The revolving doors at ITV's headhunters continue to spin at absurd speed with Sir Michael Bishop, a previous favourite for the chairmanship at the broadcaster, ruling himself at the eleventh hour.
The appointment of Bishop was reportedly one of the sticking points in previous negotiations with Tony Ball who was approached for the chief executive job. With Michael Grade standing down at the end of the year and no chairman and no chief executive, its chief operating officer John Cresswell has said that he will stand in as interim chief. And then he'll leave.
Quite what's going on at 200 Gray's Inn Road is a mystery. Its director of television Peter Fincham is being linked to the chief executive of Channel 4 so could soon be leaving too.
So why doesn't anyone (other than Rupert Howell) want to work there? OK, so there's a bit of a hole in the pension fund but ITV has got nice offices, the salaries are generally pretty good, there is a subsidised canteen and you get to hang around with minor TV celebrities.
With this in mind I'm available for hire if Digital Radio UK don't want me.
