Coronation Street is to go live once again in September 2015 to mark ITV's 60 years on air.
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Cast and crew were told of the news this morning ahead of an announcement by Peter Fincham, ITV's Director of Television, at the Salford Media Festival.
It will be the first live episode of Corrie's new production base at Trafford, where the show moved to at the start of 2014. The last time the soap went live was during its 50th birthday in 2010 when the residents of Weatherfield dealt with the aftermath of a devastating tram crash. Read More...
Instead, she turns out to be extraordinarily delicate-looking, her porcelain skin bearing none of the weird hallmarks signposting overuse of Botox. Moreover, far from being fearsomely statuesque, she is rather tiny, enhanced by a fierce discipline for keeping in shape via Pilates, weights and diet.
The surprises don’t stop there. Previous interviews have suggested she doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks about her, and has no fear of failing in her new role as host of Countdown – not so, apparently. Read More...
Now they can once again step behind the curtain thanks to former showrunner Steven Moffat, who generously released a draft script from one of his later episodes, The Pilot, so Whovians could see the development process that went into bringing his ideas to screen.
But what was so different between the finished episode – 2017’s The Pilot, which introduced Pearl Mackie’s new companion Bill – and the original draft, still titled A Star in Her Eye? Read More...