Mar
23
Lipsy clothing was first sold inside major stores such as Selfridges, but a management buy out by Next Plc in 2008 gave it the clout to expand and the company started opening its own shops in October of that year, the first one being in the Brent Cross shopping centre in North Shields. In 2007, …
Mar
20
Two judges on the television show Britain’s Got Talent, David Walliams and Simon Cowell, were recently interviewed by Jonathan Ross on his ITV chat show. It is reported that after the filming of the episode, Mr Cowell asked that certain portions of it were edited out because he was being mocked by Mr Walliams. Mr …
Mar
09
The head of the Advertising Standards Authority has recently given the go-ahead for the release of an advertisement by Agent Provocateur, the upmarket lingerie company. When the advert was originally released it attracted a complaint from a viewer describing it as disturbing and misogynistic, but the ASA has said that it is unlikely to cause …
Feb
11
Anneka Rice, the former presenter of Treasure Hunt, is currently talking to the BBC about coming back to host a new prime-time television show after nearly 20 years off the TV screens. Ms Rice became famous in the 1980s for the Treasure Hunt television show and is looking to return to television. Reports have said …
Feb
11
One of the most popular television shows on television is due to end in April after completing eight seasons. House, the television show, starring Hugh Laurie as the brilliant Dr Gregory House, will have completed a run of 175 episodes when it comes to an end this year. The executive producers of the television show …
Jan
26
New numbers show that television viewing figures in 2011 have matched the previous high recorded in 2010. Research carried out by BARB, the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, found that the average Briton watched just over four hours of TV each day, 90% of it at the time of the original broadcast, despite more and more …
Jan
20
There are millions of worldwide fans of the hit television period drama ‘Downton Abbey’, and they now have a chance to discover the truth about the building where the show is filmed, Highclere Castle. This magnificent castle is the location for all the external scenes of the hugely successful and Emmy winning series. For £7900, …
Dec
31
Ofcom were approached back in 2009 by the BBC who were seeking permission to add “digital rights management” locks to their high-definition broadcasts. The idea was that these locks would scramble some of the information that is used to decode video, and the only way to get the de-scrambling key was for manufacturers to submit …
Sep
28
The Fades is the new science fiction drama that has been written by Jack Thorne and the show, to be shown on BBC3, looks to be very promising. Thorne knows that any sci-fi drama that is going to be any good will always have a great deal of questions and very few answers and he …
Aug
20
Scarborough will see the final stage of the digital switchover complete today. People are being told to change to digital channels as the final remaining terrestrial channels have permanently ceased transmission. The process has taken two weeks and last night all terrestrial channels were taken off the air with transmission of channels expected to resume …