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Alan Carr
New Year Specstacular Alan Carr is to take
over Channel 4's basement to throw a New Year's Eve party.
Guests include Jonathan Ross, Micky Flanagan,
Melanie Sykes, Gok Wan, Kirstie Allsopp, Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli,
Heston Blumenthal with live music is from JLS and The Ting Tings.
Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular's confirmed VT
sketches include a spoof of The King's Speech, a Made In Chelsea
parody featuring Carr and the cast of the show plus two sketches
with David Walliams including a Royal spoof with Carr as Prince
William and Walliams as Kate Middleton.
Syeda Irtizaali, Commissioning Editor for
entertainment on Channel 4 said: "I can think of no better person to
leave Channel 4's New Year celebrations in the hands of than our
very own Alan. Expect a raucous and funny party night packed full of
celebrity guests, plenty of sketches and surprises and a wonderfully
mischievous look back at the best of 2011."
November
24
2011 - waveguide.co.uk
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Eamonn
Holmes Stays With Sky News
Presenter Eamonn Holmes has ended speculation that he will
co-host ITV's Daybreak by announcing a new three-year deal with Sky News.
Holmes said on his website: ?Being so associated with
Breakfast television for so long, there is often speculation linking me to
other vacancies when they occur. I have had a really exciting, fulfilling,
and happy six years at Sky News and with today?s signing of a new contract ,
I am delighted to continue hosting ?Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes? for at least
another three."
November
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BBC
Announces Olympic Programming
The BBC has today announced its line-up of programmes to mark
the 2012 Olympics.
They include Shakespeare, live music and the history of
London, marking the games in the city.
The corporation's cultural line-up for 2012 was launched by director general
Mark Thompson in London today
The Shakespeare season features several documentaries and a special edition
of Antiques Roadshow, alongside new versions of the bard's history plays.
Meanwhile, the Proms will be part of the 2012 Festival and Tinie Tempah will
play Radio 1's Hackney weekend.
The music festival, which was announced in June, is being described as the
largest live music event ever staged by the BBC.
It will also see performances from Florence and the Machine and Hackney-born
artists Leona Lewis and Plan B.
Official music for the BBC's Olympic coverage will be provided by Elbow, who
have composed a song for use throughout the games.
In addition to coverage of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the
corporation will send crews to cover the 70-day Olympic torch relay,
followed by the Games themselves and the two-month-long London 2012
Festival, which encompasses cultural events around the UK.
On the opening night of the games, 27 July, The Proms will feature conductor
Daniel Barenboim leading the West Eastern Divan Orchestra in a performance
of Beethoven's Ninth, the culmination of his complete Beethoven symphony
cycle.
The BBC has also commissioned a raft of documentaries looking at London's
history and heritage, which will air throughout 2012.
The Market looks at the bustling activity of the Spitalfields, Smithfield
and Billingsgate markets, where more than ?5m changes hands every day, while
Dan Cruikshank delves into the history of the plague and the great fire of
London in A Tale Of Two Cities.
Film-maker Julien Temple, who chronicled the punk era in The Great Rock 'n'
Roll Swindle, has created what is described as "a love-letter to his home
town" in This Is London.
BBC coverage will also move outside London, including concerts in Glasgow,
Cornwall, Belfast, Cardiff and the Shetland Isles, as part of the Music
Nation weekend on 3 and 4 March.
The Culture Show will document the creation of Anish Kapoor's Olympic
sculpture The weekend of performances is billed as the first nationwide
countdown to the London 2012 Festival.
Radio 3 will broadcast 20 new musical works, each lasting 12 minutes on the
Hear and Now programme, while four short films have been created in
conjunction with Film Four.
These include What If, a retelling of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem starring
Noel Clarke and highlighting the UK's talent in street dance and free
running.
Many other programmes and series have already been announced,
including the return of Olympic comedy series Twenty Twelve, and Bert and
Dickie - a dramatisation of how Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell beat the
odds to become gold medallists in the 1948 London Olympics.
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