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Gavin and
Stacey Star - Radio Show
Ruth Jones, co-writer and star of Gavin and Stacey, has
landed a deal to present her own Sunday morning chat show on BBC Radio
Wales.
Ruth Jones' Sunday Brunch will run for 12 weeks between 10:00
and midday and aims at the feel of a relaxed Sunday morning with friends.
Jones said: "It'll be like having friends over the house for brunch. We'll
go through the papers, have a coffee, maybe a bacon bap or two and a nice
chat, y'know. Just relaxed and easy. Easy like Sunday morning."
Radio Wales editor Sali Collins said: "Ruth is one of British comedy's
brightest stars and she's Welsh to the core, so her collaboration with Radio
Wales is a perfect fit. With a three-month stint on Sunday mornings, fans
will be able to get a weekly fix of Ruth's wit and warm personality."
16:56
July
16 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Hugh Lloyd
Comedy actor Hugh Lloyd has died aged 85.
For more than 50 years he was one of Britain's
best-loved comedy actors, working as a partner with some of the
funniest television comedians of the age.
Two years after his first radio programme, the
Stay at Home Show, Lloyd made his television debut in 1950 in the
Centre Show, broadcast for troops.
He found greater fame in a variety of roles with
comedian Tony Hancock, taking incidental roles in the BBC television
version of Hancock's Half Hour throughout the 1950s. In 1961 the
programme's title was shortened to Hancock, and Lloyd was a fellow
patient in one of the best-remembered of the series, The Blood
Donor.
In 1962, he got his own series Hugh and I, with
Terry Scott. Its 69 episodes ran from 1962 to 1967, and they
reprised similar roles in the TV series The Gnomes of Dulwich
(1969), as ornamental figures who come to life in a south London
garden.
13:07
July
16 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
Reader Comment
Another comedy actor passes on - RIP. I remember he made a
brief appearance in You Rang M'lord as a Butler.
Pity latter day comedy actors dont get such a long
apprenticeship /
training today.
trevor.aussie
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ITV and
BBC Regions Added To Freesat
From today, Freesat is offering the full complement of
regional BBC and ITV services after adding 22 more variants.
The channels, which supply regional programming including
news and weather, are being uploaded automatically so Freesat viewers will
not need to retune.
The services will appear automatically as their default for
BBC One (Freesat channel 101) or ITV1 (Freesat channel 103).
Freesat managing director Emma Scott said "These services are hugely popular
with viewers, and compliment an already strong channel line-up. We look
forward to welcoming more channels onto Freesat in the next month."
12:58
July
16 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Billy Jean Is
Top Dance Track
Michael Jackson's Billie Jean has been voted the greatest
dance record of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners.
As part of the station's Dance Music Season, scheduled to coincide with the
twentieth anniversary of the Second Summer of Love, a panel of dance music
experts drew up a shortlist of 20 records.
These were selected for their musical merit and importance in the narrative
of UK dance music – and spanned the years from 1966 to 2001.
Radio 2 listeners were then invited to vote online for their favourite and
the top 10 songs were revealed in a three-part series presented by Zoe Ball
– The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time – which concluded last night.
Written by Michael Jackson and co-produced by Quincy Jones, Billie Jean went
to the top of the UK charts in 1983 and is taken from Thriller, the
biggest-selling album in the world.
09:45
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16 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Shooting
Stars Back For Christmas
BBC Two has confirmed that comedy gameshow Shooting Stars
will be returning this year for two Christmas specials.
The show will be complete with hosts Vic Reeves and Bob
Mortimer and Matt Lucas's romper suit-clad George Dawes.
The shows, commissioned by BBC Two controller Roly Keating, will mark the
15th anniversary of the madcap quiz - which features two celebrity panels
undertaking odd games - reaching British screens.
One of the shows will be a 'best of', featuring previously
seen footage.
Games included "the dove from above" - which featured Reeves's catchphrases
"uvavu" and "eranu" - and an impressions round where contestants had to
guess which song Reeves was singing the style of a club singer.
Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Jonsson acted as team captains on the original show,
but a BBC spokeswoman said it had not been confirmed who would take up the
roles for the new specials.
Celebrity panellists have also not yet been confirmed, although comedian
Russell Brand is rumoured to be one.
The two new shows will be made by Reeves and Mortimer's independent
production company, Pett.
Shooting Stars, which was created by the duo, was first seen in 1993 and ran
until 1997 on BBC Two.
The show was revived by digital channel BBC Choice in 2002, with Will Self
taking over from Lamarr as team captain.
07:45
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16 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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