Category: TV & Radio

HP Culture
Kem Cetinay announced as new radio presenter on The Capital Weekender

Kem Cetinay found fame on Love Island, winning ITV’s hit reality show in Season Three back in 2017. He’s gone on to design highly popular men’s fashion ranges for Primark, and made multiple television appearances including on ITV‘s This Morning, Dancing on Ice and, more recently, as a contestant on the BBC’s Celebrity MasterChef. And […]

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BBC’s new television drama series The Turkish Detective starts on 7 July

Get ready for The Turkish Detective – a brand new English/Turkish crime thriller that’s set in modern-day Istanbul and stars Haluk Bilginer. Airing on BBC 2, the eight-part drama is based on a series of bestselling novels by British writer Barbara Nadel, whose central character is Inspector Çetin İkmen, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking detective in the […]

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Ex-footballer Gary Neville joins Touker Suleyman and the other Dragons in the Den for new series

Thursday saw Dragons’ Den back on our screens for its 21st season. The reality television show gives aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to pitch their business ideas to the show’s shrewd multimillionaires for investment. Filmed in Manchester, this new series sees provides a new backdrop for all five Dragons, who return from the last previous season. […]

HP News
TRT World to screen new 6-part documentary series for 40th anniversary of the TRNC

International broadcaster TRT World will be televising a new six-part documentary called The Forefront: Cyprus covering the Mediterranean island’s recent tragic past. The first episode will be screened on Wednesday 15 November 2023, a date which marks the fortieth anniversary of the declaration of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. Describing its new series, TRT […]

Features
Turks continue to cancel subscriptions after Disney+ abandons Atatürk TV drama, but is the reaction justified?

Disney+ has lost tens of thousands of subscribers after cancelling its plans to air a television drama series about Atatürk. Turks worldwide have reacted furiously to the cancellation news, ostensibly due to American anti-Turkish lobbying, but was the reaction justified? Last year, Turks were thrilled to learn that Disney+ (Disney Plus) was planning to produce […]

Community
UK Turkish community left stunned after young TV presenter Hülya Alişoğlu’s death

On Sunday morning, the British Turkish community woke to the tragic news that broadcaster Hülya Nur Özdemir Alişoğlu had passed away. She was aged just 41. The popular presenter of ATV’s long-running television lifestyle show, Londra Aktüel, which she created with her producer-director husband Sevgin Alişoğlu, had been battling breast cancer for a number of […]