January 28, 2012 | UK TV News

Based in Paris, but born in Croydon, Rachel Khoo will make her TV debut in the spring with new series The Little Paris Kitchen which will take us on a journey across contemporary French cuisine.
Rachel is a British pastry chef, a twice-published author and a self-confessed food creative. Her love of food inspired a move to Paris where she trained at Le Cordon Bleu before opening a restaurant in her tiny kitchen, taking her passion for food to a wider audience.
Her unique take on …

Jan 27, 2012 | UK TV News
SWAGS is the working title of a new six part drama series just commissioned by ITV which follows the the battles fought on the home front by the wives and girlfriends of soldiers serving in war torn Afghanistan.
Swags aka Service Wives And Girlfriends is being produced by the ITV Studios drama department and there is no word yet on casting but the  drama focuses on four real and remarkable women – Debbie, Gemma, Louise and Claire – who live in Army quarters in the garrison …

Dustin Hoffman headlines in the superb new HBO series Luck which begins on Sunday January 29, 2012, it’s a major new collaboration between legendary director Michael Mann and David Milch the creator of Deadwood.

The nine episode series sees Hoffman playing Chester “Ace” Bernstein who, as the series begins, is released from serving three years in a federal prison. Heʼs met by his driver and bodyguard, Gus Demitriou (Dennis Farina), who fronts as the owner of the $2 million Irish Horse that Ace just bought. A brilliant but disreputable trainer, the …

Jan 25, 2012 | Australian TV News

Chris the Bondi Vet is back for a whole new season of pet saving action and in the premiere episode which airs on Channel 10 on Tuesday 31 January 2012 @ 8.00pm he finds himself called to a house where a turtle emergency is on full scale red alert – Homer the turtle’s owner is away overseas and Homer has escaped only to be cornered by the owner’s dog.
After that there is time for a trip to the races as Chris has to …

January 24, 2012 | Australian TV News
New comedy series Suburgatory will premiere on the Go! Channel from Sunday 5 February 2012 kicking off at 8.00pm.
The series stars Jeremy Sisto, Jane Levy, Carly Chaikin, Allie Grant, Rex Lee, Alan Tudyk and Cheryl Hines.

For 16-year-old Tessa Altman (Levy), a teenage transplant from New York City, the suburbs represent her dreaded vision of hell. Manicured lawns, cookie-cutter homes, big botox lips, little nose jobs, synchronised sprinkler systems that erupt at the same time, huge malls that are mecca for mass consumerism – welcome to …

UK / BBC1 /  1×75 minute episode and 11×50 minute episodes / Broadcast 1995 and 1997
Creator: Roy Mitchell, Nigel McCrery  / Producer: Hilary Salmon / Costume: Sally Pearson  / Titles: Lynda Sherwood-Page / Script Editors: Clare Elliott(season 1), Andrew Clifford(season 2)/ Police Consultant: Philip Fenerty / Music: John Lunn / Executive Producers: Chris Parr, Caroline Oulton(season 1), Tony Virgo, Julian Murphy(Season 2)
Crime drama series following the cases of a group of coppers working in an Operational Support Unit. A young Sarah Smart popped up in one of the episodes.
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Jan 21, 2012 | US TV News

It was all part of ABC’s big plan to show that there is more to daytime than long running soaps but talk show The Revolution is already down 43% on the ratings garnered by One To Live in the same slot.
The show made it’s debut on Monday and was already down 32% by midweek, the good news for General Hospital though is that soap fans, already bereft at the loss of One Life and All My Children have given the medical soaper a 38% …

January 22, 2012 | Australian TV News

It’s being compared to The Beatles getting back together but The Wiggles are being decidedly low key about the return of original singer Greg Page aka The Yellow Wiggle. Greg famously bowed out of the group (allegedly taking a 20 million dollar pay off with him too) in 2006 due to illness (he suffers from random blackouts) and the breakdown of his marriage and Wiggles employee Sam Moran took his place in the line up. Now with Moran’s contract up Greg has surprisingly returned …

January 21, 2012 | Australian TV News

The highly anticipated Showtime drama Homeland begins on Channel 10 on Sunday night at 8.30pm. It’s strong stuff starring Claire Danes as CIA agent Carrie Mathison who becomes convinced that returning war hero Nicholas Brody (played by Damian Lewis) has actually been turned whilst being held prisoner by al-Queda.
Meanwhile Brody’s wife Jessica (played by Morena Baccarin and in a move guaranteed to delight her legion of V fans gets her kit off at every opportunity!) isn’t too sure how she feels about his return …

Transmission time confirmed as 9.00-10.00pm, Tuesday 24 January 2012 on BBC Three
Season 2 | Episode 1 of 6

In the second series of the highly acclaimed show, BBC Three follows eight newly qualified junior doctors at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London as they embark on their foundation years in some of the busiest and most challenging departments.
The new recruits are Lucy, Priya, Andy, Aki, Milla and Sameer who have just qualified and are in their first foundation year. Ben and Amieth are new to the hospital too but have …

Transmission time confirmed as 9.00-10.30pm, Thursday 26 January on BBC Four
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between Sixties supermodel, Jean Shrimpton, and photographer, David Bailey.
Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
Set predominantly in 1962 but also exploring the story of how Bailey and Shrimpton first met, this one-off drama reveals how a young, visionary photographer refused …

Olympic Dreams highlights the hard work and dedication of our regions’ sporting superstars on their journey towards the ultimate Olympic goal.
Across England, each region profiles some of the men and women hoping to represent their country at the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012 and shows the sacrifices they make in pursuit of their dreams. For some there is great joy as they qualify for the Games. For others there is bitter disappointment. The programmes also show how venues are getting ready to welcome competitors from all over the world.
The programme …

UK | BBC 1 | 60 minutes | AIRDATE: Saturday 21 January 2012 @ 8.40pm
Lloyd’s insistence on helping a patient inadvertently puts her in greater danger and Linda’s life is turned upside down when her drug addict sister and children turn up in Holby in Casualty: Trust.
When a female patient turns up in the ED with broken ribs and no memory of who she is, Lloyd pushes the team to do all that they can to uncover her identity. But as Lloyd pieces the clues together, could he accidentally be …

UK | CBBC | 30 minutes | Tuesday 24 January 2012 | Episode 2 of 10
CBBC sends four of the UK’s hottest magicians into primary schools to trick and amaze the pupils. The magicians pretend to be supply teachers to deliver some surprising magical lessons to the unsuspecting pupils.
Presented by CBBC’s Iain Stirling, the show will also teach children how to do their own tricks to fool their friends and Iain will be counting down his five favourite ‘Wannabe Wizards’.
The audience at home will be able to join in with …

BBC 1 | Sunday 22 January 2012 @ 9.00-10.25pm | Episode 1 of 2

Eddie Redmayne (My Week With Marilyn, Richard II) and Clemence Poesy (28 Days Later, Harry Potter) star as the passionate young lovers Stephen and Isabelle, brought together by love and torn apart by the First World War, in BBC One’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s modern classic, Birdsong.
Adapted by Bafta award-winning Abi Morgan (The Hour, Iron Lady), the two parter spans the decade of the First World War, telling the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who, …