Ashamed to say that I tried to participate in Derren (sic) Brown's mind trick on Channel 4 on Friday night - an insight into my exciting weekend - and that like everyone else I've encountered, it failed. Even more ashamed to say that I was disappointed...
Now that Andy Duncan and Channel 4 have finally agreed terms for his departure - a mere £585,000 severance package from the apparently cash-strapped broadcaster - all eyes must turn to who will replace him. In a particularly revealing comment, Channel...
Terrible week for the loss of 80s TV cultural icons - first Felix Bowness who played the embittered riding instructor, Fred Quilly, in Hi-de-Hi and then of course the irreplacable Keith Floyd who poignantly died just hours before Channel 4 showed a documentary...
Does ITV know something about the Competition Commission's final decision on CRR that we don't? Already the broadcaster has an ITV1+1 service lined up and ready to start transmitting from the beginning of next month - coincidentally the CC is...
It's all too easy kicking someone when they are on their knees, but sometimes it's just irresistable. So apologies in advance to Five. The low-budget terrestrial channel, which has seen its share of ad revenue fall off the cliff this year, has...
I happen to like Boris Johnson. I think he provides a bit of much-needed colour to the political scene, and he seems better at his job than that annoying nasal Red Ken but I don't live in London so what do I know. But is he worth £250k for a weekly...
I think it was Mahatma Gandhi who once said: 'There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is much less competition.' Gandhi was wrong - the split is between those whose...
And that's a good thing because traditionally it has been the easiest and laziest thing for people to write about and guarantee a few cheap hits. But while researching a piece for next week's mag about how the series is doing I've realised...
That was the problem with the odious little twerp who featured in last night's episode of the Channel 4 series I 'm Running Sainsbury's , where people from the shop floor are given enough rope to hang themselves in front of slick Sainsbury's...
Lots of pictues of that beaming and mildy irritating rah Edward 'Bear' Grylls in today's papers following his appointment as Chief Scout, a particularly pointless sounding job, but what sort of role model is he? In the words of Loyd Grossman...
So the Lib Dems use their expenses on biscuits and trouser presses, the Tories on chandeliers and moats and Labour on loo seats and damp rot. While the revelations in The Daily Telegraph have caused acute ambarrassment to all MPs, they also go to prove...
Channel 4's potty-mouthed cook Gordon Ramsay has found himself in trouble with Ofcom for managing to get 115 versions of the f-word into the first 40 minutes of his 'Great British Nightmare' programme - that's nearly three a minute. The...
Channel 4's annual report, published today, contains the usualy hand-wringing statements about what might happen if some sort of settlement on its future funding model is decided. But instead of Andy Duncan and Luke Johnson going on about their editorial...
It's a shame that the Duke of Edinburgh has denied that he called Simon Cowell a ‘scrounger', even though he did it with the rather elegant put-down that ‘he does not know enough about Mr Cowell to make any sort of comment about him'. I can...
Living TV has snapped up the rights to broadcast the wedding of terminally ill Jade Goody to her boyfriend for a reported £100,000, scheduled for mid-March, while OK! Magazine, it is claimed, has paid seven times that for the picture rights to the event...
