TV

When the BBC declined to renew Jeremy Clarkson’s contract in the wake of the Top Gear presenter’s well-publicised bout of fisticuffs with a producer, there was huge outcry.

Sometimes, in my darker moments, I feel like one of the chinstrap penguins of Zavadovski island.

John Lewis has revealed its latest Christmas TV advert, signaling the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

Halloween has become quite the thing, hasn’t it? You can’t move for pumpkin spiced lattes – pumpkin, by the way, is not a spice – sexy skeleton costumes, and various ghost-shaped sweets jostling for supermarket shelf space alongside family-sized tins of Quality Street and festive cream cracker selections.

Blackpool Winter Gardens will be transported back to the 1940s for an event to celebrate the range, versatility and power of black actors on film and TV.

Fund-raisers across the country helped generate more than £15m after an evening of television in aid of cancer research.

It can be tough being a teenager – raging hormones, acne, exams, the pressures of social media, nosebleeds, telekinesis...

To misquote Simon Cowell: “I don’t like it . . . I loathe it.”

Former Coronation Street actress Jean Alexander, who was once voted Britain’s greatest soap star, has died three days after turning 90.

My wife recently undertook an ambitious project – completing a 1,000-piece jigsaw of a marina near Marseille.

A new initiative to develop Lancashire’s film industries is being launched in Preston tonight.

The X Factor is finally entering the live stage of the competition – who will you be rooting for this evening?

Philip Larkin famously wrote that your parents – however unintentionally –make a mess of your life by the way they bring you up.

Thirty six seconds. That’s how long it took before someone made a ludicrous claim about their own abilities in this, the 12th series of The Apprentice.

According to an online dictionary I consulted –purely for the purposes of this first paragraph – the word ‘glacial’ can be defined in three ways.

A PARACLIMBER, who took up sport after losing one of his legs to cancer nine years ago, is to star in the Lancashire Sport Partnership (LSP) video to raise awareness of inclusive sports across the county.