This week marks the start of the new Big Brother (Thur 9pm C4). We’re fairly sure this will split our readership (hello, Mrs Trellis of North Wales) right down the middle; BB is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. TV Troll hated it until undergoing a Damascene conversion …
Re-opening tonight at the Lyric Hammersmith is Aurelia’s Oratorio which is back by popular demand and still glowing from its fond reviews from its first run this time last year. Described as “a magical whirl of visual illusions and trickery”, the show is performed by …
Nice slip by the BBC here: Not only that, but the stocky black man with the strong French accent bore little resemblance to the picture on the expert’s website, which showed a slim white man with blue eyes and blond hair. The corporation’s News 24 …
Ever imagined hairdressers at dawn or pistons at 20 paces? You won’t need to for much longer as the WorldSkills games – an Olympic-type event – is set to take over the capital in 2011. London beat Sweden and Australia to host the £22m vocation-fest. …
Who do you think will win then, Badger or Michelle? We’ll find out who Sir Alan Sugar will be poking his digit at for the last time tonight at 9pm on BBC 2, as the second series of The Apprentice reaches it’s conclusion. London’s representative …
Early May sees the domestic football charabanc trundling to its terminus for another year, top deck swathed in streamers and bunting for the winners and survivors, lower deck sheltering the shellshocked who’ve slipped at the last. Few grounds in the country will witness such a …
It’s time for Late at Tate again… tonight’s big bash is going to be loud with specially invited DJs filling the building with music and grooves – all for free. From 6pm until 10pm, two levels of Tate Britain will be taken over by tonight’s …
Bomb squad officers have been sniffing around some suspect packages in West London: Police have arrested a woman who said she placed the packages as works of art. She made the claim after walking into Hammersmith Police Station. The BBC has been told that no …
The new series of Doctor Who (Sat 7.15pm BBC1) is well underway now – and what do you think? So far it has elicited a muted response from the only critic who counts; not a good start, although he does say that this Saturday’s offering …
Named only at the weekend as an official ambassador for London by mayor Ken Livingstone, Chelsea football club have wasted no time in offering assistance to China’s Olympic football team in the run up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Chelsea’s official site reports that …
We were hoping for a rather relaxing Sunday this weekend. While Saturday night will of course be spent bouncing along to “Dead Disco at the Garage, Sunday was going to be full of sleep and food – 2 of our favourite things. But then Shoot …
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