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Richard Madeley shares reason wife Judy Finnigan left television after 40 years

Richard Madeley shares reason wife Judy Finnigan left television after 40 years

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Richard Madeley has spoken about the reasons his wife and former co-presenter Judy Finnigan stepped down from a career in television. Madeley and Finnigan, who got married in 1986, presented together for decades on the ITV chat show This Morning and the Channel 4 series Richard and Judy. Finnigan, now 77, has largely stepped back from the world of TV, with her last regular hosting job alongside Madeley being the UKTV series Richard and Judy’s New Position, which ran from 2008 to 2009. (She subsequently served as a regular panellist on ITV’s Loose Women between 2014 and 2015, and has made a number of appearances elsewhere.) Speaking to The Telegraph, Madeley spoke about Finnigan’s decision to retire from regular TV presenting. Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley (Getty Images) “She’s fine,” he told the outlet. “We run the Richard and Judy Book …

The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (May 2026)

The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (May 2026)

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While streaming may be the future of television, the medium itself—much like its big-screen counterpart—often leans on familiar properties, prequels, and reboots to keep things moving along. (Which explains why Yellowstone has morphed into a full-on franchise, with four current spinoffs and more on the way.) Why does this matter to you? Because May’s best shows to stream are full of familiar titles, from Battlestar Galactica to The Duffer Brothers’ newest project… which sounds a bit like their most famous project. Here are our picks for the 10 best shows to watch this month. Battlestar Galactica More than a year before Russell T. Davies rebooted Doctor Who for a whole new generation, Ronald D. Moore breathed new life into Battlestar Galactica—Glen A. Larson’s highly anticipated, but ultimately short-lived, sci-fi show from 1978. The revived series, in which what remains of humanity attempts to stave off extinction at the hands of a race of sentient AI beings known as Cylons, has since become one of the most critically acclaimed and influential sci-fi franchises of all time. …

Households urged to switch off 4 appliances on Friday | UK | News

Households urged to switch off 4 appliances on Friday | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

The bank holiday weekend looks set to be a scorcher, with the Met Office forecasting a balmy 28C in the south east of England. Many parts of the country are expected to see the mercury rise into the mid- to high-20Cs on Friday and Saturday as high pressure takes hold. The Met Office forecasts 27C in Birmingham, Hull and Norwich on Friday, while the highest temperatures will be in London and the south east where 28C is possible. With hot weather outside, homes will also heat up as warmth gets trapped inside. Devices can add to that sweltering feeling too as they give out heat too. While many of us will be glad of a bit of heat outside after some relatively unsettled weather, some may still want to keep their homes cool for comfort. This calls for a timely reminder of a few simple tips on how to help keep the temperature of your home down, as suggested by Oliver Novakovic from housebuilder, Barratt. Amid a heatwave last year, he told the Express: “Turn …

National Television Awards 2026 nominations longlist revealed

National Television Awards 2026 nominations longlist revealed

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The biggest night in TV is almost here, with the National Television Awards 2026 rapidly approaching! This year’s awards will be hosted, for the sixth year in a row, by Joel Dommett, and will take place at The O2 in London on Tuesday 8th September. Now, the longlist of contenders has been revealed, with some of the biggest names from across the industry, and indeed the biggest shows, included. In the Reality Competition category, The Traitors will be going up against its Celebrity spin-off, along with a whole host of other contenders like Love Island and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. Other big shows in the running across the various categories include Alien: Earth, Bookish, House of Guinness, Pluribus, The Other Bennet Sister, Beyond Paradise, Call the Midwife and Grace – and that really is just scratching the surface. When it comes to individuals in contention, Ant & Dec are once again in competition for the TV Presenter award – will they be able to claim it back after Gary Lineker broke …

Alice Levine and Greg James finally team up: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Alice Levine and Greg James finally team up: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

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Pick of the week Bad Chat “Did you know that horses’ legs are their fingers?” This is just one question asked in a fun podcast by broadcasting favourites and longtime besties Alice Levine and Greg James. The format is finding its feet, but so far it’s the standard chatty pod fare: no topic is off limits as they invite listeners to share their gripes, crises and any inane thoughts they can’t shake off. And in episode one, Alice reveals her War Horse acting debut … Hollie Richardson Widely available, episodes weekly Lemme Say This After a short hiatus, Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix’s culture podcast has been resurrected by the Obamas’ production outfit Higher Ground. For takes that are extremely pertinent and often very funny, the Brooklynites are rarely bested; a recent episode offered insightful chat on Lena Dunham’s memoir and the total nonsense that is Euphoria. Hannah J DaviesWidely available, episodes weekly Uncover: The Expert Witness If nine episodes feels like a lot for a limited series, this new one from Canada’s CBC has …

Baby Reindeer’s Tom Goodman-Hill accosted on school run by upset parents after hit Netflix show aired

Baby Reindeer’s Tom Goodman-Hill accosted on school run by upset parents after hit Netflix show aired

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Baby Reindeer star Tom Goodman-Hill was accosted by upset viewers while dropping his children off at school after the series aired, his wife and actor Jessica Raine has said. Goodman-Hill, 57, played Darrien in the Emmy award-winning Netflix series; a manipulative and abusive TV writer, who assaults Richard Gadd’s character, Donny Dunn after he becomes his mentor. “The school run was weird [afterwards],” the actor’s wife and Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine said of the daily impact of the series. “People would say to Tom, ‘You’re a bad man!’ But its [critical] reception was incredible, we’d never have guessed it was going to turn out this way,” she told The Telegraph. Baby Reindeer quickly became one of Netflix’s most-watched series of all time when it was released in 2024 – but Raine said she couldn’t watch the show alongside her …

U.S., EU lawmakers pledge European scrutiny of Paramount’s WBD deal

U.S., EU lawmakers pledge European scrutiny of Paramount’s WBD deal

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David Ellison, the chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Skydance Corp. walks through Statuary Hall to the State of the Union address during a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A group of U.S. and European lawmakers told Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison that the company’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will be subject to careful scrutiny by European regulators and that he should not consider shareholder approval of the deal to be the final word. The three European Parliament members and two Democratic U.S. House lawmakers issued their warning in a letter sent Thursday and shared exclusively with CNBC. “In the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament will closely examine market definition, market share threshold, customer substitutability, vertical integration effects, and downstream impacts in the Internal Market pursuant to the EU Merger Regulation,” they wrote. The lawmakers noted that despite a preliminary WBD shareholder vote approving the merger last month, it is still subject to …

How Leah Kateb and Rob Rausch Made Love Island The Number One Reality Show in America

How Leah Kateb and Rob Rausch Made Love Island The Number One Reality Show in America

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Neither Leah nor Rob had crucial pieces of information. The first was that Leah, with her beguiling Valley monotone and passion for a man who cuddled with insects, was becoming the star of season 6. The second was that they had just put Love Island USA on a path that would quadruple its viewers over the next three weeks. This crashout reached an ecstatic climax of what the show would be at its most transcendent: absurd, with genuine feeling. “If I write it in a script, you won’t believe it,” says Thomas, who executive produced the first six seasons of Love Island USA of the divinely unscripted moment his team had, if not manufactured, at least created the conditions for. “But if I show you Rob pencil-diving into the pool, it is cinema.” When he could no longer take the temperature, Rob got out of the pool and went with a producer to chain-smoke and sob more. He’d only been on season 5 for a few days; he hadn’t realized what it would be like …

Martin Lewis delivers emotional speech at BAFTA Television Awards 2026 – and leaves wife in tears

Martin Lewis delivers emotional speech at BAFTA Television Awards 2026 – and leaves wife in tears

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Martin Lewis moved the BAFTA TV Awards 2026 audience to tears with an emotional speech about his past as he took home the ceremony’s Special Award. The Money Saving Expert, a regular on ITV daytime, was celebrated at the ceremony for his continued work in consumer journalism, helping millions across the country with their financial troubles. Joined by his wife, Lara Lewington, at the ceremony, held this Sunday (10 May 2026) at Royal Festival Hall, Martin struggled to talk as he made a heartfelt tribute to his mother, who died when he was young, and his difficult upbringing as a result. Joking that he was winning the award for “an ITV show that’s just a PowerPoint presentation with a Q&A afterwards”, Lewis announced that the win “proves TV doesn’t have to be format-driven”. “People will embrace something actionable, something real, something that helps, and they will even embrace complexity if we make it worth it,” he told the audience. Martin Lewis’s wife, Lara, was visibly emotional during the speech. BBC “I wrote this [speech] on Thursday,” …