ITV’s opening night included a variety show featuring entertainers such as Hughie Green and Harry Secombe and the channel has kept variety at it’s heart ever since. In the early days the network was dominated by cigar smoking theatrical agents and impresarios who used the new channel as an outlet for their acts. Then variety […]

That Anna from Downton Abbey has gone all a bit macabre for Halloween. This week Joanna Froggart, the permanently fraught, but ever so nice Anna in Downton, has taken on another bonnets and bodice role playing the permanently pregnant, but ever so nasty Mary Ann Cotton in Dark Angel. Mary Ann achieved notoriety in the […]