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The Syndicate, a British series that premiered earlier this year on BBC One and became a hit, just received a second series order for 2013. The series tells the story of five supermarket workers who enter into a syndicate and win the lottery. The first season had five episodes, each focused on one of the [...]

So what’s new at the BBC? New British series are interesting not only because they might get their American version soon – but also, and mainly, because they are, well – slightly different. With shorter TV seasons (here they call it ‘series’, so it’s Sherlock series 1, and not season 1, for example) and longer [...]

The fantasy series, Merlin may have been cancelled by NBC after only one season, but it continues to be a huge success elsewhere, so it didn’t come as too much of a surprise to us to find out that the BBC have commissioned the show for a fifth series. The announcement was made during the [...]

The return date for the sixth season of Doctor Who was revealed yesterday during a Comic Con panel which consisted of the show’s stars, Matt Smith (The Doctor), Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), plus executive producers Piers Wenger and Beth Willis, as well as writer Toby Whithouse. And the good news for all Doctor Who fans [...]

SEB: The Apprentice BBC Series 7 Finale Last night saw a tense final showdown on The Apprentice in which the remaining four candidates ,Jim Eastwood, Susan Ma, Helen Milligan and Tom Pellereau battled it out to try and land the unprecedented prize of a business partnership with Lord Sugar. Read on to find out what [...]

SEB: The Apprentice BBC Series 7 So we now know which four candidates have made it through to Sunday’s final of the UK version of The Apprentice. If you want to find out what happened in last night’s penultimate task, then read on. We can now reveal that it is Natasha Scribbens who has missed [...]

After ten weeks of fierce competition and quite frankly, some extremely entertaining television, it all comes down to this final week on the seventh series of BBC’s The Apprentice and by Sunday night, we will know who, out of the remaining five candidates, Lord Sugar has chosen to go into business with. Ahead of the [...]

What a beautiful morning it is, with so many news from the Gervais corner. So after the new trailer for Life’s Too Short, now I read on Ricky’s site that another special guest on his new comedy will be no other than the Doctor. Doctor Who already had a gig on Extras (which I recently [...]

A few days ago I’ve posted here a trailer for Ricky Gervais’ new comedy, Life’s Too Short. I also told you who’s going to be the super special guest star on the show. More Life’s Too Short surprising cast UPDATE: another super special guest star on the show! There’s a new preview clip coming in, [...]

UPDATE: Sandra Bullock joins the show’s cast. A source said: “Just having an Oscar winner alongside Cheggers, Les and Shaun is hilarious. It just goes to show the sort of pull Ricky Gervais has.” Bullock was the butt of Ricky’s jokes when he presented the Golden Globes this year. During the ceremony he joked that [...]

SEB: The Apprentice BBC, Series 7 Final With just two more weeks until the final of this year’s series of the UK show The Apprentice it has been revealed that there will be a few changes to the usual format. Instead of getting some of the fired contestants from the series back to help out [...]

SEB: The Apprentice bbc, apprentice s07e08 preview In tonight’s episode of BBC’s The Apprentice, Lord Sugar decides to send the remaining eight candidates on a trip to Paris but it is by no means a holiday. Instead, this week’s task is all about export where the teams must try and sell some of the newest [...]

SEB: The Apprentice BBC The Apprentice 2011 is back on BBC One tonight at 9pm and this week’s task is the most imaginative and creative one yet. Lord Sugar summons the two teams, ‘Venture’ and ‘Logic’ to meet him at Fleet Street, home of London’s oldest newspaper district. He then informs the remaining nine candidates [...]

SEB: Luther s02e01 preview, Idris Elba Golden Globe nominee Idris Elba reprises his role as DCI John Luther in a new four part series of Luther beginning tonight, June 14 on BBC One. For those of you not familiar with this series, DCI Luther is a dedicated, but sometimes dangerous, police detective who has paid [...]

SEB: So You Think You Can Dance bbc, Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, Arlene Phillips, Matt Flint The UK version of So You Think You Can Dance came to a close this weekend and the honour of being named Britain’s Favourite Dancer went to Matt Flint, a 29 year old tap dancer from Scarborough. Matt came [...]

SEB: The Apprentice BBC Series 7, Lord Sugar, Zoe Beresford, Edna Agbarha After last week’s double firing, the remaining ten candidates on BBC’sThe Apprentice knew they had to up their game this week if they didn’t want to become the next person to be fired by Lord Sugar but who failed to impress on the [...]

SEB: The Apprentice (UK Series), Series 7, Lord Sugar This week’s task on The Apprentice was all about pet food and ended up with two of the candidates being fired by Lord Sugar in a shock double sacking but more on that later. Both teams had to make, brand and promote a pet food and [...]

SEB: BAFTA 2011, The Only Way is Essex, Sherlock, Misfits The 2011 British Academy Television Awards were held last night, Sunday 22nd May at a star studded event at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and there were some surprise winners, none more so than The Only Way is Essex, who picked up the YouTube [...]

SEB: The Apprentice UK series 7, Lord Alan Sugar We’ve been following the antics of the contestants on Celebrity Apprentice 2011 currently airing in America and we’ll bring you a recap of the latest episode of this show tomorrow, but if you’re a fan of the Apprentice, we’ve got some great news for you as [...]

SEB: MasterChef 2011, MasterChef Final, Tim Anderson, John Torode, Gregg Wallace Last night, it was the grand final of the current series of Masterchef in the UK and after 11 weeks of competitive cooking, the winner was finally revealed as Tim Anderson, who beat off fellow finalists Tom Whitaker and Sara Danesin Medio to claim [...]