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Brits love Marge as a TV mum …and Neighbours’ Susan too
Marge Simpson has been voted the most popular TV mother according to a survey of 3,000 British mums.
She beat Pamela Shipman from Gavin And Stacey, and Susan Harper from My Family, to the title.
Fourth place went to Linda Bellingham who plays a mother in an advertisement for Oxo (sheesh), while Ma Larkin from Darling Buds Of May was voted fifth.
Sue Johnston’s Barbara Royle from The Royle Family was voted sixth.
And our very own Jackie Woodburne as Susan from Neighbours was voted seventh as viewers identified with love for her family. …
April 09: SuBo, Deal v Hot Seat, IceTV victory, Talia wins Dance
April:
Naylor will cuts son from family estate
Andrew G to front Idol solo
‘Fugly’ creator calls it quits
Minister Conroy for sale on eBay
Guiding Light switching off
Profits tumble at TEN
Dateline scoops coup
Gavin & Stacey star collapses from exhaustion
Girls turn it on for Ladettes auditions
Andre Rieu in Ramsay Street
The very scholarly Kerry O’Brien
Leckie sells network shares
Game on. It’s Eddie v Andrew
Star Trek premieres at Opera House
Fennessy brothers to Shine for Murdoch
TEN backtracks on House promise
Neighbours producer: Lack …
March 09: Sound Relief, Home & Away’s ‘gay kiss’, Freeview parody, ONE HD
March:
‘Norman Gentle’ challenges American Idol
AFL plan to push players to media
Axed: Life on Mars
Feud shadows Naylor funeral
TEN cutting staff hours
Mariska Hargitay hospitalised
SBS moves Sydney & Melbourne sales in-house
ITV axes shows, cuts staff
Monkee Peter Tork has cancer
Coleby quits Home and Away
Seinfeld cast re-group for Curb
Music channels sing for Sound Relief
Scrubs set for prime time
TEN orders new 7pm show from Roving Enterprises
Freeview parody pulled from YouTube
Axed: The All in Call
Community TV rallies for Logie invite
Critics knife US Chopping Block
Battlestar Galactica at the UN
Humphrey gets …
Gavin & Stacey’s “emotional” shoot
SPOILERS: UK comedy Gavin and Stacey recently finished filming on its third and final series.
Ruth Jones, who co-wrote and played Nessa Jenkins, said, “It sounds silly I know, but it’s been a big part of our lives for the last three years. It was very emotional filming at the end. Even from day one we all had this sad feeling about it all ending.
“In the final week, me and Jo Page just couldn’t stop crying. We were pathetic and we looked like frogs. And on the last day me and James …
Summer heats up on ABC
Get ready for summer on ABC1 and ABC2.
There’s plenty to tempt you. Including Doctor Who, Torchwood, Red Dwarf, John Safran’s unaired pilot in which he confronts Ray Martin, a new series from Jonathan Welch, Andrew Denton’s Elders series, Scarlett Johansson and Helen Hunt in A Good Woman, a two part Oliver Twist tale -and much, much more.
It all begins as early as November 15.
The Red Dwarf: Back to Earth reunion will screen in the week beginning November 29th on ABC2, Doctor Who: …
Airdate: Horne & Corden
James Corden and Mathew Horne, best known for the UK series Gavin and Stacey, have a new comedy sketch show, Horne & Corden, coming to UKTV next month. The show is shot partly in studio with a live audience, and partly on location. The first episode had a song and dance routine in keeping with a Morecambe and Wise tradition of variety/comedy show.
The two will play themselves as well as original characters including:
Xander: The old boarding school chum, who is the most hideous, foul mouthed – but well meaning – …
Returning: Gavin and Stacey
The second season of Gavin And Stacey will have its Australian premiere on UKTV this month. The first season, starring Mathew Horne (The Catherine Tate Show, Roman’s Empire, Teachers) and Joanna Page (Gideon’s Daughter, Love Actually, The Cazalets), has just concluded a run on Channel Seven.
In the second series of this very warmhearted comedy, we find out how Gavin and Stacey’s marriage is working out, what’s happening in the lives of their families, and, more importantly, if their best friends Nessa and Smithy are finally getting along.
Following their honeymoon, Gavin …
Gavin and Stacey to end
It’s barely started in Australia, but UK comedy Gavin and Stacey will end after its third series, co-writer James Corden has confirmed.
The first series chronicled the developing romance of the two leads played by Mathew Horne and Joanna Pag.
Seven played just one episode of series one in Sydney and Brisbane but pulled it after a disappointing debut and denying viewers in other states the chance to watch any eps.
Corden ruled out any more episodes or specials once they’ve finished work on the next run, saying: “‘This is it. This will definitely …