Mariah Carey is scheduled to be appearing on the following UK & Irish TV shows:
Mariah Carey Christmas Special
Mariah Carey’s favourite Christmas Songs
Airing: 22/12/2011
Time: 11am
Channel: Bliss TV
A Mariah Christmas
Airing: 23/12/2011
Time: 11am – 12pm
Channel: MTV Hits
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas II You
Chart Show TV catches up with Mariah to talk Christmas and her latest festive album ‘Merry Christmas II You’.
Airing: 23/12/2011
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Channel: Chart Show TV
Airing: 24/12/2011
Time: 10am to 11am
Channel: Chart Show TV
All I Want For Christmas Is Mariah Carey!
Featuring festive hits by the singer.
Airing: 24/12/2011
Time: 2am – 2:30am
Channel: VIVA
Mariah!
Airing: 24/12/2011
Time: 10:30pm – 11pm
Channel: MTV Hits
Please bare in mind that as all these shows are only available on UK & Irish cable, digital & satellite services, the dates & times may change without notice. So please keep an eye on your live TV guides.
Source: Radio Times | Mariah Connection UK
Finally, after a long wait, UK’s Biography Channel will be premiering their special biography on Mariah Carey later this week. Details are as follows:
Premiere Date: Sunday 14 August, 2011 Time: 9:00pm
Re-Airing Date: Monday 15 August, 2011 Time: 2:00am
Channel Details: 156 on Sky or 242 on Virgin Media
Biography
Mariah Carey was born to parents in 1970 to Patricia Hickey and Alfred Roy Carey. She moved to New York City when she was 17 to fulfil her ambition of becoming a star.
Having secured work as a session singer for Brenda K. Starr, her luck came good when Starr gave Mariah’s demo tape to the head of Columbia Records, Tommy Mottola.
Mottola was quick to sign the young singer, and within a couple of years she was showcasing the five-octave voice that would see her becoming the best-selling female performer of the 1990s.
Her self-titled debut album in 1990 included four number one hit singles and led to Mariah picking up a Grammy award for Best New Artist and Best Female Vocalist. Keen to capitalise on this success, a second album, ‘Emotions’ came along quickly in 1991. The album topped the charts and an MTV Unplugged EP that included a cover of the Jackson 5′s ‘I’ll Be There’ clocked up yet more sales.
Carey married Mottola, some twenty years her senior, in 1993. Not letting her marriage slow down her career, her next album ‘Music Box’ included two more hits singles, ‘Dreamlover’ and ‘Hero’.
A Christmas album and 1995′s ‘Daydream’ both did well in the charts and, following her divorce from Mottola, Mariah returned with ‘Butterfly’ in 1997. Heavily influenced by hip-hop, the album also saw a change of image for the young singer, who started dressing more provocatively.
Following the first single from her 1999 album, ‘Rainbow’, Carey became the first artist to top the charts in each year of the 1990s. However, by the turn of the millennium things were starting to go wrong in the Carey camp.
After receiving Billboard’s Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium, Carey parted from Columbia and signed a contract with EMI’s Virgin Records worth a reported $80 million.
However, the record-breaking deal was cut short after a number of career lows. Her movie ‘Glitter’ and accompanying soundtrack were critical disasters which led to her new record company paying her $28 million dollars just to drop her. The stresses of work led to a personal breakdown and in 2001, Mariah sought professional help after posting suicidal messages on her website.
However, proving that you can’t keep a good songbird down, Mariah took an extended break and in 2005 her album ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ – featuring contributions from producers such as The Neptunes, Kanye West and Carey’s longtime collaborator, Jermaine Dupri – shot to the top of the charts. The album also earned her a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and the single ‘We Belong Together’ won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song.
In 2008, her musical rehabilitation continued with the release of her eleventh studio album. E=MC². As well as being a play on Einstein’s famous theory for energy, the title was also said by Carey to represent “Emancipation of Mimi to the second power”. Again, the diva looked to integrate other genres into her pop and R&B sound, including hip-hop and gospel. As the first single, ‘Touch My Body’, rose to the top of the charts, Carey enjoyed the eighteenth number-one single of her career on the Billboard Hot 100, which was enough push her past Elvis Presley among all artists of the modern era, leaving her second only to the Beatles.
This also represented a new period of stability in her personal life, as Carey settled down with her second husband, actor and comedian Nick Cannon, in 2008 after a wedding in the Bahamas. In February 2011, the couple announced that they were expecting a boy and a girl, with twins on the way. The singer and record producer told Life & Style magazine: “Even before we announced it was twins, I was trying to keep everything gender-neutral because I didn’t want to impose an identity on them too soon.”
Her happiness at home has been reflected in continued musical success, with the releases of ‘Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel’ (2009) and ‘Merry Christmas II You’ (2010). Away from the microphone Carey won several new fans after dropping her usual diva image to play the role of social worker Miss Weiss in the hard-hitting 2009 feature ‘Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire’. Mariah was nominated for a number of awards for her performance and won the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
On 30 April 2011, Carey gave birth to twins Monroe and Moroccan Scott. Her daughter was named after actress Marilyn Monroe and her son was named after the Moroccan-style room in her home where husband Nick Cannon proposed.
The singer spoke of motherhood during an interview with OK magazine, saying: “It’s going to be a delicate balance between raising them around glitz and glamour and keeping them grounded.”
Carey posed nude for the magazine, showing off her pregnancy bump. “I felt very vulnerable about taking the nude pregnancy pictures, but then I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to document a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
The singer’s husband revealed in a recent interview with Billboard that the star has been working since the birth of the twins and was “inspired on so many different levels” by the pregnancy. He hinted that she could release her work before the end of 2011 and said fans should expect some “phenomenal new music”.
Source: Bio Channel | Mariah Connection UK
Mariah Carey’s ABC Christmas Special will be airing on 24 December, 2010 at 7:00pm on Cable/Satellite Channel FIVER.
The following is taken from Radio Times listing:
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas
Friday 24 December – 7:00pm to 8:00pm – Fiver
From the Orpheum theatre in Los Angeles, the singer performs a selection of yuletide classics and original tunes, as well as springing seasonal surprises on fans and helping to make their Christmas wishes come true.
VIDEO Plus+: 67004928
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas II You” UK Electronic Press Kit has been released by Mercury Records to the fans to view. The press kit includes:
* Oh Santa! video
* Auld Lang Syne – The New Year’s Anthem video
* Video: Q&A about Merry Christmas II You album – this forms the interview part of “Mariah’s Christmas Hits” TV show that has been airing on 4 Music & Magic TV.
- – - > To watch the Merry Christmas II You UK EPK, please click HERE!
Airing Times for Mariah’s Christmas Hits
* 4Music – December 17th at 7:30pm
* Magic TV – December 18th at 6:30pm
* Magic TV – December 19th at 2:00pm
* 4Music – December 19th at 4:00pm
* Magic TV – December 19th at 8:30pm
HMV UK are giving away Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas II You” standard edition for just £4.99 instore & online!
Source: Mariah Connection UK
A special 30 minute show featuring Mariah Carey’s seasonal hits will be airing to night on 4 Music:
Description: Mum-to-be and major Christmas fan, Mariah Carey plays us her hits from her favourite holiday season!
Airing Times
* 4Music – Today @ 9:00pm
* Magic TV – December 14th at 10:00am
* Magic TV – December 15th at 6:00pm
* 4Music – December 17th at 7:30pm
* Magic TV – December 18th at 6:30pm
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Bliss TV (Sky Channel 372) will be airing a behind the scenes airing of Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas II You” album at:
* 1.00pm – 1.30pm (26 November, 2010)
* 7.00pm – 7.30pm (26 November, 2010)
Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas II You” is available from the following outlets online:
Digital: 7 Digital | HMV Digital | Play Digital | Amazon UK | Amazon UK (bonus “Oh Santa!” remix) | iTunes UK | iTunes UK (Deluxe Edition featuring Oh Santa! remix & Merry Chistmas II You Video)
Deluxe Edition: Play UK | HMV UK | Amazon UK | Sainsbury | Asda
Standard Edition: Amazon UK | Play UK | HMV UK | CD WOW | Zavvi | Woolworths | WHSmith | Sainsbury | Asda
Source: Mariah Connection Ireland
Last month we reported on Mariah Carey’s biggest best-selling tracks compiled by the Official Charts Company in the United Kingdom.
We have had a number of emails asking on when the show will be airing… the show has already aired a number of times on MTV, VH1 & Viva. The next scheduled airing is tomorrow on MTV Base at 11.00pm.
Source: Mariah Connection UK
For some reason, GMTV changed the scheduled Mariah Carey interview to tomorrow. So here is a quick update of when Mariah will be on UK TV this week:
24 November, 2009
GMTV
Channel: ITV
Time: 8.35am
Lifestyle, fashion and showbiz news with Lorraine Kelly, who welcomes Mariah Carey today, for a chat and to perform her new single.
26 November, 2009
This Morning
Channel: ITV
Time: 10.30am
Pop superstar Mariah Carey pops in for a chat and a special live performance.
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Mariah Carey will be taking over UK TV in the coming days:
18 November, 2009
T4 Mariah Carey Special
Channel: 4 Music
Time: 8.00pm
- – > Currently available on, ON DEMAND services.
19 November, 2009
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Channel: Channel 4
Time: 10.00pm
Alan will be joined on the sofa by Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding and Mariah Carey, who will also be performing her single I Want to Know What Love Is…
20 November, 2009
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Channel: E4
Time: 11.05pm
21 November, 2009
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Channel: E4
Time: 3.25am
22 November, 2009
X Factor
Channel: ITV
Time: 8.00pm
23 November, 2009
GMTV
Channel: ITV
Time: 8.35am
Lifestyle, fashion and showbiz news with Lorraine Kelly, who welcomes Mariah Carey today, for a chat and to perform her new single.
26 November, 2009
This Morning
Channel: ITV
Time: 10.30am
Pop superstar Mariah Carey pops in for a chat and a special live performance.
Source: Mariah Connection UK | Thanks to Dean
Mariah Carey is scheduled to be appearing on the following UK & Irish TV shows:
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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