For the first time in probably twenty years I watched The Bill on ITV last night. I'd actually pretty much forgotten that is existed but a story in yesterday's Mirror that said that its scriptwriters were looking to hire Caroline Quentin in a...
Rolling news services have changed television viewing for ever for news junkies like me. Rather than having to wait to get an evening fix delivered by an authoritative gentlemen speaking to a grateful nation, live news feeds are available all day long...
Just when broadcasters had hoped that the TV voting scandal was consigned to history along with Britannia High , Ofcom hits Channel TV with a £80,000 fine for breaching broadcasting rules in the British Comedy Awards . Students of TV premium rate services...
There. I think that's all the TV management-related cliched headlines that are wheeled out with disappointing regularity. Personally I'm sorry that Tony Ball won't be joining ITV. While the remuneration package that he reportedly was demanding...
Naughty ITV but clever old Steve Hewlett. In yesterday's Guardian, the former head of programming at Carlton TV asks whether ITV has been misleading advertisers. After trawling through the Competition Commission's report on CRR - something that...
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...
It's quite something when a six month loss of £105m is considered surprisingly good news, but that's how I felt this morning when I saw ITV's interim results. Given the state of the economy, the ad market plus the absurd restrictions and regulations...
After months of speculation about who is going for the ITV chief executive chalice, I mean job, a shortlist has emerged. And funnily enough some of the more ludicrous suggestions that were thrown into the mix, such as Shine's Elisabeth Murdoch, aren't...
Vince Powell, the creator of 70s ITV sitcoms including Bless This House , died last week. As I wasn't allowed to watch ITV as a child - it was considered 'rubbish' - I missed out on this and other Powell creations such as Mind your Language...
It felt a little bit like I was in a gentle Sunday night ITV drama as I walked in the morning sun to the polling station. The local vicar, a man I've never seen or spoken to before, bid me a cheery 'good morning' then I popped into the half...
I quite like ITV's digital channels but I'm not sure that I'd be prepared to pay to watch them. But this possible scenario has been reported by some of today's news wires as ITV tries to find a money-spinner to help it through the ad recession...
I've worked for some unutterable articles (or as the prospective Tory candidate for Gloucester might say 'councillors') in my time and I've never had any desire to work for either Simon Cowell or Sir Alan Sugar. It seems that the nation's...
Disappointment among octogenarians distressed that ITV isn't planning to make any more episodes of The Royal or Heartbeat must surely have been tempered by news that the BBC has re-commissioned a third series of its appallingly twee Lark Rise to Candleford...
ITV’s management can quite rightly be accused of crying wolf all too frequently in the past as it sought to protect its dominant position, but if there was ever any doubt that Rupert Howell was over egging it when he said that it was ‘scrapping for its...
God knows how long Ofcom came up with its decision that Domino's Pizza's sponsorship of The Simpsons on Sky One breached its codes that are meant to restrict the promotion of HFSS foods to children. Given that the adjudication extends to six and...
