Weekly entertainment
It's been called the return of entertainment news on News 24 - try telling that to the team who produce two Entertainment 24 bulletins four nights a week.
Our new programme E24 aims to be the brasher younger sister of the daily round-ups, looking back at the best of the week's entertainment stories as well as giving a sneak peek at what's to come.
Blue Peter presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star Gethin Jones has signed up as one of our presenters, along with James Dagwell who’s one of the faces of Entertainment 24. They'll be talking to movers and shakers in the industry and there will be reports from here, Hollywood and Broadway.
We don't want it to become a red carpet and junket show (please feel free to tell us off if that happens!) and we hope to surprise you with a few behind-the-scenes reports.
We’ll treat entertainment and arts news in exactly the same way as any political or financial story - finding out the facts behind the fiction and giving an insight into how the business works. But of course we also want the programme to be fun.
Comments
More news and entertainment reporting for youngsters - That's all we need. Why pander for an audience that is less interested in news, an audience that is already over-catered for?
"We’ll treat entertainment and arts news in exactly the same way as any political or financial story"
Aren't you going to find it hard to scaremonger and highlight only the negative aspects with entertainment stories?
And if you plan to conduct the same overly cynical, shallow, poorly researched, one sided interviews with figures from the world of entertainment that you do with politicians I'd imagine you'll stop getting these people talking to you.
Or maybe you meant something different?
Great, more entertainment on our televisions. As if we didn't have enough already...
The question is, how long before you bow to the inevitable greed for juicy gossip from the viewing public?