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I think my mother has been watching Threads again. This doesn't include all the M&S gubbins already in my freezer. (I've told her I have a milkman).
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Mad Friday set to draw millions as Christmas party season hits peak | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274371-party/
Mad Friday set to draw millions as Christmas party season hits peak - ATV Today
Offices close early, Christmas jumpers come out, and city centres fill with end-of-year celebrations...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The Holiday returns to cinemas – and this time it’s a pyjama party | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274369-cinema/
The Holiday returns to cinemas – and this time it’s a pyjama party - ATV Today
On Thursday 18 December, the nationwide cinema chain will host a special pyjama party screening of the 2006 favourite...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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#OnThisDay 16 December 1992
BOY OF THE ROVERS - Gay Justin joins his sweetheart Bet down t'pub in Coronation St. -
There is a new man in the life of #CoronationStreet star #JulieGoodyear. He is gay Justin Fashanu, the Torquay United footballer . . .
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Looney Tunes set for big-screen return in UK cinemas | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274286-film/
Looney Tunes set for big-screen return in UK cinemas - ATV Today
The Looney Tunes franchise is heading back to UK cinemas, with a theatrical release for Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Are your Christmas tunes stressing out your houseplants? | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274296-plants/ ...your ficus might prefer Bach to Bublé, and it is absolutely judging your playlist.
Are your Christmas tunes stressing out your houseplants? - ATV Today
While Mariah and Michael might lift human spirits, scientists have found that plants appear to have rather more delicate tastes.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Claudia Winkleman, chicken soup and the quiet politics of community care | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274318-uk/
Claudia Winkleman, chicken soup and the quiet politics of community care - ATV Today
Claudia Winkleman visits Cook for Good a men's monthly food club for the over 60s.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Nostalgia pays: how the Great Network is growing while UK broadcast shrinks | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274347-great...
Nostalgia pays: how the Great Network is growing while UK broadcast shrinks - ATV Today
Actress Sherrie Hewson: “Viewers like me — and there are lots of us — want to be able to watch the quality shows that we remember so fondly.”
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December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When Santa goes electric: Paddy McGuinness, Sam Thompson and the Christmas delivery with a difference | www.atvtoday.co.uk/274337-chris...
When Santa goes electric: Paddy McGuinness, Sam Thompson and the Christmas delivery with a difference - ATV Today
The pair bonded over the all-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 — promptly christened Evie.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A look at Meg and Hugh's decade long on/off romance and a reminder of the Crossroads wedding day 50 years ago... www.atvtoday.co.uk/254168-cross...
April 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today in 1975 episode 2300 of Crossroads was broadcast, Granada and Thames had special introductions before 2299 to bring them into 1975 - both jumping six months of episodes so that on April 3rd the whole UK could see the wedding of Meg and Hugh.
April 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Golden Anniversary of the Meg and Hugh wedding episode of Crossroads this week.
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Noele in the opening titles of an ATV Today from 1978.
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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#OnThisDay 9 February 1981
TOO RUDE TISWAS - A Royal Act Is Banned
The #Tiswas children's TV team had to re-write their act yesterday. They were told that a stage act they had rehearsed was too rude to set before Princess Margaret at the first Children's Royal Variety Performance.
February 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We never thought we'd be saying this but, 'Classic Gloria Hunniford music album to be released on CD'... Go go Glo... www.atvtoday.co.uk/251220-music/ Forword by Sir Cliff Richard of course. On Sale via Stage Door Pop later this month.
February 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Inspector Morse heads to the stage with Tom Chambers in title role... www.atvtoday.co.uk/251113-theat...
February 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Remembering Brian Murphy; www.atvtoday.co.uk/250965-rip/
February 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Originally due to air in December the celebration of Lew Grade’s ITC, Prisoners, Saints and Persuaders: The World of ITC, will now be broadcast on Saturday, 1 February 2025 at 8pm on BBC Radio 4
January 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Cheers! It's the weekend. Pictured ATV receptionists Ann-Marie Harris and Sylvia Garnett in 1979
January 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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#WhatWeWereWatching #OTD 39 years ago
📺TV Ratings for w.e. 19 January 1986
1. #EastEnders 21.20
2. #CoronationStreet 17.55
3. Duty Free 14.95
4. News 14.80
5. Wish You Were Here 14.45
6. This Is Your Life 14.10
7. Bullseye 14.00
8. Don't Wait Up 13.85
9. The Price is Right 13.80
January 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#OnThisDay 19 January 1992
BASKING IN COSTA DEL SOAP - BBC Chiefs are Looking to Sunny Spain to Brighten Their Sinking Ratings -
About £10 million will go towards new soap Little England (#Eldorado) set and shot on the Costa del Sol . . .
January 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Ten years ago today, we lost a very special person. Remembering the truly wonderful Anne Kirkbride who made Deirdre Barlow into one of the biggest icons ever seen on British television.

She is so so missed.
January 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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#OnThisDay 18 January 1982
Sacked #Crossroads Star Hits Out at Her Producer - I'M OUT OF THE MADHOUSE - She was the queen of television for 17 big years. Then they chopped off her head. But as #NoeleGordon, showbiz survivor, she sails triumphantly on . . .
January 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM