Corrie's 50th - Anniversary Week Schedule Confirmed!

It's been a long time coming but ITV have finally confirmed the dates of Corrie's 50th week! 7 episodes will air over the week and many specials will air on both ITV and ITV2!

Let's go into a bit of detail.

Monday, December 6

• 7.30pm - Coronation Street 
• 8.00pm - Repeat of Coronation Street's first ever episode
• 8.30pm - Coronation Street
• 10.00pm - Coronation Street Uncovered: Live (duration TBC, airing on ITV2)

Tuesday, December 7

• 8.30pm - Coronation Street
• 9.00pm - Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments - Part One

Wednesday, December 8

• 7.00pm - Coronation Street

Thursday, December 9

• 8.00pm - Coronation Street (Hour Long Live episode)
• 9.00pm - Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments - Part Two

Friday, December 10

• 7.30pm - Coronation Street
• 8.30pm - Coronation Street
• 9.00pm - Coronation Street: The Big 50th (duration TBC)

Exciting times are ahead readers! A repeat of the first ever episode of Coronation Street will air 6th December. This is a brilliant idea! I can't wait to to see it! Stephen Mulhern will present Monday's special which will bring viewers closer to the action and get a reaction from the live audience. 

On Thursday, Corrie's first live episode in 10 years will air. On Friday, Paul O'Grady will host a special one-off quiz show testing celebrities knowledge of 50 years of the street. Finally on Tuesday and Thursday 50 Years, 50 Moments will air, showcasing 50 of the greatest Corrie moments chosen by the public. 

It's going to be a fantastic week for Corrie and a great year next year. 

Who's looking forward to it?

The 2010-2011 TV Season - NBC Announces Mid-Season Schedule

Mondays:

• 8:00PM - New Chuck
• 9:00PM - Brand New The Cape (17th January)/New The Event (28th February)
• 10:00PM - Brand New Harry's Law (17th January)/New Parenthood (7th March)

Tuesdays:

• 8:00PM - New The Biggest Loser
• 10:00PM - New Law & Order: Los Angeles (8th February)

Wednesdays:

• 8:00PM - New Minute To Win It (5th January)
• 9:00PM - New Chase (12th January)/New America's New Great Restaurant (16th March)
• 10:00PM - New Law & Order: SVU (5th January)

Thursdays:

• 8:00PM - New Community
• 8:30PM - Brand New Perfect Couples (20th January)
• 9:00PM - New The Office
• 9:30PM - Brand New Parks and Recreation (20th January)
• 10:00PM - New 30 Rock (20th January)
• 10:30PM - New Outsourced (20th January)

Fridays:

• 8:00PM - New Who Do You Think You Are? (21st January)
• 9:00PM - New Dateline NBC

Soap Watch

In the cobbles, earlier this week ITV launched 'Corrie Nation'. It's a new online game which allows fans to create, populate and grow their very own Weatherfield! It is the first social networking game to be created by a British soap! Players are encouraged to complete tasks to gain access new levels and buildings and characters and iconic items in Corrie's History!
In the picture we have Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley Cropper), Antony Cotton (Sean Tully), Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre) and Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole) with cartoon versions of their characters.
In other news Simon Gregson got married at the weekend so congrats to him and his wife!

A few weeks ago, I mentioned Eastenders was planning a baby terror plot for New Year which involved Kat Salter and Ronnie Mitchell. Now more details have been announced. Ronnie will steal Kat's baby after her own dies of cot death. During the New Year's celebrations, Ronnie discovers her baby is dead. After rushing to the Queen Vic, she hears Kat's baby crying upstairs and swaps the babies. That's hard-hitting stuff. 

Not much going on in the Dales. They've been filming the Christmas Day episode recently and it's going to be a dramatic one by the sounds of things for Chaz, Carl and Eve! Dramaaa!

Plenty of news from Hollyoaks. Let's crack on. First of all, the fire! Steph died. We all cried. Yes I am indeed back to watching Hollyoaks. I'll give it a few weeks. Anyway, yes sadly Steph died, but the fire wasn't all that great. They jumped all over the place and it didn't work really. Confusing at times to be honest. 
Moving on. Hollyoaks has confirmed that it will air a late-night special episode on 16th December. The episode will involve Claire Cooper (Jacqui McQueen), Andy Moss (Rhys Ashworth) and Anthony Quinlan (Gilly Roach) taking centre stage in the extra episode, which will feature a dark storyline focusing on Darren Day's dangerous character Danny Houston. It will also see the return of Allison Burrows (Kathleen McQueen).
Hollyoaks also confirmed a special stand-alone episode will air on 1st December, focusing on Warren Fox's mystery come-back after seemingly dying in a fire last year. All will become clear in a series of flashbacks. The details of the flashbacks however are being kept under wraps until transmission. 

Who bloody pushed Paul Robinson? Rebecca did! I called that. It had to be either her or Declan. Anyway moving on, Kate will get a new love interest and I'm guessing it's going to be with Detective Mark Brennan, who's been working on the Paul Robinson case. He's just signed to be with the soap another year and also said to be getting a love interest with an established character! See i've put two and two together because I'm clever like that. 
In another Neighbours news, the 2010 series finale is set to be dramatic roller-coaster claims series producer Susan Bower. Apparently, the Scully house will be on fire and a big cliffhanger will end 2010. A number of characters a re leaving the soap and details are being kept secret. The episodes will be shown in the UK in early 2011.
Also, make sure you watch this week, as it's one resident's final days! Sad times are ahead of us. 

The 2010-2011 TV Season - The Event to Relaunch in 2011

NBC's The Event will get a 'relaunch' next year it's been claimed. 

The show was recently given a full season despite low ratings but now in 2011 the show will be relaunched.

Bill Smitrovich who plays Vice President Raymond Jarvis said: "We will finish up with our first 13 and then there will be a break, and then we’ll come back with a one-hour compilation clip show of the first 13 so everybody can catch up with story."


Blair Underwood who plays President Elias Martinez said: "There is the crossfire competition from Dancing With The Stars, football and the number one comedy Two And A Half Men. Then, this is the type of genre show like 24 and Lost where viewership always picks up in the second season because people go back and watch during the summer or get the DVD. That builds an audience. And this show was sold in 200 international markets before it premiered here so there is incentive to keep the show going. We are in a good place."


The Event currently airs on Channel 4, Fridays at 9. Personally, I am hooked on it.

The X Factor - Live Shows Week Six: The Results

So it's time for the results! First of all. I have to say. Why do the finalists mine during their group performances? They look so stupid. Especially Paije.


Anyway, JLS sang good, and then Westlife sang crap and then Take That sang amazing!


Back to results. In the bottom two were:

Katie Waissel

Aiden Grimshaw

I'm totally shocked Aiden is in the bottom two! How did Paije and Wagner get through? Christ.


Simon sent home Aiden.
Cheryl sent home Aiden.
Dannii sent home Katie.
Louis sent home Katie.


DEADLOCK.

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. How could this have happened. Aiden has been eliminated over Katie? This is so wrong. 


What do you think about tonight's controversial elimination? (yet another one!)

Strictly Come Dancing - Week Seven: The Results

Time for the results show. In the bottom two were:

Michelle and Brendan

Felicity and Vincent

And the person who left was:

Yeah, Michelle and Brendan have finally left the competition after being in the bottom 2, 4 times! I suppose it was time really.


What do you think of them leaving? 

Top of The Pops

14/10/10 - 21/11/10




1.(1)Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)
2.(-)Take That - The Flood
3.(4)Katy Perry - Firework
4.(-)McFly - Party Girl
5.(3)Alexis Jordan - Happiness
6.(7)Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me
7.(2)Cheryl Cole - Promise This
8.(6)Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
9.(19)Adele - Make You Feel My Love
10.(5)Cee Lo Green - F**k You


Rihanna was denied Take That their much anticipated number 1! I'm really surprised actually. It's a great song so I though it would have went top. Maybe the public actually want that chart battle with JLS and Westlife next week. McFly have landed at 4 with their come-back song 'Party Girl'. I really love it and it's done pretty well. 


Another re-entry for Adele with 'Make You Feel My Love'. I don't even remember her releasing this the first time round!


Over in the album's chart, Britain's Got Talent Winner finalist Susan Boyle has stormed the chart with her second album. 

The X Factor - Live Shows Week Six

As this goes on, I get less and less excited. Nothing good or out of the ordinary happens. Nothing is spontaneous. It's all rehearsed and planned and well fake? I think I may just be getting bored of it, yet I still watch it without fail! Weird.

Moving on, it was Elton John week... Fantastic... Let's just look at the performances.

Best:

Matt is amazing! FACT. 







Rebecca is also amazing. FACT. 




One Direction are also very very good! 


Let's see who was bad!





Jog on, Paije. You are exactly like Treyc. Your there but nobody remembers you or even likes you that much, and look what happened to her last week. Do one!







I haven't minded Katie for this whole competition, but she's been in the bottom 2, 3 times and this was pretty bad I thought. Maybe it's time to go?







There are no words. 




So what did you think of X Factor's Elton John week? 


Make sure you watch the results show at 7:45pm with performances from Take That, JLS and Westlife!

Strictly Come Dancing - Week Seven

What A Show! To be fair I did miss the first 2 dances as I was still watching the first Harry Potter as part of my marathon before the beginning of the end and I'm rambling now. I'll stop. Back to Strictly, yes it was a fantastic show and some great dances!

Let's take a look at this week's leader-board:

Scott Maslen & Natalie Lowe – 39

Kara Tointon & Artem Chigvintsev – 38

Matt Baker & Aliona Vilani – 35

Gavin Henson & Katya Virshilas - 33

Patsy Kensit & Robin Windsor – 32

Pamela Stephenson & James Jordan – 32

Felicity Kendal & Vincent Simone – 26

Michelle Williams & Brendan Cole - 24
Ann Widdecombe & Anton Du Beke - 20

Ssssssscott is back on top! After an amazing performance, Scott Malsen has reclaimed the top position after a disastrous week last week. Kara, who also performed brilliantly took second place. Gavin Henson is the surprise of the week, scoring an impressive 33! Maybe it was his wooing of one particular judge as you'll see later. Ann, again takes bottom place but she's not that far away from Michelle Williams so it's an improvement!

Let's take a look at my best and worst dances:

Best:

(Scott, Kara and Gavin)

For him to come out with this after a terrible week last time, it's amazing. He's such a fantastic dancer and Natalie Lowe is a great teacher! Dance of the series so far!

Kara was been constantly good these past few weeks and this is no different. Brilliant stuff!





And here is the wooing of the judge I mentioned earlier! While, Gavin still made alot of mistakes and his timing was out, this was really good. Very enjoyable. Over-marked but enjoyable. 

Worst:

This was awful to watch. So awaked and just not good. You may be danger Felicity. 

Seriously, time to jog off Ann. You've been funny but come on. Get out now.

So who will make it through to next week and get to perform at the home of the Ballroom, Blackpool?

Make sure you watch the results show tomorrow at 7:30 on BBC1!

Speidi to renew their vows

Here we go! Spencer and Heidi Pratt have announced they are renewing their vows!

The couple, who got together on MTV's The Hills, married once in Mexico which was invalid, then again in America, which they claim was all for the show. Since then they split up and Heidi filled for divorce. 

Now, they've got back together, claimed they are broke, took advantage of their fame and now they want to renew their vows. 

So, is this for the money? Or are they the real deal?

Personally, I think it's for the money. After The Hills, they were first people who I expected to get a spin off reality show but they didn't surprisingly. BUT obviously they did stay in the news as much as possible and some people even claimed their "divorce" was just for the publicity and money. I just don't trust them as a couple anymore. There's so much fakeness and hurt and it's all unbelievable pointless. They annoy me now.

What about you?

Rochelle and Marvin Split

Oh dear!


One of my favourite couples have split. Rochelle Wiseman from The Saturdays and Marvin Humes from JLS have split up. 


The couple got together in February of this year and moved in together a few months later. Rochelle took to her twitter account and said:


"Hey guys thanks for messages! It's all a bit odd to share a break up! We have split but, we are still very much friends! You guys are lovely."


Aww. When The Saturdays has their show on ITV2 and Marvin was on with Rochelle, they always looked so good together and seemed dead happy. I wonder why they broke up. It's a shame. I'm glad their still friends though! 

Channel 4 hosts Corrie Come Dine with Me Special

Channel 4 has announced it will be showing a special episode of their hit show Come Dine With Me for Coronation Street's 50th Anniversary! 


The show will feature 4 former stars of the long running soap including Julie Goodyear who played Bet Lynch, Ken Morley who played Reg Holdsworth, Tupele Dorgu who played Kelly Crabtree and Philip Middlemiss who played Des Barnes. 


Apparently, there's plenty of drama between the contestants but I'm not spoiling any of it. The show airs 5th December 2010, the week the show turns 50 and a tram crashes into the street killing some much loved residents. 

Winnie The Pooh Trailer

Get ready for your childhood to comeback!




So cute. I wasn't a big fan of Winnie the Pooh, but obviously it was part of my childhood so I thought I'd share. The film is released 15th April 2011 in the UK.


What do you think of the trailer? Will you go see the film?

The 2011-2012 TV Season - FOX renews The Simpsons

Note how the title is The 2011-2012 TV Season, not 2010-2011!


Long running animated comedy, The Simpsons has been renewed for it's 23rd season by FOX.


The news means that the show will be on screens till at least 2012 and it will reach it's 500th episode millstone. It will also become the 3rd longest running prime-time series in the history of television. It's come along way from being a short on The Tracey Ullman Show back in 1987!


I used to watch The Simpsons all the time, but it gets tiring after a while. I loved the movie but I don't watch the show anymore, unless there's nothing else on and it happens to be on. I can't believe it's still going though. It's a great achievement. 


Are you happy The Simpsons lives on? Do you still watch it?

Total Wipeout Renewed For 2 More Series

BBC1's game-show Total Wipeout, hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram has been renewed for 2 more series it has been reported.

The show which sees contestants complete an assault course in the fastest time to win £10,000 will return for a 4th and 5th series and 2 celebrity versions. 

The 5th series has been said to introduce a new course to test the contestants in different ways. The show films in Argentina. 

Would you like to try it out? I mean, who wouldn't want to have a go at those red balls? Look's like so much fun!