Press site weekly round-up, 11th June 2012

11 June 2012

We didn't do a weekly press site round-up last week, partly because last week was so short, partly because we didn't have too much to add, partly because we were so frightfully busy trying to condense five days of dossing about talking about telly and drinking tea into three, and definitely in no way at all because we forgot. Got that?

Anyway, fear not, we're back, to bring you a rare ray of sunshine in this, quite the shittest drought in the history of meteorology. (Incidentally, why is the study of weather called meteoroglogy? And is the study of meteors called weatherology?) Here is all the key content we've added to the site in the last two weeks.

 

News:
We were proud to launch the UK's first ever play-along mobile app for Million Pound Drop Live. We also published the results of our Foxes Live survey, which reveals that a stunning 78% of foxes oppose fox hunting. From foxes to dragons, with the news that we've signed Hilary Devey to present a new series. And back to foxes again, with the news that Hollyoaks (geddit?) has signed a product placement deal with Nokia Lumia. And finally, we won two Amnesty International Media Awards, which, in the grand scheme of things, are just about the most important awards you could hope to win (along with Smash Hits Poll-Winners Party awards, obviously).

 

New commissions:
E4 will see more stellar hi-jinks than your average copy of a Sunday tabloid, courtesy of brilliant new prank show Lee Kern's Celebrity Bedlam. And a new cookery series, with the working title Pasta, will teach viewers how to make the perfect chocolate cake (duhhh, not really!). Meanwhile the Fabulous Baker Brothers: Cooking for Britain (w/t) will see the wonderful Butcher sisters showing you how to build dry stone walls in France (again, not really - what is wrong with you?)

 

Video/interview:
We've managed to secure the only known clip available of the brilliant internet music sensations The Midnight Beast, which is here. Oh, apart from the one here. And there's another here. Jeez, they put themselves about a bit, those boys! And we interviewed the lovely Griffalo himself, Mr Rhys Jones.

 

Programme information:
As always, there's some of that.

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