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ITV denies it's moving News at Ten – but is 'relaxed' about occasional switches
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New director of television Kevin Lygo has no plans to permanently move bulletin, say sources
ITV’s new TV chief is to take a more “relaxed” attitude to occasionally airing News at Ten at a later slot, a strategy that would free up more primetime space and make for fewer clashes with the BBC’s 10pm bulletin.
It is understood that Kevin Lygo, the ITV Studios boss who replaced Peter Fincham as ITV director of television earlier this year, has no intention of permanently moving its nightly news bulletin to avoid the so-called “battle of the bongs” with the BBC.
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- Mark Sweney
My hips don't move in the right way for the jive, says Ed Balls
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Former shadow chancellor fears that despite his training for Strictly Come Dancing some moves may be beyond him
Ed Balls said he is worried about twisting his hips around the jive, just a few weeks before he dances for millions of viewers in live broadcasts of Strictly Come Dancing.
The former shadow chancellor, 49, who lost his parliamentary seat in the 2015 general election, said his participation in the show, an autumn television staple, was “definitely a midlife crisis” but that he embraced it.
Related: Ann Widdecombe: My advice to Ed Balls on Strictly? Just follow my lead
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- Damien Gayle
Eamonn Holmes to leave Sky News after 11 years
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Presenter says he wants to ‘step away from daily studio commitment’ to pursue new projects – but will continue guesting on ITV’s This Morning
Eamonn Holmes is to step down as anchor of Sky News’s breakfast show, Sunrise, after 11 years.
Holmes said that he wanted to free up more time to pursue personal projects and needed to “step away from the daily studio commitment for a while”.
Related: Mark Longhurst leaves Sky News in cost-saving restructure
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- Mark Sweney
Miley Cyrus v Jeremy Clarkson: the must-see TV of autumn 2016
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Woody Allen gets cosmic with Miley, Jude Law plays a frisky pope and Netflix takes on the Queen. Here are the ones to watch this autumn
• Autumn culture: Film | Art & design | Dance | Classical | Pop | Theatre | Comedy | Games
The Night Of has already premiered in America to near-universal acclaim. A Us remake of BBC1’s peerless Criminal Justice, it stars Riz Ahmed and John Turturro as a murder suspect and his lawyer battling through the legal system. Perfectly timed to coincide with the rise of Making a Murderer-style crime documentaries, The Night Of looks little short of unmissable.
• 1 September, 9pm, Sky Atlantic.
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- Mark Lawson, Stuart Heritage
Sex, Lies and Cyber Attacks review – where’s the big Ashley Madison reveal?
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There’s nothing like other people’s infidelities to get the pulse racing, but this ‘inside story’ promises more than it delivers. Plus: Dci Banks is grumpy and Bear Grylls does choreographed excitement
When a bank’s computer system is hacked and details of its customer accounts leaked, then everyone – other than those involved – usually gets bored with the story in a matter of days. When it’s an online dating site for people wanting to have affairs, then there’s a media feeding frenzy for months on end. There’s nothing like other people’s infidelities to get the pulse racing.
Sex, Lies and Cyber Attacks (Channel 4) set itself up to be to be the inside story of how the Ashley Madison website came to be hacked in July last year, when the email addresses of more than 30 million of its users were made public. However, as no »
- John Crace
Thursday’s best TV: The Night Of; Ellen; Ingenious Animals
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Riz Ahmed stars in an utterly engrossing miniseries about a naive student who finds himself facing a murder trial, while a disturbing one-off drama unpicks teenage life. Plus, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall gets tickled by a manatee
“I’ve just had my toes tickled by a manatee,” yelps Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, during a candid moment typical of his new show looking at the weird and wonderful facets of animal behaviour. In this first episode, Hugh and his band of incredibly photogenic scientists are looking at animal intelligence; meeting empathetic elephants, streetwise racoons and a rat that sniffs out land mines. It’s Animals Do the Funniest Things with a side of science and lot of heart. Grace Rahman
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- Grace Rahman, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue, David Stubbs, Ali Catterall, Hannah J Davies and Paul Howlett
Watching TV with mother - archive, 1 September 1995
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1 September 1995: Like most working mothers, Suzanne Moore uses television as a childminder, but she also watches a lot of children’s TV with her kids
It strikes me as rather weird that after Barrymore’s coming out, there have been serious discussions about whether the genre of light entertainment can tolerate an openly gay performer. Many light entertainers have been identifiably camp, though increasingly, camp has become dissociated from sexuality itself. Much of popular TV, from Richard And Judy to The Big Breakfast, is incredibly camp and nowhere is there more evidence of this than on children’s TV.
Like most working mothers, I use television as a childminder, but I also watch a lot of children’s TV with my kids. As other ‘homeworkers’ no doubt realise, a really bad day is when you have seen both the lunchtime and teatime repeat of Neighbours. Many of the programmes are excellent, »
- Suzanne Moore
The Great British Bake Off 2016, episode two – as it happened
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It’s biscuit week! Who delivered when it came to the crunch, and who crumbled at the first hurdle?
8.59pm BST
So that’s it for Week 2 – thank you everyone for joining in and being very funny as ever, make sure you come back for Bread Week next week.
I’m actually off on my holidays next Wednesday, squeezing in a break during what’s known as the ‘Strictly Gap’. So somebody else will be liveblogging Bake Off for the next three weeks. In the meantime you can find me on Twitter @heidistephens, or Instagram if you have any interest whatsoever in pictures of Spanish/French vistas and tipsy selfies.
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It’s between Candice and Andrew for Star Baker – I want Andrew to win because he’s adorable. Val to go home, surely?
Star Baker this week is…Candice! And going home is…Louise! Oh, really? Should have been Val, »
- Heidi Stephens
You’re the Worst: Gretchen and Jimmy turn and face the strain
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Change seems to be the theme of season three, with characters hell-bent on self-improvement – but it’s the lighter dynamic that’s most appealing
Despite previous behaviour clearly being the best way to predict our future actions, promising to change is something everyone buys into. Who doesn’t say that tomorrow is the day to start getting up after the first alarm and not snoozing for 15 minutes, or forego stabbing your husband when he forces you to cook Blue Apron together? Well, maybe not that last one, but that is a very real problem on You’re the Worst, Fxx’s anti-rom-com which returns for its third season on Wednesday, 31 August at 10pm Et.
Mild spousal assaults aside, the characters on You’re the Worst seem hell-bent on self-improvement this season, but progress is slow, incremental and often non-existent. This season the comedy is switching gears to focus on the characters’ personal development when, »
- Brian Moylan
No more corsets or corpses! TV must stop selling teenage girls short
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Writers have finally woken up to a generation who don’t think they’re powerful and interesting despite being young and female, but because of it. Now, new shows such as Ellen are offering a gloriously real and wonky roadmap to adulthood
There is a reason why writing teenage girls is hard. It’s because you’re not just writing one character, you’re writing a flat-share. They’re all living in the one brain, like oestrogen-ed up Young Ones. They have the body of a woman and the brain of a child, or a toddler on Sunny-d, or a world-weary sea captain sucking on a fag and staring into the abyss. They can go from Jessica Rabbit to Josef Mengele within one X Factor ad break. Which is why they’re utterly brilliant, of course, and should be documented for always.
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- Sarah Morgan
Netflix confirms Stranger Things season two for 2017
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Supernatural thriller starring Winona Ryder was one of the hits of the summer in the Us
Netflix has confirmed that supernatural thriller Stranger Things will return next year for a second series.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings told the Guardian last month that the streaming service “would be dumb” not to recommission the show, which was the Us watercooler hit of the summer.
Related: Stranger Things: Netflix boss says it would be 'dumb' not to do season two
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- Jasper Jackson
The Crystal Maze set to return to TV after 21 years
23 hours ago
Channel 4 looking at bringing back game show as part of fundraising event – but it will not be hosted by David Tennant, as reports have claimed
The Crystal Maze is set to return to our screens for a one-off special, 21 years after it was axed.
Channel 4 is looking to bring back the classic game show as part of the Stand Up To Cancer fundraising event in October.
Related: Rav Wilding sues makers of Splash! after diving injury 'changed my life'
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BBC brings in new Gardeners’ World presenters as Bake Off boss takes charge
31 August 2016 2:15 AM, PDT
Extended hour-long show to feature new strands including tropical plants and ‘extreme gardening’
The BBC is aiming to bring some of the ingredients that have made The Great British Bake Off a hit to its revamp of Gardeners’ World, which returns to BBC2 on Friday.
Earlier this year the corporation drafted in Paolo Proto, the producer responsible for the record-breaking last series of Bake Off, as well as a number of new presenters and strands such as “extreme gardening” .
Related: Rav Wilding sues makers of Splash! after diving injury 'changed my life'
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- Mark Sweney
Coronation Street apologises as nearly 300 complain about 'racist' remark
31 August 2016 1:04 AM, PDT
Watchdog considering investigation after a character made a comment about her hair having ‘more roots than Kunta Kinte’
Coronation Street bosses have apologised after nearly 300 viewers complained about a comment a character made about her hair.
The episode on Bank Holiday Monday saw Eva Price, played by Catherine Tyldesley, visit Audrey’s hair salon, where she remarked: “I have more roots than Kunta Kinte.
Related: Rav Wilding sues makers of Splash! after diving injury 'changed my life'
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- Press Association
The month in comics: have DC made a Superwoman-sized mistake?
31 August 2016 1:00 AM, PDT
DC’s Rebirth series gets controversial, John Barrowman resurrects Torchwood and grizzled gunslinger Kingsway West makes his debut
It’s been two months since DC’s Rebirth – an audacious overhaul of the veteran publisher’s entire superhero comics line – and while the rollout of new comics has been staggered, sales have been supercharged. In July, DC achieved more market share than its bitter rival Marvel for the first time in years.
Related: The month in comics: Marvel returns to Civil War
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- Graeme Virtue
Screen bites: should school bullying be made a criminal offence across the country?
31 August 2016 12:37 AM, PDT
A heartbreaking episode of Sbs’s The Feed looks at the epidemic of school bullying in Australia and debates whether it should be made a criminal offence nationwide
Patrick Abboud came across Tayla Sekhmet’s petition almost by accident. The journalist was scrolling through Change.org while working on another story in Queensland when he saw it: “School bullying is killing me, Please, Please Help.”
“I literally stopped in my tracks,” Abboud tells Guardian Australia. As a child Abboud was savagely bullied in school: dragged through the corridors, spat on and violently abused for years.
Related: Website hosting explicit images of Australian schoolgirls back online
Related: Appearance bullying – and the damage it does to children’s education
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- Steph Harmon
New York: America’s Busiest City review – oysters, railways and sex toys
30 August 2016 11:00 PM, PDT
The BBC’s intrepid reporters tried commuting in New York – and the result did not make you swell with pride about the British transport system. Plus: loveliness pours forth in The Great Orchestra Challenge
Eight in the morning at Grand Central Terminal, the world’s largest railway station. Forty-six platforms, 200,000 commuters and 100 boxes of oysters getting shucked in the world-famous Oyster Bar. Ah, New York, how do you manage to make even the daily drudgery of going to work look cool? On a single platform, a train pulls into the station every 47 seconds, each one pouring out 1,200 commuters. Welcome to rush hour in New York, which looks pretty much like rush hour in London. Except cheaper. And less crammed. And more iconic. And without some dreary Jeremy Corbyn #traingate scandal brewing in the tunnels.
New York: America’s Busiest City (BBC2) was about “the hidden systems and armies of workers »
- Chitra Ramaswamy
Wednesday’s best TV: The Great British Bake Off; Skies Above Britain
30 August 2016 10:10 PM, PDT
It’s biscuit week in the big tent, so we get the complete history of dunking. Plus, an eccentric look at oddball amateur fliers
Enable cookies! The theme for week two of the genteel baking joust is biscuits, though Sue actually abandons the tent of dreams for the entire episode, nominally to find out about the history of dunking. Mel guides the remaining contestants through their biscuit-based challenges, including a high-stakes showstopper that might have viewers of a nervous disposition reaching for a different kind of bourbon. Graeme Virtue
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- Graeme Virtue, David Stubbs, Andrew Mueller, Ben Arnold, Jack Seale,
Rav Wilding sues makers of Splash! after diving injury 'changed my life'
30 August 2016 10:01 PM, PDT
Former Crimewatch presenter says he had to cancel his wedding and has put his home on the market because of accident in pre-show training
Former Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding is suing the production company behind ITV’s Splash!, saying an injury he suffered while training for the diving show has derailed his career.
The ex-Strictly Come Dancing contestant said he had to cancel his wedding and has now put his home on the market because of the accident, which occurred in pre-show training in 2013.
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- Press Association
Jeremy Vine posts video of alleged road rage incident
30 August 2016 10:11 AM, PDT
BBC presenter uploads footage on Facebook showing altercation with motorist as he cycles through west London
The BBC presenter Jeremy Vine has published video footage showing a driver threatening to knock him out and allegedly assaulting him while he was on his bicycle.
Vine said the incident took place while he was commuting through Kensington, west London, on Friday. The Metropolitan police said it had no record of an incident being reported.
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- Haroon Siddique
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