May 11, 2019 1 Comment Broadcasting, Showbiz Mike Watkins and Lynn Swift

Radio 2 celebrate Tony Hatch’s 80th birthday

Ken Bruce will host a special edition of Friday Night is Music Night wishing a very happy 80th birthday to one of the country’s greatest songwriters, Tony Hatch.

February 18, 2013 Broadcasting, Flashback, Special Reports Mike Watkins

Remembering Derek Batey: The Mr & Mrs Years

ATV Today takes a look back at the long running ITV game show Mr & Mrs following the news its most famous presenter Derek Batey has died at the age of 84.

February 18, 2013 Broadcasting Callum Patterson

Mr and Mrs host Batey dies, aged 84

Television presenter and executive Derek Batey has died at the age of 84.

April 13, 2012 Broadcasting, GLBT, Special Reports Shaun Linden

Game show Mr & Mrs to welcome same sex couples

Long running ITV game show Mr & Mrs is to welcome gay couples for the first time into the mainstream version as the Welsh series, first screened in 1964, returns to television network S4C.