Coronation Street's First Lady, Betty Turpin (well, she's called Williams now, but she'll always be 'Turpin' to me) is 90 years old today!

Betty Driver (that's her real name, in case you didn't know) has been playing the Queen of Hotpot since 1969! Originally, she auditioned for the role of Hilda Ogden but lost out because producers wanted someone 'who did not weigh as much'.

In just under half an hour, ITV will unveil the latest news studio. In fairness, it looks a bit like Manchester drug den of yore, The Hacienda nightclub. Of course, with that being part-owned by Tony Wilson, it has a link to the news room (for those who don't know, Mr Wilson started out as a news reader on Granada TV). So, to celebrate the new gaff, let us have a look at the ITN newsrooms over the years... and boy, they're a lot swisher than they used to be! Just click on the image to view!

I have a bit of an odd relationship with Ugly Betty. Whenever I watch it, I enjoy it, but I don't make any time for it, and I'd completely forgotten that the third series was starting on e4 and Channel 4 last week. So, to try to garner some enthusiasm for this silly show that would be described - were it a novel - as 'magic realism', here's a gallery of snaps from the second episode which airs this week. If you've lost track of what's happening, Wilhelmina is back in charge at Mode, and has offered a newly re-engerised Betty a job as her assistant. Click on the pic below to get going...

There's a bit of stigma around watching the BBC's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show - people think it's dull, I guess, or at least a little too sedate. But in these fast-moving, stressful times, isn't 'sedate' a good thing? Isn't a nice, calming wander through a beautiful garden precisely what the doctor ordered? I certainly think so, and if we can't get there in person, at least we can plonk ourselves in front of the TV and have the flora brought to us. There's a preview show tonight at 6pm, and it's on for an hour everyday at midday on BBC One, and another hour-long programme each night at 8pm on BBC Two. In the meantime, click on the lupins for a gallery of pictures from last year's event.

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If you're looking for something meaty to watch this Bank Holiday weekend, I would point you in the direction of Endgame - the story of the secret meetings that took place between the ANC's Thabo Mbeki and Afrikana Professor Willie Esterhuyse that paved the way for dialogue between the apartheid government and the ANC, the demolition of apartheid and the eventual release of Nelson Mandela. It's got a great cast - Chiwetel Ejiojor, William Hurt, Johnny Lee Miller, Mark Strong and The Wire's Clark Peters - and is riveting stuff. It's on Channel 4, Monday 4 May at 9pm and you can have a look at some images from the film by clicking on the one below.

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During the past few weeks, there has been various rumblings in the redtop press speculating as to who will be the next batch of sleb contestants to throw themselves into the Hell's Kicthen - Marco Pierre White's cooking reality show, where he gets to scream and swear at his proteges until they cook up to scratch. What we did know was the excellent Claudia Winkles is taking over the presenting duties, and that Danielle Bux - model and Gary Lineker's Mrs - would be taking part. Now the full line-up has been revealed and, apart from Adrian Edmondson below, you can see who will be occupying your living rooms for a couple of weeks, in a couple of weeks time (although a report in today's Sun suggests that Dynasty's Linda Evans has pulled out already). Click on Ade to see who's who.

Yes, ok, so I am now officially That Annoying Person who latches onto something a year after everyone else and then bangs on about how good it is. But then, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't spread the word, now would I, so I have a water-tight excuse (if you ignore the fact that it's also my job to keep up with these things, of course...) Anyway, The Inbetweeners is wonderful, and in celebration of its witty, clever writing and engaging performances, here's a little gallery of the stars of the show. Click on Will's face to enter a world of awkwardness and misplaced bravado...

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Series three of human versus dinosaur mash-up series, Primeval, starts up this weekend (Saturday 28 March, 7.20pm) with ten new stories all featuring Hannah Spearitt in her underpants. Well, not strictly true. Series three's opener sees the team take on a super crocodile, which is causing havoc in the British Museum. I don't blame it. Have you seen the queues at the British Museum these days? For good, wholesome Primeval images from the first ep, click on the one below.

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A little bit earlier I posted up the details of the new contestants for The Apprentice. Here's the second part. You can click on the image below to complete the latest shower, but here they are: 1. Paula Jones (29, Walsall, Human Resource Consultant); 2. Phillip Taylor (29, Country Durham, Estate Agent); 3. Rocky Andrews (21, North Yorkshire, Sandwich Chain Owner); 4. Yasmina Siadatan (27, London, Restaurateur). All this lot will be in action next Wednesday (25 March) on BBC One.

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What a nice little palate-whetter last week's Comic Relief Does The Apprentice was. Now it's time for the real thing, when the series proper starts next week. Which is good news, because TV has taken a bit of a breather recently after the flurry of really great stuff during the early, winter months of 2009. The Apprentice represents Must See TV, for many differing reasons, so it can't come soon enough. It's already generating some press too - in today's Sun (quoting the Radio Times), Surralan has a go at Jeremy Paxman, after Paxo said the show was full of cocky know-it-alls. That'd be good - Surralan and Paxo in a bitch fight. Anyway, enough of that, here are the contestants, who we'll see in next week's show. Click on the image below to see all... but here's a run down: 1. Anita Shah (35, Birmingham, Lawyer); 2. Ben Clarke (22, Belfast, Trainee Stockbroker); 3. Debra Barr (24, Surrey, Senior Sales Consultant); 4. Howard Ebison (24, Derby, Retail Business Manager); 5. James McQuillan (32, Surrey, Senior Commercial Manager); 6. Kate Walsh (27, Hampshire, Licensing Development Manager); 7. Kimberly Davis (33, London, Marketing Consultant); 8. Lorraine Tighe (36, Kent, National Accounts Manager); 9. Majid Nagra (28, Coventry, Business Development Manager); 10. Mona Lewis (28, Kent, Senior Business Manager); 11. Noorul Choudhury (33, Rochdale, Science Teacher).

Despite all the hype, Our John found the first episode of Red Riding to be a bit disappointing. But have no fear, the second episode - 1980 - is on tomorrow night (Channel 4, Thursday 12 March, 9pm) and, again, it has some British acting heaveyweight - there's the brilliant Paddy Considine as a super cop sent in to root out the corruption and Maxine Peake as his colleague and ex-lover. Should be good, could be great... 1980 has the Yorkshire Ripper investigation at its heart. To have a look at some image from the episode, click on the picture below.

For all our Red Riding news and reviews, go here.

Everyone's girding their loins for the drama event of the year tomorrow night - the first part of Channel 4's Red Riding trilogy (1974, Thursday 5 March, 9pm). It has got Boy A's Andrew Garfield in it, Vicky Christina Barcelona's brilliant Rebecca Hall in it, it has got David Morrissey in it, Warren Clarke, it's got got Sean Bean in very tight rollneck jumpers in it and it has got loads of other actors you'll recognise from Life On Mars in it. Let's take a look - click on the picture below and be transported into a world when men were men. Or something.

The TV producer from hell, Jonathan Pope, returns to ITV1 in Moving Wallpaper tonight (Friday 27 February, 9pm), and even if everything around him sucks, it's almost guaranteed that watching the brilliant Ben Miller hamming it up will be a joy. Kelly Brook joins the cast this series, who's usually a lot of fun if not the world's greatest actress, and Raquel Cassidy, who plays Rick's smug wife in Lead Balloon, returns as the suit trying to ruin Jonathan's career. For piccies of these delightful people, and some zombies, click on Mr Miller below...

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ITV2 has been trying to position itself as ITV1's edgier, cooler little brother for some time now, and as such a lot of their new comedies end up on the digital channel. Katy Brand and Keith Lemon have found their home there (make of that what you will) but there have been some rather more interesting commissions such as Comedy Cuts. On Wednesday, another of these new comedies, FM, begins, which is based around the lives of the Nathan Barleys who inhabit an XFM-style indie radio station. With Chris O'Dowd and the always delightful Nina Sosanya on board, it's got to be worth a look. For now, click on the photo below for more pretty piccies...

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Tonight on Channel 4 (Friday 13 April, 10pm) sees the start of a new sitcom with massive potential. All the previews I've read say it's very rude and very funny, so let's just look at the quality. Stephen Magan. Nice. Sharon Horgan. Nice. Anthony Head. OK. So far so pretty good, but you have to admit it has been a long time since a sitcom took us by storm. There's a lot riding on this, and I hope it succeeds. Anyway, Free Agents is set in the media world of talent agents (surely ripe for ripping apart) and features Mangan and Horgan as two emotional f***-ups who threaten to get together, but don't. Click on the image below to be transported into the world of the Free Agents.

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ITV1 is carving a really nice little niche out for itself at the moment. It's the channel to go to for short-run, interesting dramas and the latest starts next Monday (Monday 2 February, 9pm). It stars Ruper Penry-Jones, the ever-scowling Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton in a new take on the Ripper myth/story. When a grisly murder takes places in the wastelands of London's Eastend, smart and posh DI Joseph Chandler gets fast-tracked onto the case, he soon finds out he doesn't know what he's doing. He's not getting much help from his experienced partner, Ray Miles, but they start to bond when they find more murders replicating the original Ripper's methods. Together, and with Steve Pemberton's eccentric Ripper tour operator, they try to crack the case. To get you in the mood, click on the image below and be transported into a world of... well, actually click on the image below to see more images.

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Paris Hilton's British Best Friend (ITV2, Thursday 29 January, 9pm) is built for people to slag it off. Why else would someone make something like this? Not content with being famous for having absolutely zero talent and an embarrassment to the human race, Paris has taken it upon herself to star in her own reality TV show to look for a best friend in Britain. A partner in crime who can accompany her as she navigates the London party scene, if you will. I don't know what's worse or tragic - Paris herself for having to look for a friend in a television show format (is your life so empty and vacuous you have to use television to search for a friend?), television itself for making such a show, or the 12 numbskulls who thought it'd be a good idea to take part. Here they are... be prepared. Click on the image below to see the full horror of it all. Just look at the state of some of them...

T4 has has always been a bit of a hotbed of TV presenting talent over the years. Dermot O'Leary, Vernon Kay, June Sarpong, Steve Jones, Simon Anstell, Miquita Oliver and Alexa Chung. OK, so I'll revise my hotbed of TV presenting talent comment. However, the arrival of a new presenter into the T4 studio is big(ish) news in some quarters. The latest member of this illustrious almumni is former model, Jameela Jamil. There's no news yet of when she'll take up her new duties. Click on the image below to see more of the newbie, but my initial impressions are this - looks lovely, but also looks a teeny weeny bit like Alexa Chung.