http://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/default.aspxen-gbMon, 8 Sep 2008 17:19:53 GMThttp://www.teletext.co.uk/images/Logo64x64.gifhttp://www.teletext.co.ukChildren&#39;s classics Worzel Gummidge andRentaGhost are poised to return.<img src="http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~4/386666852" height="1" width="1"/>
The rights for both have been picked up by RDF which is planning 21st century revamps. RDF executive Nigel Pickard said: "We feel there's real potential for these classic brands to be reworked for a modern day audience."

Any new versions will be co-produced with Pidgeon Entertainment which has granted RDF licences to the brands.

Worzel Gummidge originally appeared on ITV for four series from 1979 to 1981 starring ex-Doctor Who Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally.

RentaGhost, about a group of ghosts living in suburbia, ran on BBC from 1975 to 1984. It starred Corrie actress Sue Nicholls as the permanently sneezing Miss Popov.

It also featured Christopher Biggins and Lynda La Plante.

]]>263814cbe1f644a5021ebad29ccdad22http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~3/386666852/Worzel+and+RentaGhost+return.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/263814cbe1f644a5021ebad29ccdad22/Worzel+and+RentaGhost+return.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/263814cbe1f644a5021ebad29ccdad22/Worzel+and+RentaGhost+return.aspxAnn Widdecombe is to tackle girl gangs in a hard hitting new ITV1 documentary.<img src="http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~4/386807148" height="1" width="1"/>
The no-nonsense Tory MP, 60, meets gang members, including a young mum who stabbed a man in the neck and left him for dead, in Ann Widdecombe Versus Girl Gangs screened on September 18.

She said: "What I found was genuinely shocking. Young girls, not only out of control but inflicting quite serious violence."

Widdecombe took to the mean streets of London and Birmingham to discover how girl gangs operate.

She said: "I thought I was talking to perfectly normal, kindly women, the next moment I heard stories on how it was defensible to carry knives, indeed almost necessary and justifiable to carry knives.

"Worse, how they could get a gun if they had to within five minutes."

Widdecombe spent a night observing drunken Birmingham girl gang members.

An ITV1 spokeswoman said: "She followed the girls as they trail the streets with up to 50 male and female pals drinking and shouting.

"The police move the gang on but they re-group on a housing estate and Ann is there as the night descends into chaos with some of the youths turning violent and attacking a local resident."

]]>d3d037931e47dee762d226faa28f66dfhttp://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~3/386807148/Widdecombe+tackles+girl+gangs.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/d3d037931e47dee762d226faa28f66df/Widdecombe+tackles+girl+gangs.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/d3d037931e47dee762d226faa28f66df/Widdecombe+tackles+girl+gangs.aspxDragon&#39;s Den presenter Evan Davis is to make a three-part BBC2 series about the City of London&#39;s Square Mile.<img src="http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~4/386585883" height="1" width="1"/>
A BBC spokesman said the untitled show will offer "a personal guide to the City and the financial world. Evan will lift the lid on the varied way its players, investors, predators and institutions ply their trade.

"He'll also try to unravel the mess of the credit crunch."

]]>f8862e5003967557e9fea1db9e6a31a5http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~3/386585883/Evan+to+lift+the+lid+on+City.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/f8862e5003967557e9fea1db9e6a31a5/Evan+to+lift+the+lid+on+City.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/f8862e5003967557e9fea1db9e6a31a5/Evan+to+lift+the+lid+on+City.aspxClarissa Dickson Wright has stuck the knife into rival chef Jamie Oliver claiming his eateries are "lacklustre."<img src="http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~4/386585884" height="1" width="1"/>
She told the Daily Mail: "He's a brilliant cook, unfortunately his restaurants are very lacklustre, I'm told. I don't know, I don't eat in them."

An Oliver spokesman said: "She has no fear of being poisoned. I suspect none of the restaurants would welcome her."

]]>0f6cd4e6ddc8a8d17f0c4a13eb0fb2f8http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~3/386585884/Clarissa+blasts+Jamie.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/0f6cd4e6ddc8a8d17f0c4a13eb0fb2f8/Clarissa+blasts+Jamie.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/0f6cd4e6ddc8a8d17f0c4a13eb0fb2f8/Clarissa+blasts+Jamie.aspxThe Government is considering making a show to shame benefit layabouts fronted by Jeremy Kyle.<img src="http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~4/386585885" height="1" width="1"/>
The Sun reports that ministers are thinking of spending £400,000 of taxpayers' money on ITV's Jeremy Kyle Gets Britain Working.

The Department for Work and Pensions said no final decision has been taken. Lib Dem MP Don Foster said: "It's a scandal."

]]>66f138e16838c83c1f2fb5d46d991edfhttp://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~3/386585885/Kyle+may+shame+workshy.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/66f138e16838c83c1f2fb5d46d991edf/Kyle+may+shame+workshy.aspxhttp://www.teletext.co.uk/tvplus/news/66f138e16838c83c1f2fb5d46d991edf/Kyle+may+shame+workshy.aspxBBC viewers and listeners are to be asked if the way the licence feel is collected is too heavy-handed, following complaints.<img src="http://feeds.teletext.co.uk/~r/entertainment/TV/news/~4/386585886" height="1" width="1"/>
A consultation process has been set up by governing body the BBC Trust to look into the issue.

Chairman Sir Michael Lyons said a "balance needs to be struck between ensuring compliance and avoiding any disproportionate heavy-handedness".

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