants. Conley was only allowed to take part [...]...More

Bill Tarmey’s funeral details announced

The funeral of the late Bill Tarmey will take next Tuesday at the Albion United Reform Church in Ashton-Under-Lyme, Greater Manchester. Bill died at his home in Tenerife on November the 9th at the age of 71, he was, of course, famous for playing legendary Corrie character Jack Duckworth. His family have asked that, in [...]...More

Comedians Morecambe and Wise recreated by artists as, er, breakfast. Why, of course.

Here’s Morecambe and Wise as you’ve never seen them before – as breakfast. OK it’s a stunt to raise awareness for TV channel’s Gold latest tribute to the late, great comedians, Bring Me Morecambe and Wise. But as stunts go it’s quite impressive.  The theme for the picture follows a survey of 2000 comedy fans [.....More

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The 10 best Christmas TV adverts

‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ sang Andy Williams sang of Xmas. It’s certainly the best time of the year for TV ads. Traditionally, the big firms pull out all the stops in an attempt to grab attention in the build up to the festive period. Big budgets, big stars and big piles [...]...More

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A Beginner’s Guide To Helen Flanagan – All you need to know about the jungle babe

She may be currently ‘wowing’ the nation by wearing a series of very revealing bikinis and crying at the sight of anything that comes within 10 feet of her, but Helen Flanagan did, in fact, have a life before joining I’m A Celebrity Get me Out Of Here. Not a very varied one, but a [...]...More

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Have I Got News For You makes another attempt to break US TV

British TV institution Have I Got News For You has been piloted in a third attempt to sell the show to the US.   The BBC show, which features long-term team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, has been made by production company Hat Trick since 1990. They have made two previous unsuccessful attempts to [...]...More

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Coronation Street’s Jack Duckworth dies. RIP Bill Tarmey

One of Corrie’s greatest stars, the man who played Jack Duckworth for more than 30 years, Bill Tarmey has passed away. Bill left the soap in 2010 to spend more time with his family after suffering with heart problems for many years. Details of his death are not yet available. Bill Tarmey joined Corrie after [...]...More

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Meet the I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here contestants

It’s that time again. A smatterin of C list celebrities don khaki and spend a couple of weeks sweating, rowing, starving, sulking and eating animal testicles. I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here is back. Ace. The show starts on Sunday at 9PM on ITV1 but today the line-up was officially announced and the [...]...More

Felix Baumgartner Breaks The Speed Of Sound

Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier and most YouTube live streams ever

Regardless of what you think about the ridiculously named Felix Baumgartner (translates as tree gardener apparently) crazy stunt, there’s no denying the guy has got some balls doing what he did. Jumping out a balloon-powered space capsule from 128,000 feet, spinning apparently out of control for part of the plunge – yet still not passin...More

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Lots of Laughs

Sponsored post Summer may be over but that doesn’t mean it has to be all doom and gloom from now on. With a stellar line-up of comedy in London this autumn, you can book into one of the capital’s many hotels and enjoy a whole weekend of laughter. From now until Christmas, many of the [...]...More

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Ed Milliband shares his ‘one nation’ vision to Coronation Street’s Rovers Return regulars

Labour leader Ed Miliband chose to end his week at his party’s conference in Manchester with a visit to Weatherfield. Mr Miliband went into the Rovers to meet Michelle Collins (Stella Price), Catherine Tyldesley (Eva Price) and Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre) and out on the cobbles he spoke to Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop and Malcolm [...]...More