Grange Hill

At long last the country’s number one failing school has finally, finally, been closed down. Read more

Little Britain USA

Want a quick look at Little Britain USA? Read more

Viva Bannerman Road!

This afternoon, CBBC premiered series two of The Sarah Jane Adventures to the press. And, a very upbeat gathering it was too, filing into the Rex Cinema on Rupert Street in the middle of London. Read more

Blue Peter presenter named

The BBC, this morning, revealed the name of the second new Blue Peter presenter. Read more

Saturday night’s alright-ish

BBC1′s Saturday nights are looking healthier than they have for some time. Read more

Do the Hustle!

The next series of Hustle is now filming. And cast confirmed? Read more

Up, Pompeii

There was Martha. There was Sarah Jane. There was Captain Jack. There was Mickey. There was Rose. There was Harriet. There was even Davros… Well, nearly. He was shrouded in darkness, but from the silhouette we knew. Read more

Lost in the Ashes of Torchwood

The general mood surrounding telefantasy fans has been a little down of late. Read more

School’s out forever

It won’t surprise many to read that two days shy of its 30th birthday Grange Hill has been axed. Increasingly out of place on BBC1 – in fact, the last series didn’t even graduate from the CBBC channel to terrestrial – it’s perhaps a mercy killing, what with the revamped “The Grange” media centre-led series currently in production at Lime Pictures, awkwardly shoe-horning primary school kids into the format. Read more

Better than Life on Mars…

…that’s my assessment of Ashes to Ashes after last night’s press launch. I’m fearful of embargos and the like though, so will say no more. I’m happy, I hope you’re happy too…

To the Manor Born

“We’re hearing far too many foreign voices around here,” opined Audrey DeVere, née fforbes-Hamilton. Much of a sentiment for Christmas Day? Probably not. Read more

Doctor Who

If ever an episode of Doctor Who was designed for a specific space and time, this was it. Read more

The advent frown

Everyone must have a piece of Christmas television that’s become a tradition in their house - The Snowman, The Queen, Top of the Pops. For me, it’s always been the Christmas edition of Blue Peter. Read more

Brushing® up a classic

So it is all true. This, from PR firm Henry’s House … Read more

“Is it true you’re bringing back the Master?”

‘The Voyage of the Damned’, then. Lots of fun, not the most cerebral slice of Who ever, but terribly exciting, and with one real groaner they could only get away with on Christmas Day. That’s what I reckoned, anyway.  Read more

Name that Who-ne

Ouch, that’s a shocking pun. Sorry everyone. Read more

Be seeing you

Lark Rise to Candleford is a splendid period drama, which will be livening up Sunday nights on BBC1 from mid-January. And I’m just back from the press launch at London’s Soho Hotel. Read more

“Please… don’t let me be the only one!”

Notes to Editors
The architect behind the Daleks, Terry Nation is acknowledged as one of the creators of Doctor Who. Although he wrote half of the episodes of the first series, he left at the end of that series and launched his next BBC masterpiece, Blake’s 7, about a mob of criminals on the run from the sinister Terran Federation in a stolen alien spaceship. Terry Nation died from emphysema in 1997. Read more

“I’m in charge”

Last night, it was off to Television Centre, courtesy of a Beeb PR, who’d very kindly sorted me out a couple of tickets to see a recording of Strictly Come Dancing. Read more

Robin Hood

“We are the spirit of England,” cried the cleanest set of teeth the wrong side of the Renaissance, “and that is this country’s only hope.” Read more

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