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Jean Boht, the beloved star of long-running BBC sitcom “Bread” (1986-1991) died on Sept. 12. She was 91.

Boht’s family issued a statement on social media, saying: “It is with overwhelming sadness that we must announce that Jean Boht passed away yesterday Tuesday 12 September. Jean had been battling Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease with the indefatigable spirit for which she was both beloved and renowned.” She was a resident at Denville Hall, the home for members of the theatrical profession.

Boht’s husband Carl Davis, the BAFTA-winning composer of “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” died in August.

Boht trained at the Liverpool Playhouse and embarked on a career as a theater actor. Her television credits include “Softly, Softly” (1971), “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” (1978), “Grange Hill” (1978), “Last of the Summer Wine” (1978), “Boys from the Blackstuff” (1982), “Scully” (1984) and “Juliet Bravo” (1981-83). In 1993, Boht was one of the stars in “Brighton Belles,” the British remake of hit U.

Les Dennis isn't exactly in our day-to-day thoughts, truth be told, but the news yesterday (January 23) that the light entertainment legend would be joining Coronation Street still managed to put a massive smile on our face. Les on the cobbles! Amazing!

To celebrate Les's biggest gig in quite some time, we look back at the celebrity good egg's life and career in order, and come up with eight reasons why we absolutely love him...

He's a talent show king!

Way back before Britain's Got Talent, The X Factor et al, there was New Faces, a notoriously tough competition where a panel of judges - including a youthful Noel Edmonds - marked variety acts on their "star quality", usually without chucking water over each other or trying to get into the papers with a particularly daring dress, as all that palaver is a modern talent show invention.

After doing the rounds...

The Voice UK ratings continued to grow last night (April 20), scoring a season high of 7.92 million, overnight data suggests.

The BBC show benefited from its new 8.20pm timeslot, gaining 1.25 million week-on-week. It peaked at 9.08m.

However, ITV's Britain's Got Talent scored the highest ratings of the night, returning for its second episode of the series with 9.66m (43.9%) at 7pm, down 320k on last week. It peaked at 11.27m, while a further 632k (2.7%) caught the programme on ITV+1.

Later on ITV, gameshow The Cube scored 3m (13.2%) at 8.30pm, while The Jonathan Ross Show had 2.6m (13%) an hour later.

Back on BBC One, new Doctor Who episode 'Hide' attracted 4.98m (24.5%) viewers from 6.45pm, a fall of 747k on last week.

BBC Two aired coverage of World Championship Snooker between 7pm and 8pm, picking up 1.01m (4.7%). Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em then amused 1.04m (4.5%) at 8pm and The Many Faces of Michael Crawford...

The Voice UK ratings continued to grow last night (April 20), scoring a season high of 7.92 million, overnight data suggests.

The BBC show benefited from its new 8.20pm timeslot, gaining 1.25 million week-on-week. It peaked at 9.08m.

However, ITV's Britain's Got Talent scored the highest ratings of the night, returning for its second episode of the season with 9.66m (43.9%) at 7pm, down 320k on last week. It peaked at 11.27m, while a further 632k (2.7%) caught the programme on ITV+1.

Later on ITV, gameshow The Cube scored 3m (13.2%) at 8.30pm, while The Jonathan Ross Show had 2.6m (13%) an hour later.

Back on BBC One, new Doctor Who episode 'Hide' attracted 4.98m (24.5%) viewers from 6.45pm, a fall of 747k on last week.

BBC Two aired coverage of World Championship Snooker between 7pm and 8pm, picking up 1.01m (4.7%). Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em then amused 1.04m (4.5%) at 8pm and The Many Faces of Michael Crawford...

Liz Sladen says goodbye to Tom Baker's Doctor at the end of The Hand Of Fear:

Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who's very own plucky Metropolitan journalist and all-time great companion, has passed away at the age of 63.

Born in Liverpool on February 1st 1948, Elisabeth's performing roots started at a very young age, with a keen interest in dancing and one appearance with the Royal Ballet. Drama school beckoned after this, and by the early 1960s, she was working at the Liverpool Playhouse repertory company - where she met her husband Brian Miller (Dugdale from Snakedance).

Liz's first on-screen work was as an uncredited extra in Gerry And The Pacemakers film, Ferry Cross The Mersey in 1965. By the early 1970s, she was starting to gain roles in popular TV series such as Coronation Street, Doomwatch and Z Cars. She nearly won the role of Betty in popular sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em,...

Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen was born in Liverpool on February 1, 1948. A natural performer, Sladen took dance lessons at an early age and was part of a production with the Royal Ballet. After completing grammar school, she turned her attentions to acting and attended a local drama school for two years. Work as an assistant stage manager at the Liverpool Playhouse repertory company followed, and it was here that Sladen first met her future husband, Brian Miller. After a first uncredited screen appearance in the 1965 film musical Ferry Cross the Mersey, Sladen combined weekly repertory theatre work with occasional television and radio roles, including a six-episode stint as a barmaid in Coronation Street. Further television work followed, including parts in Z-Cars, Doomwatch and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. In 1973, Doctor Who producer Barry (more)...

Chris Morris has been bold in his choice of target, but his home-grown jihadists are little more than sitcom characters

Published in 1907, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is not only one of the greatest, enduringly relevant novels about terrorism and its varied exponents, but it has increasingly come to be recognised as a darkly comic, savagely ironic masterpiece. Though Hitchcock saw nothing funny in The Secret Agent when he updated it as Sabotage in 1936, his film turns upon wiping the smile off the British public's face.

Verloc, the agent provocateur, is hired to stage an explosion at London's Battersea power station to discredit foreign political agitators. When it proves to be a brief inconvenience met with amused local stoicism, Verloc's angry employers send him the instruction: "London must not laugh", which leads him to arrange the planting of a bomb at Greenwich Observatory. This results in the destruction of his innocent stepson on screen,...

An event celebrating the life and career of late actor Edward Woodward is to be held in London today. The memorial has been organised by Woodward's widow Michelle Dotrice and is to take place at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Along with Dotrice, who is best known for her role as Betty Spencer in classic comedy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, a number of other showbiz faces are expected to be in attendance - including June Whitfield, Sheila Hancock, Simon Pegg and Paul O'Grady. (more)...

Former Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em actress Michele Dotrice is to make another guest appearance in BBC One's daytime medical drama Doctors, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal. The 60-year-old, who played Frank Spencer's (Michael Crawford) long-suffering wife Betty in the classic BBC sitcom, will play wheelchair-bound pickpocket Jane Shields. Jane explains to a policeman that she's had her purse stolen just as The Mill's nurse Michelle Corrigan (Donnaleigh Bailey) walks by. Jane drops a carrier bag of shopping and Michelle picks it up for her, before returning to the medical centre. On her arrival, Michelle's distraught to discovers that, she, too, has had her purse pinched by who she presumes to be the same thief who stole Jane's. Having kept her cash cards separate, Michelle stops by an Atm to withdraw some money but her (more)...

Hi-De-Hi! star Diane Holland has died at the age of 78. The actress, who played dance instructor Yvonne Steward-Hargreaves in the BBC sitcom, passed away on January 24 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia. Holland started her career in music theatre before going on to appear in Crossroads, Casualty and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. In her later years, she performed Christmas recitals at the Royal Opera House in London. Speaking about her passing, agent (more)...