Text Santa
As you are probably aware thanks to all the adverts on TV that Christmas is fast approaching and there will be many programmes coming onto our screens for the festive seasons and that includes Text Santa. It only launched last year and aims to raise money for specially chosen charities, which this year include Age UK, Anthony Nolan, Carers UK, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Together for Short Lives and Whizz-Kidz.
To do this there will be much entertainment such as a festive Coronation Street with special guest cameos. During the show viewers will once be able to donate via text and 100% of the donation to go to the charities.
Paddy McGuinness is joining the presenting team this year and he has expressed his excitement by saying “I’m rocking around the Christmas tree at joining the Text Santa team. What a great bunch of people to be working with to host this year’s appeal. Santa has been very kind to me this year and paired me up with Christine Bleakley! What a fantastic way to start the Christmas countdown!”
So has he mentioned Christine Bleakley will be hosting too as well as Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby and Ant and Dec.
ITV director Peter Fincham said: “We’re so thrilled to be working with such fantastic names again and that so many of ITV’s most loved shows are also doing something special for Text Santa. We want to give viewers a real treat in return for their incredible generosity and support of these inspirational charities.”
DOI
Another show to hit our screens very soon is Dancing on Ice, which is in it’s 8th series.
Some celebrities have been rumoured to be taking part in the programme, which test their ice skating skills in front of a panel of judges and then is voted off by the public.
These rumoured celebs include actress Pamela Anderson, TOWIE‘s Lauren Goodger and Olympian Beth Tweddle.
And there has been more details given by a source than 2005 X-Factor winner Shane Ward has signed up too, as it;s been said .”Shayne has natural rhythm and is confident he’ll really get into skating,” “But he’s most concerned about pulling off the pink sequinned spandex look”.
Well someone who did pull off the spandex look is Ward’s fellow X Factor 2005 contestant Chico finished third in last year’s edition of Dancing on Ice.
The judging panel currently consists of dancer Louie Spence and ice skating experts Katarina Witt and Robin Cousins and it’s been said Ex-Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner may be re joining them.
The Inbetweeners Return!
For fans of the comedy TV show, The Inbetweeners, you would know the film showed on TV this week, and you know have something more to look forward to as there is a sequel on the way.
Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, who wrote the first movie, have confirmed they are in the progress of writing another script.
Morris has explained the independence of their writing by saying “Because the film was genuinely independent, there’s no studio breathing down [their] neck. It’s down to [them] to write a script that [they] think is worth everyone’s time.”
Actor Simon Bird, who of Course plays Will has said “[The cast] get on very well [with] and… trust Iain and Damon,” and so he would ‘be happy’ to be in the new film, however he has demanded that “they’d better hurry up, because I’m getting on for 30!”