A crime drama with elements of science fiction and fantasy, Life on Mars made its television debut 20 years ago this month. It tells the gripping story of Sam Tyler (played by John Simm), a detective

Actor Robson Green says he has made friends for life on the cosy crime series

I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada

‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

For almost 30 years, Paul O’Grady was seldom off the box. As Lily Savage, he’d hosted Blankety Blank, presented C4’s The Big Breakfast, and been a regular face on ITV’s This Morning. And, minus the pl

AT seven o’clock on the evening of December ninth, 1960, the first episode of a brand-new drama was transmitted. Sixty-five years later, “Coronation Street” is the longest-running television soap oper