The American version of Gavin & Stacey has made FOX’s latest slate of new commissions. Us & Them sees Jason Ritter (Parenthood, The Event) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls, Mad Men) in the lead roles. They’re acceptable, but seeing Smithy and Nessa all Americanised is...

BBC Two’s latest five-part drama The Fall started last night. Two elements drew me in instantly: Gillian Anderson’s return to UK television and the fact that we know who the killer is right from the start. With the punchline revealed was there much more for the viewer to get...

Discovery’s newest launch, TLC, is finally bringing one of its highest-rating American shows to our side of the Atlantic. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a fly-on-the-wall documentary series following seven-year-old child beauty pageant contestant, Alana Thompson. You may remember the...

The American networks have been ruthless this year and axed a whole slate of shows that weren’t bringing in the mulah. Times are tough and there’s no room for improvement! None whatsoever! So those that weren’t converting ratings to cash have been axed – with surprising...

Sky Atlantic pulled off a hat-trick at last night’s BAFTA TV Awards. The channel celebrated a Best Male Comedy Performance win – Steve Coogan for Welcome to the Places of My Life. Girls was named Best International programme and Game of Thrones won the coveted Radio Times Audience...

Middle-aged women everywhere rejoice! Heart-throb Michael French is returning to EastEnders as the original bad-boy/womaniser David Wicks. Did someone say Joey Branning? Yawn! He has nothing on David! Back in the day, trouble-maker Wicks got Carol Jackson up the duff when she was still in...

The IT Crowd is returning to Channel 4! Creator Graham Linehan has confirmed production is recommencing shortly, with original cast Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry all on board again. It is, however, only to say one final goodbye to fans. The 40-minute...

R.I.P. Margaret Groening, the inspiration behind The Simpsons‘ Marge. The mother of the cartoon’s creator, Matt Groening, has passed away at the age of 94. Margaret married her college sweetheart, Homer Groening, and gave birth to five children: Matt, Lisa, Maggie, Patty and Mark....

As the list of celebrities taken in for questioning under Operation Yewtree grows, the names being revealed are becoming increasingly, well, unbelievable. It’s bad enough that kids’ TV presenter Jimmy Savile is an all-but-proven paedophile, but the list just gets longer and longer....

You gotta love those refreshingly candid interviews news reporters capture on those rare moments of ‘raw’ emotion. An American reporter stole a few minutes with Charles Ramsey, just an everyday American who happened to stumble upon Amanda Berry – missing for ten years –...

Gillian Anderson returns to her British roots next week, starring in BBC Two’s latest psychological thriller, The Fall. She plays a detective who is brought from London’s Met Police to Belfast in order to track down a serial killer who is terrorising the city. The five-part series...

ITV’s latest three-part series, Life of Crime, is a different take on the overdone police procedural. As well as a story of how the role of women in the police force has changed over the years, it is also a ‘period drama’, using music and world events to set the time frame....

They’re big shoes to fill, but The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade is stepping into the role of Gadget Man – replacing human encyclopedia Stephen Fry. The weekly tech show saw Stephen reviewing and experimenting with the latest gizmos on Channel 4. Richard will bring his unique...

Fresh from its London 2012 success (and BAFTA awards win), the BBC is now focusing all its attention on our next major sporting event. The corporation will be setting up in no less than 17 locations around Scotland for next year’s Commonwealth Games. The 2014 games will be the first big...