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The signals being broadcast from Pacific Quay weren’t great from the start. Almost 20 years ago, the BBC's new development opened at a cost of...
Honestly, the following words are not hot from the Christmas book of hyperbole. They’ve not been typed up while high on mulled wine and wild...
Here’s a Yuletide fact; Christmas films are made for people with a low attention span. The plots are so predictable you can easily follow the...
Bernard Ponsonby, STV's former political editor , said he does not think the Glasgow-based station “has a future” after it announced it would cut...
Pauline Collins, who picked up Olivier and Tony Awards for her performance of Shirley Valentine – and just missed out on an Oscar in 1989 to Jessica...
Does the decision by BBC Scotland to cast ex-SNP MP Mhairi Black in a new TV drama look anything but daft? Is it any surprise that Scotland’s acting...
Why is there no statue of Dorothy Paul in Dennistoun? Why is it that the comedy star - arguably the greatest Scots female talent of her generation -...
I just tuned in by accident and caught 10 minutes of Amanda Holden’s new gameshow, The Celebrity Inner Circle. But aside from the mild shock of...
Kaye Adams has been suspended from the BBC but these allegations aren't representative of the woman I know, says showbusiness writer Brian Beacom ...
My day is destroyed – and it’s not yet 9am. Radio Four’s Today programme is gently closing with its usually amusing And Finally - but today...
What to make of Taylor Swift, via her new album? Another wonderful example of a young woman controlling her own destiny, whose lyrics are often...
I’m perplexed. What’s troubling is whether or not to go see Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, announced for the Citz in the New Year. I know what...
There was never an argument that Robert Redford was one of the greatest actors this side of the Pecos. Don’t get me wrong; no one, surely, is saying...
Where do these American superstar actors get off, thinking they can come over here and appropriate our identities, our sun burnt skin, and our...
What are you feeling now that the Edinburgh Fringe has gone? Is not being able to take off to Edinburgh and take your pick from 3893 productions...
Come on. Surely you can see it too? Hasn’t the release of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir and the arrival of the new Bay City Rollers musical, set to...
Legions of politicians are again taking to the stage at the Fringe this year. And it’s fair to say it’s not a universally popular idea, with...
Okay, I’m most certainly not the target audience for Wednesday, (Netflix, Wednesday, of course). But because I’m not Gen Z doesn’t mean I...
I’m about to make a suggestion that it won’t be universally well received, (and produce accusations of international class hypocrisy); the BBC...
Has there been a greater lure in all the entertainment universe than the mad fools’ gold rush that is the Edinburgh Fringe? Why would our...
Auntie is getting in the neck these days. In fact, she’s getting it in the neck so often it’s a wonder her throat isn’t gushing leaks. But is it...
How much does ‘truth’ matter in the stories we’re presented with on stage, television and film? As we know, Hamilton wasn’t entirely...
Don’t you just hope that when Lana Del Rey next pays for her latte at Starbucks she opens the lid to discover it’s only half full? Or that when...
It’s a mud swamp in the middle of Somerset, not at all cute like Shrek’s, instead strewn with plastic bottles, discarded prophylactics and...
On April 15, 1984, the watching world saw comedy legend Tommy Cooper die on stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London while appearing on live...
Come on, you have to admit, you like these little celebrity spats, don’t you? The likes of the slaps exchanged this week by writer JK Rowling - from...
It’s hard to disagree with Phyllis Logan’s feeling that the body that is TV cosy crime dramas should be taken out the back, shot through the head...
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