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Review: Don’t Tell The Bride, BBC3

4:35pm Friday 3rd September 2010

MOST women have planned their ideal big day years before the actual event.

Lotto fund hopes for Clitheroe Youth Forum

3:49pm Friday 3rd September 2010

A YOUTH project will find out if it has won a top prize in the National Lottery Awards tomorrow.

Bill’s boys make Coronation Street a family affair

father and sons: Bill Roache flanked by his sons, and now fellow Coronation Street actors, Linus, right, and James

4:01pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

FORMER East Lancashire soap veteran William Roache has spoken of his pride at starring alongside his two sons in Coronation Street.

Ribchester chef: TV debut was just for starters

BEST DISH: Daniel with his Thai burger and chunky chips

1:30pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

A BUDDING chef has made his television debut on the teatime show Britain’s Best Dish.

Review: Stephen Tompkinson’s Australian Balloon Adventure, ITV1

HOT AIR: Actor Stephen Tompkinson

4:46pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

WHO he? An actor who was in Ballykissangel, apparently, which is obviously enough to earn him the right to base a series on journeying across Australia in a balloon.

Review: Mastermind, BBC2

QUIZ MASTER: John Humphrys of Mastermind

4:47pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

WHAT has happened to Mastermind? Since Magnus Magnusson quit this, the Everest of quizzes, the questions have definitely got easier.

Hayley: ‘I do’ want to be in Coronation Street forever

WEDDING DAY: Actress Julie Hesmondhalgh as Hayley

11:47am Tuesday 31st August 2010

ACCRINGTON actress Julie Hesmondhalgh said she would be ‘happy to stay forever’ in Coronation Street.

Review: The X Factor, ITV1

3:12pm Friday 27th August 2010

IS it me? Have we really got to the point that The X Factor is the peak of TV programming?

Review: Teen Undertaker, Channel 4

UNUSUAL CAREER CHOICE: Teen undertakers Paul and Laura starred in Channel 4’s documentary

12:01pm Thursday 26th August 2010

I HAD a mate at school who wanted to be an undertaker — he ended up working for M&S.

Review: In Their Own Words: British Novelists, BBC4

AUTHOR: WH Auden on BBC4’s In Their Own Words: British Novelists

11:59am Thursday 26th August 2010

YES, as you will have gathered, I am an intellectual.

Review: The One Show, BBC1

4:08pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

THEY might have faced mixed reviews but Jason Manford and Alex Jones could be just what The One Show needed if you ask me.

Review: Gears And Tears, BBC1

families at “war”: The Wainmans of Yorkshire and the Smiths of Lancashire in Gears And Tears

3:28pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

I DISLIKE petrolheads and, indeed, believe the first six letters could easily be replaced by something more offensive and still mean the same.

Nelson teen on TV documentary on cousin marriages

INCURABLE: Azmat Mahmood

8:00pm Tuesday 24th August 2010

A TEENAGER from Pendle who has an incurable liver disorder appeared in a TV documentary last night to highlight the health risks involved when cousins marry and have children together.

East Lancs hotel in new BBC comedy

TASTY SHOW: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan at the Inn at Whitewell

3:50pm Thursday 19th August 2010

AN HISTORIC Lancashire hotel is to feature in a new gastronomic television comedy directed by Blackburn-born filmaker Michael Winterbottom.

Review: EastEnders, BBC1

2:37pm Friday 13th August 2010

THE PC brigade has been ranting again this week. This time, it’s about the pre-watershed drugs binge indulged in by Walford Square’s finest addict Phil Mitchell.

Review: Heartbeat, ITV1

LAST ARREST: Joe McFadden as PC Joe Mason

1:32pm Thursday 12th August 2010

I WENT up to Goathland recently and there seemed to be a distinct lack of crime going on — come 8 o’clock on a Sunday night, though, and it’s all happening.

Review: Fat and Proud, Sky 3

Review: Fat and Proud, Sky 3

1:28pm Thursday 12th August 2010

WELL, I suppose we don’t have too much to be proud of these days, so we might as well shout about being overweight.

East Lancashire family takes on new TV fat challenge

FAT CHANCE: The Chawner family – Emma, Audrey, Phil and Sam – have again piled on the weight

1:53pm Monday 9th August 2010

WITH VIDEO: X Factor reject Emma Chawner and her family are set to reappear on a 'fat-busting' reality television series after piling on the pounds again.

Review: Man v Food, Good Food Channel

top dog: A giant-size hotdog prepared for Adam Richman’s challenge

1:24pm Thursday 5th August 2010

THIS programme confirms all your — well, my — worst prejudices about Americans.

Accrington teenager on reality TV show

STARDOM BID: Natalie

4:10pm Wednesday 4th August 2010

AN ACCRINGTON teenager is hoping to win over stage stars on a new prime-time reality TV show.

East Lancashire actress to leave Coronation Street

Vicky Entwistle is leaving Coronation Street

9:24am Tuesday 3rd August 2010

EAST Lancashire actress Vicky Entwistle is leaving Coronation Street after 14 years as gobby factory worker Janice Battersby.

Review: Coast, BBC2

3:18pm Friday 30th July 2010

FROM the opening bars of its orchestral score to the spectacular panning shots from the air, it’s nice to see that the Beeb still puts on programmes you can rely on.

Review: The Hotel Inspector, Five

hotel job: Alex Polizzi who is the Hotel Inspector

1:59pm Thursday 29th July 2010

I ONCE stayed in a hotel in Torquay at which the owner, having taken payment in advance, said that due to rising costs he would have to charge 5p per tea bag and 6p for milk, while, if we wanted to take a shower, that would be 20p a go.

Review: John Bishop’s Britain, BBC1

on a winner: Comedian John Bishop

2:00pm Thursday 29th July 2010

WHEN comedians make the move from the stage to hosting their own television show they tend to lose the edge that got them there in the first place.

Dragons' Den gives Lancashire firm £100,000

impressed:  Left to right, Peter Jones, Wesley Downham, FGH business director, Peter Harrison, FGH managing director and Theo Paphitis. The company landed £100,000 of backing investment for the firm

11:16am Tuesday 27th July 2010

BOSSES from a Lancashire security firm last night walked away with £100,000 of investment after winning over the stars of TV’s Dragon’s Den.

Review: The Ugly Face of Beauty, Channel 4

4:48pm Friday 23rd July 2010

EVER fancied having a bit of ‘work’ done? Maybe breast enlargement, liposuction or a facelift?

Review: Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, BBC1

final fling: Jonathan Ross and his final BBC guest, England football star David Beckham

3:48pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

I’VE spent a lot of Friday nights with Jonathan Ross. Too many, I think.

Review: 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow, BBC1

3:07pm Friday 16th July 2010

IT’S Saturday night and the brains trust of the Beeb has been set a problem.

Review: The Private Life Of Cows, BBC2

fascinating cows: Jimmy Doherty

4:13pm Thursday 15th July 2010

WHO’D have guessed it? Cows are more intelligent than Jimmy Doherty.

Review: Top Gear, BBC2

4:35pm Friday 9th July 2010

TO quote a Thin Lizzy lyric, the boys are back in town. But could it be that the Top Gear team have actually listened to their critics?




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