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Get ready for “The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice,” Season 14, Episode 8, titled “Party Week.” The episode is scheduled to air on Channel 4 at 9:00 Pm on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

In this installment, the host, Jo Brand, welcomes celebrity Bake Off enthusiasts Aisling Bea, Scarlett Moffatt, and Nabil Abdulrashid to celebrate Party Week in the tent. Additionally, Tom Allen joins the studio bakers for a social gathering, where they share the bakes they’ve brought from home. This promises to be a lively and engaging episode, offering viewers a chance to enjoy the company of celebrity fans and home bakers, all in the spirit of celebration during Party Week.

Release Date & Time: 9:00 Pm Thursday 16 November 2023 on Channel 4

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice Party Week Cast – Season 14 Episode 8 Main Cast Jo Brand

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On Saturday, October 21, 2023, at 9:25 Pm on BBC One, “Blankety Blank” Season 3, Episode 5 is set to air.

Hosted by Bradley Walsh, this episode features a panel of well-known personalities, including Fred Sirieix, Laura Whitmore, Eddie Kadi, Josh Widdicombe, Vanessa Feltz, and Scarlett Moffatt. Together, they will attempt to fill in the missing blanks in a fun and entertaining game show. The goal is to win prizes for some lucky contestants by providing the most amusing and fitting answers. “Blankety Blank” promises laughter and surprises, making it a perfect choice for a Saturday night of entertainment.

Don’t miss the fun as these celebrities test their wit and creativity while helping contestants win exciting prizes.

Release Date & Time: 9:25 Pm Saturday 21 October 2023 on BBC One

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Global, the Media & Entertainment Group, has retained the exclusive ad sales contract with ITV and will continue to represent the broadcaster’s podcast portfolio via Dax, its market leading digital advertising exchange.

This year, ITV launched the first I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! podcast hosted by iconic past campmates Scarlett Moffatt and Seann Walsh. The broadcaster’s podcast slate also includes Love Island: The Morning After, a hugely popular series that offers a daily dose of gossip from the Love Island villa.

As part of the renewed deal, Global also now represents the broadcaster’s portfolio of news podcasts, including What You Need To Know from ITV News, and will continue to host and distribute all ITV podcasts on Global Player.

Bhavit Chandrani, ITV’s Director of Digital & Creative Partnerships, said: "We've enjoyed a fantastic working relationship with Dax and Global over the last few years and...

Global has retained the exclusive ad sales contract with ITV to represent the broadcaster’s podcasts via Dax, its market leading digital advertising exchange. This year, ITV launched the first I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! podcast hosted by past campmates Scarlett Moffatt and Seann Walsh. The broadcaster’s podcast slate also includes Love Island: The Morning After, a popular series that offers a daily dose of gossip from the Love Island villa.

Show on the Road, brought to you by Auto Trader, the UK’s largest online marketplace for new and used cars, is the new 8-part podcast that takes celebrities out of the studio for a personalised road trip around the places that shaped them.

Presenter and seasoned podcaster Alex Legouix is in the driver's seat and her trips combine nostalgic sights with reflections on each guest’s career. From their old school to their favourite chip shop, the chat takes listeners down avenues that no other studio-based show gets to explore.

Guests in the podcast series include Gogglebox’s Scarlett Moffatt, Lioness Jill Scott, comedian Iain Sterling, trainspotter Francis Bourgeois, Radio 1 presenter Clara Amfo, ‘Married at First Sight’ star Paul Carrick Brunson, Instagram’s Potato Queen’ Poppy O’Toole and ex ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ pro Gorka Marquez.

Speaking on the series Alex says: “I’ve loved meeting such a brilliant...

In Plato’s allegory of the cave, a group of people find themselves bound to the walls of a subterranean hangout. Ahead of them they see flickering shadows, caused by the distant fires of the sunlit world, but all else, for them, is darkness. Are these shadows reality, or just a pale facsimile? That was the question of two millennia ago: now it’s Channel 4’s turn to use darkness as an allegory for reality (or reality TV), with Scared in the Dark, a new five-part celebrity reality show told, not by Plato, but by Danny Dyer.

Scared of the Dark follows a group of eight celebrities – boxers Chris Eubank and Nicola Adams, singer Max George, Love Islander Chloe Burrows, ubiquitous TV person Scarlett Moffatt, actor Donna Preston, stand-up Chris McCausland and, well, Gazza – as they spend a week or so in the pitch black. “Located deep within a 146,000 sq ft hangar,...

Former England footballer Paul “Gazza” Gascoigne has become the first ever winner of experimental Channel 4 reality show Scared of the Dark.

Gascoigne came out on top over seven other celebrities, after spending 180 hours in complete darkness – living, eating, sleeping and completing challenges.

The series, billed as a “world first”, came to a close on Thursday (20 April) with the winner announced by host Danny Dyer.

Following his win, Gascoigne said he had been “nervous” to take part but said the experience had made him “a better person”.

“People always question my mental strength but my success on this series proves that I am strong,” he said.

“I was nervous going in there but having gotten this far on the series made me the happiest man around.

“I’m so happy. It’s unbelievable. I’ve got my smile back. I’m a better person.”

Read The Independent’s review of the series here.

I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! is returning for its first-ever All-Stars series, with a host of fan-favourite contestants preparing to go back to the jungle.

Filmed last year, the all-stars series will see the former campmates jetting off to South Africa – rather than the usual Australian location – for a series that promises to be “even bigger and tougher” than ever.

Among the initial line-up of returning contestants is Carol Vorderman, the former Countdown co-host and TV personality.

The 62-year-old first appeared on the 16th series of I’m a Celebrity in 2016 alongside Scarlett Moffatt and Joel Dommett. She came in eighth place.

Starting off her career on Countdown in 1982, Vorderman went on to work as a presenter on other shows and as a newspaper columnist.

In her personal life, Vorderman is not currently in a relationship, having been married twice previously to navy officer Christopher Mather in...

In Plato’s allegory of the cave, a group of people find themselves bound to the walls of a subterranean hangout. Ahead of them they see flickering shadows, caused by the distant fires of the sunlit world, but all else, for them, is darkness. Are these shadows reality, or just a pale facsimile? That was the question of two millennia ago: now it’s Channel 4’s turn to use darkness as an allegory for reality (or reality TV), with Scared in the Dark, a new five-part celebrity reality show told, not by Plato, but by Danny Dyer.

Scared of the Dark follows a group of eight celebrities – boxers Chris Eubank and Nicola Adams, singer Max George, Love Islander Chloe Burrows, ubiquitous TV person Scarlett Moffatt, actor Donna Preston, stand-up Chris McCausland and, well, Gazza – as they spend a week or so in the pitch black. “Located deep within a 146,000 sq ft hangar,...

BBC3 has named Nasfim Haque as its Head of Content after controller Fiona Campbell was promoted to a new role overseeing the British broadcaster’s youth audience.

Haque has been BBC3’s interim Channel Editor for more than a year but has now been confirmed as the youth channel’s content chief. She will report to Campbell, whose new title is Controller of Youth Audience for iPlayer and BBC3.

Prior to overseeing BBC3, Haque was a factual entertainment commissioner, overseeing shows including Meet the Khans, BBC3’s series with boxer Amir Khan, and Scarlett’s Driving School, BBC1’s upcoming reality show fronted by Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt.

She began her career as a Production Trainee at BBC Wales before working in development and production roles at independent producers including Love Productions.

Haque said: “BBC3 plays a key role in bringing the next generation of audiences to the BBC so...

Dish, the hit podcast hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett, will be getting extra social for the festive season as the presenting duo escape the studio and cosy up at Grimmy’s own home, where some special guests have been invited round for Christmas food, drink and laughs.

In a series of episodes, Hugh Bonneville, Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond, and Annie Mac will all settle down for a fireside chat, while Michelin star chef Angela Hartnett cooks and Grimshaw serves up the drinks. The hosts’ warm reception and sense of humour make Dish the most hospitable and social show on the planet.

Dish takes a pioneering approach to turning podcasts into a social event: it’s recorded like a podcast, shot for Instagram and edited for TikTok. As a result, it’s had 20 weeks at number one on Apple’s food podcast chart and is regularly in the top 20 Apple shows.

Lea Michele has addressed the online joke that she’s illiterate, calling it “sad”.

In 2017, the One More Thing podcast theorised that the Glee star couldn’t read or write because her early years as a childhood performer left little time for her to learn.

A year later, the rumour reemerged, drawing Michele’s attention. At the time, she shut down the rumours lightheartedly with a tweet, saying: “Loved Reading this tweet and wanted to Write you back. Literally laughing out loud at all this love you!!!”

Now, with the recent announcement that the 36-year-old actor would be taking over the lead role of Fanny Brice on Broadway’s Funny Girl, the rumour has once again resurfaced.

While Michele had seemingly laughed off the joke before, she recently appears to have taken a different tone.

“I went to Glee every single day; I knew my lines every single day,” she...

Scarlett Moffatt has shared an emotional video after a stranger followed her, having seen her location on social media.

The presenter and former Gogglebox star posted a video late on Wednesday (31 August) telling followers about how, after posting about travelling to London, she was approached by a man she didn’t know.

Moffatt began the clip by thanking rail staff members named Danny and Neil for their help during the event.

“I’m doing this so that people realise the importance of using social media and not always posting where you are,” a visibly shaken Moffatt said into the camera.

“I stupidly, naively, posted an Instagram saying, ‘Off to London on the train,’ and when I got into King's Cross station, there was a guy there.

“Because Danny and Neil were there, I stayed calm, but this guy came at me and was saying ‘Scarlett, I've been waiting for you,...

The forthcoming 74th Emmy Awards will celebrate the best in television across a variety of genres.

Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Jb Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) announced the nominations for this year’s ceremomy today (12 July) via livestream on the Emmys site and YouTube via the Television Academy.

HBO Max’s Succession leads the way with 25 nominations, followed byTed Lasso and The White Lotus coming in joint second with 20 nods each.

Predicted nominees Jessica Chastain (Scenes from a Marriage), Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show), Britt Lower (Severance) missed out on nominations, as did the miniseries Station Eleven and many Marvel shows, such as Moon Knight.

Find the full list of the 2022 Emmy nominations here.

Winners will be announced during the live broadcast ceremony on NBC on Monday 12 September from 8pm Et to 12am Et.

The ceremony will take place at Microsoft Theater at LA Live in Los Angeles and viewers...

The BBC Factual department has unveiled a vast slate including a natural history series following four animal families over four years and shows commemorating the 40th anniversaries of the Falklands War and AIDS crisis.

At an event yesterday in London, Fiona Campbell, Acting Head of Factual, Arts and Classical Music, unveiled Kingdom, which will follow leopards, hyenas, wild dogs and lions and was described as “one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken” by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Nhu).

Filmed in Zambia, the show is a co-production with BBC America and is similar in scope to 2019’s Dynasties, which followed five royal families of the animal kingdom.

“With more time in the field than any previous Nhu production, never has a BBC landmark followed a group of characters so intensely over such a long period or spent so much time embedded in a single habitat,” said the BBC.

British broadcaster Channel 4has unveiled its latest programming slate including a Muslim punk comedy, a three-part doc series about Russian President Vladimir Putin and a reality series set within a Namibian tribe.

The shows were announced by Channel 4 at the start of the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

NBCU-backed Working Title Television is making Lady Parts, a six-part comedy about an all female Muslim punk band. From writer/director Nida Manzoor, the half-hour series follows the eponymous band, featuring geeky Phd student and lead guitarist Amina Hussein and fierce and enigmatic front-woman Saira. Saira uses Amina’s desperation to find a husband as leverage, offering to hook up dates for her if she agrees to join the band. Amina has never, ever met girls like this before, and soon gets swept up in their joyful anarchic energy. But will she be the key to the band’s success? And...

U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has greenlit new factual entertainment format “The British Tribe Next Door,” which will see a British family spend four weeks with a remote tribe in Namibia.

The twist in this format is that, unlike most adventurers, the participants don’t say goodbye to the comforts of their home — instead, they take them with them.

The family will have running water, electricity, and all their possessions around them, from hair-straighteners to frozen ready-made meals and a TV.

The hourlong series, consisting of four episodes, is produced by Voltage TV and Motion Content Group for Channel 4. Scarlett Moffatt and her family, who feature in the C4 series “Gogglebox,” are the British family traveling to Namibia.

The community they will be joining is a small village of semi-nomadic Himba cattle-herders, who live largely traditional lives and who will be given a look at sedentary, high-tech, consumerist Western lifestyles.

The BBC has revealed its programming plans to cover the May 19 wedding of Prince Harry and Suits star Meghan Markle.

The British public broadcaster has lined up The X Factor host Dermot O’Leary and Crimewatch and Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young to present the nuptials alongside BBC news presenter Huw Edwards. Ore Odubda, who won Strictly Come Dancing, the British version of Dancing with the Stars, Radio One’s Tina Daheley and The One Show host Alex Jones will join, marking the BBC’s most diverse line-up to cover a royal wedding.

The BBC is the only broadcaster allowed to film the actual ceremony, which takes places in St George’s Chapel in Windsor, but it will share its coverage with global networks.

The broadcaster has also lined up major radio plans including Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt, who also appeared on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here,...

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The revived Crystal Maze is a winner, as its second Stand Up To Cancer celebrity special proves…

“I love The Crystal Maze!” said Joey Essex, once he’d worked out what one was and that he was in it. “Haven’t we revitalised the format?!” agreed Richard Ayoade enthusiastically, sadly putting Joey right back in the lap of confusion.

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Ayoade and Essex, two very different kinds of men. Watching them try to converse can’t be unlike watching an owl try to mate with a suitcase. Having seen it now though, I just want more. Quick, someone commission a show in which the pair of them team up to fight crime or catch cowboy roofers or conduct a public vote for the nation’s best Center Parcs. Whatever it is, I know I wouldn’t be able to look away.

Gogglebox may have wound up its fifth series on Friday night (May 8), but the hit reality show is coming back for more.

The sixth run is to air from September on Channel 4, according to one of the show's sofa stars.

Scarlett Moffatt tweeted ahead of the series five finale that she and her family will be back for the next run later this year.

"Well me and the @GoggleboxMoffs will see you all in September for series 6," she wrote.

Well me and the @GoggleboxMoffs will see you all in September for series 6 #Gogglebox

— Gogglebox Scarlett (@ScarlettMoffatt) May 8, 2015

Gogglebox also aired an election special on Thursday night (May 7), with Jeremy Paxman and David Mitchell leading the proceedings.

Series five, meanwhile, lost one of its stars after 'Silent' Jay Makin announced that he would not be returning following his split from girlfriend Eve Woerdenweber.