Simon Jupp MP – a local radio presenter and journalist turned politician – has endorsed the importance of services provided by Stockland Hill transmitting station on a visit to the site, near Honiton.
On a tour of the 235-metre-high Stockland Hill transmitter, the East Devon MP endorsed the importance of the TV and radio services the mast provides to some 120,000 homes in Devon and...
Channel 4 is challenging secondary school students across the UK to conjure up ideas for a new TV show as part of a nationwide competition.
Students are being invited to create a new show which explores how we are Altogether Different . The only other stipulation is that the show can be set at any point in time, except in 2023.
They will need to come up with the idea for the...
BBC Two’s new competitive hiking series sets off in Devon. Each week five people go head-to-head to discover the best walks the UK has to offer, celebrating jaw-dropping views, great company and the pure joy of being outdoors. The first week in Devon features Lynmouth, Ilfracombe’s coastal path, Shaldon beach, Dartmoor, and Greenway.
The ratings winning show ‘ Devon and Cornwall’ is set to return for a second season.
The series, which will air on Channel 4 at 8pm on June 8th, sets out to reveal life in this beautiful corner of England beyond that enjoyed by the millions of tourists and holidaymakers that visit each year.
The unique landscape – with empty beaches and windswept moors, rolling fields and...
Daisy Griffith is now leading the most popular regional news bulletin in the country, Spotlight, which reaches more than 50 per cent of the South West each week.
Meanwhile Emma Clements is running BBC Radio Cornwall, a station with more than 100,000 weekly listeners.
Stephanie Marshall, head of the BBC in the South West and West, said the experienced journalists would bring...
“It’s never been more important to listen to people and the local issues which affect them,” says the Director of BBC England as she launches a new weekly politics show in the South West.
Local stories have the power to shape the national picture and that was proved like never before in the 2019 General Election, believes Helen Thomas, who says Politics South West will “put local...
Two well-known TV adventurers, Monty Halls and Conrad Humphries, who have both recently appeared in their own adventure series on Channel 4, will be appearing at the National Trust’s 2018 South West Outdoor Festival. They will be holding talks and walks, plus there's a chance for festival goers to sail on the Bounty’s End, the boat used by Conrad in the Channel 4 series ‘Mutiny,’ over the...
A BBC South West documentary which charted the weight loss attempts of two Plymouth-based taxi drivers is to receive a national TV premiere on BBC One on Monday, 19 June at 7:30pm.
Aired on BBC South West in April 2016, Supersize Cabbies followed the fat-busting fortunes of Roger Laughton and Mike Davis from Plymouth taxi company Need A Cab as they embarked on a six-week community...
Salvage Hunters, the popular Quest TV and Discovery Channel show, is heading to Devon to record a special edition of the programme.
The show follows architectural salvage and antiques expert Drew Pritchard as he travels around the UK to prestigious, interesting, and historic places hunting out and buying quirky and unusual objects no longer wanted by their present owner.
An on-line television executive, whose past successes include overseeing more than 40,000 channels on the internet, has set up TV studios at Plymouth Science Park - with the specific aim of attracting new, local talent to the industry.
Northern Light TV is the brainchild of Kamran Sankey whose background includes work at a number of top on-line studios in Europe.
