Tulisa, Gary Barlow tell acts to 'stay away from Rylan'?

X Factor judges Gary Barlow and Tulisa Contostavlos have allegedly told their remaining acts to stay away from Rylan Clark.

The mentors are said to have held meetings with their respective categories - the over 28s and the girls - and warned them not to get too close to the controversial contestant.

Clark, 23, has been branded a bad influence by the two judges after he was spotted returning to the contestants' hotel drunk arm-in-arm with Tulisa's act Lucy Spraggan. The pair were later seen being kicked out of the building and are currently staying in a separate venue nearby.

An X Factor insider told The Mirror that Tulisa heavily criticised Spraggan for "not taking [the competition] seriously and throwing away her opportunity".

"Tulisa was disappointed with Lucy," the source continued. "She had her down as a serious musician and a real competitor for this year's title but now she thinks she's just here for a laugh.

"They really embarrassed themselves. Photos of them rolling around drunk in the street appeared and it really brings the show into disrepute."

Spraggan later apologised on Twitter. "Me and Rylan Clark are partaking in a small vacation from the hotel for a few days," she posted, adding: "Our most sincere apologies for our #beerfear behaviour."

Barlow reportedly told his acts that Rylan has a "bad attitude" and shouldn't still be in the competition. "You'll ruin your chances if you're not careful," he said.

"Gary has made his feelings about Rylan quite clear," the source added. "But he's had another word with his own acts and warned them that there is no place for his messing around on the show."

The X Factor continues tonight at 8pm on ITV1. Contestants are due to perform songs that fit the theme 'Club Classics'.

Roger Ailes Signs 4-Year Deal to Run Fox News, Stations

Roger Ailes has signed a new, four-year deal to run Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, Fox stations and 20th Television, News Corp. announced Friday.

Ailes is the chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and chairman of Fox Television Stations Group.

News Corp. representatives did not immediately respond to a request from TheWrap for comment.

Ailes signed a similar five-year contract with News Corporation in 2008. He has been with News Corporation since 1996, the year he launched FOX News Channel.

The announcement comes in the same week that another media mogul, Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corp., also re-upped his contract.

The new contract was first reported by Howard Kurtz, media columnist for The Daily Beast and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources."

'Switch's Lacey Turner to star in BBC army drama 'Our Girl'

Lacey Turner is to star in a new BBC One drama, it has been reported.

The Switch actress will play young army recruit Molly in a one-off 90-minute drama titled Our Girl, reports The Sun.

Molly joins the Royal Army Medical Corps after throwing up in the doorway of a recruitment office while out celebrating her 18th birthday. Our Girl follows her through training and into active service in Afghanistan.

Former EastEnders star Turner described Molly as "an interesting character who shows such strength and determination".

A BBC spokesperson added: "Molly is as colourful, unique and powerful as Stacey Slater was when she first arrived on the channel eight years ago."

HGTV Announces Renewals of "Home Strange Home," "Extreme Homes," and "You Live in What"

Wacky, unusual and unique homes have captured the attention of millions of viewers with HGTV's new series Home Strange Home, Extreme Homes and You Live in What?.

Originally launched as one-hour specials, Home Strange Home and You Live in What? will continue production with eight, one-hour episodes of a second season while Extreme Homes will continue with eight, one-hour episodes of a third. Both You Live in What? and Extreme Homes, which originally premiered in early 2012, ranked among the Top 5 rated prime specials on HGTV among P25-54. More than 3.9 million viewers tuned in to watch Home Strange Home when it debuted in November 2011.

"Our new genre featuring spectacular and quirky homes is pulling a big audience," said HGTV's General Manager Kathleen Finch. "From real estate to renovation and luxury living to home improvement, HGTV offers programming across the spectrum of 'home,' so it makes perfect sense to develop and green light series and season renewals that offer viewers a voyeuristic look at extreme and extraordinary living."

Home Strange Home, which makes its series debut on Friday, Oct. 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, introduces viewers to unconventional houses and their owners. Hosted by comedian Chuck Nice, the eccentric and bizarre residences include a modern-day Peter Pan's Neverland, a million dollar Earth ship, a Las Vegas museum, a Tulsa cave, and houses made out of animal bones, beers cans and more. In its second season, HGTV goes inside a real life witches home pulled straight out of the Hansel and Gretel fairytale, the original Village People's YMCA and other one-of-a-kind creations.

The word "extreme" means different things to different people, and to the homeowners featured in Extreme Homes, it means pushing the envelope as far as possible. Throughout this year, more than 11 million viewers tuned in to the series to get an up-close look at some of the world's most spectacular houses ever built - including a modern a castle, a seaside house made of refrigerator panels and floating ferry boat, and sun-revolving spherical abode. Recently bowing its second season on Oct. 4, viewers can see more extraordinary homes, including a pyramid in rural Ohio, a glass box in Switzerland and rolling-dice and mailbox shaped edifices every Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT. More unique options will also be captured in the third season, premiering in first quarter.

Not everyone lives in a cozy 3-bedroom, 2-bath house in the suburbs. In the series You Live in What? HGTV offers a sneak-peek into the imaginative homes of people who live in some really outrageous places. Watched by more than 14 million viewers this year, the first season highlighted a couple who live on an old rail-road bridge and the infamous historic Manhattan bank turned dream home. In early 2013, the second season of You Live in What? brings viewers eight new episodes of unusual spaces converted into masterful residences.

TV Tonight 21th of October 2012

The daily list in alphabetical order, of all the new episodes airing.

    60 Minutes (US) S45E04: "Season 45, Episode 4"
    666 Park Avenue S01E04: "Hero Complex"
    Alaska State Troopers S04E04: "Shotgun Showdown"
    America's Funniest Home Videos S23E03: "Season 23, Episode 3"
    American Dad! S08E03: "Can I Be Frank With You?"
    American Pickers S04E28: "Guitars, Guns, and Gears"
    Andrew Marr's History Of The World S01E05: "Age of Plunder"
    Antiques Roadshow S35E03: "Port Sunlight (2)"
    Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes S02E24: "Operation Galactic Storm"
    Being: Liverpool S01E05: "Walk On"
    Big Brother (AU) S09E61: "Live Eviction"
    Big Rich Texas S03E03: "Pierced by Revenge"
    Bitchin’ Kitchen S03E00: "Nadia G's Bitchin' Halloween Special"
    Boardwalk Empire S03E06: "Ging Gang Goolie"
    Bob's Burgers S03E03: "Bob Fires the Kids"
    Breaking Amish S01E07: "Final Days"
    Bridezillas S09E20: "TBA"
    Call Me Fitz S03E06: "Semen-Gate"
    Cardfight!! Vanguard S02E29: "Gathering of Winners"
    Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew S06E07: "Things Get Worse Before They Get Better"
    Code: Breaker S01E03: "Episode 3"
    Comic Book Men S02E02: "TBA"
    Copper S01E10: "A Vast and Fiendish Plot"
    Cupcake Wars S07E03: "Cody Simpson"
    Curiosity S02E03: "I Was Mummified"
    Czas honoru S05E08: "Kanał"
    Deal Or No Deal (UK) S08E60: "Episode 2053"
    Destination Fear S01E05: "Pigman Road"
    Dexter S07E04: "Run"
    Downton Abbey S03E06: "Series 3, Episode 6"
    Dragons' Den (UK) S10E07: "Series 10, Episode 7"
    Drugs, Inc. S03E01: "High Stakes Vegas"
    Family Guy S11E03: "The Old Man and the Big 'C'"
    Farmen S08E06: "Season 8, Episode 6"
    Football Night in America S07E07: "Week 7"
    Forbrydelsen S03E05: "Day 5"
    Friday Night Dinner S02E03: "The Loft"
    Glam Fairy S02E03: "Even Fairies Get Fired"
    Halloween Wars S02E03: "Science Gone Wrong"
    Hellstrøm Rydder Opp - Hjemme S02E07: "Season 2, Episode 7"
    Homeland S02E04: "New Car Smell"
    House Husbands S01E08: "Episode 8"
    Hunter X Hunter Remake S02E03: "Assault x And x Impact"
    I Kveld Med Ylvis S02E12: "Season 2, Episode 12"
    I Survived S06E41: "Gilles, Angela and Richard, Jeffrey"
    Jack Irish S01E02: "Black Tide"
    Killing Time S02E03: "Season 2, Episode 3"
    Long Island Medium S03E12: "Never Before Seen"
    Long Island Medium S03E11: "FAQ"
    Magi S01E03: "Wizard of Creation"
    Making Monsters S02E08: "All Creatures Great and Scary!"
    Making Monsters S02E07: "Demon Dogs & Hell Hounds"
    Married to Jonas S01E09: "Italy with the In-Laws - Part Two"
    MasterChef S01E08: "Season 1, Episode 8"
    Masterpiece S42E26: "Upstairs Downstairs, II: (3) A Perfect Specimen of Womanhood"
    Mega Dens S03E11: "Maine Goes Mega"
    Million Dollar Contractor S02E08: "Plus One"
    Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse S01E16: "Episode 16"
    MythBusters S11E03: "Hail Hijinx"
    Nothing Trivial S02E09: "Season 2, Episode 9"
    Once Upon a Time S02E04: "The Crocodile"
    One Piece (JP) S06E53: "Episode 569"
    Oprah's Next Chapter S01E37: "Fergie"
    Points Of View S40E06: "October 21, 2012"
    Revenge S02E04: "Intuition"
    Robot Chicken S06E06: "Disemboweled by an Orphan"
    Rove LA S02E04: "Aisha Tyler, Matthew Fox and Emmy Rossum"
    Running Man (런닝맨) S01E116: "Season 1, Episode 116"
    See Dad Run S01E03: "See Dad Play Coach"
    Sins & Secrets S03E08: "Iaeger"
    Snapped S09E23: "Kara Lounsbury"
    So You Think You Can Dance (NL/BE) S05E08: "Season 5, Episode 8; Liveshow 1"
    Solsidan S03E03: "TBA"
    SpongeBob SquarePants S08E36: "Move It or Lose It"
    Strictly Come Dancing S10E07: "Series 10, Week 3 (Results)"
    Strike Back: Vengeance S03E08: "Vengeance, Episode 8"
    Sunday Night Football S07E10: "Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals"
    Talking Dead S02E02: "TBA"
    Tatort S43E26: "Tote Erde"
    The Amazing Race S21E04: "Funky Monkey: Leg 4 - Dhaka, Bangladesh → TBA"
    The Cleveland Show S04E02: "Menace II: Secret Society"
    The Good Wife S04E04: "Don’t Haze Me, Bro"
    The Mentalist S05E04: "Blood Feud"
    The Only Way Is Essex S07E07: "Series 7, Episode 7"
    The Project S04E251: "Season 4, Episode 251"
    The Simpsons S24E03: "Adventures in Baby-Getting"
    The Soup S09E00: "The Goodest Moments of Redneck Shows"
    The Walking Dead S03E02: "Sick"
    The X Factor (UK) S09E17: "Series 9 - Elimination - 3 (Result)"
    The Xtra Factor S09E17: "Series 9, Live Show Extra 3 (Result)"
    Toriko S02E28: "Episode 28"
    Treme S03E05: "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say"
    Uchuu Kyoudai S01E29: "Night Before Launch"
    Unique Eats S05E11: "Kids' Treats"
    Unusual Suspects S04E07: "A Bike Ride to Murder"
    Watch What Happens: Live S08E31: "Yvette Nicole Brown"
    Winx Club S05E08: "Secret of the Ruby Reef"
    X Factor Romania S02E05: "Season 2, Episode 5"

Misfits series 4 air date confirmed

Series four of E4's Misfits, featuring three new regular characters, starts at the end of this month...

The official E4 Misfits Twitter account sent out the following missive this morning, containing some news many of us have been waiting to hear:

"Oi, wanna hear something good? #misfits Series 4 starts on Sunday 28th October at 10pm"

Series four is the first not to feature Lauren Socha, Antonia Thomas or Iwan Rheon, but will be welcoming back Joseph Gilgun (Rudy) Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Curtis), and Matthew McNulty (Seth), alongside newcomers Karla Crome (Jess), Nathan McMullen (Finn), and Matt Stokoe (Alex).

Why do Star Trek fans hate Voyager?

Liam ponders whether Star Trek: Voyager deserves the derision it receives at the hands of some Star Trek fans...

At what point is it safe to call oneself a Star Trek fan? I’ve seen a good chunk of TOS, and almost all of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. I’ve a favourite episode and have selected my preferred position on the bridge (Security and Tactical), but I wouldn’t touch a pair of pointy ears with a ten-foot bat’leth, and perhaps most egregiously in the world of Trek fandom, I don’t hate Voyager.

So thoroughgoing is some Star Trek fans’ hatred of Berman, Piller and Taylor’s iteration of the franchise, it’s manifested in YouTube channels dedicated to Voyager’s idiocy and a canonically and legally accurate series of features called ‘The Court Martial of Captain Kathryn Janeway’.

Star Trek: Voyager is regarded with the same feelings of betrayal fanboys have shown for The Phantom Menace and the Mass Effect 3 ending. Even appreciating that Voyager is no masterpiece, its status as an object of derision baffles when you consider the tongue-in-cheek admiration a show like Farscape (which operates on a similar plain of stupidity) is held in by fans. The Fifth Element is as shallow as sci-fi gets, yet is popularly considered a cult classic.

No, with Star Trek: Voyager, the hatred is mostly about those first two words in the title. After all, what is Star Trek? For many it’s not just the most prominent science fiction franchise, it’s also the peak of the genre (yes, Doctor Who came first, but before the reboot, Whovians were comparatively niche and Trek had a much greater international presence thanks to the films), the ultimate marriage of hard science fiction with entertainment.

Star Trek presented a socialist utopia in which humanity had evolved beyond differences of gender, race and even species to work for the advancement of the whole. Then it used that utopia to facilitate battles to the death, tense dilemmas and Viagra viruses (The Naked Now in case you were wondering). And it did all this with sets, costumes and creatures so distinct that fans continue to imitate them to this day.

A lot changed between that and Voyager of course. The Next Generation eventually stopped trying to live up to Rodenberry’s utopia and allowed whole other worlds of conflict. Deep Space Nine would make its name actively challenging the concept in landmark episodes such as Homefront and In the Pale Moonlight. So when Voyager got flung into the Delta Quadrant it was now in a wild unknown where it was free to disregard the more restrictive elements of Rodenberry’s vision. Voyager was given every gift that the Star Trek universe had to offer and it mishandled every one of them.

Stranding the crew in the Delta Quadrant? Brilliant. Doing it by having the Captain protect a species with a lifespan shorter than my dog (oh the Ocampa)? Less so. Integrating Maquis freedom fighters into a Starfleet crew? Brilliant. Making them completely identical to the rest of the crew? Rubbish. Worse still, the show held the principles of the Federation - and by extension Rodenberry - as some kind of religious dogma, unwavering and immutable. The captain always had to be right, the prime directive could not be breached for any reason.

All this reached a horrible event horizon with Alliances when, to ensure Voyager’s survival, Janeway attempted to negotiate with an enemy race. It would be the beginning of a new Federation of sorts, and like so much about Voyager it was a potentially great idea, but what happened? All non-Starfleet races were once again demonised as existential ‘others’ to maintain the status quo. From then on it was clear that, unlike its predecessors, Voyager had no intention of experimenting with new ideas. It was the show that was trying the hardest to live up to the legacy of The Original Series and it never could.

Despite all this, I have never been able to bring myself to condemn Voyager. To this day I still watch the show and find pleasure in more than the prospect of being assimilated by Seven of Nine. Part of the reason was personal circumstance; I happened to stumble upon it on a good episode - season five’s Warhead, a tight ticking-clock dilemma featuring a standout performance from Robert Picardo. Even Voyager’s harshest critics have admitted that Picardo’s role as the ship’s Emergency Medical Hologram, known as The Doctor is one of its saving graces. The man’s comedic flair can carry a scene even in an empty room.

On that note, let’s talk characters. Those on Trek have always represented the best of the best, symbols of how highly evolved twenty-fourth century humans were. Captain Picard and Mr Spock may as well have been gods on Olympus in terms of accessibility to me as a then-twelve-year-old viewer. Just by looking, you could tell they had never had to work at Argos or clean the bathroom like mere mortals. We were told the doors on the Enterprise were automatic but in truth they were just smart enough to get out of Kirk’s way.

The Voyager crew on the other hand, were a mismatched collection of incompetents. It doesn’t take much imagination to interpret Janeway as an inept captain, Neelix as a meddlesome nuisance, and Chief Engineer Torres as a university drop-out with anger issues. But in a strange kind of way characters who were rougher round the edges were a lot easier to get on board with. For people who make mistakes, a certain kinship is felt when watching TV characters do the same.

None of this makes for a great endorsement of the show, though if that’s what you’re looking for I’d strongly recommend seasons three through six when the Doctor began to take a much more prominent role, Seven of Nine was introduced and the Borg became a more common threat. For every clunker like The Q and the Grey and Spirit Folk, there was always a Dark Frontier, Life Line or The Thaw to enjoy. And without its diverse characters, schlocky action and comic tone I may never have watched any show that bore the Star Trek banner. Think of it as a gateway drug, if The Original Series was heroin; the ultimate high but a crippling way of life, then Voyager is cannabis; pleasant enough, easily accessible, but capable of permanent brain damage (Threshold anyone?).

There’s food for thought in that. Just how many other fans, like me, started watching The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and The Original Series because they enjoyed Voyager? And the thought of having missed out on great episodes like Tapestry, In the Pale Moonlight and Balance of Terror makes me rush right back to my original statement. I can't say Voyager was a great show, but hate it? Never.