The recent revelation that, in November 2000, the Government somewhat discreetly gave BBC-Telewest joint venture UKTV permission to launch as many channels as it wants to--it had previously been restricted to eight--is truly awesome in its implicati The recent revelation that, in November 2000, the...
UK Food `will pick up the BBC's rich legacy of award-winning food shows' A new, mass audience, commercial television channel devoted to food and drink will be launched on November 5 by UKTV, the joint venture set up three years ago between the BBC...
Film: Muriel's Wedding 9PM UKTV Gold This brilliant tragicomedy stars Toni Collette as an Abba- obsessed social outcast growing up in the small Australian town of Porpoise Spit. After spending her whole life daydreaming about marriage to the perfect man, she discovers that getting...
PICK OF THE DAY Only Yesterday: the Carpenters' Story 9pm BBC4 BBC4 is dedicating part of its evening schedule to a tribute to the Carpenters. The centrepiece is Only Yesterday, a revealing film uncovering the dark secret that was hidden...
Win Gaming Media's Subsidiary Two Way Gaming and Virgin Media Television Launch Gaming Channel "Challenge Jackpot" in the UK NEVADA, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Win Gaming Media's (OTCBB: WGMI) subsidiary Two Way Gaming, a joint venture between WGM and leading UK TV production company...
PICK OF THE DAY Glastonbury Live 7pm BBC3 Fronted by Zane Lowe and Edith Bowman, the BBC's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival opens tonight with performances by the Fratellis above, We Are Scientists and Estelle. Tales from...
Glastonbury Live 7pm BBC3 Fronted by Zane Lowe and Edith Bowman, the BBC's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival opens tonight with performances by the Fratellis above, We Are Scientists and Estelle. Tales from the Front Room 10.20pm BBC4 ...
FRIDAY 16.05 Deadliest Catch 8pm C4 This adrenalin-fuelled series, already a big hit on the Discovery Channel, goes to sea with a boat full of fishermen. The men, who fish for king crabs off the coast of Alaska, have one of the most dangerous...
PICK OF THE DAY Johnny Cash: the Anthology 8pm Sky Arts This profile suggests that Johnny Cash's above chequered life endowed his work with an edge that elevated it above other, more run- of-the-mill country artists. Cash lived the life he sang about. ...
STAYING IN SATURDAY 05.04 TELEVISION Doctor Who 6.20pm BBC1 David Tennant above returns as the Time Lord, this time accompanied by a new companion, Donna Noble Catherine Tate, and facing a new threat in the form of the Adipose, who are supposed to be...
PICK OF THE DAY Unreported World 7.35pm C4 Evan Williams travels to Benin to explore voodoo, uncovering evidence of how children are removed from their parents to be put through initiation rites. The families are forced to hand over money if they want to...
THE long Easter Bank Holiday is traditionally the big DIY weekend of the year. So if you're planning a new project, why not take advice from the TV experts - starting with our own TV experts Colin and Justin... WE use a handy acronym - PCBG...
PICK OF THE DAY REM Road Movie 9pm Sky Arts In advance of REM's Accelerate album, revisit this 1995 gig recorded in their home state of Georgia, featuring classics such as "Losing My Religion" and "Man on the Moon". Search for...
PICK OF THE DAY Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis 9pm BBC4 A decade ago, Rob Brydon did a 10-minute routine on Clarkson, taking the rise out of his native Wales. Here, the comic explores why his comedy caused such offence, and considers his own feelings...
FRIDAY Legends: Edith Piaf - Singing Her Life 9pm BBC4 Edith Piaf is profiled in this engrossing documentary. It shows how the intense drama of the extraordinary French singer's adult life was a direct response to the appalling traumas she experienced as a...
Unreported World 7.35pm C4 Channel 4's foreign-affairs strand, which shines a light into some of the murkier corners of the globe, returns for a new series. In the first programme, Evan Williams above and James Brabazon travel to Cairo to examine the plight of Egypt's persecuted Christian...
FRIDAY Seven Wonders of the Industrial World 8pm UKTV History This documentary recollects the efforts of the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps to construct a canal across Panama in 1880. After his attempt ended in catastrophe and the death of 20,000 workers, he was...
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 January 2008-UKTV Gold: UKTV Gold's biggest ever commission asks When Were We Funniest?C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17012008 UKTV Gold today announced its largest ever commission in a multi-million pound deal with BBC Entertainment. ...
Lockdown 10.45pm Five Five's documentary series unlocks the roughest prisons in the world. The opener takes us through the gates at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California, where members of the Nazi Low Riders and the Black Guerrillas continue their gang war. Looking...