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  • David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back with a new show

    Peep Show legends, David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back on Channel 4 with a brand new show called Back.

    Back is an acerbic new comedy, written by Emmy-award winning Simon Blackwell (Veep, In The Loop, Peep Show) and starring the inimitable and award-winning David Mitchell and Robert Webb (Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look). The series marks the duo’s return to Channel 4. Back is directed by Ben Palmer (The Inbetweeners Movie, Man Up) and produced by Kate Daughton (Toast of London).

    Stephen’s (David Mitchell) father, a local legend and pub landlord, has died so Stephen is set to – finally – take over the pub. Mum Ellen (Penny Downie) and sister Cass (Louise Brealey) have no interest in the family business – they’re ‘creative’, with weed to buy and energy-centres to rebalance.

    With his dad dead, it’s now Stephen’s chance to shine. His only achievements so far have been marriage (followed by divorce), a failed stint as a lawyer in London and a slightly disappointing pub refurb. But when the charming Andrew (Robert Webb) turns up out of the blue at Laurie’s funeral, Stephen’s plans go awry. Charismatic Andrew has lived in Sydney, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Berlin and Limoges but crucially, spent five formative months fostered by Laurie and Ellen as a 12-year-old. To Stephen, Andrew was just one of a string of 30-odd foster kids who he spent his childhood resenting. But Andrew remembers every single detail and sees that time as the most important of his life.

    Now Andrew’s back, and keen to revisit the closest thing he’s ever had to a family. Ellen loves Andrew. Cass loves Andrew. Even Laurie’s erratic brother Uncle Geoff (Geoff McGivern) loves Andrew.

    But Stephen doesn’t love Andrew. He thinks he’s a glib, dangerous sociopath who’s about to steal his family, his business and his life.

    Back begins on Channel 4 this September.

     

  • When does the new series of Great British Bake Off start on Channel 4?

    Bake Off is BACK! Clear your Tuesday nights!

    The new series of Great British Bake Off is back for its 8th series and is on a new channel – so when is it on and what channel can you find it on?

    Great British Bake Off starts on the 29th August and carries on for 10 weeks on Channel 4.

    Over the next 10 weeks, 12 of the best amateur bakers in Britain will whisk, knead, ice, beat and bake their way through classic British cakes, perfect patisserie, Italian delights, sticky caramel constructions and elaborate layered puddings.

    All Twelve will be hoping to impress with their skill, creativity, knowledge and passion and clinch the Bake off Crown.

    Each of the 30 new challenges have been carefully designed by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith to reveal just who is a star baker.

    But it’s not just a new experience for the bakers. Also joining the tent for the first time are Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding, who will be with the bakers every step of the way, ready with a pertinent pep talk, a helpful hand or just a sympathetic shoulder to cry on…

    The Bake Off begins with Cake Week, and sees the bakers take on a fruity signature challenge.

    Next, Prue sets her first technical – a children’s tea party favourite – and everyone is out to impress the new judge.

    And for their final challenge comes the trickiest showstopper ever set in the first week of Bake Off: An illusion cake. Creating these mind blowing illusion cakes will test their baking and design skills to the limit. Paul and Prue want to see what the bakers – and their cakes – are made of…

    1 tent. 12 new bakers. 30 new challenges.

  • Well hello Tom from Great British Bake Off

    We’re drooling… Tom can fill our cream horn any day…

    Oh dear. We’ll leave the innuendos to the professionals…

    Although he’s already spoken for.

    The Great British Bake Off’s Tom is a hottie hailing from Edinburgh with his partner David.

    Baking has always been a huge part of family life for Tom and his siblings, who were taught to bake by his mother June, a Home Economics teacher. The family cherishes recipe books passed down by grandparents from both sides of the family. As a true Scot, Tom can often be found making fresh shortbread to welcome friends and family into his home.

    When he’s not baking, Tom loves the great outdoors. He enjoys rugby, triathlons, marathons, skiing, horse riding, fresh water swimming and hiking as well as writing and photography.

  • GBBO kicks off promo with a helping of RAINBOW CAKE and we’re all over it

    Could this be the gayest series of GBBO ever?

    Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off looks to be RAINBOW friendly after the promo for the production showed all 12 contestants holding up rainbow cake slices.

    Hurrah!

     

    So who is in the Great British Bake Off?

    Liam

    Kate

    Julia

    James

    Flo

    Chris

    Sophie

    Peter

    Stacey

    Steven

    Yan

    Tom

  • CBB star Chad Johnson gets his lob on!

    Chad Johnson put on a bit of a show for the camera the other night after housemate Sarah Harding rubbed him up the right way!

    Chad Johnson’s Johnson was getting a partial airing as he got intimate with Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding.

    The pair were canoodling, after the rest of their housemates were in ZZZ land – and the loved up pair started groping above the sheets before Chad, 30, thought better and covered them both up – but not before he got a good ole peen massage from Sarah!

     

  • What time is easyJet: Inside The Cockpit on ITV tonight?

    A brand new series for ITV finishes tonight, easyJet: Inside The Cockpit airs on ITV at 9:00 PM, Mon 21 Aug

    What time is easyJet: Inside The Cockpit on ITV?

    The last of two episodes of easyJet: Inside the Cockpit airs Mon 21 Aug at 9.00 PM.
    easyJet: Inside the Cockpit
    Last year British people took more flights than ever before, and with air travel increasing there’s now a worldwide shortage of pilots.
    This year easyJet, the UK’s biggest airline, launched its largest ever pilot recruitment drive including a focus on encouraging more women to apply for this career in which females currently make up only three per cent of pilots worldwide.
    This two-part primetime series opens the door into the cockpit to follow rookie pilots as they take their first steps from the flight school classroom into the flight simulator, and on to flying large jets with hundreds of passengers on board.
    This week, freshly-qualified 20-year-old Ryan Clyde lands for the first time in the dark in Paris with passengers on board – with the added complication that one of them has never flown before, and is extremely nervous.
    Meanwhile, cadet Sophie Trunan learns how to deal with G-forces, and the firm’s training captains jet off to France to showcase their skills to seven fledgling pilots.
    Becoming a pilot involves dedication and determination and the trainees come from every walk of life. But does the reality live up to the dream of flying high?
    easyJet: Inside the Cockpit airs  21 Aug 2017, at 9:00 PM on ITV

  • Some people were NOT happy about #NoMoreBoysAndGirls

    A TV show which aimed to take a class of children and make them gender neutral in order to create gender equality later in life was not responded to well by some quarters on Twitter last night.

    In this bold, engaging and provocative experiment, Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim aims to find out whether stripping away the pink and blue will change the way this class of seven-year-olds think.

    Being gender neutral

    Taking over one Year 3 class from Lanesend primary school in the Isle of Wight, Doctor Javid aims to remove all differences in the way boys and girls are treated to see if, after six weeks of gender neutral treatment, he can even out the gaps in their achievement across a range of important psychological measures from self-confidence to spatial awareness.

    However some on Twitter just did not get it!

    https://twitter.com/Southendman1972/status/898002964463398912

    https://twitter.com/jparry1975/status/897719097500282880

    https://twitter.com/DougWood_/status/897925774564577280

    https://twitter.com/SebastianRose_/status/898060824950034432

    https://twitter.com/BerkeleyHunter/status/898039641596624900

    https://twitter.com/wolfbane1997/status/898020780231069697

    Well, it made for depressing reading:

    https://twitter.com/karenomfg/status/898011903540285441

     

  • WATCH: 16-year-old comes out to Number 1 mum!

    Meet Ben, he’s 16-year-old and just comes out to his mum during a car journey…

    It melted our cold, frozen hearts

    In this emotionally charged and heart-warming clip, Ben is speaking to his mum about coming out. Watch as you see his mum so proud and pleased for her son, finally being able to be himself.

    Taxi of Mum & Dad features 8 families who’ve rigged their cars with multiple cameras, allowing us to eavesdrop on their every conversation. This brand new programme explores the joys and challenges of parenting teenagers today. It’s set in the one place where conversations still take place: the family car. At home parents have to compete with technology for their teens’ attention and rarely have the opportunity to catch up and connect. But offering a lift provides the perfect opportunity for parents to find out what’s really going on. Relationships, parties, holidays, drinking, work, school and home life are all explored in fresh and unfiltered conversations, over the course of a month of recorded journeys.

    This is taken from Taxi of Mum and Dad which is on tomorrow (Thursday 17th) at 9pm on Channel 4.

     

  • There is someone who WON’T be returning to Will And Grace

    OH NOOOOO… Karen’s faithful housemaid won’t be making a return to the iconic reboot of Will And Grace.

    Shelley Morrison won’t be returning to Will And Grace as Karen Walker’s ever faithful maid Rosario. It seems that Shelley has retired. Her last role was in My Name Is Earl.

    Speaking at a smaller presser last Thursday the show’s co-creator Max Mutchnick said,

    “Shelley has decided to retire,

    “It was with a heavy heart that she gave us that information and that we received it, but it is the way that it goes. It is a choice that she has made. We really wanted Shelley to be a part of this series, so we find ourselves having to figure that out moving forward. It was not an easy decision to make, but it’s one that she made.”

     

  • When is In Therapy with Paul Burrell on Channel 5?

    Paul Burrell opens up about his sexuality and his life as Princess Diana’s personal butler in Channel 5’s In Therapy series.

    When is In Therapy with Paul Burrell on Channel 5?

    Paul Burrell, who recently came out as gay, shares the ups and downs of life in Channel 5’s In Therapy and is one of the rare male participants of the show, which has seen Nikki Grahame, Colleen Nolan and Kerry Katona all talk honestly about their issues on camera.

    Who is Paul Burrell married to?

    Paul went from serving as Princess Diana’s personal butler and close confidant to one of the go-to faces of reality TV, having appeared on countless shows, including Celebrity Big Brother. In this show, he reveals to psychotherapist Mandy Saligari about how the events of his past have affected his mental health.

    When did Paul Burrell come out as gay?

    The UK’s most famous butler turned reality star and tell-all author, Paul Burrell came out as gay in March 2017. He married his partner, lawyer Graham Cooper in April 2017. They are both 58.

    He divorced his wife of 32 years and they have two sons together, Alexander and Nicholas.

    Paul’s episode will air on Monday the 21st August 2017 at 10 PM directly after Celebrity Big Brother.

     

  • Dr Javid takes a look to see what happens when you raise children gender free

    In a bold experiment, Dr Javid is taking a class of school children and raising them gender free in a brand new show for BBC 2.

    Dr Javid takes a look to see what happens when you raise children gender free

    The BBC is set to broadcast a programme which aims to see if kids can go gender free.

    Is the way we treat boys and girls the real reason we haven’t achieved equality between men and women?

    In this bold, engaging and provocative experiment, Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim aims to find out whether stripping away the pink and blue will change the way this class of seven-year-olds think.

    Being gender neutral

    Taking over one Year 3 class from Lanesend primary school in the Isle of Wight, Doctor Javid aims to remove all differences in the way boys and girls are treated to see if, after six weeks of gender neutral treatment, he can even out the gaps in their achievement across a range of important psychological measures from self-confidence to spatial awareness.

    Who is Doctor Javid?

    As a doctor, he knows there are basic biological differences between the sexes, but he believes our biology can’t fully explain why men and women’s life chances – from pay, to careers are still so unequal in the UK. Even a quick shopping trip reveals just how much childhood has changed since Dr. Javid was growing up, with a tsunami of pink and blue clothes and toys aimed at different genders. A visit to Professor Gina Rippon at Aston University, one of the UK’s leading experts in brain imaging and neuroscience, reveals there is no such thing as a male or female brain type and instead the brain is a plastic organ, shaped and moulded by experiences, in which childhood is key.

    Shocked by the children’s own polarised opinions on how boys and girls should live their lives, Doctor Javid commissions Dr Stella Mavroveli from the Psychometric Lab at University College London to assess between boys and girls behaviour and psychological traits from confidence to self-esteem, empathy and social skills. Upset by the results, Dr Javid sets out a series of interventions both in class and at home, to tackle these differences. Will Doctor Javid’s gender neutral mission produce meaningful change when he later repeats his tests at the end of term?

    There are two episodes in this series, episode 1 will broadcast tonight at 9 PM the second programme will air on the 23rd August, both will be broadcast on BBC 2

    No More Boys And Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? is produced by Outline Productions for BBC Two