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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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LIBERACE ADORED HIS BRITISH FANS A FILM on the “colourful life” of flamboyant virtuoso Liberace – a project that has been sitting on the shelf at Warner Brothers for years – will finally be coming to the screen. Filming will begin next summer. Director Steven Soderbergh’s movie Behind the Candelabra will star Michael Douglas as [...]
New York Brits/Anglophiles Get A Chance To Vote On Their Fave Comedy
Let’s get ready to rumble…WLIW21 presents “Battle of the Britcoms” AFTER SUCCESSFUL on-air campaigns to save British dramas EastEnders and MI-5, WLIW21, in New York, is reaching out to British TV fans and viewers to determine the new addition to WLIW21′s Friday night (8-10pm) Britcom line-up!. WLIW21 will air the first episode of four British [...]
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OBITUARY DONALD TAFFNER. The man who brought laughter to millions of. Americans and Brits in the US, and was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, for syndicating the top British comedy TV shows from the BBC and, Thames Television, has died. Donald L Taffner, an, independent American distributor of television progamming was [...]
70s Heartthrob David Essex Quits EastEnders
DAVID Essex is to quit EastEnders to go back to his music career. Just five months after his introduction to the show, playing Eddie Moon, he’ll be leaving Albert Square behind later this year. He said: “It’s been wonderful – really, really challenging, intimidating and it does take over your life, but I’ve been blessed [...]
Little Britain Split Reports Untrue, Says Lucas
LITTLE BRITAIN star Matt Lucas has reassured fans he is still working with David Walliams after reports the pair had gone their separate ways. They are currently working on different projects with Lucas appearing in west end musical Les Miserables and Walliams presenting a panel show, called Wall of Fame. “Some Tweeters assuming that because [...]
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