Television has long been under attack. Digital media, societal change and audience fragmentation mean that those occasions when the whole nation gathers around their set have become increasingly rare. But when they do happen it's a useful reminder...
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...
A clip of creepy cutlery twister Uri Geller was on Sky News this morning. It was an excerpt from some more high quality entertainment we can look forward to on ITV1 on Sunday night - My Friend Michael Jackson: Uri's Story . A blubbing Geller talks...
Apparently the unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could provide enough power for 5000 hours of TV viewing (and probably supply enough content for the schedulers at BBC3 in perpetuity). The principle of 'more is less'...
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...
Viewers have come to accept that Mark Austen and Fiona Bruce will occasionally lapse into Pip ‘n’ Fern on their respective news bulletins by cross-promoting other programmes on their channels. ITV does it for Tonight, the BBC for Panorama, Channel 4 for...
Given that only Robert Peston has a more influential blog than this one, I thought I'd give you some insight into..... Al Murray's Happy Hour. Now I'm a massive fan of Al Murray and the show and I think that it provides ITV1 with a very neat...
