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Top Gear is this year's most popular show on the BBC iPlayer
Top Gear hogs the road when it comes to the year's most popular TV shows watched on BBC's iPlayer catch-up system.
Royle Family actress collects OBE
Veteran actress Sue Johnston has collected her OBE - for her services to drama and charity- from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Sue Johnston: It's too late for surgery now ..but I'll...
Waking The Dead star Sue Johnston talks about turning down Strictly, why she doesn't want a facelift, and how she'd let Kerry Katona move in.
TV review: Waking The Dead | Trinity
EVERY crimefighter has a nemesis: Batman has The Joker, Sherlock Holmes has Moriarty and Waking The Dead's DS Peter Boyd has a Linda Cummings.
I WAS on the radio the other day with a guy who suggested The X Factor's Boot Camp should be precisely that - with the contestants getting their heads shaved.
IT'S not a pleasant situation to find yourself in - chained and imprisoned in a disused hospital by a madman who intends to force you to donate your organs.
It's all gone dark on the small screen
Cruelty and horror increasingly fill the small screen. It is as if the refusal to show the effects of conflict in the news seeks compensation in a higher court of fiction.
Waking The Dead stays ahead of Marple
BBC1's crime series Waking the Dead averages 6.5m viewers, against 4.5m for Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple on ITV1 Waking The Dead's Peter Boyd won the ratings battle with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple for the second week running on Sunday 13 September.
ADAM would no doubt appreciate a quiet first day as the ED's new clinical lead. WEEK four, and another chance for the seriously delusional to humiliate themselves, not just in front of dear Simon and co.
On the box: Framed | Ben Dover Straightens | The Real Housewives Of New Jersey
TREVOR Eve is one of my favourite television actors, as skilled at playing seemingly celibate men as rampantly oversexed ones .
Blue Murder beaten by Waking the Dead
Return of Caroline Quentin's ITV1 police drama Blue Murder not enough to overhaul BBC1's dark Waking the Dead Blue Murder: DCI Janine Lewis and DI Richard Mayne with murdered cheerleading coach Helen Gaskell .
IT may be sacrilege to venture criticism of TV's most popular show in a decade, but we're not convinced by this series' new twist of having contestants audition in front of a baying audience ala Britain's Got Talent.
WE'RE familiar with Trevor Eve's growling and scowling on Waking The Dead, but here the actor shows off his talent by exposing his softer side.
Tradition decrees that Bank Holiday TV should be cuddly, so it was off to Wales in the family-drama camper van for treacle sandwiches with Auntie and Trevor Eve.
WE'RE familiar with Trevor Eve's growling and scowling on Waking The Dead, but here the actor shows off his talent by exposing his softer side.
ONE of the greatest guilty pleasures TV affords each year is these early audition shows, in which misguided wannbe singers turn up clutching big dreams and a few snatches of a Mariah Carey song and are crushed by a smirking Simon Cowell.
Mari Ann Bull, 10, stars in BBC drama alongside Trevor Eve and Eve Myles
A 10-YEAR-OLD girl has landed a top TV role alongside Torchwood actress Eve Myles.
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