British Television Newsletter

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to another burst of TV news and gossip. 

New articles on site now:

Feature on Wire in The Blood- Dr Tony Hill wins poll as the most popular of Robson Green's characters:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43731.asp

Don't forget to vote in the new poll on your favourite screen detective:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43354.asp

Hot news from the box: 

Big news for costume drama fans, as Andrew Davies (Bleak House) is set to adapt another Dickens classic, Little Dorrit, for BBC1:

 http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/12573/bbc1-to-adapt-little-dorrit

Channel Five is set to launch two new free to air channels. One will feature US shows like Law & Order and CSI, and the other, Five life, will target a female audience. 

Watch out- the Emu's back ! If you grew up watching the antics of Rod Hull and his attack puppet Emu, you'll be thrilled to see the vicious bird back for his own show with Hull's 28 year old son Toby.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=389916&in_page_id=1773

Ricky Gervais is all set to make the kids chuckle with his new children's show, based on his book the Flanimals.

Normally mild mannered Peter Pan of Pop, Sir Cliff Richard gives swearing chef Gordon Ramsay a good telling off. Ramsay got Richard to diss wine from his own cellar in a taste test. The mortified musician (according to the Daily Mail) told Ramsay to "go and f*** himself" Now then, Cliff...

So much for winning the Best Actor in the British Soap awards, Ross Kemp has left the show again:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tvandfilm/soapbox/tm_objectid=17167592%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=bin%2dand%2dgone-name_page.html

Want to own a bit of soap history ? Former Coronation Street script writer Martin Flood-Walsh is set to auction some real treasures- including confession letters by  two Street murderers: Tricky Dicky Hillman and Katy Harris. 

That's all for this week,

I hope to hear from you sometime soon, either in the forum or in response to this email message. I thrive on your feedback.

Pam Lawrence, British Television Editor

britishtelevision@bellaonline.com

http://britishtelevision.bellaonline.com

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