'High School Musical' proves UK ratings hit

Disney Channel UK's premiere of High School Musical 2 became its best rated show ever on Friday night.

The premiere pulled in 1.2 million individuals with an 8.4% audience share across multichannel homes. Over its two-hour slot its audience peaked at 1.3 million.

An average of 750,000 kids - an audience share of 38.4% - tuned in for the premiere, giving the channel the biggest audience among kids on Friday, beating EastEnders and Coronation Street.

The channel's four showings for the movie saw a collective 1.74 million viewers tuning in, with overnight figures reporting that 1 million were kids aged 4-15. In the US, the movie was watched by 17.2 million when it premiered on the US Disney Channel last month.


BBC announces new music TV show

The BBC has unveiled Sounds, a new weekly music show airing on BBC Two from next month.

Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac and newcomer Nick Grimshaw will front the series, which promises to feature up-and-coming acts alongside established bands.

Recently a number of music shows, including the BBC's long-running Top of the Pops and Channel 4's Popworld, have been cancelled.

Mac said about the new programme: "I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to showcase new and upcoming bands on TV, it's truly exciting for me. It's so important that music gets this kind of TV exposure."Sounds airs as part of BBC Two's new teen strand'Switch' from October 20th.


Eventual Obscurity

Jamelia has hit out at Leona Lewis, calling her a “poor man’s Mariah Carey”.

And the singer also had a pop at Leona’s mentor Simon Cowell for good measure.

She ranted: “When Simon stops all this stupid hype about her, that’s when we’ll see if she can deliver. Like every artist Simon has, she’ll fade into obscurity eventually.

Only Will Young has been successful, and that was because he’s talented and cut ties with Simon. Leona is a poor man’s Mariah Carey.

Simon’s lost it. He is disrespectful. Leona may be talented, but she’s not worked as hard as me or others in the industry — fact!”


In other news

* A broadband TV channel funded and run by Kent County Council has been launched in the county by Bob Geldof.

* ITV will not screen this year's British Comedy Awards after reportedly finding irregularities with phone voting.

* Pop star Gabrielle is releasing a mix of her latest single designed to sound better on MP3 players like the iPod. The "poduction" remix of her comeback song Why is supposed to be easier to listen to on earphones, and combats the loss of quality found in MP3 files. British producers The Boilerhouse Boys developed the technique after studying records from the early days of stereo - including Motown hits and The Beatles.

* Sharon Osbourne has recruited Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger for her X Factor team, according to a report today.

* Danielle Lloyd says she has enough secrets to write TEN autobiographies.

* Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons is alledgedly putting the Smile back on Lily Allen's face.

* The latest film in the flesh-eating zombie series Resident Evil has made it to the top of the US and Canadian box office chart in its first weekend. Resident Evil: Extinction, starring Milla Jovovich and R&B singer Ashanti, is the third in the franchise based on the hit video games.

* Northern Ireland comedian Patrick Kielty has apologised for jokes he made about missing child Madeleine McCann.

* Natasha Bedingfield is set to release a song with pop scamp Sean Kingston.

* Scientists say distinct differences in the brain activity of paedophiles have been found using scanning technology. The journal Biological Psychiatry said this was the first real-time evidence of differences in thought patterns. A forensic psychologist from the UK said drug treatments for paedophilia might be possible.

* Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon have sold the Beverly Hills mansion made famous on the family’s reality TV show. It was snapped up by pregnant pop star Christina Aguilera, 26, for £5.9million.


Clips of the day

Hover Car

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007430796,00.html

Mrs Knieval

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007430797,00.html

Really sick

http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/nattliv__mensvaumlrk_extended_disco_remix?id=m20TSyaEEHc

Insane – no doubt

http://www.break.com/index/britney-fan-goes-crazy.html