William Roache, better known as Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow, is to be honoured at a Guinness World Records ceremony in New York next month. Roache, 78, has played the character for almost 50 years, and is the only actor who has been with the soap since its inception in 1960. As such, he will officially [...]
A pianist who has no arms, and who plays the piano using only his toes, has won China’s Got Talent after bringing the audience to a standing ovation with his version of James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful. Both of Liu Wei’s arms had to be amputated when he suffered a severe electrical shock at the age [...]
Satellite broadcaster Sky outbids the BBC to net stylish 60s period drama Mad Men.
A new TV fantasy series promises to tear up genre conventions about hobbits and wizards and plunge audiences into a world of intrigue, betrayal and violence.
27-year-old Emma Gillespie, who performs as Emma’s Imagination, has became the first ever winner of Sky 1’s Must Be The Music. The Scottish singer-songwriter, who prior to the competition had been performing as a busker on the streets of Glasgow, beat off stiff competition to win the contest (and a £100,000 prize) in front of [...]
William Shatner via last.fm Popular Twitter feed,’Sh*t My Dad Says‘ is to become a TV sitcom, with William Shatner playing the titular dad. The feed was launched in August 2009 by 29-year old Justin Halpern who used Twitter to post the bizarre musings of his elderly father. The stream now has more than one million [...]
The BBC have released a new Doctor Who trailer ahead of the upcoming airing of season 5. Featuring Daleks, Weeping Angels and more the trailer borrows heavily from the new Doctor Who artwork – or maybe it’s the other way round! – but the trailer does offer a little more insight as to how Matthew [...]
SFX have revealed a new image for the upcoming series of Doctor Who which depicts new Doctor Matthew Smith and his assistant, Amy Pond together for the first time. In the image the duo are seen to be caught in a swirling vortex – not unlike the vortex seen in the old John Pertwee/Tom Baker [...]
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