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E4 ANNOUNCE ‘SKINS TOUR’. {TV & Music}

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JANUARY 19TH – JANUARY 29TH 2011

THE HOTTEST NEW MUSIC ACTS AND DJs INCLUDING KATY B, THE WOMBATS, PULLED APART BY HORSES, DEVLIN, MONA, NERO, BEARDYMAN, JAYMO & ANDY GEORGE and TROPHY WIFE

8 FREE PARTIES! TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLY VIA E4.COM/SKINS

E4 is taking SKINS on tour heading to the eight home towns of our new SKINS generation. After 2010’s month long ‘House Party’ in Bristol this year will see members of the new Skins cast throwing a party in their own hometown – and you’re invited. Kicking off in BRISTOL on January 19th we hit the city with live performances from rising stars MORNING PARADE and WILDER plus a very special guest DJ

. Other performances include some of the hottest new acts of 2011 including KATY B, DEVLIN, MONA, PULLED APART BY HORSES, KID ADRIFT, JAGGA, TROPHY WIFE, THE MIDNIGHT BEAST, WILDER AND BEARDYMAN . Guests DJs include the brilliant NERO, KISSY SELLOUT, YASMIN, JAYMO & ANDY GEORGE (RADIO 1) plus Ibiza Rocks resident DOORLY. The shows finish with a huge party in Oxford on January 29th with a headline performance from superstars THE WOMBATS plus hometown boys TROPHY WIFE and the hotly tipped THE GOOD NATURED. Exclusive footage from the shows including band interviews and live performances will be shown on E4.com/skins

Tickets are available now

For more info go to www.e4.com/skins

The full line-up is as follows, with further artists to be confirmed:

WEDNEDAY 19TH JANUARY – BRISTOL – PROPAGANDA AT THE SYNDICATE

IN ASSOCIATION WITH PROPAGANDA – WWW.THEPROPAGANDA.COM/BRISTOL

Special Guest DJ + Live performances from MORNING PARADE and WILDER AND THE PROPAGANDA DJS

THURSDAY 20TH JANUARY – SWANSEA – MONKEY CAFÉ

KATY B, (Live) JAGGA and DJ set by NERO

FRIDAY 21ST JANUARY – HEREFORD – SAXTYS

DJ sets by KISSY SELLOUT (RADIO 1) and NICOLA BEAR (IBIZA ROCKS)

SATURDAY 22ND JANUARY – ASHFORD – LIQUID AND ENVY

PERFORMANCE FROM DEVLIN. DJ set by YASMIN

TUESDAY 25TH JANUARY – EDINBURGH – THE CAVES

Special Guests TBC + Performances from KID ADRIFT and FLUX DJs

THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY – LONDON – BRIXTON ELECTRIC

Performances from PULLED APART BY HORSES, MONA and MIDNIGHT BEAST. Plus appearances from JAYMO & ANDY GEORGE (RADIO 1) and PROPAGANDA DJs.

FRIDAY 28TH JANUARY – BRIGHTON- THE PIER

Special Performances by BEARDYMAN, MORNING PARADE and DOORLY

SATURDAY 29TH OXFORD – 02 ACADEMY – PROPAGANDA

WWW.THEPROPAGANDA.COM/OXFORD

Performances from THE WOMBATS, TROPHY WIFE and THE GOOD NATURED

Misfits, Series 2: Behind the scenes. {Frost Exclusive TV}

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Frost has managed to get their hands on a fantastic behind the scenes featurette as well as exclusive interviews with the cast of Misfits. Add in some never before seen footage and we really are spoiling you. Season 2 has been fantastic and if you missed it the DVD is out on December the 27th. Enjoy!

DVD release of Misfits series 2 out on the 27th of December. Pre-order it now.

Misfits – They're back! Thu 11 Nov, 10pm, E4

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One of my favourite shows is back. And I only had to wait for a year! The BAFTA winning Misfits are back. Nathan (Robert Sheehan), Kelly (Lauren Socha), Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), Alisha (Antonia Thomas) and Simon (Iwan Rheon) have returned to wreak havoc and entertain. Channel 4 held an exclusive preview at the BFI and let me tell you, you are in for a treat. Catch the trailer below.

Misfits. Thursday 11 November, 10pm, E4. For exclusive content visit www.e4.com/misfits

The characters are on twitter as well @simonmisfits @kellymisfits @nathanmisfits – and www.facebook.com/e4Misfits

Misfits S2 Trailer

Be upstanding for The President of the United States…Jon Stewart reels in the big fish.

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I can hardly contain my excitement…I love Jon Stewart, I love the Daily Show and I think Barack Obama is one cool dude. It’s like Christmas has came early as now…

Please be upstanding for the President of The United States of America…. Barack Obama…. Jon Stewart’s guest on The Daily Show. Tonight at 8.30pm on More4.

Mr Obama was making his first appearance as President on Jon Stewart’s satirical The Daily Show – in a studio that was transported to Washington DC, along with the audience.

For Mr Stewart, a chance to show his slightly more serious side – as he quizzed the President on his record.

“You ran on very high rhetoric, hope and change, and the Democrats this year seem to be running on, ‘Please baby, one more chance’,” he quipped – as Obama defended his policies on health care and financial regulation.

“When we promised during the campaign ‘change you can believe in’…it was ‘change you can believe in – but we’re going to have to work for it.” Barack Obama

There is a preview of the two heavyweights going at it below.

Obama had to defend his policy and record so far as Stewart slammed him hard. All is not looking too rosy for the President, In fact the latest poll for the New York Times has some far more worrying news for the Democrats: it’s not just young people who are disillusioned, but other key elements of the coalition which swept Obama to power are actively switching to the Republicans.

According to the survey – the GOP has managed to wipe out the Democratic advantage among women, Catholics, the less affluent and independent voters. Not only that, but the Republicans are now far and away the party most trusted to handle the budget deficit, while President Obama’s own approval ratings still languish at around 43 per cent.

Last night, in a conference call with volunteers from “Organising for America” – tasked with trying to get out the vote for Democrats in these last few crucial days – Obama told them: “We’ve got to run through the tape. We can’t just run half a race: we’ve got to keep on going.”

The White House has just six days left to persuade its erstwhile supporters there’s still some hope left, and still some change to come.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Weeknights at 8.30pm on More4. www.channel4.com/dailyshow

The Event. Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4. {TV Review}

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I am one of those people who thought that the plot of lost got, well, lost. This doesn’t mean I haven’t had a a yearning for a good thrilling drama. I have been pining the end of The West Wing for a while now. This is why I want to tell everyone about The Event. It’s a sci-fi thriller, it’s poltical, it’s drama. It’s a whole lot of good TV rolled into one.

A new high-octane US thriller starring Jason Ritter as a man whose investigation in to the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée unwittingly exposes the biggest cover-up in American history…Only, unlike Lost, you can actually know what is going on. There’s aliens and a boyfriend trying to find the women he was about to propose to.

It has been a while since I found something to get excited about but I won’t be missing an episode of this.

There is a taster below.


The Event. Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4. www.channel4.com/theevent

What I'll be watching: The Event, October 2010, Channel 4

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The Event, October 2010, Channel 4. www.channel4.com/event

I have to admit. I am a sucker for a good American TV show. I am not saying us Brits can’t make good telly, Spooks, The Inbetweeners, Misfits, Downtown Abbey ring a bell, but sometimes no-one does it like the Americans. The Events is evidence of that. A brilliant thriller. Keep an eye out for it. It’s a must see.

THE EVENT

An emotional high-octane conspiracy thriller, this much anticipated new US series makes its UK premiere on Channel 4 this autumn.

Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) is an everyman who, while investigating the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée Leila (Sarah Roemer), unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.

Sean’s quest sends ripples through the lives of an eclectic band of strangers, including newly elected U.S. President Martinez (Blair Underwood), Sophia (Laura Innes), the leader of a mysterious group of detainees, and Sean’s shadowy father-in-law (Scott Patterson).

Their futures are set on a collision course in a global conspiracy that could ultimately change the fate of mankind.

On Channel 4 Fri 22 Oct, 9PM

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-event/articles/video-the-event-tv-trailer

Come Dine With Me's Tasty Bits {TV}

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Come Dine With Me, the cooking show that’s inspired ordinary people to throw immitation dinner parties and series’ around the world, is now releasing it’s sauciest bits for you to own on dvd.

Come Dine With Me – The Tasty Bits with exclusive footage Too Saucy for TV will be released on DVD on the 1st November so get your oven gloves ready. It will feature the best ever moments from Channel 4’s enormously popular and multi-award winning show Come Dine With Me including some of the most outrageous behaviour, bizarre conversations, biggest rows, craziest cooking, celebrity cock-ups and Too Much Sauce for TV, incorporating 30 minutes of never-before-seen scenes that were far too hot for TV! If this NSFW trailer is anything to go by expect crazy antics and sexual innuendos from familiar faces in the celebrity specials, more sarcastic quips from cult voice Dave Lamb and I’m told…full frontal nudity.



Come Dine With Me: The Tasty Bits is out on DVD 1 November, courtesy of ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Pre-order it at [Amazon]

Preview: This Is England '86 {TV}

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Set three years on from Shane Meadows’ Bafta winning film This Is England, Chris de Burgh is top of the charts and over 3.4 million britons are unemployed. This Is England in the year 1986. A four-part serial for Channel 4 revisiting the original gang from the acclaimed film.

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Hapless Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) has just finished his final school exam and is a magnet for trouble and bullys. A chance encounter reunites him with Woody (Joe Gilgun), Lol (Vicky McClure), Smell (Rosamund Hanson) and the others and soon the past is forgotten. The gang are back together and they’re all looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.

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This is filmmaker Shane Meadows’ television debut and speaking at a Q&A after the preview screening he made it clear that he didn’t see Television as a stepping stone into film and that he’d grown up watching great made for TV films. He did however say

“UK telly has gone to s***. It really has it’s appalling, but American TV, the new type of shows they’re making like the Sopranos and the Wire are great. That’s how people want to watch TV today, several episodes back to back. They want to sit with the missus and watch a 12 hour film. It’s an event.”

Meadow’s brought in help to bring the much anticipated follow up to TV. That help came in the form of co-writer Jack Thorne (The Scouting Book For Boys, Skins) and sharing the directing of the series with Tom Harper (Misfits). It’s no suprise then that the series is packed full of both hilarious and touching moments.

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Judging by the preview clips of the rest of the series, it looks to become edgier and darker as it progresses. Meadows hints at a dramatic turn of events midway through the series and looks at it as “sort of like two separate films”. The soundtrack was evolved from music the actors were listening to on their mp3 players to get into character and from a stack of discs that the two directors shared between each other leading to a soundtrack that’s not cliche or packed full of well known 80’s chart toppers.

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This Is England ’86 looks to be a hit for Channel 4, another beautiful and gritty flagship show with a lot of potential. Who knows, maybe we’ll be seeing This Is England in the 1990’s in the future…

This Is England ’86 starts on the 7th September on Channel 4