For those not lucky enough to be attending this weekend’s Isle Of Wight Festival fear not, Lauren Laverne and Matt Willis will host ITV2 coverage, with one-hour specials across the weekend.
Viewers at home can catch the action from the comfort of their sofa and not even have to worry about the weather turning sour.
Fred Caygill reports: Lifeboat crews from the Isle of Wight, along with HM Coastguard and the RNLI are to feature in a fifth series of the BBC’s Seaside Rescue starting on Sunday, 6th April on BBC One at 6:30 pm.
The returning series was filmed over the summer months last year at several locations; volunteer lifeboat crews [...]
Leigh Holmwood reports: The Isle of Wight Music Festival, which takes place between 13th to 15th June is this year to be broadcast live via ITV2. The rights to broadcast the Festival, this year was wrestled away from Channel 4 which has aired the event for the past four years.
The TV series ‘Tiger Island’, which follows the fortunes of feline residents such as Rambo (pictured) of the Isle of Wight Zoo, has won a prestigious ITV award.
Judges praised the series, which was first broadcast on ITV Meridian in June of last year, for being popularist and entertaining, and exactly the sort of thing that viewers want to [...]
Lucy Baker reports: BBC 1’s Weakest Link are currently working towards a new series and are seriously looking for contestants from the Isle of Wight. Remember, anyone who applies for an audition has to be brave enough to face the ‘Queen of Mean’ (pictured) Anne Robinson.
If you wish to be considered for an audition and [...]
This year’s Royal Christmas Broadcast or ‘Queen’s Speech’ today, marks 50 years since the queen’s first televised Christmas message and will set a new milestone by being the first posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube.
Footage of the queen’s 1957 Christmas TV broadcast along with today’s broadcast posted on YouTube, will remind viewers that TV [...]
A BBC musical extravaganza set on the streets of Liverpool sees actor Geoffrey Hughes (pictured) temporarily leave his home on the Isle of Wight to go back to his roots for BBC Three Sunday’s Liverpool Nativity.
Geoffrey aka Onslow (Keeping Up Appearances), Eddie Yates (Coronation Street), Vernon Scripps (Heartbeat) and of Royle Family fame, will play the Angel Gabriel who doubles [...]
Hampshire Constabulary are working in partnership with the UK Police National Missing Person’s Bureau (PNMPB) on a new initiative to highlight the case of Damien Nettles (pictured), who went missing from the Isle of Wight, 11 years ago this week (November 2, 2007).
Damien was just 16 when he disappeared after a night out with friends [...]
