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How are EastEnders actors paid? The BBC's own annual report shows the top of the scale
How much EastEnders actors earn, from per-episode rates for newcomers to the salary bands the BBC's own annual report once made public — and why those names vanished from the list.
September 9, 2026 9:04 pm
What do Coronation Street actors get paid? ITV's recent budget cuts rewrote the old deals
ITV has never published a rate card, and Corrie's cast contracts are private. What exists is a decade of press reporting, one Wikipedia-documented correction from William Roache, and a set of contract changes ITV has confirmed in writing.
September 6, 2026 3:36 pm
What happened to Lisa in Professor T? Emma Naomi warned that viewers "will certainly be shocked"
Emma Naomi played DI Lisa Donckers across three series of ITV's Cambridge-set Professor T between 2021 and 2024, and won a National Film Award for it in 2022. She is not in series 4, and anyone who watched the series 3 finale knows exactly why.
September 3, 2026 2:57 pm
Curious about another Hercule Poirot movie? Kenneth Branagh actually spells it out
Kenneth Branagh has weighed in on whether Hercule Poirot will tackle another case after A Haunting in Venice — and his answer keeps the little grey cells buzzing.
September 2, 2026 10:07 pm
Coronation Street: what happened to Betsy? Her 2026 started with the Corriedale crash — and got worse from there
Betsy Swain turned up on the cobbles in June 2024 as an unnamed friend of Sabrina Adetiba, was quickly revealed as DS Lisa Swain's daughter, and blackmailed Carla Connor into giving her a factory job within weeks. Played by Sydney-Leigh Martin, she has since been written into almost every disaster ITV can arrange. 2026 has been the busiest year yet.
August 20, 2026 2:45 pm
How many murders in Midsomer? Even the fans doing the counting can't agree
Midsomer Murders started on 23 March 1997 with a woman hit over the head with an iron bar. By series 25 it had reached 144 feature-length episodes, which is more than Poirot and Vera combined. Counting the victims has become a hobby in its own right, and no two tallies match.
August 19, 2026 8:27 pm
What happens at the end of Grantchester? The finale they almost wrote was far darker
Grantchester finished after 11 series and 75 episodes, with the last instalment going out on PBS Masterpiece on 2 August 2026 — the eighth of a final run that began on 14 June. The penultimate episode left DI Geordie Keating shot and bleeding against Alphy's car.
August 19, 2026 7:45 pm
Why has Coronation Street gone downhill? Even the Christmas episode lost to The Weakest Link
Christmas Day is the biggest day in the British soap calendar, and in 2024 Corrie's festive episode — the one that sent Helen Worth's Gail Platt off after 50 years — was beaten by a celebrity quiz show. The Weakest Link pulled around 3 million. Corrie didn't.
August 18, 2026 8:48 pm
Who out of Coronation Street has died? The Street has lost one of its very first faces
Coronation Street has said goodbye to several of its own in 2026, but one loss cuts closest to the show's beginnings. This one goes all the way back to episode one, 9 December 1960.
August 17, 2026 11:42 pm
Why did Midsomer Murders 'go woke'? It traces back to one interview in 2011
Midsomer Murders has been accused of many things over nearly three decades — chiefly an implausible body count for a cluster of sleepy English villages. But in recent years a different label keeps surfacing on social media: that the cosy ITV detective drama "went woke".
August 9, 2026 7:05 pm
Why is Coronation Street 30 minutes now? ITV's 'power hour' comes with a cut fans didn't ask for
If you've settled down for Corrie recently and felt it was over rather quickly — you're not imagining it. Since January 2026, the programme runs half an hour a night instead of a full hour.
August 5, 2026 6:45 pm
When is Coronation Street going back to an hour? The World Cup reshuffle left fans wanting more
For a few weeks this summer, something old-fashioned happened on ITV: hour-long episodes of Coronation Street. The 2026 World Cup tore up the schedule, the soap stretched back to 60 minutes on the nights it did air — and plenty of viewers decided they preferred it.
August 5, 2026 4:10 pm
Keke Palmer to headline spin-off The Voice: Celebrity, with more stars joining
NBC is spinning its long-running singing contest The Voice into a new offshoot, per Deadline.
August 5, 2026 2:36 pm
What episode of Midsomer Murders is Orlando Bloom in?
Long before Legolas, Will Turner, or anything with a budget, a 22-year-old Orlando Bloom turned up in a sleepy English village and got himself killed with a pitchfork. It's one of the great "wait, is that…?" moments in British telly. Here's exactly where to find it.
August 2, 2026 5:26 pm
When did Midsomer Murders change Barnaby? The swap kept the name on the badge
Midsomer Murders has been solving impossibly scenic village killings since 1997, but the detective doing the solving hasn't always been the same man. At some point the show pulled off one of British TV's smoothest lead swaps — and the trick was in the surname. Here's exactly when it happened, and why.
July 31, 2026 8:53 pm
Why is Coronation Street still running after 65 years?
When the first episode went out on ITV on 9 December 1960, Daily Mirror critic Ken Irwin predicted it wouldn't last three weeks. Granada had only commissioned 13 episodes. On 9 December 2025, it turned 65 — the Guinness-certified longest-running TV soap opera on the planet.
July 23, 2026 4:27 pm
How many Midsomer Murders series are there?
Barnaby has been finding bodies in England's prettiest villages since 1997 — and the count now stands higher than almost any detective drama on British television.
July 22, 2026 3:56 pm
Tom Cruise’s World Cup speech splits fans — Roy Keane’s deadpan reaction says everything
After Tom Cruise opened the World Cup final with a pep talk, Roy Keane cut through the fanfare on live TV with a single, withering question.
July 20, 2026 12:26 pm
Who killed Robin in Midsomer Murders? It wasn't the ex-con everyone suspected
The episode is "Who Killed Cock Robin?" — series 4, episode 4, first aired on ITV on 9 September 2001. Robin Wooliscroft vanishes from the village of Newton Magna, and six weeks later his body is pulled out of the village well in front of half the parish. If you've just watched it — or given up halfway — here's who actually did it.
July 17, 2026 4:23 pm
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