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Alan Partridge switches channels to Sky

Steve Coogan moves character from BBC for two one-hour specials and TV adaptation of on-line series Mid Morning Matters A-ha! His BBC tv career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor’s face. Now Steve Coogan’s most famous creation, hapless Norfolk DJ Alan Partridge, is changing channels to Sky. Coogan will star as Partridge in two new one-hour specials as well as a TV adaptation of his on-line series, Mid Morning Matters. The shows will appear on Sky Atlantic as part of an output deal with Coogan’s production company, Baby Cow.

Mentorn Media retains Question Time contract

BBC1 current affairs programme will be made by London-based independent producer for another three years Question Time producer Mentorn Media has retained the contract to make flagship BBC1 current affairs programme for another three years. London-based independent producer Mentorn, a subsidiary of Tinopolis, has made Question Time since 1998. David Dimbleby will continue to host the show from venues around the country when the new production contract begins in September. Question Time last year switched production from London to Glasgow, with Mentorn Scotland picking up the contract.

Review: Sex, Lies and Rinsing Guys; Silk

‘Rinsing’ means getting something for nothing – and Danica is rinsing royalty I’ve just purchased a gift on the world wide web for a woman named Danica Thrall. I got her a DVD of Crossroads – the 2002 film starring Britney Spears, I’m sorry to say, not the long-running ITV soap set in a motel near Birmingham, which was not on her Amazon gift list. How do I know Danica? Well, I do not really, to be honest, but I went to her official website after seeing her on Sex, Lies and Rinsing Guys (Channel 4).

TV review: 56 Up; Chatsworth

We only get snapshots of lives in 56 Up – but it’s more real than most reality TV So we are reached 56 Up (ITV1) in Michael Apted’s extraordinary, bold series of films that follows its characters throughout their lives and spans an entire generation. They’re middle-aged now. Sue is happier, more confident and relaxed than she has been. She’s got her Glen; she is got a job she adores at a university, though she never went to one herself; and now she is got amateur dramatics too. Paul, the tiny boy with the worried look who was in care ...

Veep season one, episode four: Chung

The series is coming together at last … or is this how they planned it all along? SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for people watching Veep on HBO. Don’t read on if you have not seen episode three of the series. Here are the reviews of previous episodes in this series. The vice-president’s office is worried that Minnesota Governor Danny Chung, a charismatic Chinese-American war hero, is a threat as a potential VP replacement if the president decides to ditch Selina Meyer at the next election.

Rewind radio: Saturday Live; James O’Brien; Front Row – review

The smooth Sian Williams was ill-suited to the quirky Saturday Live, while James O’Brien was charm personified Saturday Live: (Radio 4 | iPlayer) Saturday Live is a strange programme; which is, of course, the delight of it. Born out of John Peel’s Home Truths, which enticed Radio 4 listeners to reveal their own offbeat and wonderful lives, Saturday Live celebrates the small, the odd-bod, the hilarious; the unexpected brush with celebrity, the domestic left turn, the exceptional collection of something perfectly trivial.

TV review: Episodes

Episodes is still irritating, but the second series appears to be getting funnier The ideal jokes are not the in-jokes, but the good old-fashioned ones. Like Lapidus (John Pankow, who is also excellent) mouthing “I-1-2-4-Q” (or possibly something else) to his mistress over his blind wife’s shoulder while she drones on about the importance of saving honeybees. You cannot beat a bit of light mockery of the disabled, can you? So, correction: I was totally prepared to hate this episode.

Street of Dreams – review

Generations have grown up with Britain’s longest running TV soap, but Corrie, the musical? Three years in the making and as ambitious as one of Liz MacDonald’s skimpy outfits, this epic production hopes to transfer a small-screen legend into huge arenas. Thus, the mocked up Coronation Street stage is the size of a road and there is an orchestra on the rooftops, where they have presumably been warned to watch out for passing trams. The show begins like the 51-year old series, in grainy black and white.

From the archive, 10 May 1956: Labour calls the tune in political broadcast

Labour MP Kenneth Younger took to the radio airwaves with a parody of ‘Oh, dear, what can the matter be?’ in a 1956 party political broadcast A new era in British politics has arrived. The Labour party, reading the portents of thin election meetings and fat queues at the music-hall, has taken to the guitar. Last night Mr Kenneth Younger, a former Minister of State, sweetened his party’s political broadcast on the eve of the municipal elections with a parody of “Oh, dear, what can the matter be?” sung in a amusing tenor voice and accompanied by himself on a ...

Is The Apprentice just too much of the same?

We can see their next move as if they drew us a map. Isn’t it time Lord Alan made some serious changes to this tired format? Back in 2005, Alan Sugar (he was then still a sir, not a lord) opened the first episode of the first series of The Apprentice by barking “I do not like liars, I do not like cheats, I do not like bullshitters, I do not like schmoozers, I do not like arselickers”. Eight years in, and it’s become thumpingly obvious that he doesn’t really care for change, either. Whisper it, but The Apprentice might ...