The GREAT British Run – 6K
NEW YORK CELEBRATE THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE WITH EXERCISE The GREAT British Run – 6K COME DRESSED in your British best to celebrate HM The Queen’s 60 years as monarch and Great Britain’s heritage and culture while fundraising for GEORGE (part of St George’s Society) and Disabled Sports USA. There will be pre-race festivities near [...]
BBC America To Air Live Jubilee Specials
AS ALL Eyes turn to London this summer, BBC America celebrates with a season of brilliantly British and exceptionally English programming. From The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June through the London Olympics in August, BBC America offers viewers a wide slate of live event coverage, comedies, documentaries, dramas and special features across all of BBC [...]
WETA TV In Washington DC To Launch New British TV Channel
BRITS and Anglophiles will be rejoicing June 2 in The Washington, DC area – that’s the day WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital will being airing WETA UK, an innovative channel devoted to presenting British television programming at its best, around the clock, seven days a week. The new, local channel [...]
Professor Stephen Hawking Cameos In Big Bang Theory
STEPHEN HAWKING will appear in the CBS sitcom Big Bank Theory alongside actor Jim Parsons, an Emmy and Golden Globe winner for his portrayal of Sheldon Cooper Professor Stephen Hawking has filmed the episode which is due to be aired April 5. Producers had asked Hawking, best known for his best-selling book A Brief History [...]
Watch: The Russian Grannies That Will Sing At The Eurovision Song Contest
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK could get a run for his money at this year’s Eurovision song contest in May. A Russian group who are known as the “Buranovo Grannies” are to represent their country this year. The six women, known also as the “singing babushkas”, are from a village in Russia’s Udmurtia Republic and blend their traditional [...]
KCET Public TV In LA Invites Doc Martin Fans To Afternoon Tea And Advanced Screening
Martin Clunes greets fans during a recent shoot of Doc Martin. Photo by Bohdan Zachary/KCET MORE THAN 100 Fans of the popular British television comedy drama, Doc Martin, will help “tea up” Season Five of Doc Martin at an exclusive afternoon British Tea and Advance Screening of the first episode of the new season. Viewers [...]
Engelbert To Represent UK At Eurovision Song Contest
AT 75-years-old, Engelbert Humperdinck is the choice to represent the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The BBC’s choice surprised some fans by choosing Humperdinck – real name Arnold Dorsey – who has not had a hit for almost 40 years ago, as Britain’s entry in the 2012 contest. Humperdink famously beat the Beatles [...]
Beanz Meanz Heinz Named Best Advertising Slogan Of All Time
THE HEINZ catchphrase “Beanz Meanz Heinz”, which was conceived over a pint in a London pub in 1967, has bagged the title of best advertising slogan of all time, outshining Nike’s Just Do It. The slogan was the brainchild of retired advertising executive Maurice Drake. “I still find it incredible that over 40 years later, [...]
Watson’s Window
A RESTRAINED RICKY GERVAIS By Jerry Watson at the Golden Globe Awards BRITISH COMIC Ricky Gervais was more restrained with his caustic barbs, hosting, for the third time, the annual 69th Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, last month. Last year, Gervais left a number of stars in the ballroom [...]
The Iron Lady Shows Thatcher Still Divides Brits
WITH HAIRDO, handbag and hubris, she dominated – and divided – Britain for a decade. Now a film about Margaret Thatcher is doing it all over again. The Iron Lady stars Meryl Streep as Britain’s first female prime minister, whose neo-Victorian values and free-market ideology helped transform a battered post-imperial country into an economically dynamic [...]
British Pound Exchange Rate
