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Review: Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, BBC1
3:32pm Friday 3rd July 2009
THERE’S a lot of TV at the moment that's supposed to be funny – Alan Carr’s Chatty Man, and That Mitchell and Webb Look, to name just two.
Have your say »Interview: Daliso Chaponda
3:29pm Friday 3rd July 2009
THE cream of North West comedy talent will join forces to raise money for Manchester’s Christie cancer hospital at The Lowry, Salford Quays, this weekend.
Interview: Little Boots
3:03pm Friday 3rd July 2009
She’s bright, she's bubbly and she’s from Blackpool. We spoke to electro-pop princess Little Boots who is being billed as the new Kylie.
Interview: Joe Walsh of The Eagles
3:05pm Friday 3rd July 2009
AMERICAN rock legends Eagles are bringing their Long Road Out of Eden tour to the UK and playing two dates in Manchester this month.
Review: Album - Dinosaur Jr - Farm
3:24pm Friday 26th June 2009
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the order of the day on Dinosaur Jr’s second post-reformation album.
Review: Album - Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
3:25pm Friday 26th June 2009
Having released their rapturously-received debut Curses in 2007, it’s been all quiet on the Future Of The Left front since.
Review: Album - Spinal Tap - Back From The Dead
3:27pm Friday 26th June 2009
Released to mark the 25th anniversary of the cult classic and seminal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, this is the first new album from England’s Loudest Heavy Metal Band since Break Like The Wind in 1992.
Interview: Laci Endresz of Blackpool Tower Circus
3:06pm Friday 26th June 2009
IF Take That weren’t the nation's favourite boy-turned-man band, the director of Blackpool Tower Circus would give them a job in an instant.
Interview: Dave Twentyman
3:11pm Friday 26th June 2009
DAVE Twentyman, the compere of Blackburn's regular Frog & Bucket comedy night, talks about the highs and lows of life as a comic... and how to deal with hecklers.
Review: Album - Bert Jansch: LA Turnaround/Santa Barbara Honeymoon/A Rare Conundrum
5:15pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Anyone frequently name-checked by Jimmy Page and Neil Young as a key influence, as Bert Jansch is, has got to be something pretty special, right?
Review: Coach Trip, Channel 4
5:10pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
THIS week I have been mostly watching C4's Coach Trip. It’s not a new show, but for some reason it had not been on my radar until now.
Interview: Scott Francis, director of Walking With Dinosaurs
5:02pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
HOW do you get 15 life-sized dinosaurs to walk around a stage, each remember their cue and interact with other dinosaurs while telling their life story?
Interview: Maureen Nolan
5:08pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
If you have sisters or brothers then you’ll know the feeling of being compared to your siblings. But imagine having to do a job that three of your sisters had done before you, and to great acclaim. In the part of Mrs Johnstone in the legendary musical Blood Brothers Maureen Nolan is doing just that.
Interview: Shazia Mirza
4:30pm Friday 19th June 2009
Shazia Mirza has won rave reviews for her frank and honest stand-up comedy routines about being a young Muslim woman in Britain. The controversial comedienne spoke to us ahead of her gig in Bolton.
Review: How Sweet It Is.. The Motown Show @ Mechanics, Burnley
11:01am Monday 15th June 2009
The magic of Tamla Motown refuses to die and the packed house at the Mechanics was testament to the fact it is likely to live on forever.
Interview: Hollie Steel
4:55pm Monday 15th June 2009
THIS time eight weeks ago no-one had heard of Hollie Steel.
Review: Album – The Legends – Over And Over
9:00am Monday 15th June 2009
MULTI-talented Swede Johan Angergård is in several bands, so it's no surprise that he likes to swoop around from genre to genre:.
Interview: Ken Dodd
2:58pm Friday 12th June 2009
King of comedy Ken Dodd is bringing his Happiness Show to Blackpool and Manchester. He spoke to us about a life in the spotlight.
Interview: Faith Brown
3:01pm Friday 12th June 2009
FAITH Brown is famous for her big voice, her big personality and her even bigger bust.
Review: Big Brother, Channel 4
10:40am Friday 12th June 2009
THE lengths people will go to just to have their 15 minutes of fame really is shocking.
Review: My Life In Verse: Robert Webb, BBC2
10:47am Thursday 11th June 2009
THE half of Mitchell and Webb that isn’t Mitchell is obviously looking to spread his TV wings beyond comedy and shows plenty of promise in this programme in which he traces the story behind TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.
Review: Calendar Girls 10 Years On, BBC1
10:47am Thursday 11th June 2009
Calendar Girls 10 Years On, BBC1, Thursday 9pm A DECADE ago the normally sleepy Yorkshire Dales village of Rylstone was suddenly swarming with press. Not because anything particularly untoward had happened, unless you count 11 middle-aged members of the local Women’s Institute doffing off for a calendar, that is.
Interview: Mark Rough
5:15pm Monday 8th June 2009
COMEDIAN Mark Rough has been described as a Sunderland Billy Connolly speaking at 100 miles an hour with a gag every minute. He spoke to us ahead of his headline set at the opening of Nelson’s ACE Centre.
Interview: Bobby Ball
5:12pm Monday 8th June 2009
STEP back in time to an era where variety ruled the airwaves as The Best of British Variety Tour 2009 comes to Blackpool. We spoke to Bobby Ball - one half of the nation’s favourite vintage comedy double-act.
Review: Single – Vagabond – Sweat (Until The Morning)
9:00am Monday 8th June 2009
VAGABOND are hyped as mid-market, soulful, sexy pop – so they could be very big indeed.
Interview: TV gardener Christine Walkden
4:05pm Monday 8th June 2009
The One Show’s Christine Walkden is returning to her Lancashire roots to give the region tips on plant growing. The Rishton-born TV gardener spoke to us about her love of all things outdoor.
The secret to slimming, it's not rocket science
3:15pm Thursday 4th June 2009
10 Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight, BBC1, Wednesday 8pm LOSING weight basically comes down to eating less — not wolfing down endless packets of crisps or takeaways — and doing some exercise. End of. Except it’s not.
Pick of the week
3:15pm Thursday 4th June 2009
Robin Hood (Saturday, BBC One, 6.45pm) Saturday nights were simply no fun before Robin Hood and his merry men started warring with no end of baddies in Sherwood Forest.
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