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Glitterball
''Glitterball'' is a live, late night, interactive television quiz show in the United Kingdom. It was broadcast under the ITV Play branding on ITV a few nights a week from around midnight (usually), and from 1.00am on ITV2. The show launched on 19 February 2007. Both ''Glitterball'' and ''Make Your Play'' alternated their days of broadcast. ''Glitterballs final show broadcast on the morning of Sunday 30 September 2007. Overview ''Glitterball'' was created by Ludus:ETV (who also produced '' The Mint'') and produced from studios at 3SixtyMedia, Manchester. The programme was broadcast on ITV and ITV2 from Sunday to Wednesdays. The show started on 19 February 2007. In order to win money, holidays and various other special prizes, viewers are required to either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, text the word 'BALL' to an automated call back service or enter via the ITV website. If successful, they would be placed on hold and then transferred live to the studio to deliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Play
ITV Play was a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. The channel was devoted exclusively to phone-in quiz show programmes, expanding upon ITV1 and ITV2's late-night quiz programmes such as '' Quizmania'' and '' The Mint.'' ITV Play launched on 19 April 2006—replacing Men & Motors on Freeview—and started broadcasting on the Sky platform on 24 July 2006. The channel was short-lived; its programmes, along with those carried by other British television channels, faced scrutiny for their semblance to gambling. Concurrently, a series of scandals also emerged surrounding the use of premium-rate telephone numbers on British television. On 5 March 2007, ITV announced that it would audit its use of premium-rate lines across its programming, resulting in the closure of ITV Play until further notice; on 13 March, ITV announced that ITV Play would be closed permanently. The ITV Play name continued as a strand on ITV1 during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Hardman
Zoe Kristina Hardman (born 16 November 1982) is a British radio and television presenter. She first appeared on TV in Channel 4's reality game show ''Playing It Straight'' in 2005. Career Hardman was born in Kent, England. She was a presenter on ITV's phone-in quiz show '' Glitterball''. She is heavily involved in the Entertainment and Fashion show weekly for the online entertainment syndication company ReelKandi TV. She also continues to do commercials, acting and voiceover work. In 2011, Zoe was the showbiz news reporter for an on-line channel (T5M) and also spent time filming at The Ashes (Cricket) series for the ECB. Hardman was one of the main presenters on the Nuts TV channel on Friday and Saturday nights. In January 2012, she began hosting '' Take Me Out: The Gossip'' on ITV2 alongside Mark Wright, until the show was rested in 2014. She did not return to the show when it was revived in 2015. She also appeared as MC at the Boodles tennis tournament at Stoke Park in Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russ Spencer
Russell Spencer (born 1 March, 1980) is an English singer and television presenter. Scooch Originally formed in 1998, Spencer first gained prominence as a member of pop group Scooch, who signed to EMI and gained four top-twenty hits, including their top-five single "More Than I Needed to Know", as well as the album ''Four Sure''. Worldwide, Scooch scored number one singles in Japan and Australia. Scooch was dropped by EMI and the group disbanded after disappointing sales of ''Four Sure'' in 2000. In 2007, Scooch reformed after seven years, to participate in the famous European television talent contest '' Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up'', a BBC television contest to determine the United Kingdom's entry in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Finland. They were chosen as the UK's entry, beating, amongst others, Justin Hawkins and Brian Harvey. Russ co-wrote the song "Flying the Flag (For You)", signed to Warner Bros. Records and released the song to the UK chart. The UK Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Your Play
''Make Your Play'' was a live, interactive quiz show, showing in the UK on the ITV Network, from Monday to Saturday, beginning after midnight. The show was launched on Friday 29 September 2006 on ITV and ITV Play. The prizes were greater than usually available on ITV Play (often exceeding £20,000), but as a result of this, callers are usually taken less often. In order to win money, viewers had to either call in at a cost of 75p from a BT landline, or enter through the ITV website. If they were successful, they would have been placed on hold, then transferred live to the studio if they was lucky, where they then went on to deliver their answer. ''Make Your Play'' had given over £3 million. It went over the £3 million mark on 1 July 2007, when a contestant by the name of Mr Joseph Percy said "next day". An on screen graphic was then shown saying "£3 Million Given Away" accompanied with a siren sound effect. Controversy A game where viewers were invited to "add the pence" w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Stevens (presenter)
Craig Stevens is an English radio and TV presenter, voice-over artist, and film critic. Appeared in the Netflix Movie ''I Used to Be Famous'' (as Concert Reporter). Biography In 2007, Stevens presented ITV (TV channel), ITV shows ''The Mint (UK game show), The Mint'' and ''Glitterball''. His first presenting job was on ''Five (channel), Brainteaser''. He has hosted his own radio shows on former East of England dance station ''Kiss FM'' (now ''Kiss 105-108'') and former Essex & Suffolk local station ''SGR-FM'', and used to be a presenter on Q103 and ''Heart Cambridgeshire and now presents on Star Radio (Cambridge and Ely), Star Radio in Cambridgeshire''. He spent some time presenting for ''ITV (TV network), ITV'' and is an anchor host for ''Sky Cinema'' interviewing film stars including Jim Carrey, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Justin Bieber, and Jodie Foster. Stevens has appeared on ITV (TV network), ITV's ''This Morning (TV programme), This Morning''. In 2016, he became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 British Television Series Endings
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MySpace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated Whitespace character#Substitute images, open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga, RockYou, and Photobucket, among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world. In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million; in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $800 million in revenue. At its peak in April 2008, Myspace had 115 million monthly visitors; by that time, the recently emerg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kéllé Bryan
Kéllé Bryan (born 12 March 1975) is an English singer and actress. Known as one of the founding members of girl group Eternal, she sold more than 10 million records and achieved the UK number-one single, " I Wanna Be The Only One" alongside BeBe Winans. When Bryan was 11, she joined the Italia Conti Academy school where she trained eight years of performing arts and later qualified as a dance teacher. She met friend and future bandmate Louise Redknapp (née Nurding) during her studies. The two would form the girl group Eternal along with Vernie Bennett and her younger sister, Easther. During her time being in the group, she attained three UK top-ten albums. In 2018, she began portraying the role of Martine Deveraux in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'', a role she played until 2022. In 2019, she became part of the '' Loose Women'' panel. In October 2020, Bryan, Charlene White, Brenda Edwards and Judi Love became the first all-Black panel in the show's history. Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiz Call
''Quiz Call'' was a TV quiz channel. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom and owned by Ostrich Media. It was also a late night / early morning phone-in quiz TV show, produced by Ostrich Media and broadcast on Five, Five US / Five USA, Five Life and Ftn. History Launch ''Quiz Call'' was launched as a standalone participation television channel in August 2005 on the Freeview and NTL platforms, and launched on the Sky Digital platform shortly afterwards. The show encourages viewers to enter by calling a premium-rate telephone number or for free via their website. On 22 April 2006, the channel made its debut on analogue terrestrial television when it aired overnight on Five. In June 2006, ''Quiz Call'' had a slight revamp. They replaced half of the original set with a purple- and gold-themed set. This set was used mainly as their set for use when broadcasting on Five. The graphics also changed at this time. On 6 August 2006, ''Quiz Call'' gave viewers a unique opport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV2
ITV2 is a Television in the United Kingdom, British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five Analogue terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households. The channel is primarily aimed at the 16–34 age group, similar to BBC Three and E4 (TV channel), E4, and is known for American programming such as adult animations ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'' and ''Bob's Burgers''; repeats of recently aired episodes of soap operas and other entertainment programming from ITV (TV network), ITV such as ''Coronation Street'', ''Emmerdale'' and ''Catchphrase (British game show), Catchphrase''; original comedy such as ''Celebrity Juice'' and ''Plebs (TV series), Plebs''; and reality formats such as ''Big Brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
