It’s a big year for UK quiz shows shaking up the presenter bench. University Challenge and Pointless have lost presenting stalwarts Jeremy Paxman and Richard Osman respectively, Anne Robinson made an early exit from Countdown, and now her replacement Colin Murray has vacated the chair temporarily to welcome a series of special guest hosts.
To mark the 40th anniversary of Channel 4 this month, the very first show broadcast on the channel has opened its door to four broadcasting greats, each of whom will host Countdown for one week. Let’s meet the new presenters joining lexicographer Susie Dent and mathematician Rachel Riley on the words and numbers puzzle game.
Oct 31st – Nov 4th: Baroness Floella Benjamin
First up was children’s television legend, and House of Lords life peer Baroness Floella Benjamin, who hosted Countdown from Monday October 31st to Friday November 4th. The presenter and campaigner is...
To mark the 40th anniversary of Channel 4 this month, the very first show broadcast on the channel has opened its door to four broadcasting greats, each of whom will host Countdown for one week. Let’s meet the new presenters joining lexicographer Susie Dent and mathematician Rachel Riley on the words and numbers puzzle game.
Oct 31st – Nov 4th: Baroness Floella Benjamin
First up was children’s television legend, and House of Lords life peer Baroness Floella Benjamin, who hosted Countdown from Monday October 31st to Friday November 4th. The presenter and campaigner is...
- 11/7/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Sir Trevor McDonald and Floella Benjamin will guest host Countdown as part of the show’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
The quiz show was the first programme to air on Channel 4 when the broadcaster launched in November 1982 and remains the channel’s longest-running series.
To celebrate the milestone, four broadcasters will each take on a week-long hosting stint alongside resident lexicographer Susie Dent and mathematician Rachel Riley.
Benjamin will be up first, appearing on the week commencing 31 October, with TV judge Rob Rinder joining Dent as the guest in dictionary corner.
She will be followed by celebrity vicar and Radio 4 presenter Reverend Richard Coles the week after. Former BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker will appear with him alongside Dent.
The next week (beginning 14 November), McDOnald will return to host the show. McDonald last sat at the helm in September 2021 as part of Channel 4’s Black to Front project, in which...
The quiz show was the first programme to air on Channel 4 when the broadcaster launched in November 1982 and remains the channel’s longest-running series.
To celebrate the milestone, four broadcasters will each take on a week-long hosting stint alongside resident lexicographer Susie Dent and mathematician Rachel Riley.
Benjamin will be up first, appearing on the week commencing 31 October, with TV judge Rob Rinder joining Dent as the guest in dictionary corner.
She will be followed by celebrity vicar and Radio 4 presenter Reverend Richard Coles the week after. Former BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker will appear with him alongside Dent.
The next week (beginning 14 November), McDOnald will return to host the show. McDonald last sat at the helm in September 2021 as part of Channel 4’s Black to Front project, in which...
- 10/26/2022
- by Naomi Clarke
- The Independent - TV
God Save The Queen. And Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth I.
Queen Elizabeth II was amused today by yet another celebration of her 70th year on the throne. This time, it was a Windsor castle event called “A Gallop Through History,” which the horse-loving Queen delighted in watching.
The theatrical arena event included 1300 performers and 500 horses, and consisted of four acts, each overseen by a different event host, including Top Gun’s Tom Cruise, British actor Damian Lewis, Bridgeton’s Adjoa Andoh and veteran UK performer Alan Titchmarsh.
The event was designed to take viewers on a “gallop through history,” a reenactment dating from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I through the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Highlighting the show was a stage performance featuring Mirren as Elizabeth I whom she previously portrayed in the HBO miniseries Elizabeth I. The Oscar winner also has played Elizabeth II twice in the...
Queen Elizabeth II was amused today by yet another celebration of her 70th year on the throne. This time, it was a Windsor castle event called “A Gallop Through History,” which the horse-loving Queen delighted in watching.
The theatrical arena event included 1300 performers and 500 horses, and consisted of four acts, each overseen by a different event host, including Top Gun’s Tom Cruise, British actor Damian Lewis, Bridgeton’s Adjoa Andoh and veteran UK performer Alan Titchmarsh.
The event was designed to take viewers on a “gallop through history,” a reenactment dating from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I through the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Highlighting the show was a stage performance featuring Mirren as Elizabeth I whom she previously portrayed in the HBO miniseries Elizabeth I. The Oscar winner also has played Elizabeth II twice in the...
- 5/15/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Today's Fanatic Feed covers another South Park movie, The Queen's Jubilee, and a few new trailers.
There is also new from E! about getting into the original movie business.
Check out that and more!
Paramount+ today announced that the service’s next South Park exclusive event, South Park: The Streaming Wars, will premiere Wednesday, June 1 in the U.S., and roll out internationally in all markets where the service is available.
Paramount+ will debut a fourth South Park exclusive event later this summer, date to be announced. The first two South Park exclusive events, South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: Thee Return of Covid, debuted in 2021 and are available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
In South Park: The Streaming Wars, Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills, while an epic conflict unfolds and threatens South Park’s very existence.
This year, South Park,...
There is also new from E! about getting into the original movie business.
Check out that and more!
Paramount+ today announced that the service’s next South Park exclusive event, South Park: The Streaming Wars, will premiere Wednesday, June 1 in the U.S., and roll out internationally in all markets where the service is available.
Paramount+ will debut a fourth South Park exclusive event later this summer, date to be announced. The first two South Park exclusive events, South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: Thee Return of Covid, debuted in 2021 and are available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
In South Park: The Streaming Wars, Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills, while an epic conflict unfolds and threatens South Park’s very existence.
This year, South Park,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Tom Cruise, Helen Mirren, Damian Lewis and Omid Djalili will lead an A-list cast of talent celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee on U.K. broadcaster ITV.
The event will be broadcast live on ITV from the private grounds of Windsor Castle on May 15 and will be the first televised event to mark the occasion.
Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham will host the live ITV broadcast “The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration,” which will feature guests including Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ant & Dec, Joan Collins, Mo Farah, Maureen Lipman, David Jason, Alan Titchmarsh, Kelly Holmes, Moira Stuart and Trevor McDonald, with special performances from Keala Settle, Gregory Porter, Katherine Jenkins as they pay tribute to the Queen’s 70 years of service.
A theatrical arena event will include 1300 performers and 500 horses and is made up of four acts, each overseen by a different event host – confirmed to be Tom Cruise,...
The event will be broadcast live on ITV from the private grounds of Windsor Castle on May 15 and will be the first televised event to mark the occasion.
Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham will host the live ITV broadcast “The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration,” which will feature guests including Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ant & Dec, Joan Collins, Mo Farah, Maureen Lipman, David Jason, Alan Titchmarsh, Kelly Holmes, Moira Stuart and Trevor McDonald, with special performances from Keala Settle, Gregory Porter, Katherine Jenkins as they pay tribute to the Queen’s 70 years of service.
A theatrical arena event will include 1300 performers and 500 horses and is made up of four acts, each overseen by a different event host – confirmed to be Tom Cruise,...
- 4/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Some of the U.K. entertainment industry’s best-known names have been awarded the country’s highest honors by the Queen.
Outgoing James Bond star Daniel Craig was honored alongside longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson (pictured above with Craig) on the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Craig, who lives in the U.S., was honored on the ‘overseas and international list’ making him a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (Cmg) — the very same honor the fictional 007 holds in the books. Craig was awarded his Cmg for services to film and theater.
Broccoli and Wilson, meanwhile, were awarded CBEs (which stands for Commanders of the Order of the British Empire) for services to film, drama, philanthropy and skills alongside director Paul Greengrass (“Bourne” trilogy), who received his for services to the arts, and author Anthony Horowitz (the “Alex Rider” series) for services to literature.
Outgoing James Bond star Daniel Craig was honored alongside longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson (pictured above with Craig) on the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Craig, who lives in the U.S., was honored on the ‘overseas and international list’ making him a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (Cmg) — the very same honor the fictional 007 holds in the books. Craig was awarded his Cmg for services to film and theater.
Broccoli and Wilson, meanwhile, were awarded CBEs (which stands for Commanders of the Order of the British Empire) for services to film, drama, philanthropy and skills alongside director Paul Greengrass (“Bourne” trilogy), who received his for services to the arts, and author Anthony Horowitz (the “Alex Rider” series) for services to literature.
- 1/4/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The U.K.’s Broadcasting Press Guild held its 46th Television and Radio Awards at London’s Banking Hall on Friday, with “Chernobyl” and “The Virtues” among the winners.
The Bpg Awards, given for work commissioned or premiered in the U.K. and screened in 2019, are selected independently by TV and radio correspondents, critics and previewers.
“I’m proud to say that, for the second year in a row, a record number of votes were cast for the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, which is testament to the enduring qualities of the Bpg and the continued vibrancy of British television,” said Bpg chair Jake Kanter.
“Chernobyl” (Sky Atlantic) was named best drama series, while “The Virtues” (Channel 4) won the award for best single drama or miniseries.
Film and TV director Michael Apted was awarded the Bpg Jury Prize for the “Up” series, which began in 1964 with a profile of 14 seven-year-old...
The Bpg Awards, given for work commissioned or premiered in the U.K. and screened in 2019, are selected independently by TV and radio correspondents, critics and previewers.
“I’m proud to say that, for the second year in a row, a record number of votes were cast for the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, which is testament to the enduring qualities of the Bpg and the continued vibrancy of British television,” said Bpg chair Jake Kanter.
“Chernobyl” (Sky Atlantic) was named best drama series, while “The Virtues” (Channel 4) won the award for best single drama or miniseries.
Film and TV director Michael Apted was awarded the Bpg Jury Prize for the “Up” series, which began in 1964 with a profile of 14 seven-year-old...
- 3/13/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Chernobyl and The Virtues were the big winners at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in London on Friday.
Chernobyl, the Sister Pictures series for Sky and HBO on the Soviet nuclear disaster, won Best Drama Series, while writer Craig Mazin took home Best Writer, beating Fleabag scribe Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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Shane Meadows’ Channel 4 show The Virtues claimed the prize for Best Single Drama/Mini-Series, while Stephen Graham won Best Actor for his performance as an alcoholic man haunted by his past. The award was also recognition of Graham’s work in Line Of Duty and A Christmas Carol.
Other winners included Fleabag for Best Comedy and For Sama for Best Single Documentary/Mini-Series, while two-time Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson was...
Chernobyl, the Sister Pictures series for Sky and HBO on the Soviet nuclear disaster, won Best Drama Series, while writer Craig Mazin took home Best Writer, beating Fleabag scribe Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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Shane Meadows’ Channel 4 show The Virtues claimed the prize for Best Single Drama/Mini-Series, while Stephen Graham won Best Actor for his performance as an alcoholic man haunted by his past. The award was also recognition of Graham’s work in Line Of Duty and A Christmas Carol.
Other winners included Fleabag for Best Comedy and For Sama for Best Single Documentary/Mini-Series, while two-time Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson was...
- 3/13/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Would I Lie To You?: BBC One, 8.30pm
The hit comedy panel show where the facts are often stranger than fiction returns.
Host Rob Brydon and team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack are back for the show's 10th series. Tonight they are joined by EastEnders star Danny Dyer, Jon Richardson, Moira Stuart and Joe Lycett in their quest to find the truth amongst the lies.
Ripper Street: BBC One, 9pm
Axed by the BBC in 2013, then brought back in partnership with Amazon Prime, the third series of the Victorian crime drama is making its triumphant terrestrial TV debut on BBC One tonight.
Four years after their dramatic clash with crooked fellow inspector Jebediah Shine, the Leman Street coppers are back. Disaster strikes though as Drake's train home from Manchester is involved in a deadly accident that kills over 50 people, and he teams up with Reid and Jackson...
The hit comedy panel show where the facts are often stranger than fiction returns.
Host Rob Brydon and team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack are back for the show's 10th series. Tonight they are joined by EastEnders star Danny Dyer, Jon Richardson, Moira Stuart and Joe Lycett in their quest to find the truth amongst the lies.
Ripper Street: BBC One, 9pm
Axed by the BBC in 2013, then brought back in partnership with Amazon Prime, the third series of the Victorian crime drama is making its triumphant terrestrial TV debut on BBC One tonight.
Four years after their dramatic clash with crooked fellow inspector Jebediah Shine, the Leman Street coppers are back. Disaster strikes though as Drake's train home from Manchester is involved in a deadly accident that kills over 50 people, and he teams up with Reid and Jackson...
- 7/31/2015
- Digital Spy
Would I Lie To You? has been commissioned for a ninth series.
Rob Brydon will continue to host the BBC comedy panel show, with team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack also returning.
The new episodes will feature guests such as Sir Roger Moore, Alex Brooker, Judy Murray, Tinchy Stryder, Richard Osman, Clare Balding, Nick Grimshaw, Gabby Logan, Moira Stuart, Sean Lock, Greg Davies and Richard Hammond.
The ten-part series will also include a compilation instalment and a Christmas episode.
The show recently won Best Panel Show at the British Comedy Awards.
Would I Lie To You?'s David Mitchell is to star on Wednesday's (February 25) The Great Comic Relief Bake Off alongside Sarah Brown, Michael Sheen and Jameela Jamil.
Watch a clip from the most recent series of Would I Lie To You? below:...
Rob Brydon will continue to host the BBC comedy panel show, with team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack also returning.
The new episodes will feature guests such as Sir Roger Moore, Alex Brooker, Judy Murray, Tinchy Stryder, Richard Osman, Clare Balding, Nick Grimshaw, Gabby Logan, Moira Stuart, Sean Lock, Greg Davies and Richard Hammond.
The ten-part series will also include a compilation instalment and a Christmas episode.
The show recently won Best Panel Show at the British Comedy Awards.
Would I Lie To You?'s David Mitchell is to star on Wednesday's (February 25) The Great Comic Relief Bake Off alongside Sarah Brown, Michael Sheen and Jameela Jamil.
Watch a clip from the most recent series of Would I Lie To You? below:...
- 2/24/2015
- Digital Spy
Simon Brew Dean Shepherd Oct 18, 2016
As The Adventure Game arrives at the BBC Store, we revisit an 80s children's TV classic that spawned countless imitators...
Four of the original six episodes of The Adventure Game are now finally available to buy at the BBC Store.
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Take three 80s TV stars, a generous dash of Dungeons & Dragons and a healthy sprinkling of brain-numbing tasks and you have a game show recipe that left guests mystified, mortified and all-too-often vaporised, thanks to transmorphic dragons, green cheese rolls and the Vortex. Yep, we've finally got around to talking about The Adventure Game.
It’s funny how you never seemed to question TV concepts when you were little, especially if it was the BBC.
As The Adventure Game arrives at the BBC Store, we revisit an 80s children's TV classic that spawned countless imitators...
Four of the original six episodes of The Adventure Game are now finally available to buy at the BBC Store.
See related Arrow season 5 exclusive: Kevin Smith talks Onomatopoeia Arrow season 4 episode 23 review: Schism Legends Of Tomorrow: exploring season 1’s cliffhanger ending Supergirl: Melissa Benoist talks season 1 cliffhanger, impending crossovers
Take three 80s TV stars, a generous dash of Dungeons & Dragons and a healthy sprinkling of brain-numbing tasks and you have a game show recipe that left guests mystified, mortified and all-too-often vaporised, thanks to transmorphic dragons, green cheese rolls and the Vortex. Yep, we've finally got around to talking about The Adventure Game.
It’s funny how you never seemed to question TV concepts when you were little, especially if it was the BBC.
- 3/6/2013
- Den of Geek
Feature Simon Brew Dean Shepherd 7 Mar 2013 - 07:00
Set phasers to nostalgia as we revisit eighties children's TV classic, The Adventure Game...
Take three 80s TV stars, a generous dash of Dungeons & Dragons and a healthy sprinkling of brain-numbing tasks and you have a game show recipe that left guests mystified, mortified and all-too-often vaporised, thanks to transmorphic dragons, green cheese rolls and the Vortex. Yep, we've finally got around to talking about The Adventure Game.
It’s funny how you never seemed to question TV concepts when you were little, especially if it was the BBC. That’s why, from mid-way through 1980 up until 1986, no one asked why the likes of Keith Chegwin, Sarah Greene, and Noel Edmonds would suddenly become celebrity time travellers, heading ‘many light years away to the far side of the galaxy’ to pay an unwelcome visit to the dragon-like Argons, the polite but mischievous inhabitants of the planet Arg.
Set phasers to nostalgia as we revisit eighties children's TV classic, The Adventure Game...
Take three 80s TV stars, a generous dash of Dungeons & Dragons and a healthy sprinkling of brain-numbing tasks and you have a game show recipe that left guests mystified, mortified and all-too-often vaporised, thanks to transmorphic dragons, green cheese rolls and the Vortex. Yep, we've finally got around to talking about The Adventure Game.
It’s funny how you never seemed to question TV concepts when you were little, especially if it was the BBC. That’s why, from mid-way through 1980 up until 1986, no one asked why the likes of Keith Chegwin, Sarah Greene, and Noel Edmonds would suddenly become celebrity time travellers, heading ‘many light years away to the far side of the galaxy’ to pay an unwelcome visit to the dragon-like Argons, the polite but mischievous inhabitants of the planet Arg.
- 3/6/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Jim Davidson has launched a bitter verbal attack on Strictly Come Dancing presenter Bruce Forsyth.
The comedian and former TV star has obviously been influenced by the green eyed monster, as during an interview with The Sun he branded the 83 year old star a “miserable old b*****d” and claimed that the BBC only continue to employ him, so they can deny that they are an ageist organisation.
Jim, who stepped into Brucie’s shoes as host of The Generation Game in 1995, said:
“He’s hanging on. No one really wants Bruce on there, do they? Not really.
“But they have him there so they can say, ‘How dare you say we’re ageist? Moira Stuart is wrong!’.
“Look at Bruce – he needs ironing before the show! There’s a bit in my new play where someone says, ‘You only watch Strictly Come Dancing to see if Bruce drops dead...
The comedian and former TV star has obviously been influenced by the green eyed monster, as during an interview with The Sun he branded the 83 year old star a “miserable old b*****d” and claimed that the BBC only continue to employ him, so they can deny that they are an ageist organisation.
Jim, who stepped into Brucie’s shoes as host of The Generation Game in 1995, said:
“He’s hanging on. No one really wants Bruce on there, do they? Not really.
“But they have him there so they can say, ‘How dare you say we’re ageist? Moira Stuart is wrong!’.
“Look at Bruce – he needs ironing before the show! There’s a bit in my new play where someone says, ‘You only watch Strictly Come Dancing to see if Bruce drops dead...
- 3/3/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Jim Davidson has reportedly branded Strictly Come Dancing host Bruce Forsyth a "miserable old b**stard". The Sun claims that the comedian believes that the 83-year-old only continues to host the programme so that the BBC can have an older presenter on screen. "He's hanging on. No-one really wants Bruce on there, do they? Not really," he told the paper. "But they have him there so they can say, 'How dare you say we're ageist? Moira Stuart is wrong!' Look at Bruce - he needs ironing before the show!" He continued: "There's (more)...
- 3/3/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
Being a newsreader is a pretty simple job and isn't usually very noteworthy. You come in, read your lines and then head home again. Obviously it helps if you can speak clearly and you don't have a face like a pork scratching, but generally we're not that fussed about who informs us on what is going on in the world. So for a newsreader to make an impact on us, they have to be genuinely special. One such individual is the truly iconic Moira Stuart. Her dulcet, seductive tones have entertained the nation for over 30 years on (more)...
- 12/24/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Older people don't deserve to be travestied in a romcom: cinema should explore the reality of their lives
Last week the romcom forsook bright-eyed singledom for the tougher terrain of matrimony. This week it's boldly gone to a yet more perilous place. It's Complicated dares to embrace the embraces of the ageing.
We dutifully applaud: those getting on in years, we're told, must be rescued from the shadows and accorded parity with the young. Thus, the righteous wrath of the likes of Pd James (89) and Harriet Harman (59) has forced the BBC to atone for past sinfulness by returning Moira Stuart (60) to the airwaves. Not, however, to her former TV role: the estimable Stuart will be bestowing her charm and gravitas on Radio 2's listeners. This adjustment is understandable. The screen is intrinsically ageist, since both young and old tend to prefer to look at the young. In the cinema, it's...
Last week the romcom forsook bright-eyed singledom for the tougher terrain of matrimony. This week it's boldly gone to a yet more perilous place. It's Complicated dares to embrace the embraces of the ageing.
We dutifully applaud: those getting on in years, we're told, must be rescued from the shadows and accorded parity with the young. Thus, the righteous wrath of the likes of Pd James (89) and Harriet Harman (59) has forced the BBC to atone for past sinfulness by returning Moira Stuart (60) to the airwaves. Not, however, to her former TV role: the estimable Stuart will be bestowing her charm and gravitas on Radio 2's listeners. This adjustment is understandable. The screen is intrinsically ageist, since both young and old tend to prefer to look at the young. In the cinema, it's...
- 1/11/2010
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
January is, statistically speaking, the most miserable of months. It’s cold, it’s dark, and Moira Stuart is forever banging on about paying your tax bill by the 31st, or Mr. Taxman will be round to cut off a pound, or three, of flesh.So here at Empire, we feel it’s our duty to cheer you up – and what better way than by presenting to you our brand new issue, which should be hitting newsagent and supermarket shelves near you any… second… now.Inside, you’ll find all kinds of cheery tonics, such as our horror overload, featuring Bruce Campbell, Freddy and Jason, the Wolfman’s Emily Blunt, and the Lesbian Vampire Killers, and our lovely look at the individuals who make up the Watchmen.But pride of place – on our cover and in our hearts – is our big special on The Hobbit. What’s that, you say?...
- 1/28/2009
- EmpireOnline
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