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The Guardian
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: Noel Edmonds prepares to marry his wife – for the fifth time
9pm, ITV1 It's been the unexpected eccentric hit of the summer, but it's time to say goodbye to Edmonds and his new life in New Zealand. First, though: he wants to marry Liz … for a fifth time! After all, there is a chapel on their estate. He calls on his global operations director ('GOD') to prepare the ceremony, while Edmonds tries to rescue his flailing business. 'I totally accept that there are people who totally dismiss me as being crazy,' he says. 'Am I bothered about that? No, I'm not.' Hollie Richardson 8pm, Channel 4 With one week until the grand reopening of Peacock & Verity, volunteers in Masham race to perfect their beloved Victorian grocers. Although the cafe is complete, a striking window display is still needed, so the team visits Castle Museum in York in search of inspiration. Ali Catterall 8pm, Sky Witness It's a triple-whammy for the Windy City series, with this bumper crossover episode bringing together the Fire, Med and PD strands. The catastrophic event uniting all the responders on this occasion is a gas explosion, which causes a fire and results in a subway tunnel caving in. HR 9pm, Sky ComedyCarrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and friends have more light drama to deal with as the third season of the now much less cringeworthy Sex and the City sequel continues. Old flames, new romances and the intoxicating promise of Carrie becoming a (pretty cheesy) novelist are all swirled together in another sweetly escapist update. Jack Seale 10pm, Channel 4 Look out for a couple of new waiters in this series: Gerald and Kyle, who love to entertain. They will be serving Rebecca, who needs to find someone half-decent (anyone?) who is also a fan of Boris Johnson. Then there is Anna, who wants a beach buddy – will a surfer do? HR 10.50pm, BBC One A double bill of the warm and amiable US mockumentary that shows flashes of greatness. Supervising nurse Alex is horrified to discover that she is the executor of her colleague Joyce's will. Elsewhere, poor online reviews irk the medics, even as a fed-up Dr Ron declares: 'Who cares … it's a hospital, not a Mexican restaurant!' Hannah J Davies Wicked (Jon M Chu, 2024), 10am and 8pm, Sky Cinema PremiereIf you consider yourself a musical agnostic, Wicked might be best enjoyed on a television screen. Consumed in one sitting – so long, so many songs performed at such an unwavering high intensity – anyone undecided might find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer onslaught of the thing. But if you are ready for the plunge, Jon M Chu's Wizard of Oz prequel is an extravaganza. The performances are fantastic, especially Ariana Grande, whose years spent toiling down the Disney Channel mines manifest themselves in a remarkable lightness of touch. The ambition is faultless. And if you aren't moved by the walloping final performance of Defying Gravity, you may be dead inside. Stuart Heritage Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires (Paul Hoen, 2025), Disney+ If you are an adult with unfiltered access to the broad sweep of horror, perhaps Disney's Zombies franchise has passed you by. But if you are a child – sufficiently interested in horror to want to dip your toes in, but not quite ready for outright gore – Zombies is manna from heaven. It's High School Musical, in essence, but with a vaguely supernatural bent. Previous instalments have introduced werewolves and aliens; this time, we get vampires. Featuring songs such as Don't Mess With Us and Kerosene, it's lightweight fluff, but highly enjoyable. SH
BBC News
29-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
North Yorkshire Long Course Weekend event cancelled
An international multi-sport event due to return to North Yorkshire for a second year has been Long Course Weekend was scheduled to be held in and around Masham from 29 to 31 was claimed the event would bring in an estimated £2m to the economy and would attract thousands of swimming, cycling and running competitors and organisers announced this week that this year's event would not take place and another venue would be sought for next year. A spokesperson for organisers Activity Wales Events said they would release further details next week, after an event being held this weekend in Wales had the Local Democracy Reporting Service understands that a lack of support from the local community played a part in the year's event was reportedly "unpopular" with some local residents, with concerns about road closures and a perceived lack of communication from the was also disappointment that not as many athletes and supporters attended the first event as had been event had the support of North Yorkshire Council. 'Welcome economy boost' The authority's head of tourism, Tony Watson, said they were "disappointed" the organisers had decided not to go ahead with the event."However, we are committed to continuing to support them to deliver the event in North Yorkshire and will be talking with them over the coming weeks about possibilities," he said."North Yorkshire is home to a number of well-loved and successful sporting events from cycling sportives to running races."Hosting the Long Course Weekend, which is a well-respected and internationally renowned sporting event, provides a welcome boost to our visitor economy and gives us the opportunity to show off our wonderful part of the country to athletes and their supporters."The event was established in Wales in 2010, and now has annual competitions taking place across the globe including in Holland, Belgium, Mallorca and the flagship event in Tenby, sport is based on the principles of triathlon but is tailored to open up the three disciplines of swimming, cycling and running to as wide an audience as possible. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Masham community rallies round to restore shop to Victorian glory
Elsie Taylor has lived in Masham, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, her whole 95-year-old remembers a now-derelict shop, Peacock and Verity, in its heyday."It was quite lovely, they had a long counter from the door right back. Everything was in order," she says."The thing I most remember is Easter time and that lovely special smell of hot cross buns."If I could walk into Peacock and Verity and buy a hot cross bun, it would make me feel young again."Elsie's memories become reality in a new Channel 4 documentary series, following a team of volunteers as they recreate a Victorian grocer's shop and Edwardian tearoom, with its own working bakery. At a special screening event for Our Yorkshire Shop: A Victorian Restoration, Elsie tells the BBC: "It's brought back a lot of memories and it's such a natural film - people doing everyday jobs."We've got to record memories for the next generation, so they understand."I think Masham will become very popular." 'Masham at its best' Number 15 Silver Street had hosted a shop until the start of the Covid pandemic, and it was bought by a community organisation in well as the grocery store and tearoom, the group's proposals include a heritage centre, affordable rental flats and returning a post office counter to Masham."It's not nostalgia," says Alan Hodges, chair of the Peacock and Verity board."It is using the past - and the skills of the past - to make a better sustainable project."He hopes the Channel 4 series will generate local tourism, improving the local economy, and encourage investors to support the project as it continues."We know about the sense of community but to see it expressed on screen like that was quite moving," he says, after watching the first Ian Johnson, who fronts the programme, agrees that it shows "Masham at its best". "Masham is everybody's ideal Dales market town," says Ian, who appears in the show as his alter-ego led on some practical elements of the restoration."Being a joiner, it helps, really," he says."I do things in Masham, I get involved in things. If anybody wants 'owt doing for nothing, it tends to be me."Parish councillor Val Broadley also thinks the series "certainly showed off some of the characters" in the town and will "bring Masham into focus"."It's very well known as a dog-walking spot, somewhere to wander along the river, somewhere just to spend a quiet afternoon having a picnic, but people from away don't necessarily know it." The series features a number of North Yorkshire businesses, making produce to sell in the shop.A historic oven has also been restored to working order, to bake bread and hot cross Olly Osborne travelled to Masham from the south-west of England to carry out the restoration."The presence of cameras was a little bit daunting," he says, having not worked on TV before."It took a lot of research, a lot of graft, but we got there, so it's quite special really." "This show is made totally in North Yorkshire, and it's made by people from Yorkshire," Channel 4 commissioner Emily Shields of the aims was to hire people who had not worked on similar projects before, in a bid to "drive new skills, to give opportunities, and to really help develop the talent base here", she on the series was a "dream come true" for editor Joe Haskey, who is originally from Bridlington and lives in Leeds."This is proper regional programming, edited by a Yorkshireman, in Yorkshire with a Yorkshire production company as well," he says. But Joe adds that hiring on and off-screen talent from Yorkshire "shouldn't be a novelty"."When you're filming in Yorkshire, if you can also edit it in Yorkshire, that'd be nice."The dedication to hiring new talent was driven by the show's producer and director, Emily Dalton, managing director of production company Factual Fiction, based near is originally from Masham, and says there are "people here who I think aren't perhaps represented on screen very often".The series is about community, she says."I don't think communities exist in this way closer to London anymore, but up here we're fiercely protecting them, and I wanted to celebrate that." Our Yorkshire Shop: A Victorian Restoration is on Channel 4 from 8 June at 20:00 BST. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
