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Chris Packham is a TV presenter, conservationist and all round wildlife enthusiast who has presented TV’s The Really Wild Show and more recently BBC’s Springwatch plus its assorted offshoots. With his enthusiasm and unapologetic focus on propagating the outcomes of good science he can count a lifetime achievement award by the Wildscreen wildlife film festival, dubbed “The Green Oscars” amongst his various awards and has written many books on wildlife across the years.

Now he’s featuring in the presenting team, alongside Emmy award winners Phil Keoghan and Jane Lynch, for the new Nat Geo Wild show “Earth Live” which will connect to live cameras across the globe to present a compelling live view of important wildlife habitats. Describing it as “ground breaking” Chris will provide the factual support for the team and describes being part of it as being “an enormous privilege.

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Michaela Strachan has said that The Great British Bake Off makes her sick and called its celebration of sweet things "obsessive and obscene".

The cake competition may be a massive hit with viewers, but that hasn't stopped the TV host from sticking the boot in.

"I don't understand why this is so popular," Strachan told Metro.

"I tried to watch it to see what the fuss was about, but I just really didn't care how the cakes turned out.

"I can understand the creativity that goes into it, but I don't understand how this can go on for weeks on end."

The 49-year-old presenter added: "We're at a time when you can't open a paper without being told about the dangers of sugar, and yet here they are making Black Forest gateaux that are a foot high.

"Do people really want to eat that stuff? It made me feel sick.

ITV's Splash!, the celebrity diving show that recovered from ridicule and a few flop performances early on to become the sleeper hit of 2013, is back!

Tonight five stars, including Towie's Gemma Collins and Hollyoaks favourite Gemma Merna, will cast aside their dressing gowns, prance over to the diving board in their skimpy swimsuits and attempt to pull out something better than a belly flop, all in a bid to impress mentor Tom Daley and us viewers.

Join Digital Spy from 7.20pm as hosts Gabby Logan and Vernon Kay present a shamelessly cheesy 90 minutes of gawking at celebrities' bodies before forcing them to fall from a great height. Go on, don't act like you won't be giving it a whirl...

20:50Thanks for joining us for the Splash! premiere live blog everyone. In what is surely the best bit of TV scheduling ever, the new series of Take Me Out is next up,...

Director: Steven Knight; Screenwriter: Steven Knight; Starring: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong; Running time: 100 mins; Certificate: 15

> Jason Statham Hummingbird interview

Steven Knight's powerful and thought provoking British thriller excels on the strength of the dynamics between its emotionally damaged central characters, along with a clever decision to cast action star Jason Statham as the lead. Along with the capability to bash the brains out of any foe with something as seemingly mundane as a spoon, the guy can also emote. Tears shall flow.

Much like Knight's script for Eastern Promises, his work on Hummingbird delves into the murky London underworld and homes in on the homeless community and criminal fraternity that concurrently occupy the shadowy spaces amidst the pubs and coffee shops in the West End. The focus is on ex Special Forces soldier Joey Jones (Statham), who lives rough and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder...

Children's TV icon Terry Nutkins, who famously hosted The Really Wild Show, has died aged 66. Nutkins, who is survived by his wife and eight children, was being treated for leukaemia in hospital. His agent John Miles confirmed the news in a statement, adding: "He had fought for about nine months or so with acute leukaemia. "He was an absolutely lovely guy and just loved animals and he was never happier than when he was with animals. We will all miss him very, very much." An English naturalist, television presenter and author, Nutkins found fame in the 1980s when he became a co-presenter of the BBC children's television series Animal Magic with Johnny Morris. During his time on the show, he gripped viewers with his relationship with Californian sea lion Gemini, who he hand-reared. He went on to establish himself as a popular face on kids (more)...

Terry Nutkins is an inspirational figure for many reasons. Perhaps most significantly, he has given hope to every thin-on-top man the world over with his groundbreakingly bold hairstyle. He has proudly rocked the shaggy-sides-and-back-with-bald-as-coot-top style since he first appeared on screens in the '80s in Animal Magic. This uncompromising rock 'n' roll attitude to fashion and traditional TV conventions has been at the core of Nutkins's career, making him one of the last truly great small screen heroes. His love and passion for animals on The Really Wild Show, alongside the dream team of Michaela Strachan and Chris Packham, wowed a generation (more)...

When it comes to describing the talents of Michaela Strachan, it's tough to know where to start. Popstar, TV presenter, animal expert, Ladies World Gurning winner, schoolboy pin-up... the list is seemingly endless. Famed for her work on The Really Wild Show alongside Terry Nutkins and Chris Packham - a dream TV trio - she was rarely off our screens in the '80s and '90s. She was like the Holly Willoughby of her era. Except she was actually good. In her youth, Strachan worked as a kissogram (a fairly popular one, we suspect), but she eventually put down her chapstick and decided (more)...