Lydia: 'I'd marry Andy Scott-Lee in Big Brother house'

Lydia Louise has confessed that she would be willing to wed her celebrity boyfriend Andy Scott-Lee in the Big Brother house if he joined her in the compound.

The dancer claimed that she would marry Scott-Lee "tomorrow" if he proposed.

"I would marry him. I would marry him tomorrow," Lydia told her fellow housemates.

"Would he [want to marry me]? That's the question."

When asked if she would wed the singer inside the Big Brother compound, she said: "I'd be like, yeah, I want to marry him. I'd be like this is Vegas."

She jokingly added: "I'd only do it if they play 'Thong Song' as the first dance though."

Scott-Lee is the brother of Steps singer Lisa and he was a member of boyband 3SL, who had hits with 'Take It Easy' and 'Touch Me, Tease Me'. He also appeared in the reality shows Pop Idol, Totally Scott-Lee and was previously married to Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton.

Euro 2012: Offices buy TVs to stop exodus

A third of British workers will reportedly stay behind at work at least one night this week to watch or listen to Euro 2012 matches, with three quarters of workplaces getting TVs on site to prevent the mass exodus.

England will get their campaign at the tournament under way this evening (June 11) for the opening group match against France at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk.

But as the game kicks off at 5pm, many people face a dilemma over how they will catch the live coverage on ITV1 and Radio 5 Live.

According to a survey by Asda, three in ten workers will opt to remain at their workplace to watch the game rather than leaving early in the afternoon.

Four out of ten of those polled said that they would head to the pub to watch the match, and the remainder expected to head home, or miss the match entirely and catch up on highlights later on.

The supermarket chain has also seen a surge in sales of cheap TVs, which it believes is down to employers seeking to avoid the mass exodus by offering people options to watch the game. Its current bestselling electronic goods are said to be the 19-inch Luxor LCD TV/DVD combi for £98 and the 32-inch Luxor HDTV for £177.

Rush hour travellers without any interest in football are likely to have a much happier homebound commute due to the trend.

But later trains are expected to see a surge in passengers due to the "slomuters" after the match finishes.

"The rush hour chase for a seat is likely to be in the office," said Michael Arnott, Asda TV expert. "We've seen brisk trade in affordable TVs this week and anecdotally we're hearing that many of these TVs are headed for offices."

Arnott added: "It's a great opportunity to bond with workmates around the TV. With prices this low, you can pick up a TV for the office for not much more than a few rounds of drinks."

Other notable Euro 2012 games in the 5pm slot over the next few weeks include Greece versus the Czech Republic, Denmark versus Portugal, Italy versus Croatia and Ukraine versus France.

Tim Allen's 'Last Man Standing' Gets a New Showrunner

Tim Allen has a new man standing in the showrunner position for his sitcom "Last Man Standing."

Tim Doyle, executive producer for "Rules of Engagement," will replace Kevin Abbott as a showrunner on the ABC series for its second season.

Abbott will remain on as executive producer, but the move will free him up to focus on his new comedy "Malibu Country," which has been picked up by ABC. "Malibu Country," which stars Reba McEntire as a Nashville mother who moves to California after a divorce, is executive-produced and written by Abbott.

The show will be paired with "Last Man Standing" on Friday nights starting in November.

Big Brother Ashleigh Hughes admits to Luke S crush

Ashleigh Hughes has admitted that she has feelings for fellow Big Brother housemate Luke Scrase.

The pair look like becoming the first Big Brother romance of the series, but Ashleigh is unsure whether her feelings are reciprocated.

Ashleigh revealed in the Diary Room: "I want to tell you about Luke, I really like him. Sometimes I think he's awkward, he's very blunt, then on the other hand he's really kind and nice, it's a bit weird.

"I just like his muscles, I think that's why I like him, don't think it's his personality, we'll see what happens."

In a conversation with Chris James later, she added: "I like Luke a little bit, but I know other people like him… I think Lauren.

"I think he likes Lauren... so that's why I'm going to stay away, I don't want to get involved."

After hugging in the kitchen, Luke S told Ashleigh that he wanted to "smash [her] back doors in". An embarrassed Ashleigh told the nightclub promoter that he must be "sexually frustrated".

TV Tonight 12th of June 2012

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

    Alien Surf Girls S01E09: "The Cane Field"
    America's Got Talent S07E09: "Tampa Auditions (Part 2)"
    Amish: Out of Order S01E09: "Family Affairs"
    BBC Euro 2012 S01E09: "Day 5 - Highlights"
    Big Brother (UK) S14E09: "BB 13, Episode 9"
    Big Brother's Bit on the Side S05E08: "Series 5, Show 8"
    Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms S01E05: "Season 1, Episode 5"
    Blockbusters (2012) S01E22: "Series 1, Show 22"
    Canada Sings S02E05: "RBC vs.. Stampede Casino"
    Chasing Classic Cars S05E12: "Steve Moal"
    Chelsea Lately S06E97
    Chopped S12E03: "A Guts Reaction"
    Conan S02E102: "From Chicago: Andy Samberg"
    Dance Moms S03E02: "Night of the Living Dancers"
    Dangerous Flights S01E06: "Prop Jockeys"
    Days of our Lives S47E151: "Ep. #11861"
    Deadliest Catch S08E10: "Rise and Fall"
    Deal Or No Deal (UK) S07E261: "Episode 1941"
    Design Star S07E03
    Diagnosis Live From the Clinic S02E05: "Series 2, Episode 5"
    Dickinson's Real Deal S08E105: "Series 8, Episode 105"
    Doctors S14E47: "Matthew and Son"
    EastEnders S28E94: "June 12, 2012"
    Eat St. S03E04: "Fries & Dolls"
    Euro 2012 S01E15: "Greece v Czech Republic"
    Euro 2012 S01E16: "Poland v Russia"
    Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files S02E21
    Franklin & Bash S02E02: "Viper"
    Funny Roots S01E06: "Jeremy Elwood"
    General Hospital (US) S50E51: "#12579"
    Geordie Shore S03E01: "Series 3, Episode 1"
    Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden S22E202: "Season 22, Episode 202"
    Great Ormond Street S01E05: "Decisions for Life"
    Haiyore! Nyaruko-san S01E10: "TBA"
    Hardcore Pawn S05E25: "Kill Em All"
    Hell's Kitchen (US) S10E04: "15 Chefs Compete"
    Hit & Miss S01E04: "Episode 4"
    Holby City S14E35: "Unsafe Haven - Part 1"
    Hollyoaks S18E117: "June 12, 2012"
    Hollywood Treasure S02E04: "Auctions Are Like A Box Of Chocolates"
    Home and Away (AU) S25E102: "Episode 5537"
    House Hunters S48E116: "Three Bedrooms and a Basement in DC"
    House Hunters International S25E119: "A Caribbean Quandary"
    Jane By Design S01E12: "The Celebrity"
    Jeopardy! S28E192: "Show #6397"
    Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket S01E03: "Episode 3"
    Jimmy Kimmel Live S09E266: "Martin Short, Cee-Lo Green, Goodie Mob"
    Katie S02E02: "Series 2, Episode 2"
    Kendra on Top S01E03: "Guess Who's Coming to Calabassas"
    Kendra on Top S01E02: "Batteries Not Included"
    Late Night with Jimmy Fallon S02E285
    Late Show with David Letterman S19E86
    Level Up S01E15: "Leveling Up"
    Live with Regis and Kelly S29E205
    Love In The Wild S02E02: "Season 2, Episode 2"
    Luna, el misterio de Calenda S01E10: "El Culpable"
    Masterchef (US) S03E04: "Top 18 Compete"
    Masterchef Australia S04E33: "Immunity Challenge: Jamie Oliver"
    Match of The Day S47E63: "Euro 2012 - Day 5 - Highlights"
    Million Dollar Rooms S02E08
    Mysteries at the Museum S03E12
    Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden S01E11
    Neighbours S28E112: "Episode 6422"
    Packed To The Rafters S05E09: "A Kiss Is Just a Kiss"
    Pregnant in Heels S02E05: "Rosie's Relationship Retreat"
    Pretty Little Liars S03E02: "Blood Is The New Black"
    Queen's Blade: Rurou no Senshi S03E11: "Episode 11"
    Real Rescues S08E02: "Series 8, Episode 2"
    Repo Games S02E11: "Mike is the King Of the Neighborhood"
    Rizzoli & Isles S03E02: "Dirty Little Secret"
    Savage U S01E11: "Cornell"
    Silk S02E05: "Series 2, Episode 5"
    Springwatch S09E10: "Series 9, Episode 10"
    Storage Wars S03E03: "The Iceman Carveth"
    Storage Wars S03E04: "Here's Looking at You, Kenny"
    Teen Mom S05E01: "Letting Go"
    Teen Mom S05E02: "TBA"
    The Block S05E51: "Day 51"
    The Bold and the Beautiful S26E57: "Ep. #6341"
    The Catalina S01E03: "Don't Rain On My Parade"
    The Chase (2009) S05E91: "Series 5, Episode 91"
    The Colbert Report S08E74: "Will Allen"
    The Daily Show S17E112: "Colin Powell"
    The Devils Ride S01E06: "Fallen Devil"
    The Glee Project S02E02: "Dance-ability"
    The Jeremy Kyle Show S07E185: "June 12, 2012"
    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson S08E95
    The Project S04E139: "Season 4, Episode 139"
    The Real Housewives Of Orange County S07E18
    The Talk S02E182: "Season 2, Episode 182"
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno S20E100
    The View S15E180: "Kevin McKidd, John Walsh, Nik Wallenda"
    The Young and the Restless S40E56: "Ep. #9925"
    Tosh.0 S04E13: "TBA"
    United Stats of America S01E05: "Money Talks"
    VI Oranje S02E09: "Season 2, Episode 9"
    What Not To Wear (US) S09E18: "Kathy"
    Workaholics S03E03: "Fat Cuz"
    World's Worst Tenants S01E02: "Rub A Dub, Big Man In A Tub"
    World's Worst Tenants S01E01: "Home On The Gun Range"

Jonathan Ross: 'BBC Jubilee coverage was p*ss-poor'

Jonathan Ross is the latest celebrity to criticise the BBC for their coverage of the Diamond Jubilee.

Ross had a dig at the broadcaster's bank holiday weekend royal coverag, calling it "p*ss-poor" in an article for the Guardian.

Speaking about Nintendo's new Nintendo Wii U, Ross said: "It's the Wii on steroids - faster processor, better resolution and with delusions of grandeur that has encouraged it to grow a screen on the primary controller that not only serves as a backup, so that you can keep playing if someone else comes in and wants to watch another three days of p*ss-poor jubilee coverage from the BBC on the main screen, but also adds to the gameplay in some rather fun ways."

The TV host's comments follow criticism from Stephen Fry on Twitter during the Jubilee weekend, when he described the BBC's coverage as "mind-numbingly tedious".

Ross worked for BBC radio and TV between 1999 and 2010, hosting shows including Film and his Friday Night With... show.

The BBC has repeatedly defended their Jubilee coverage, insisting that they were very proud of the "quality and breadth of the BBC's coverage of this extraordinary event".

Why Broadcast Networks Killed the Miniseries

“Roots.” “Shogun.” “Rich Man, Poor Man.” “The Thorn Birds.” “North and South.” “Gulliver’s Travels.” Those classic broadcast network miniseries from the 1970s, '80s and '90s made for marquee television. They were multi-night programming events that drew people to their TVs in numbers unachievable today outside televised sporting events. They won awards for their networks.

And then the networks stopped making them. The last broadcast-network miniseries to receive an Emmy nomination was CBS’ “Elvis” in 2005 -- and in 2011, there were so few miniseries in the running on both broadcast and cable networks that the Television Academy surrendered to the inevitable and folded the Outstanding Miniseries category into a newly combined category, Outstanding Miniseries or Movie.

What happened? Are the networks so focused on promoting their regular lineups that they don’t want to divert promotional efforts and money to miniseries programming? Are our entertainment options so diverse that it’s tough to draw viewers to an event presentation on TV?

With the lure of big-screen movie series like “Harry Potter,” “Lord of the Rings” and “The Twilight Saga,” did it become a harder sell to get viewers excited about them on the small screen?

Try all of the above.

“From a business point of view, [the miniseries] is not a great business,” Warren Littlefield, former NBC Entertainment president, says. “The series business is a great business. That’s a business where you make a sample, a pilot, you announce it at the upfronts in May. Then you get paid over the summer for that sample. You take in a tremendous amount of money prior to having to spend it to make the product. Cash flow‑wise and as a business, it makes a lot of sense.

“In the movie-of-the-week and miniseries business, you develop the script, and then you pay for it. It doesn’t have that cash flow. It doesn’t have that sales opportunity. More and more, what networks realized is it’s really about the repeat visit in the habit of the series [viewing].”

Since the miniseries category was introduced to the Emmy competition in 1973, ABC, CBS and NBC have received 90 nominations and won 16 awards. But they haven’t won since ABC’s “Anne Frank” in 2001 -- and their total share of the nominations, which topped 60 percent between 1973 and 1999, has been less than 20 percent since 2000. NBC, the dominant network in the miniseries category with 10 wins in its 38-year history, hasn’t been nominated since 1999, when it won nods for “The ‘60s” and “The Temptations.”

Littlefield, who was involved with NBC miniseries like “Shogun,” “Marco Polo,” the Michael Mann-produced “Drug Wars,” “Gulliver’s Travels” and “The '60s” during his network tenure, says viewers also look to regular series now for their event-programming moments.

“The miniseries event was very much a sweeps-driven business,” says Littlefield, who just released the book ‘Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV,’ a wonderfully detailed oral history of his nearly 20-year career at NBC.

“We’re reminded each and every May on the broadcast side that events in regular series are what audiences are really attached to --the events that end the seasons, or the big, big milestones for characters. Those are as successful in many cases as any movie miniseries event that you can come up with, because audiences are invested in those shows, those characters.”

And regular network series aren’t the only entertainment properties vying for audiences’ attentions. Hundreds of channels of cable TV series, movie theaters, movies online, books, magazines, the internet, web series, videogames and the entertainment buffet that is the iPad have all made for a fractured market in which companies compete with each other (and even themselves) for audience attention and dollars.

Meanwhile, as the broadcast networks have all but abandoned miniseries programming -- and with good reason, as the latest, ABC’s two-night “Titanic” miniseries in April, sunk into the ratings bottom -- cable networks are more ready, willing and able to devote their resources to miniseries projects.

HBO, for example, can invest millions of dollars into Emmy-winning miniseries like “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific” and “Mildred Pierce,” because its money comes from subscribers, not advertisers who have to be wooed with potential ratings numbers.

And basic cable networks, like AMC with its 2007 Emmy-winning miniseries “Broken Trail” and Syfy (then Sci-Fi) with the 2003 Emmy winner “Taken,” see the cost of event programming as an investment, to draw in viewers who will see promos for -- and potentially become regular viewers of -- their regular schedules.

In fact, if there is hope for a resurgence of the miniseries, it lies mostly with the cable networks, who continue to draw big names like Oscar winner Kevin Costner and Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver for projects like History Channel’s popular “Hatfields & McCoys” and USA’s “Political Animals,” and PBS, which has been nominated for a miniseries Emmy every year since 2004 and was the inaugural winner of the newly-merged miniseries and movie Emmy last year for “Downton Abbey.” (The soapy “Abbey” has switched to the Outstanding Drama Series category for the 2012 Emmy race.)

Upcoming miniseries include ReelzChannel’s adaptation of Ken Follett’s “World Without End;” Lifetime’s “Columbine,” produced by Christine Vachon and Michael De Luca; a miniseries version of “The Exorcist” from “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin; and History Channel’s “The Bible,” from producer Mark Burnett.

The miniseries might also serve as a sort of deluxe pilot for some networks that want to scope out viewer interest with just a handful of episodes. “Probably more with an international co‑financing structure, you may see more [miniseries],” Littlefield says. “I think you might find more of them as we look to our European counterparts, the way they change it up with, OK, here’s six hours, and it’s an exciting six hours.

Then we’ll see what the audience says, and maybe we’ll bring it back.

“The models are being thrown up in the air. Change, and a different way of doing things, is being embraced more and more. That’s good. That’s exciting.”