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Alexandra Palace's iconic transmitter mast is illuminated throughout the season of events marking 90 years since the first BBC TV broadcast.

Alexandra Palace

Plaque set to mark Ally Pally's place in TV history as 'World Origin Site'

Sharon Horgan writes and stars in the mid-life crisis comedy alongside Aran Murphy - son of Peaky Blinders star Cillian.

Sharon Horgan writes and stars in the mid-life crisis comedy alongside Aran Murphy - son of Peaky Blinders star Cillian.

Scenes from new Sharon Horgan mid-life crisis comedy shot at north London university

Andrew Scott in the Milkshake! studio

Andrew Scott in the Milkshake! studio

Teacher from Camden primary school to appear on Milkshake!

Crouch End is set to star in a six part Prime TV series of the same name that's described as a 'visceral crime thriller and supernatural mystery'.

Crouch End is set to star in a six part Prime TV series of the same name that's described as a 'visceral crime thriller and supernatural mystery'.

Stephen King horror story set in leafy Crouch End to be made into major TV series

The blue plaque to John Harrison inventor of the marine chronometer in Red Lion Square, Holborn.

The blue plaque to John Harrison inventor of the marine chronometer in Red Lion Square, Holborn.

Blue plaque to 'world's most important clock' inventor who made Del Boy a millionaire

Highgate actor Adrian Dunbar was awarded The Freedom of the City of London for services to acting and nurturing fresh talent.

Highgate actor Adrian Dunbar was awarded The Freedom of the City of London for services to acting and nurturing fresh talent.

North London Line of Duty actor awarded Freedom of the City of London

Edis Street in Primrose Hill is being used as a location for a mystery movie being shot next month.

Edis Street in Primrose Hill is being used as a location for a mystery movie being shot next month.

Mystery film shoot is set to close roads in Primrose Hill next month

Antos Tytko from Highgate is through to the final four of amateur cooking competition MasterChef.

Antos Tytko from Highgate is through to the final four of amateur cooking competition MasterChef.

Highgate banker cooks his way into the final of MasterChef

A view from the Hill Garden Pergola on Hampstead Heath

A view from the Hill Garden Pergola on Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath

Film crew brings 'extra magic' to hidden gem garden on Hampstead Heath

he Oxford Arms in Camden was transformed into a Peaky Blinders local for one night

he Oxford Arms in Camden was transformed into a Peaky Blinders local for one night

Camden pub offers free drink to Peaky Blinders fans celebrating new movie

Caroline Meyer Kerber is through to the final four contestants on MasterChef: The Professionals 2026.

Caroline Meyer Kerber is through to the final four contestants on MasterChef: The Professionals 2026.

MasterChef contestant who 'cooks from the heart' through to final four

Elizabeth Dulau plays novelist George Eliot in Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre.

Elizabeth Dulau plays novelist George Eliot in Bird Grove at Hampstead Theatre.

'I imagined I was in Nazi Germany to play Star Wars spy'

Film crews rehearsed a bike chase scene outside Merro Cafe on Crouch End Hill.

Film crews rehearsed a bike chase scene outside Merro Cafe on Crouch End Hill.

Netflix drama spotted filming on abandoned train platform

Former LSU student Dame Maggie Aderin‑Pocock visted the school accompanied by Angellica Bell

Former LSU student Dame Maggie Aderin‑Pocock visted the school accompanied by Angellica Bell

Education Matters

Dame Maggie Aderin‑Pocock

The school where Sky at Night presenter learned to reach for the stars

The haggis is presented ready for Burns Night (Image: London Shell Company)

The haggis is presented ready for Burns Night (Image: London Shell Company)

'Let’s hope stay of execution for Hampstead Heath Lido cafe is permanent'

How Faithful's Can Win The Next Season Of The Traitors Using Critical Thinking

How Faithful's Can Win The Next Season Of The Traitors Using Critical Thinking

How The Faithful Can Win The Next Season Of The Traitors Using Critical Thinking

Ricky Gervais wins Golden Globe for stand-up special Mortality

Ricky Gervais wins Golden Globe for stand-up special Mortality

Ricky Gervais wins stand-up comedy award at Golden Globes

Makers of The Dog House are eager to hear from people in Hampstead, Highgate and beyond.

Makers of The Dog House are eager to hear from people in Hampstead, Highgate and beyond.

Channel 4 TV show looking for first-time dog adopters to tell their story

Rare designer outfits from pop icon’s career go under the hammer for Variety

Rare designer outfits from pop icon’s career go under the hammer for Variety

Auction of Cilla Black's wardrobe to support disadvantaged children

Narges Rashidi plays West Hampstead mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was held by the Iranian state for six years.

Narges Rashidi plays West Hampstead mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was held by the Iranian state for six years.

'Many of us broke down and cried filming Nazanin prison drama '

Tom Arden (left) lost out to fellow contestant Jasmine Mitchell in the final of The Great British Bake Off last night on Channel 4.

Tom Arden (left) lost out to fellow contestant Jasmine Mitchell in the final of The Great British Bake Off last night on Channel 4.

The Great British Bake Off

North Londoner Tom pipped to star baker crown in tense Bake Off finale

Tom Arden (centre) from North London is up against Aaron and Jasmine in tonight's final of The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4.

Tom Arden (centre) from North London is up against Aaron and Jasmine in tonight's final of The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4.

The Great British Bake Off

North Londoner Tom is vying to be Great British Bake Off winner tonight

Joseph Fiennes will play West Hampstead accountant turned campaigner Richard Ratcliffe and Narges Rashidi stars as his imprisoned wife Nazanin in BBC ONE's Prisoner 951.

Joseph Fiennes will play West Hampstead accountant turned campaigner Richard Ratcliffe and Narges Rashidi stars as his imprisoned wife Nazanin in BBC ONE's Prisoner 951.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe's Iranian prison ordeal turned into major BBC drama

Advertising entrepreneur Tom Arden is through to the fourth round of The Great British Bake Off and won praise from judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood last week for his showstopper made out of pecan cinnamon rolls.

Advertising entrepreneur Tom Arden is through to the fourth round of The Great British Bake Off and won praise from judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood last week for his showstopper made out of pecan cinnamon rolls.

Meet the North London GBBO contestant who earned a Hollywood handshake

John Torode (left) poses with fellow Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace as he launches his new book 'Beef' at Smith's of Smithfield in 2008

John Torode (left) poses with fellow Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace as he launches his new book 'Beef' at Smith's of Smithfield in 2008

John Torode 'sacked' from MasterChef over 'serious racist term'

Highgate actor Adrian Dunbar hosted a surprise 80th birthday party for his friend Sean Scully on Hampstead Heath, during which they performed a scene from Waiting For Godot next to Sean's tree sculpture

Highgate actor Adrian Dunbar hosted a surprise 80th birthday party for his friend Sean Scully on Hampstead Heath, during which they performed a scene from Waiting For Godot next to Sean's tree sculpture

Line of Duty star hosts surreal birthday party on Hampstead Heath

Robbie Cumming is back for a new season of Canal Boat Diaries

Robbie Cumming is back for a new season of Canal Boat Diaries

'Camden is where I first tasted life on a canal boat - now I'm coming back'

Terry Gilliam and Sir Michael Palin outside Aroma Spice in Fleet Road, Hampstead, where the Monty Python team first got together

Terry Gilliam and Sir Michael Palin outside Aroma Spice in Fleet Road, Hampstead, where the Monty Python team first got together

Monty Python stars unveil plaque at curry house where group was born

Aroma Spice is on the site of The Light of Kashmir restaurant where Monty Python's Flying Circus was born over a curry.

Aroma Spice is on the site of The Light of Kashmir restaurant where Monty Python's Flying Circus was born over a curry.

Plaque for curry house where Monty Python was born

Muppets creator Jim Henson moved into 50, Downshire Hill in 1979, also setting up his 'creature shop' opposite to work on films including The Dark Crystal.

Muppets creator Jim Henson moved into 50, Downshire Hill in 1979, also setting up his 'creature shop' opposite to work on films including The Dark Crystal.

The street where an entertainment legend made fantasy creatures for iconic films

Steve Coogan stars in new Netflix crime drama Legends, for which shops in Muswell Hill got a 1990s makeover for filming

Steve Coogan stars in new Netflix crime drama Legends, for which shops in Muswell Hill got a 1990s makeover for filming

Shopfronts go back to the 1990s for filming of Steve Coogan Netflix crime drama

A coat worn by the late Tufnell Park actress Helen McCrory in the hit TV series is going under the hammer for charity.

A coat worn by the late Tufnell Park actress Helen McCrory in the hit TV series is going under the hammer for charity.

Helen McCrory's Peaky Blinders coat auctioned for charity

Filming for ITV drama The Lady in Gayton Crescent

Filming for ITV drama The Lady in Gayton Crescent

Hampstead street to close as ITV films true-life rags to riches murder drama

Michael Palin in 2015, attending a Life in Television Q and A hosted by BAFTA

Michael Palin in 2015, attending a Life in Television Q and A hosted by BAFTA

Monty Python star says 'Let's make British films, not Hollywood films in Camden'

Lee Montague (centre) and friends Michael Palin and Robert Powell who performed at Lee's 'Memories of 1914-1918 in support of Keats Library in 2014.

Lee Montague (centre) and friends Michael Palin and Robert Powell who performed at Lee's 'Memories of 1914-1918 in support of Keats Library in 2014.

'A consummate gentleman': Tributes to actor and library saviour Lee Montague, 97

Gospel Oak diarist and former Python star Michael Palin will appear at the Queen's Crescent Community Centre

Gospel Oak diarist and former Python star Michael Palin will appear at the Queen's Crescent Community Centre

Michael Palin to tell tales from 'extraordinary life' at special evening

Concerns raised about noise disturbances and potential “eyesore” structure

Concerns raised about noise disturbances and potential “eyesore” structure

Corden 'drumming' up discord with new neighbours as he faces renovation row

Stephen Graham and Malachi Kirby in Steven Knight's A Thousand Blows now streaming on Disney + and right the real Hezekiah Moscow who fought in Victorian boxing rings in east London.

Stephen Graham and Malachi Kirby in Steven Knight's A Thousand Blows now streaming on Disney + and right the real Hezekiah Moscow who fought in Victorian boxing rings in east London.

The real people and places behind Disney East End boxing saga A Thousand Blows

Top Boy star Ashley Walters directed three episodes of Steven Knight's boxing thriller A Thousand Blows set in the brutal world of 1880s East London.

Top Boy star Ashley Walters directed three episodes of Steven Knight's boxing thriller A Thousand Blows set in the brutal world of 1880s East London.

Ashley Walters on his big directing break with boxing thriller A Thousand Blows

Hampstead resident Zach Marks and business partner James Cohen successfully pitched their Kitt Medical on BBC's Dragons Den last night. (Feb 27)

Hampstead resident Zach Marks and business partner James Cohen successfully pitched their Kitt Medical on BBC's Dragons Den last night. (Feb 27)

Dragons Den contestant who almost died from allergy wins £75k for lifesaving kits

Lucy Boynton pays Ruth Ellis in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story which starts on ITV on February 17.

Lucy Boynton pays Ruth Ellis in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story which starts on ITV on February 17.

Hampstead pub to hit screens in drama about last woman to be hanged in Britain

Sarah and James tour facilities at Noah's Ark children's hospice

Sarah and James tour facilities at Noah's Ark children's hospice

TV star Sarah Parish opens up about the baby she lost

Hampstead-based television boss Steve Morrison has been made a CBE in the New Year Honours

Hampstead-based television boss Steve Morrison has been made a CBE in the New Year Honours

King's New Year Honours List 2025

TV boss named in New Year Honours thanks 'extraordinary people' who helped him

Humpty and Jemima toys from BBC's Playschool at Kristin Baybar's Toyshop in Gospel Oak

Humpty and Jemima toys from BBC's Playschool at Kristin Baybar's Toyshop in Gospel Oak

Toy shop run by the creator of one of TV's best-known figures could become flats

Debbie Wiseman has released her soundtrack for the BBC drama Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on CD and vinyl.

Debbie Wiseman has released her soundtrack for the BBC drama Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on CD and vinyl.

Highgate composer releases atmospheric score for BBC drama Wolf Hall

Masterchef presenter Greg Wallace has been dropped as ambassador of Muswell Hill's Ambitious About Autism charity as allegations of inappropriate behaviour against him are investigated

Masterchef presenter Greg Wallace has been dropped as ambassador of Muswell Hill's Ambitious About Autism charity as allegations of inappropriate behaviour against him are investigated

Gregg Wallace dropped by autism charity 'in light of recent allegations'

Choose from the sleek Swift Go, the powerful Swift X, or the innovative Swift Edge

Choose from the sleek Swift Go, the powerful Swift X, or the innovative Swift Edge

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Experience the magic of Wicked with Acer Swift laptops

Woodgreen... 100 years of animal care

Woodgreen... 100 years of animal care

The charity behind The Dog House TV show celebrates a century of caring for pets

Anna Maxwell Martin plays former Royal Free nurse Delia Balmer in new TV true crime thriller Until I Kill You

Anna Maxwell Martin plays former Royal Free nurse Delia Balmer in new TV true crime thriller Until I Kill You

Anna Maxwell Martin plays nurse who escaped serial killer in true crime drama

Comedian Ricky Gervais poses with Murphy the therapy dog at a World Animal Day event in aid of charity Mayhew.

Comedian Ricky Gervais poses with Murphy the therapy dog at a World Animal Day event in aid of charity Mayhew.

Ricky Gervais and Downton stars support animal charity fundraiser

Maureen Lipman proposed to her partner 'as a joke'

Maureen Lipman proposed to her partner 'as a joke'

Dame Maureen Lipman is getting married again - after proposing 'as a joke'

Lloyd Lee, of Yoo Capital, Mark Smith of Oxygen Studios and Suley Muhidin, of Camden Film Quarter

Lloyd Lee, of Yoo Capital, Mark Smith of Oxygen Studios and Suley Muhidin, of Camden Film Quarter

Meet the people behind Camden's £1bn 'Hollywood' film quarter

Joseph Fiennes and Narges Rashidi are said to be playing Richard Ratcliffe and his wife Nazanin Zaghari in a new drama

Joseph Fiennes and Narges Rashidi are said to be playing Richard Ratcliffe and his wife Nazanin Zaghari in a new drama

Story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's imprisonment to be made into BBC drama

Jesse Armstrong and Rowan Williams are in conversation at The Idler Festival at Fenton House Hampstead on Friday, July 5

Jesse Armstrong and Rowan Williams are in conversation at The Idler Festival at Fenton House Hampstead on Friday, July 5

Cultural attractions

Succession creator to discuss Seven Deadly Sins at Hampstead festival