MasterChef Australia judge Jean-Christophe Novelli will be involved in a new ITV reality cooking show, The Heat, which premieres in 2026. Jean-Christophe is opening an exclusive summer restaurant at Port Vell Marina in Barcelona, Spain, and on a mission to find the next rising star.
The new series, hosed by Mel Giedroyc, sees celebrities reading “steamy fan fiction” acted out by a cast of lookalike puppets.
The proposed action by the independent pornography taskforce, launched last month by the Conservative peer Gabby Bertin, comes in response to the broadcast of the Channel 4 documentary 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story. The programme followed the performer for six months and included her claim to have had sex with 1,057 clients over the course of 12 hours.
Visa and Smirnoff are among a number of businesses that have pulled online advertisements from streaming of the documentary, after reviewing the content. The film was condemned by the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, for “glamorising and normalising” extreme pornography.
As reported by The Sun, Lineker is set to front a new show that will broadcast on Saturday nights called The Box.
The programme, which is popular in Norway, will see 12 celebrities complete a series of challenges whilst being in boxes.
Original C4 soap Brookside is returning 22 years after it ended as part of a crossover event linked to the 30th birthday of Hollyoaks.
Deadline hears that others yet to pay annual fees include Amazon Prime Video, All3Media, Fremantle, and Banijay.
Steven Moffat has written a new drama series for Channel 4, taking place inside the walls of 10 Downing Street – perhaps the most famous terrace house in the world.
Sounds awful. C4 needs to get back to doing the Shameless/Skins style of comedy drama rather than this worthy shit nobody watches.
In Scotland, STV News has got new look and tweaked music.
It’s already been mentioned.
Local TV channel Notts TV Nottingham will cease broadcasting this Friday, earlier than their license expiry date when announced back in February.
How many are left now that aren’t running CBS Judge Judy-I mean True Crime or That’s TV 23.5 hours a day?
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Sky Sports undoing its “efficient” usage of channels. Not sure why. (Also noticed it in the Cincinnati and Winston-Salem tennis tournaments as well.)
Definitely will help come October, where sports become more voluminous and Sky usually resists putting events on other codes (even when said channels have nothing for hours on end.)
5 and Paramount UK today announced a major new multi-year partnership with the NFL and CBS Sports to bring live coverage of the NFL season free-to-air to UK viewers.
Every week through the NFL season, two Sunday evening games will be broadcast; the first at 6pm on 5 and the second at 9pm on 5ACTION – which will be branded as 5NFL for game nights. Both games will also be streamed live.
The broadcaster will also show the Super Bowl free-to-air in the UK. In addition, it will broadcast the NFL London and Dublin Games, as well as Thanksgiving Day specials and three playoff games.