Television

Heston Blumenthal fears watching TV series The Bear could trigger bipolar episode

Heston Blumenthal has said he fears that watching the high pressure depictions of kitchen life in the TV series The Bear could trigger a bipolar episode.The restaurateur and TV...

Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

Young people from working-class backgrounds are being “blocked” from entering the creative industries, which remain “elitist” and inaccessible,...

Greggs scoffs at reports of snub by its Christmas ad star Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson has issued an impassioned paean to the Greggs sausage roll, amid reports of a banger-based dust-up...

Trinny and Susannah’s daughters say pair ‘would be cancelled’ if show made now

Trinny and Susannah, the presenters of the noughties fashion TV hit What Not to Wear, would be cancelled...

Strictly’s Katya Jones and Wynne Evans insist awkward ‘hand incident’ was joke

The Strictly Come Dancing contestants Katya Jones and Wynne Evans have insisted they were playing a joke when...

Fiona MacDonald, It’s a Knockout and Wombat host, dies aged 67 after MND diagnosis

Australian TV host Fiona MacDonald, known for her work on shows including It’s A Knockout and the children’s program Wombat, has died aged 67...

Price hikes, terrible adverts, customer crackdowns: how the joy in streaming TV died

Remember when streaming used to be exciting? Remember when, after years of trawling around HMV, spending £20 on DVDs of single seasons of television,...

‘Trailblazing’ TV, film and stage actor Cleo Sylvestre dies aged 79

The “trailblazing” actor Cleo Sylvestre has died aged 79, her agent has confirmed.Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, had been a feature of film,...

British-made Netflix shows most popular on platform so far in 2024

Netflix has revealed that British-made shows have proved to be the most popular with audiences on its global streaming service so far this year.Ted...

‘Survive to 2025’: UK TV production firms fight to stay afloat in slump

The UK’s TV production sector has adopted the mantra “survive to 2025” as a perfect storm of market pressures has led to a £400m...

Back to the 90s! The TV show giving a front row seat to fashion’s hard-partying superstars

It was, as male model Tyson Beckford says in the opening episode of In Vogue: The 90s, “a great time to be alive”. Especially...