The news that Hollywood is planning to turn The Producers into a film (again) seems to have been the first in a rash of stories regarding West End productions making their way over to other mediums. First up is Bat Boy: the musical. Currently showing …
It’s all very well writing about London bands such as The Libertines, Razorlight and Athlete but we would be failing you if we didn’t report on the great bands out there who aren’t being hyped by the mainstream media. We don’t want to encourage spam …
With just a week before London has to submit its offical bid for the 2012 Olympic games, Seb Coe and his team have unveiled their plans for the 500-acre Olympic Park. The main stadium, to be located in the Lea Valley, is designed to “communicate …
Is the next Chris Morris project a sitcom based around Nathan Barley, the ‘Hoxton twat’ character from TVGoHome? There’s quite a big article in today’s Independent which would suggest that it is. The facts seem to be that Morris’s new project will be a six …
The Londonist is yet to purchase Greg Dyke’s “revealing memoir”: Greg Dyke: inside story, but it’s one of those books we may put on our Christmas list. As everyone knows Dyke was booted out of his director general’s chair at the BBC this year after …
The Standard is thought to be planning a free version of the daily newspaper. The slimmed down version will most likely be called Standard-lite and will only be available between the hours of 12pm and 2pm, so as not to step on the toes of …
The film community has the Oscars; the muso’s have the Grammys; and British telly has…the ITV National Television Awards. This year is the tenth anniversary of the awards and ITV are pulling out all the stops for tonight’s ceremony. They’ve got Sir Trevor McDonald to …
Picture the scene. There you are, a happy father with your “life-partner” and two pre-school children. You manage to get a mortgage on a terraced house in NW5, which the estate agents call “Gospel Oak borders” but your neighbours call Kentish Town. It’s not quite …
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