[ad_1] My Mum, Your Dad is a heartwarming new reality TV show with a difference. Hosted by Davina McCall, the ITV series focuses on a group of single parents in their forties and fifties who are looking to find love – with a little help from their adult children. Described as the “midlife Love Island“,…
[ad_1] Davina McCall believes she “manifested” her new TV series, a dating show made specifically for people in their forties and fifties. “I could fill a villa in Love Island with middle-aged people with the best back stories you have ever heard in your life,” she told podcaster Stephen Bartlett in January. Listeners loved the…
[ad_1] James Blake’s esoteric electronica has always had a splash of human vulnerability gumming up its circuits. Assume Form, from 2019, was a valentine to his partner Jameela Jamil; 2021’s Friends That Break Your Heart meditated on how platonic relationships can wither if taken for granted. Following on from those projects – and the success…
[ad_1] The Last Night of the Proms rests on tradition. The Royal Albert Hall comes alive with colour, the conductor’s podium bedecked in streamers. Promenaders swat balloons and buzz kazoos. Union Jack attire is encouraged. And, following a varied programme of short pieces, the last six are always the same: Fantasia on British Sea Songs,…
[ad_1] Alternative rock group Keane have announced a new world tour, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album Hopes and Fears. The album, which sold more than 2.5 million copies in the UK in its first year alone, was released six years after the group got together and features their classic hit “Somewhere…
[ad_1] The BBC Proms 2023 season ends this week, week after almost two months of nightly music performances. The final evening of the annual musical festival at the Royal Albert Hall will be this Saturday, 9 September. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus…
The chilling violence of Sully (Kane Robinson) and Dushane (Ashley Walters) is no more as the fifth and final series of Top Boy aired this week, avidly watched by fans white-knuckling it through the finale. More than a decade after the story began with Top Boy: Summerhouse on Channel 4,the true crime series has come…
[ad_1] Love it or hate it, Mrs Brown’s Boys is back. We’ve been given several Christmas and New Year specials, but Friday’s episode marked the beginning of its first series since 2013. It’s a testament to its distinctive style (it’s one of the only live studio sitcoms being made these days), then, that Mrs Brown’s…
[ad_1] So far, this show has defied expectations of the genre in that it is actually concerned with reality September 9, 2023 6:00 am The show’s premise is that single parents are nominated by their adult children to take part in a dating retreat with the hope of shacking up (Photo: Amy Brammall/Lifted Entertainment/ITV) When…
[ad_1] Comedian and impersonator Mike Yarwood has died aged 82, the Royal Variety Charity has announced. Yarwood became a household name in the 1960s and 1970s with his impressions of politicians and other celebrities. He spent his later years at the Royal Variety Charity’s Brinsworth House, in Twickenham, south-west London, and died in hospital on…
