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NBC »     by Andy Dehnart / January 16, 2012, 5:33 AM Tonight, NBC airs a special focusing on Golden Girls star Betty White, and follows it with a preview of a new reality series that carries her name. Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl debuts at 8, and features celebrities—including Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Valerie Harper, Ellen DeGeneres, Morgan Freeman, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, and Hugh Jackman—who will “deliver birthday wishes.” So, it’s basically a roast without the vitriol, and yet another moment in our culture’s now-ongoing celebration of Betty White, who deserves it (if only for the hours of entertainment she gave us as Rose Nylund .) That special will be followed at 9:30 by the first episode of Betty White’s Off Their Rockers , a hidden camera series that mostly just uses her name. (Asked about it by critics last week, she said she hadn’t seen clips of the pranks.) While I normally loathe hidden camera shows, this see...

Home > Soaps > The Betty Driver Story on ITV1 January 27th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Betty Turpin has been serving her legendary hotpot in the Rovers Return for over 40 years and this hour-long special tells her incredible life story. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen, The Betty Driver Story looks at her life before and during Coronation Street – as a singer, a variety star, a leading lady and a television actress. Betty was a child star in the 1930s and appeared in feature films and radio shows of the day, entertaining the troops during the Second World War, before getting her own TV series in the 1950s. In this documentary she talks about her nine decades in show business. She recalls her difficult life as a child star, how her marriage ended in disaster and the moment she suffered a career-threatening injury during the filming of a TV show, which led to her decision to retire from entertainment and run a pub instead. We also hear how Betty first auditioned for the role of...

Home > Drama > Coronation Street: Betty Driver to be honoured with special documentary January 19th, 2011 by Sarah. No comments ITV have announced that Betty Driver – who of course plays Betty Williams – is to be honoured for her long service to the show in a special documentary that airs next month. Betty has played the well loved barmaid since 1969 – when her character’s surname was Turpin – and during the documentary, we’ll hear how Betty landed the role after initially auditioning for the part of Hilda Ogden. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen, the documentary will also feature contributions from Betty’s co-stars including William Roache, Julie Goodyear, Helen Worth, Sue Nicholls, Antony Cotton and Bill Kenwright. The Betty Driver Story airs on Tuesday February 1st at 8pm on ITV1. Follow us on Twitter ! Get the latest news and chat with @ unrealitytv Categories: Drama , Entertainment , Factual , Soaps Tags: Betty Driver , Coronation Street View the original article here

December 19th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Ashley Jensen is unsure if she will raise her son in America or the UK. The Scottish ‘Ugly Betty’ star currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband Terry Beasley and their 13-month-old son Frankie but is torn over where to send Frankie to school in a few years. She said: “Where our main home should be in the future is a source of great discussion. “The big moment will come in a few years, when we have to think about where to educate Frankie. I’ve already started reading up about schools in LA and London. “At the moment we can afford to be fairly flexible about where we live because Frankie is portable – although I’m aware the situation is changing.” The actress has spent the last two months working in Britain and said she cannot believe how much Frankie has grown in such a short space of time. She explained: “We flew into Britain in October when he was 11 months. Now flying back to LA in time for Christmas he’s 13 months. And that tw...