Television

  • Plusnet launches new YouView-based TV service

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    The ISP launched trials of the service in December 2013, fuelling expectations that a launch would follow in 2014. Confirmation that the BT-owned ISP intended to finally launch the service came via YouView last month.

  • Smeggin’ hell! UKTV’s Dave orders more Red Dwarf

    Smeggin’ hell! UKTV’s Dave orders more Red Dwarf

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    Red Dwarf fans attending Saturday’s Dimension Jump convention got an unexpected treat when series writer Doug Naylor revealed that comedy channel Dave has ordered two brand-new series of the hit show.

  • E4 to close down – but just for polling day!

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    Youth-orientated channel E4 will shutdown for the whole of polling day (May 7th) in a bid to encourage more young people to vote. The shutdown is believed to be the first for a UK channel and is part of Channel 4’s campaign to motivate young people to engage with politics

  • New E4 role for The Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison

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    E4 has cast The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison in Tripped, a new comedy drama set in parallel universes.

Harrison stars as Danny, an average 24-year-old who has been friends with stoner Milo (played by newcomer George Webster) since they were kids.

  • Video: Bond legend Honor Blackman discusses You, Me & Them

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    Acting legend and everyone’s favourite Bond girl, Honor Blackman, discusses working on the latest series of Gold’s You, Me & Them. The sitcom stars Anthony Head and Eve Myles as Ed and Lauren who, despite their 25-plus year age gap. fall madly in love.

  • Comedy legends Kenneth Williams and Les Dawson to tell their life stories in new UKTV series

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    Programme makers North One have trawled the archives and brought together footage from interviews given to Michael Parkinson, Russell Harty, Terry Wogan, Melvyn Bragg, and Graham Norton to let each of the comedy greats to recount their lives in their own words.