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Actor Tamer Hassan to show off his culinary skills in Celebrity MasterChef 2024

Celebrity MasterChef is back on iPlayer and BBC One with a dazzling line-up of stars from the worlds of screen and stage, sport and arts. Among the 20 celebs hoping to impress the judges with their culinary skills is actor and all round good geezer Tamer Hassan. The boy from New Cross, who started...

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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...

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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 İ...

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Five things you need to know about BBC Young MasterChef’s new judge Big Has

The foodies among you may well have clocked the second series of the BBC’s Young MasterChef show, where nine young budding chefs were aiming to show off their culinary skills to win the coveted title. Chef, author and YouTube food star Hasan Semay, or Big Has as he is more commonly known, joined th...

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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...

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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...

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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 thri...

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MasterChef finalists go to Istanbul, “one of the great food capitals of the world”, to learn how to cook Turkish cuisine

The latest series of MasterChef has seen 45 talented home cooks be put through their paces by judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace during seven weeks of competition. The show is down to the final four contestants – Anurag, Chariya, Omar and Terri – one of whom will be crowned MasterChef Champion 20...

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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 Sevg...

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Touker Suleyman returns for a new series of BBC 1 hit business show Dragons’ Den

Dragons’ Den returns to our screens at the start of the New Year with a brand new series of entrepreneurs vying for investment from five business ‘dragons’. The first episode will be broadcast on BBC 1 at 8pm on Thursday, 5 January 2023. There are no changes to the line-up of dragons for series 20,...

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