Philip Glenister

ITV1 to launch healthy campaign

Claire Sweeney's Big Fat Diet sees her pile on two stone. ITV1 is to launch a campaign to help fight obesity and get the nation healthy after Christmas. The Feelgood Factor aims to encourage people to shape up and get fit and...

A dramatic difference

It would be tempting to draw an analogy between Laura Mackie's time as ITV's controller of drama and the vast, vacant lot on to which her office looks. Dilapidated, neglected and pockmarked with potholes, it's being used as a...

Pick of the day - Children In Need, BBC1, 7pm, 10.35pm and BBC2, 10pm

Dancing newsreaders, singing EastEnders and Gene Hunt roughing up Pudsey bear - it can only be Children In Need's annual night of celebrity tin-rattling. Hosts Terry Wogan and Tess Daly will even be going toe-to-toe in a...

Jus say no

And it’s not only adults who love nostalgia — but also the new crop of teenagers. GRAVY OR JUS: In the Seventies we Brits finally tried to expand the frontiers of our culinary knowledge. Gravy should be back-strengthening...

Gene Hunt and Alex Drake get mean for new Ashes To Ashes

Gene Hunt and Alex Drake will be even more mean and mysterious for the new BBC series of Ashes To Ashes, which is currently being filmed. Philip Glenister reveals: "Alex is still being as difficult as ever, she's a nightmare...

Austerity style: Men of Britain, put down your hair gel

What is the correct response to a sudden straitening of circumstances? More specifically, what is the manly response? Is it one final, hysterical, shop-till-you-drop sweep of the Selfridges menswear department, girlish tears...

Cig-nificant stars and their fags

IT was a tense night at the NTA awards — and some stars couldn’t help nipping out for a crafty fag. X Factor supremo Simon Cowell — who picked up a lifetime achievement award — paraded down the red carpet with one of his...

BAZ BAMIGBOYE on Jonathan Ross, Judi Dench, Rachel Weisz and much more...

Will Ross be bumped from Bafta? Some members of various committees who run the awards at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts told me of strong feelings that Ross won't be asked to host the show on February 8 in...

Littler's big win

FORMER Hollyoaks star Matt Littler was almost speechless after his surprise win on TV's big night out. The Bury-born actor, who played Max Cunningham, won the Outstanding Serial Drama Performance at the National Television...

Award battle for Doctor Who stars

Tennant and Tate will face each other in the same category Doctor Who stars David Tennant and Catherine Tate will go head-to-head at the National Television Awards later. The pair are up for outstanding drama performance for...

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