Kylie Minogue, after much speculation has decided to go back to her roots and begin acting again.
The Austrilian singer was first seen on our screens years ago back on Neighbours where she found fame but became a singing sensation soon after and hasn’t really taken up TV acting ever since. That was until she guest stared in Doctor Who in a christmas special last year, which seems to have re-lit her acting ambition.
“I started out as an actress and I thought if I was lucky that would be my career,” Minogue explained. “Then I started singing and I was in that weird space where people say: ‘You can’t be a singer, you’re an actress.’ Then they’re saying: ‘Well you’re a singer, you can’t be an actress.’
“I hate that! If you’re creative, there’s no reason you shouldn’t work in different mediums. Recording and being a performer, thankfully that’s gone really well, but now I’m starting to think again about acting.”
Kylie wants to try something a little new and would prefer to act in comedy for a change. Whether it will work or not is yet to be seen but she is ademant this is what she wants to do saying:-
“It’s so much fun. It’s where I come from so I’m very comfortable to go back to that. It’s not that well known that I’m funny, but I am funny. People who know me will tell you.”
The NBC have decided to shake things up by firing two of their writers who had been there from the beginning.
The victims were Co-exective producers Jesse Alexander and writter Jeph Loeb, they were also responsible for the day to day production of the TV show under the guidance of creator Tim Kring. They got the chop after a fall in ratings following the third season even though Universal Media Studios have gone over their budget of $4mill per episode.
It has now been left for Tim Kring to dig the show out of this hole and bump up its ratings. It is still promising that a fourth season of the show will arise but sheds of doubt are looming.
Due to the recent events following Jonathan Ross’s and Russell Brands prank call to Andrew Sachs, he has decided to stand down from hosting ITV’s 2008 British Comedy Awards.
Ross has been suspended without pay for 12 weeks and the BBC have issued a final warning regarding his conduct on the Radio 2 Broadcast earlier in October which caused thousands of complaints.
ITV’s director of television Peter Fincham commented: “We respect Jonathan’s decision to stand down from the 2008 British Comedy Awards which has been made with the full support of ITV and the show’s producers.” The event will still be broadcast as scheduled on ITV1 in December.
A spokesperson for Ross said: “It’s a show he very much enjoys being part of but would not want his participation in this year’s event to take away from the awards themselves or the many talented winners of the awards.”
The first episode in the new series of Britannia High was expected to dominate the ratings when it was broad casted on Oct 26th but to ITV’s surprise, the teen drama didn’t live up to expectation and was smashed by BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
The Antiques Roadshow was first shown on our screens back in 1977 and has been a success for the BBC ever since. Michael Apel used to host the show but has since been replaced by Fiona Bruce for the current series.
ITV’s £2 Million show could only scrape together 3.3 million viewers whereas the oldies favorite took the lime light with 8.8 million viewers (38% share), who would prefer to watch local residence across the UK purchasing antiques.
ITV’s Britannia High is said to be a mix of popular programs such as ‘Fame’ & ‘High School Musical’ which follows the story of 6 preforming art school students. ITV has spent an awful lot on the show in advertising over the couple of months to draw in its target audience (youth) but was no match for the Antiques Roadshow cross generational appeal.
ITV bosses are still remaining hopeful saying that:-
Britannia High had made a solid start in a competitive schedule.
ITV still plan to go ahead with a the arena tour and single they had originally planned from the show. They are also planning to increase the shows awareness by launching a range of multi-media spin-offs such as creating personal pages for each character on social networking sites. The final episode of the series will see a live 75minute contest between the shows characters which ITV believes will be a great success.
Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross have been suspended by the BBC after a prank phone call was conducted on Jonathan Ross’s Radio 2 show back in October. The call was made to Andrew Sachs from Fawlty Towers which angered listeners and a massive 18,000 complaints were made due to the crude messages the pair left on Sachs Mobile, suggested that brand had f**ked his grandma and that he might kill himself.
Both Brand’s and Ross’s programmes they present have been taken off the radio and television pending an internal investigation. Mark Thompson, BBC director general made a lengthy statement about in incident:-
“I would like to add my own personal and unreserved apology to Andrew Sachs, his family and to licence fee payers for the completely unacceptable broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
“BBC audiences accept that, in comedy, performers attempt to push the line of taste. However, this is not a marginal case. It is clear from the views expressed by the public that this broadcast has caused severe offence and I share that view.
“Since Sunday, I have been in regular contact with the senior executives I tasked with handling this issue. The investigation that I instructed Tim Davie to conduct is nearing completion, and I am returning to London to review the findings and, in the coming days, announce what action we will take.
“In the meantime, I have decided that it is not appropriate for either Russell Brand or Jonathan Ross to continue broadcasting on the BBC until I have seen the full report of the actions of all concerned.
“This gross lapse of taste by the performers and the production team has angered licence payers. I am determined that we satisfy them that any lessons will be learnt and appropriate action taken. I have been asked to report to the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee before the end of this week and will discuss with the Trust the findings of the report and the actions I propose.”