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5 items from 2011
Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve – review
23 July 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
A fine cast evoked London in the 1950s in Abi Morgan's newsroom drama The Hour. Elsewhere, it was goodbye to The Apprentice and hello to something rather less entertaining
The Hour (BBC2) | iPlayer
The Apprentice: the Final (BBC1) | iPlayer
Show Me the Funny (ITV1) | iPlayer
Imagine… Harry Nilsson – the Missing Beatle (BBC1) | iPlayer
Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet (BBC2) | iPlayer
When they were producing the actual first Panorama, in the 1950s, do you think they ever stopped to wonder, in brief pauses between drinking whisky and shooting white cuffs from under tweed jackets cut just so, who would play them? In the, like, movie? Perhaps not. I ask only because we seem today to be much more savvy about being in Important Times, collectively aware that we're passing through history – a tsunami, exploding aircraft, malign old tyrannies being shucked like peas, an old »
- Romola Garai, Euan Ferguson
Ignacio Lopez voted off Show Me The Funny
19 July 2011 2:30 AM, PDT | Virgin Media - TV | See recent Virgin Media - TV news »
Ignacio Lopez became the first comedian to be voted off 'Show Me The Funny' last night (18.07.11). The Spanish barman failed to amuse audiences with his self-styled lothario act and after his gags were met with awkward silences, judges Alan Davies, Kate Copstick and guest panellist Jimmy Tarbuck decided to send him home. However, the 24-year-old funnyman thinks it's a shame he was the first casualty of the ITV1 show - hosted by Jason Manford - because it was it was one of the few bad comedic gigs he's ever done. He exclusively told Bang Showbiz: "Watching myself on TV was hard. It's »
'Show Me The Funny' eliminates Ignacio Lopez
18 July 2011 4:01 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Spanish comic Ignacio Lopez has become the first contestant eliminated from ITV1's Show Me The Funny. The 24-year-old former cinema usher was compared to a "car crash" by comedy critic Kate Copstick following his performance for an all-female crowd in Liverpool. Lopez found himself in the bottom two alongside ex-footballer Prince Abdi and was voted off unanimously by the judges - Copstick, Alan Davies and guest panellist Jimmy Tarbuck. Copstick told Lopez: "I thought it was like watching a low-speed car crash. I think when you came on it was interesting because you had a character - 'the great lover'. (more) »
- By Alex Fletcher
Blake Harrison hates hero status
15 July 2011 9:00 AM, PDT | Virgin Media - TV | See recent Virgin Media - TV news »
Ignacio Lopez became the first comedian to be voted off 'Show Me The Funny' last night (18.07.11). The Spanish barman failed to amuse audiences with his self-styled lothario act and after his gags were met with awkward silences, judges Alan Davies, Kate Copstick and guest panellist Jimmy Tarbuck decided to send him home. However, the 24-year-old funnyman thinks it's a shame he was the first casualty of the ITV1 show - hosted by Jason Manford - because it was it was one of the few bad comedic gigs he's ever done. He exclusively told Bang Showbiz: "Watching myself on TV was hard. It's »
Ian Bolt obituary
16 February 2011 4:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
TV producer behind a raft of popular shows
Ian Bolt, who has died of cancer aged 66, worked for 30 years as a television producer and director, first for Yorkshire TV and then as a freelancer. He made more than 1,500 network TV shows and commercials, as well as the occasional pop video in the 1980s. Among the many programmes he helped bring to the screen were Pop Quest, Give Us a Clue and Through the Keyhole. In 1980 he won a Bafta for best documentary children's programme for The Book Tower.
The son of an army officer, Bolt was educated at Palmer's boys school in Grays, Essex. He attended Southampton College of Advanced Technology and graduated in 1964 as an electronics engineer.
That year he became a development engineer at McMurdo Instruments and Thorn Electrical Industries and worked on the development of solid state colour television for four years. His first TV appointment was »
5 items from 2011
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