'Footballers’ Wives' and 'Bad Girls' maker Shed Media is to buy rival TV production company Wall to Wall for up to £25m (€34.9m).

Stars lined up to pay tribute to “storyteller, gentleman and family man” Mike Reid.

The actor Mike Reid has died, his agent David Hahn told BBC News 24.

MORE than a quarter of Irish prisoners are back in jail within a year of release, and a majority are back in jail within four years, according to a study of 19,995 inmates undertaken over a four-year period up to 2004.

Moors murderer Ian Brady has expressed his outrage over plans to dramatise his crimes, the BBC reported today.

Rio Ferdinand insists his “head is on the chopping board” as he comes under increased pressure to sign a new contract with Manchester United.

The team behind hit television show Footballers’ Wives may be about to net a multi-million pound windfall by floating their company on the stock market, it emerged today.

The girlfriend of Peter Falconio believed murdered three years ago on an Australian Outback highway admitted today she had a second lover while she was living with the missing man.

SO IT’S official — Liverpool aren’t very good after all. Chaps like me can safely be ignored, but if you’ve a few shares the chairman is obliged to acknowledge what’s been painfully obvious for months.

Broadcasters Granada and Carlton were today given the green light to merge in a £4bn (€5.7bn) deal that effectively creates a single ITV network.

ITV groups Carlton and Granada were expected to find out today whether their long-awaited £3.8bn (€5.4bn) merger would be given the go-ahead.

Shares in ITV groups Granada and Carlton soared today after speculation that their planned £3.8bn (€5.5bn) merger could get the go-ahead with minimal strings attached.

The British government is likely to approve a merger between ITV groups Granada and Carlton this week, reports say.

Granada Television executives are banking on talk show host Trisha Goddard to strike it big in America and are syndicating her show across the US.

ITV is planning to show a second series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here for March.

Paul Burrell has been lined up to host a TV quiz show called What The Butler Saw.

Britain’s funniest new comedian is a welder, elected by the viewers of TV series Stand Up Britain.

Granada boss Steve Morrison is to quit next month as the broadcaster looks to draw a line under the collapse of ITV Digital, it emerged today.

A pregnant Sonia O'Sullivan won the Tesco Women's Great North Run in Manchester on Sunday morning.

Potential jurors about to try a man charged with wounding Coronation Street actor John Savident were asked today if they knew anyone in the soap’s cast.

Granada Television has won damages from a national newspaper over claims they spent £23,000 on the five main Stephen Lawrence murder suspects.