All news by author: Ian Hyland

The impact that Survivor - hosted by Joel Dommett - had on viewers was already summed up by a news report that followed its debut on BBC1 at the weekend

Had this spectacle been filmed from the water alone it would have been amazing enough, but the added dimension provided by the drones elevated the footage though

It looks like Disney simply shelled out for access to the Rooneys’ (peak Footballers Wives’) mansion in Cheshire – and to hear Coleen’s untold side of the story

TV critic Ian Hyland shares his blunt take on Beckham, Netflix's new docuseries on David and Victoria Beckham's rise to fame, and whether or not its four hour-long episodes are worth your time

I don’t envy ITV the job of finding someone to replace Paul, but replace him they should - he would almost certainly have argued that no one was bigger than the show

On the evidence of Wednesday’s opener, the plan has worked a treat - tThe format remains intact, and I can’t wait to see how they all get on as they continue the journey

While suspension of disbelief is a full-time occupation for soap fans, even the most seasoned will have been shouting 'Eh? Eh?, Eh?' at the screen all week

Doreen lit up the room in the first episode of the new series of the NHS fly-on-the-wall documentary Ambulance - but paramedic Jared brought some sobering reality

I know the BBC’s top brass like to think the entire nation is as much in thrall to Ru Paul’s Drag Race as they are, but I am not convinced that is the case

At first glance it would appear the BBC and the other channels are on their last legs on account of hardly anyone watching them any more. That’s not strictly true, of course

Esme was doing her best attempt to make it exciting, and even poor beanie-hatted thimble botherer Tony Fancyshirts was sucked into the empty ­promises

Channel 5's show appears to neglect one small detail: What if, on the night, the team don’t actually track down any of the missing dogs that are featured?

Danny Dyer appears to still be in character for his EastEnders role of Mick Carter, despite starring in a brand new Channel 5 show, writes Ian Hyland

The cheffing short straws were drawn by Jean-Christophe Novelli, Rosemary Shrager and six other people who apparently cook for a living

It looks like you’ll just have to enjoy Not Going Out while you can. Luckily, that shouldn’t prove too difficult

Thanks to David Jason’s The Royal Bodyguard, Queen Of Oz cannot be labelled the worst regal BBC sitcom ever made

Why, I hear you sigh, would anyone revisit The Full Monty if nobody gets their kit off?

She breezed through the scripted one-liners and had the audience practically devouring the palm of her hand

Sara Pascoe has suggested that The Great British Sewing Bee’s judges, Esme Young and Patrick Grant, were working on a new sewing-themed detective series

After the week they’d had you might have forgiven the pair for being slightly miffed that bosses invited a potential replacement host onto the show

'I was so invested in it, I even watched the reunion show way past my bedtime on Wednesday night'

Team Wills did seem to get a lot more airtime, mind – although, to be fair, that might have been because someone appeared to have carelessly misplaced all the Prince Andrew footage

Shaun Ryder’s short, sharp, shocked reaction to his old jungle nemesis, former TV poo-whisperer Gillian McKeith, was the perfect cliffhanger for the launch episode: 'Oh.'

Over the course of the weekend, Britain's Got Talent featured a bloke from Japan whose bum burps can propel darts, and a stuntman who can set himself on fire and complete a Rubik’s Cube

The latest series of For The Love Of Dogs is clearly going to be a glorious and emotional eight-week eulogy to the man - and how fitting that he’s taking his final television bow with the show he most loved doing