A song which was a Us Top 5 hit in 1963 is threatening to pip this year’s X Factor to the Christmas Singles Number 1 post!
The Trashmen’s ‘Surfin Bird’, which features in satirical cartoon Family Guy has almost half-a-million Facebook fans campaigning to get it to the top of the UK singles charts this Christmas and bookies Paddy Power, who have installed the catchy tune at 5/1, insist it can be done!
Sharon McHugh, spokesperson for Paddy Power said: “Every year X Factor appears to have the Christmas Number One spot sewn up but last year proved that people are tiring of this. A ferocious online campaign saw Rage Against The Machine beat Joe McElderry to the top spot so it is possible! Surfin Bird is ridiculously catchy and if the campaign goes to plan it could quite easily be Number 1.”
The Surfin Bird Facebook page advises fans to wait until...
The Trashmen’s ‘Surfin Bird’, which features in satirical cartoon Family Guy has almost half-a-million Facebook fans campaigning to get it to the top of the UK singles charts this Christmas and bookies Paddy Power, who have installed the catchy tune at 5/1, insist it can be done!
Sharon McHugh, spokesperson for Paddy Power said: “Every year X Factor appears to have the Christmas Number One spot sewn up but last year proved that people are tiring of this. A ferocious online campaign saw Rage Against The Machine beat Joe McElderry to the top spot so it is possible! Surfin Bird is ridiculously catchy and if the campaign goes to plan it could quite easily be Number 1.”
The Surfin Bird Facebook page advises fans to wait until...
- 11/10/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Forsyth Awarded Highest Bafta Accolade
Veteran British TV host Bruce Forsyth received the highest accolade the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) Academy can award at a ceremony in London on Sunday night.
The 80-year-old entertainer was presented with The Fellowship Award in recognition of his "outstanding body of work" at the Bafta Television Awards.
Forsyth joins director Ken Loach, screenwriter/director Richard Curtis, Lawrence of Arabia film editor Anne Coates and Hollywood star Sir Anthony Hopkins among the recipients of the coveted prize.
Upon receiving his award at the glitzy London Palladium prizegiving, Forsyth said, "This is quite overwhelming.
"(British comedy duo) Morecambe and Wise and Charlie Chaplin were the only light entertainment people to get this award before."
Other winners at the annual ceremony included comedian/TV presenter Harry Hill, who won the Best Entertainment Performance and Best Entertainment Programme for his show Harry Hill's TV Burp, and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who claimed the night's Best Feature honour for cookery show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
Sci-fi drama Heroes won the International Prize and The Street was named Best Drama Series for the second year in a row.
Meanwhile, Dame Eileen Atkins won the battle of the dames - she beat Dame Judi Dench in the Best Actress category for her role in Cranford. Andrew Garfield was named Best Actor for his role in Boy A.
The 80-year-old entertainer was presented with The Fellowship Award in recognition of his "outstanding body of work" at the Bafta Television Awards.
Forsyth joins director Ken Loach, screenwriter/director Richard Curtis, Lawrence of Arabia film editor Anne Coates and Hollywood star Sir Anthony Hopkins among the recipients of the coveted prize.
Upon receiving his award at the glitzy London Palladium prizegiving, Forsyth said, "This is quite overwhelming.
"(British comedy duo) Morecambe and Wise and Charlie Chaplin were the only light entertainment people to get this award before."
Other winners at the annual ceremony included comedian/TV presenter Harry Hill, who won the Best Entertainment Performance and Best Entertainment Programme for his show Harry Hill's TV Burp, and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who claimed the night's Best Feature honour for cookery show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
Sci-fi drama Heroes won the International Prize and The Street was named Best Drama Series for the second year in a row.
Meanwhile, Dame Eileen Atkins won the battle of the dames - she beat Dame Judi Dench in the Best Actress category for her role in Cranford. Andrew Garfield was named Best Actor for his role in Boy A.
- 4/20/2008
- WENN
ITV tops Golden Rose Awards
LONDON -- The U.K.'s ITV was the big winner in the 44th annual Golden Rose Awards presented at the Rose d'Or Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, Saturday. Harry Hill was named best male comedy performer for his ITV series, Harry Hill's TV Burp. Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway won as best game show and Anthony McPartin and Declan Donnelly were named best variety show hosts. Aardman's Creature Comforts won as best animation series and Martin Freeman (The Office) won as best sitcom actor for the ITV series Hardware. The U.K.'s Channel 4 picked up awards for Wife Swap as best reality show and Peep Show as best sitcom. Shane Richie was named best male soap actor for the BBC's EastEnders. Germany's Anke Engelke was named best female comedy performer for Ladykracher and Felicitas Wolf best sitcom actress for Berlin, Berlin. France's Benedicte Delmas won as best female soap actor for Saint Tropez, which won as best soap. The 2004 Honorary Golden Rose was presented to John de Mol, chairman and CEO of production company Endemol. It was the first time the international television festival had taken place in Lucerne, having previously been based in Montreux, Switzerland.
- 4/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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