Top continuity errors in TV
Coffee cup instead of goblet
Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic/HBO
Eastenders
Danny Dyer to deliver Alternative Christmas Message
The EastEnders star will reflect on events from the past year, including the ongoing Brexit debates in Westminster, where “there’s been more backstabbing than we have in Albert Square.”
He will also raise a toast to mark the 100th anniversary of both the women’s vote and the First World War Armistice.
The most explosive moments in soaps
EastEnders: The Queen Vic Fire
2010
Classic Christmas TV moments
It really is the season to be jolly as far as television is concerned, the line-up is full of one-off specials, film premieres and climatic soap storylines.
So, crack open the port, grab a selection box and feast on our compilation of some of the finest moments in the history of Christmas television.
Only Fools and Horses
From Victoria to EastEnders: How to get started in screenwriting
Matthew Bell takes notes as top screenwriters explain how to pen a hit drama
Soap’s power to fight prejudice
British soaps have made huge strides in portraying the lives and loves of gay characters since the genre’s first on-screen kiss in EastEnders three decades ago.
Soaps are powerful in changing people's perceptions say Corrie's Daniel Brocklebank
But, argued the actors, writers and producers on the panel at an RTS event in mid-July – “LGBTQ in soap: job done?” – the fight against prejudice is not yet won.
“Soaps are incredibly powerful in terms of being able to get a message out and in changing people’s perceptions,” said Daniel Brocklebank, who plays gay vicar Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street.
This week's top TV: 15 - 21 May
Monday:
The Fake News Show
Channel 4, 8.30pm
The Fake News Show is back! Stephen Mangan returns as host, bringing viewers up to speed with false claims and alternative facts in line with the upcoming UK General Election.
Katherine Ryan and Richard Osman will act as team captains, joined by Miles Jupp and Stanley Johnson.
EastEnders' Sean O'Connor: “They’re more than characters, they’re your mates”
Sean O’Connor insists that not much has changed since he returned to EastEnders as executive producer last summer, after an 11-year absence from the soap.
“All these shows renew themselves…I think they are sort of like chameleons, they change for the time that they are written in and are performed in but fundamentally they remain the same.”
BBC Worldwide & ITV join forces to launch US subscription service
The service, named BritBox, will bring a huge catalogue of British content to the United States in one ad-free subscription service.
The platform, which is set to rival providers like Netflix and Amazon in carrying British content across the Atlantic, will premiere shows including Anthony Horowitz-created BBC drama New Blood, and ITV’s historical epic Tutankhamun.