ITV will air a one-off drama based on the life of comedian Tommy Cooper starring David Threlfall in the lead role with Amanda Redman as his wife Gwen.
In 1993 comedian Les Dawson was just two weeks away from recording An Audience with Les Dawson, the popular LWT series which saw personalities perform in front of an invited celebrity audience. Now 20 years on ITV are to air Les Dawson: An Audience That Never Was which will use content planned for the...
The controversial remake of Prisoner: Cell Block H entitled Wentworth will air in the UK on Channel 5. Prisoner fans will be hoping they treat the series with more respect than TNT’s American reboot of Dallas which has been shunted to a graveyard slot.
Sky 1 firefighting drama The Smoke has gone into production with a line up of actors ranging from such series as Shameless to Battlestar Galactica.
We all miss Cilla Black and her Blind Date don’t we? Well we at ATV Today certainly do. And while there have been many series since, none have managed to match-up to LWT’s classic. However there are still some worthy of a watch and Sky’s Sing Date puts a talent twist on the dating telly...
ITV have announced that Hugh Fraser, Phillip Jackson and Pauline Moran will return to Poirot in the network’s adaptation of The Big Four.
ATV’s daytime saga The Cedar Tree is to be released on DVD.
No, it’s not one of those ITV series where a well-known personality performs to a star filled celebrity audience. Can you really see Ken Livingstone telling jokes like Ken Dodd, reeling with one-liners as Dame Edna (pictured) manages or singing like Shirley Bassey? It is however a series of theatre...
The former home of ITV franchise LWT has been bought by ITV for £56 million.
It was 2002 when ITV said farewell to its regional branding, and while they replaced it with ‘ITV1’ many still referred to the output by a previous name. With yesterdays re-launch of the station as, er, ITV, we’ve picked our Top Ten best regional idents from the past. From the wobbly Tyne Tees...
