ITV’S 11-month karaoke marathon resumed at the weekend with promising call centre worker Jason Jones. He’s had “a good response” whenever he’s sung in pubs but his ultimate goal is: “To represent …
GREAT political acts of defiance deserve great acknowledgements. The anti-fascists who repelled Mosley got a red plaque near Cable Street. And the Black Power salute Olympians were eventually honou…
FOR five long weeks viewers wondered why the hell poor, gentle, tortured James Cosmo had subjected himself to the Celebrity Big Brother nightmare. His fellow housemates were venal. The rules were …
THE perfect week for ITV’s This Morning to launch its insomnia workshop, with Professor Jason Ellis who was full of perfectly sound advice for the wide-awake club. Caffeine regulation, sleep hygien…
TURNS out there is a stage between panic and despair. It’s an ITV production meeting where they’ve chucked out every other idea and someone’s wondered out loud if John Bishop could fill the void wi…
FOR the last two decades, I’ve been going through the same grim process every two years. England qualify for the finals of a major football tournament, Scotland don’t. So I then have to sit tight, …
THERE was a call to overthrow international capitalism last week – and it came on a BBC television show. Which hardly narrows down the field of possibilities, I realise. You’re probably thinking it…
IN 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave women and working-class men the vote. In February 1990, three months after the Berlin Wall fell, Nelson Mandela walked to freedom from Victor Verst…