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21 August 2010
There is much speculation that Apple could be about to announce a new television product. It could be called the Apple iTV, following the naming scheme of the...
Wedding plans ... Joe Gilgun as Woody and Vicky McClure as Lol in This Is England '86.
About The Series
It's 1986 - the year Chris de Burgh is at number one, Top Gun is filling the cinemas,...
11 August 2010
guardian.co.uk
A new trailer for the US version of Top Gear has received a 'mixed response'. Can any country hope to replicate the perfect chemistry of Jeremy Clarkson, Captain...
30 July 2010
informitv
Sky reported a strong set of annual results and is within reach of its long-term target of ten million satellite television subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland by...
3 August 2010
informitv
Virgin Media is calling on the communications regulator Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading to investigate Project Canvas on the grounds that it is anti-competitive,...
29 July 2010
The Guardian
James Gandolfini and Edie Falco in The Sopranos – one of the crown jewels in the HBO catalogue.
Photograph: HBO/Everett/Rex Features
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB...
guardian.co.uk
19 July 2010
Sky Sports: Freesat is monitoring BT's move.
Photograph: Tom Jenkins
Freesat, set up by the BBC and ITV to assist digital switchover alongside Freeview, is...
guardian.co.uk
15 July 2010
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
The coalition government is planning to scrap local cross-media ownership rules by...
17 July 2010
The Guardian
Jonathan Ross called time last night on what has been nearly a decade of almost solid chatting on the BBC. His guests were the quiet David Beckham, the grizzled Mickey...
18 June 2010
guardian.co.uk
The cast of the Channel 4 series Glee on stage in Los Angeles last month.
Photograph: Startraks/Rex Features
When English teacher Katie Paine opened the doors of...
19 June 2010
source: PopEater
The season-ending episode of 'Treme,' the highly-acclaimed HBO series about the neighborhood of the same name in post-Katrina New Orleans, will air this Sunday...
21 June 2010
guardian.co.uk
The teen drama Skins is getting a US remake for MTV
MTV is remaking itself as the place to go for hip and funny teen dramas and its inspiration has come from...
10 June 2010
The Guardian
Shabby enters the Big Brother house on launch night.
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA\
In an apparent last-minute attempt to raise the cultural tone – perhaps in response...
6 June 2010
guardian.co.uk
Now 24 has ended, it's time to put its 'ticking clock' concept to better use
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24.
Photograph: Fox
So. Farewell then, Jack...
7 June 2010
guardian.co.uk
Batfta TV awards 2010: Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi
Photograph: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment
It was a pretty dull Bafta ceremony this year, bereft of...
17 May 2010 14.36 BST
guardian.co.uk
The BBC is taking the Weeping Angels and the Daleks out of the studio and on the road with Doctor Who Live.
Photograph: BBC
Doctor Who is soon set to...
David Simon won unprecedented praise for his TV series The Wire. Now he's turned his attention to New Orleans for his new show, Treme, where politics, music and heartbreak collide in the...
The Observer
25 April 2010
US academic world shocked as respected historian is said to have 'made up' meetings with 34th US president
Dwight D. Eisenhower in uniform in front of a US flag....
The Observer
25 April 2010
Amid fears of plans to cut the broadcaster's funding and Tory threats to disband the BBC's governing body, more than 40 top performers sign a letter in bid to safeguard...
The Guardian
6 March 2010
He's replacing the most popular Time Lord ever. So how will the new Doctor cope?
'Don't we all hope that we could be the Doctor, somewhere?' Matt Smith says....
source: informitv
5 March 2010
The chief executive of Virgin Media has roundly criticised the BBC for its handling of Project Canvas. Neil Berkett told the annual Cable Congress in Brussels that...
source: informitv
7 March 2010
There will be nearly 50 million 3DTV displays sold worldwide in 2015, up from just over 3 million in 2010, according to one forecast. Within the same timeframe...
source: informitv
5 March 2010
YouTube could receive revenues approaching a billion dollars this year, apparently. Google does not break out revenues for YouTube, although it has indicated it...
21 February 2010
The Observer
David Simon, creator of The Wire.
Photograph: Graham Jepson/Writer Pictures
Tell me about Treme, the show set in New Orleans you're currently producing.
It's...
22 February 2010
The Guardian
A National Audit Office report will reveal just how much the £1bn BBC West One project is over
Artist's impression of newsroom at BBC Broadcasting House....
guardian.co.uk
11 February 2010
The cast of Glee. Photograph: Channel 4
The list of awards and nominations handed out to US comedy-drama series Glee in recent months makes for startling...
8 February 2010
London Evening Standard
London Fashion Week is to become the first event to be broadcast in 3D live around the world.
British label Burberry will stream its show to screens at...
(UKPA)
Broadcasting giant BSkyB has suffered a near-£350 million hit after selling a 10.4% stake in ITV and admitting defeat in a long-running legal battle.
Sky offloaded 404 million...
7 February 2010
guardian.co.uk
Universities across the country are preparing to axe thousands of teaching jobs, close campuses and ditch courses to cope with government funding cuts, the Guardian...
source
BBC news channel
Ugly Betty
Ferrera won a Golden Globe for the role in 2007
Award-winning TV comedy Ugly Betty has been axed in the US after four series, TV network ABC has...
deadline: 1 February 2010
Digital switchover of television and radio
The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications is announcing
today a short inquiry into the progress of, and prospects...
guardian.co.uk
12 January 2010
Our TV critics have voted, debated and decided on a top 50 of classic TV drama series - the results might just surprise you
Guardian TV critics voted The...
The opening show of the last series of Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother drew Sunday evening's biggest TV audience, with 5.8m viewers.
It beat last year's launch show, which attracted an audience...
BBC news
December 2009
The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, has given a provisional go-ahead for a project which could kick-start demand for internet TV.
Project Canvas is a...
informitv
1 January 2010
The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast...
guardian.co.uk
4 January 2010
BBC2 is giving Edie Falco's dark comedy-drama the five-nights-a-week treatment, and it's well worth a try
Nurse Jackie: Edie Falco is a near guarantee of...
13 December 2009
The Observer
The X Factor 2009 finalists:
Olly, Stacey and Joe.
Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features
The days when watching TV was a shared national experience, with audiences...
13 December 2009
guardian.co.uk
Saudi daytime TV show.
Photograph: Awtan TV
In the ancient and valiant journalistic tradition of, essentially, cowardice, and aided hugely by a lack of space,...
3 December 2009
informitv
Following its landmark deal with Channel Four, YouTube has added full-length programmes from channel Five in the United Kingdom. It significantly strengthens the position...
3 December 2009
informitv
The BBC has commissioned a web site to promote Project Canvas, its proposed joint venture partnership with ITV, Five and BT to promote a new platform for broadband...
4 December 2009
informitv news
The planned joint venture between Comcast and NBC Universal will create a massive media production and distribution machine that marks the move from the traditional...
guardian.co.uk
6 December 2009
Gino D'Acampo, pictured with Samantha Fox, faces charges of animal cruelty.
Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Gino D'Acampo, the winner of I'm a Celebrity ... Get...
27 November2009
Source: The Age
FREE-TO-AIR TV networks have thrown in the towel in their fight against the delivery of TV programming beyond the traditional broadcast TV signal.
Freeview, the...
guardian.co.uk
27 November 2009
Conference in Leeds brings together breadth of academic, sociological and fan interest in The Wire
Omar (Michael K Williams)n and Michael (Tristan Wilds) in a...
guardian co.uk
10 November 2009
Sesame Street – the TV show responsible for your misguided belief that certain areas of Brooklyn are populated by freakishly tall canaries and their severely...
guardian.co.uk
30 October 2009
TV reunions are hard to get right but Larry David has pulled it off
The cast of Seinfeld on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Photograph: HBO
Larry: "You know those reunion...
guardian.co.uk
30 October 2009
David Tennant declares himself 'jealous' of Doctor Who successor Matt Smith – and reveals his final lines in role
Spoiler warning: This story contains some...
guardian.co.uk
29 October 2009
Has UK television drama lost its way?
Casualty. Photograph: BBC
Thriller writer Peter Jukes has written an angry piece for Prospect about why British TV has...
guardian.co.uk
28 October 2009
Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders.
Photograph: BBC
Barbara Windsor will leave BBC1's EastEnders after 16 years, to 'spend a bit more time with my...
15 October 2009
Channel 4 has signed a non-exclusive deal with YouTube to make its original programming available on the video sharing web site in full and free-of-charge, within the United...
8 October 2009
BBC News
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Police in Brazil say a TV crime show host accused of ordering killings to boost his ratings has gone missing after his arrest warrant was issued....
guardian.co.uk
5 October 2009 15.26 BST
Flashforward, the high-concept US drama series, has become the fastest-selling Disney series of all time, and broadcasters around the world are showing...
guardian.co.uk
5 October 2009
Norman Fowler's five-point plan for making the corporation more effective
One of the easiest ways of winning a cheer at this week's Conservative party conference...
The Observer
4 October 2009
David Letterman has often made mileage out of the moral lapses of others.
Photograph: John P. Filo/AP
If you live by the sword, you die by the sword. Certainly...
The Guardian
3 October 2009
FlashForward's Ralph Fiennes
Photograph: channel 5
When we look back at the "noughties" – pausing briefly to gently vomit in protest at the hideous made-up word...
informitv
1 October 2009
The internet has now arguably overtaken television in terms of advertising spend in the United Kingdom. Online advertising grew by 4.6% in the first half of 2009, despite...
Times Higher Education
17 September 2009
Media studies is belittled despite graduates' success, says Sally Feldman
Why are so many Irish men devoted to Desperate Housewives? What's bugging...
The Guardian
23 September 2009
The government is to stop funding "pointless" university research, forcing academics to prove that their academic inquiry has some relevance to the real world,...
The Guardian
19 September 2009
New US sitcom Eastbound & Down follows a luckless, obnoxious former baseball hero forced to return to his home town. Sam Delaney meets its writer and star, Danny...
guardian.co.uk
18 September 2009
Patricia Wheeler starred in Guiding Light in 1954.
Photograph: Getty
In the end, the characters on television's longest-running soap opera lived happily...
guardian.co.uk
16 September 2009
Troy Kennedy Martin in 1985
Photograph: Duncan Baxter/Sunday Times
In 1962 Troy Kennedy Martin, who has died aged 77, created Z Cars, writing the first...
16 September 2009
Telegraph.co.uk
Kennedy Martin (left) with the producer Gilchrist Calder, whose interest in the young writer led to his first BBC play, Incident at Echo Six (1958)
Photo: BBC...
The Guardian
12 September 2009
Derren Brown crosses his fingers for a lottery win
Photograph: Channel 4 Television/PA
Of all the theories surrounding Derren Brown's "prediction" of Wednesday...
Financial Times
August 26 2009
It has caused a constitutional crisis in Malawi, been closed in Bahrain and generally outraged sensibilities around the globe, but after more than a decade of...
guardian.co.uk
29 August 2009
Broadcaster left effectively leaderless as it negotiates its future following news chief executive is to step down
Andy Duncan: decision for him to leave said to...
guardian.co.uk
Friday 28 August 2009
News Corp chief James Murdoch describes UK TV as 'Addams Family of world media' in hard-hitting MacTaggart lecture
Read the full text of Murdoch's speech...
Source: guardian.co.uk
22 August 2009
How do we judge if a subject is easy or difficult? Condemnation of media
studies reflects a fundamental confusion about its aims
It's unfortunate for...
Source: Times Higher Education
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6 August 2009
David Gauntlett says the AHRC needs to put its researchers back on the
field and stop positioning...
The Observer
2 August 2009
Poor ITV. We've all made shopping mistakes, those never-to-be-worn impulse purchases left mouldering in a plastic bag at the bottom of the wardrobe, but in ITV's...
guardian.co.uk
17 July 2009
FX's new vampire miniseries gets off to a bloody good start – it seems an awful long way from Buffy and Twilight
Blood relations … Sookie and Bill get to grips...
guardian.co.uk
21 July 2009
The amount spent on UK-produced children's programmes by ITV, Channel 4 and Channel Five fell by 70% between 2004 and 2008, according to a new Ofcom report on the...
guardian.co.uk
19 July 2009
CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite smiles as he poses with studio aide Judy Shepard.
Photograph: Hulton Getty archive/Getty
Walter Cronkite, the CBS...
guardian.co.uk
16 July 2009
Little Dorrit: now showing in David Simon's nightmares.
Picture: Nick Briggs/BBC
This year's Emmy nominations were all about the battle between cable TV and the...
guardian.co.uk
2 July 2009
Mollie Sugden with Arthur English in Are You Being Served?
Photograph: BBC
The actor Mollie Sugden, who has died aged 86, was part of a long and honourable –...
The Guardian
6 July 2009
British TV viewers may scratch their heads when asked what Hulu is now, but later this year, if things go to plan, we will all be talking about the catchup service with...
guardian.co.uk
30 June 2009
John Barrowman, left, and James Marsters in Torchwood.
Photograph: BBC
Torchwood star John Barrowman has accused the BBC of "punishing" the hit sci-fi show...
guardian.co.uk
1 July 2009
ITV1 suffered the worst ratings in its 54-year history last week as it slumped to an all-hours share of just 16.1%.
According to unconsolidated ratings figures, ITV1...
guardian.co.uk
1 July 2009
Jeremy Hunt: 'To be director general of the BBC is a privilege, just like it is to be an MP – and I don't think we do it for the money.' Photograph: David Levene...
guardian.co.uk
1 July 2009
CSI: Miami - episode one of season seven. Photograph: CBS
The launch of the seventh season of CSI: Miami brought almost 4 million viewers to Channel Five last...
guardian.co.uk
23 June 2009
First UK drama to air on US network TV for 30 years beaten by Fox repeats of Family Guy and American Dad
Colin Morgan in Merlin, which was broadcast on NBC on Sunday....
The Guardian
22 June 2009
Richard Quest: 'The only way I can restore the trust is to get on with the job.'
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's...
The Guardian
23 June 2009
Tom Hardy at a screening of Bronson in London.
Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
By his own admission, Tom Hardy's favourite subject is himself. "I make no bones...
guardian.co.uk
23 June 2009
The BBC is to launch a new series that mirrors the movie Mrs Doubtfire, with fathers dressing up as nannies to find out what their children really get up to.
Each...
The end of analogue television in America marks the beginning of a new era in broadcasting and frees up frequencies for new advanced wireless services. Stations had until midnight local time on...
The Guardian
13 June 2009
So then, Big Brother 9. I mean Big Brother 10 (C4/E4, daily). Or Big Brother Q. When I watched the launch night, I swear I could tell the housemates apart. Then I caught...
guardian.co.uk
15 June 2009
Universal artist Kanye West performs at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Xmas.
Photograph: Karl Walter/Getty Images
Virgin Media is to launch an unlimited music download...
guardian.co.uk
15 June 2009
Primeval: costly because of its CGI effects.
Photograph: ITV
ITV has ended weeks of speculation about the future of fantasy action drama Primeval by confirming...
The Observer
7 June 2009
One of my least favourite programmes of the 1980s was Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go Out and Do Something Less Boring Instead? I watched it...
guardian.co.uk
8 June 2009
As Margaret Mountford exit confirmed, Conservatives say Sugar's government role means he should leave hit BBC1 business reality show.
Sir Alan Sugar: has fronted five...
guardian.co.uk
7 June 2009
• 10,000 titles added to 40D catchup service from July
• Rights deals to exclude news and foreign shows
Channel 4 is to become the first UK broadcaster to put its...
guardian.co.uk
2 June 2009
This is not a climate in which TV executives will take risks
Chuck, with Zachary Levi: expect Subway references
In the end a sandwich chain was enough to save...
The Guardian
2 June 2009
Susan Boyle's difficulties after Britain's Got Talent are not so different from those of more conventionally famous performers
Susan Boyle.
Photograph: Andrew...
guardian.co.uk
1 June 2009
Sides unsure whether to pilot proposals, as ITV speaks of 'severe difficulties' in partnering with BBC on regional news
The agreement between the BBC and ITV to...
guardian.co.uk
28 May 2009
'Muslim property developer to share on-screen kiss with gay caterer in 'traditional love affair with a modern multicultural twist
EastEnders: Syed Masood, played by...
'Unlocking the BBC Archive: Challenges & Aspirations'
Roly Keating delivers his first keynote speech since being appointed as the BBC's first Director of Archive Content.
guardian.co.uk
18 May 2009
Terminator spin-off will not return for third series, while So You Think You Can Dance will be moved to key autumn slot
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles....
guardian.co.uk
21 May 2009
BBC1's Junior Apprentice will have Sir Alan Sugar and firings, but no hiring, with candidates aged 16 to 17
Sir Alan Sugar: 'We should be doing more to promote...
guardian.co.uk
22 May 2009
William Alan Shatner embodies his own personality and image more than any other celebrity. He IS Shatner
Amid all the praise for JJ Abrams' new Star Trek revamp, there...
guardian.co.uk
22 May 2009
The US TV networks' upfront presentations of new shows were cautious this year – but we learned a few things...
Glee: promoted on Fox's American Idol Photograph:...
The Guardian
18 May 2009
British television is now roughly where the music industry was 10 years ago, when Napster appeared out of nowhere and stirred up a file-sharing storm. In 2007, Britons...
The Observer
17 May 2009
LINK TO AUDIO
Mark Thompson, BBC's director general
One of the most exhaustive pieces of research conducted by the BBC into viewers' attitudes to taste and decency...
The Guardian
16 May 2009
Comedy actor/writer Sharon Horgan at her home in Hackney, London. Photograph: Karen Robinson
Sharon Horgan has the fithiest laugh you've ever heard. She may be one...
The Guardian
16 May 2009
Patricia Arquette in Medium
Something bad happens, someone investigates it, and they solve the crime. The bad person gets punished, justice prevails and the titles...
It is with a very great regret that we are announcing the cancellation of the SCMS conference in Tokyo scheduled for May 21-24, 2009.
Late last week we learned that the Government of Japan and...
The Guardian
12 May 2009
The US academic and writer Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who has died aged 58 of breast cancer, was one of the sharpest and most committed exponents of queer theory, the...
The Observer
10 May 2009
Last week, British plumber Hannah Dodkin triumphed in Abu Dhabi's answer to The Apprentice. Ally Carnwath looks at five varieties of the global franchise and their hire...
guardian.co.uk
11 May 2009
Google has launched its first television advertising campaign across a range of US networks.
The company's TV adverts are an attempt to draw the public's attention...
The Observer
10 May 2009
The star has left politicians including the prime minister reeling in her wake as she ghts for the Gurkhas' rights. Her popularity with the public matches her passion for...
The Observer
10 May 2009
ITV's health can be measured by audience numbers and advertising revenue, but its fate will be determined by its shareholders. There will be plenty for them to discuss...
Panasonic's VieraCast with Amazon Video on Demand is one slice of the Internet on TV.
(Credit: Panasonic)
A new study by the Consumer Electronics Association, the industry group representing...
1 May 2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter/Reuters) – The Disney Channel is grooming Wizards of Waverly Place as its next blockbuster tween franchise in the mold of High School Musical and...
1 May 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co will buy a 30 percent stake in Hulu.com, bringing popular TV shows such as Lost and Grey's Anatomy to the video website founded by NBC Universal...
1 May 2009
guardian.co.uk
Meet the "Goode Family". They're the latest creation of Mike Judge, he of Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill fame. Judging by the just-released trailer for the new...
guardian.co.uk
28 April 2009
Ofcom chief exec says ITV offering is unsustainable and warns BBC could be only TV regional news provider after 2012
Ed Richards: 'The BBC's partnership proposals...
guardian.co.uk
24 April 2009
Michael Grade may have to cut all ties with ITV after agreeing to step down from day-to-day running of broadcaster, investors have hinted
Michael Grade: giving up...
The Observer
26 April 2009
She had it all: a successful career, a blissful relationship, two happy children and a third on the way. Then, a year ago, her husband died suddenly. Actress Natascha...
Los Angeles Times
26 April 2009
Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear's sitcom "Maude" and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running "The Golden...
The Guardian
11 April 2009
Swapping the Bada Bing for Washington's war room, James Gandolfini returns to our screens as a peace-loving general in the political farce In The Loop.
James...
guardian.co.uk
14 April 2009 07.01 BST
ZenithOptimedia predicts continuing crunch across sectors in UK, with the newspaper advertising market hit particularly hard
The UK TV ad market will...
guardian.co.uk
6 April 2009
Kenneth Branagh in the five-times-nominated Wallander. Photograph: BBC
The BBC1 dramas Little Dorrit and Wallander have scored the most nominations in the...
guardian.co.uk
7 April 2009
Cast of SGU: Stargate Universe
Sky1 has picked up the UK rights to new US sci-fi drama SGU: Stargate Universe, starring Robert Carlyle.
The show, the next...
guardian.co.uk
8 April 2009
Durex ad showing women apparently having orgasms cleared by ASA, despite going out before its 11pm restriction.
Women may orgasm on television before 11pm, or at...
The Guardian
6 April 2009
The Daily Mash, a spoof online newspaper, celebrated the BBC's new late-night police import thus: "A new prostate cancer drug which could save thousands of lives is still...
The BBC World Service has shelved plans for new television services targeted at south-east Asia and parts of Africa
guardian.co.uk
6 April 2009
The BBC World Service has shelved plans for new...
The Guardian
28 March 2009
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Generation Kill. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP
He might be amused by The Wire's success in Britain but he isn't surprised by it....
guardian.co.uk
27 March 2009
In exclusive interview with the Guardian, writer David Simon expresses fears for newspapers' future and accuses media owners of contempt
The newsroom in the final...
The Guardian
25 March 2009
Sir Alan Sugar, celebrity entrepreneur.
Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian
I've been waiting outside for a while, biting my nails, when the woman behind the desk...
guardian.co.uk
25 March 2009
• Charlie Brooker show will be called You Have Been Watching
• Guardian columnist will discuss past week's TV with a guest
Guardian columnist Charlie...
The Observer
22 March 2009
Once home to quality programmes, the corporation now excels only at producing noise and stupidity
Since most things that go wrong nowadays are the fault of one baby...
guardian.co.uk
16 March 2009
Series watched by millions comes complete with a hearthrob who looks like Johnny Depp
Wael Sharaf in Bab al-Hara, the soap opera watch by millions across the...
guardian.co.uk
23 March 2009
Reality star will be buried as she lived – in front of the cameras in a 'Jade Goody production', publicist says
A police support officer arranges flowers outside...
The Guardian
18 March 2009
It is the show that's rocking Afghanistan. But contestants on the country's answer to Pop Idol are risking not just humiliation, but their lives.
Taboo buster ... 2008...
The Guardian
19 March 2009
Yes, it is set in the future. Yes, humans are battling it out with robots. But don't dismiss Battlestar Galactica just because it's sci-fi. As the series draws to a...
guardian.co.uk
18 March 2009
The BBC claimed most prizes at the RTS Programme Awards, although Channel 4's The Devil's Whore was the most successful programme, winning three categories.
The...
guardian.co.uk
17 March 2009
ITN today appointed John Hardie, a senior executive at Disney and former ITV commercial director, as its chief executive.
Hardie, who succeeds Mark Wood who left...
16 March 2009
Chaos in Manhattan as panic sweeps the audition queue for reality TV show.
A New York street was left strewn with shoes, clothing and torn sleeping bags after a stampede by...
guardian.co.uk
10 March 2009
Georgia has been told to change its entry for the Eurovision song contest after its lyrics and title were deemed to contravene the event's rules.
The song, We Don't...
ITV's decision to close its Yorkshire studios spells the end for regional TV, as well as the loss of hundreds of northern media jobs and a television brand that was once the pride of the county....
Source: informitv
Consumers could be prepared to pay to view cable television channels on their personal computers. Research suggests that some might pay an additional $10 a month for the...
Source: Informitv
Virgin Media is considering the sale of its television channels business. That includes a 50% share in the UKTV joint venture with the BBC which has the right of first refusal....
4 March 2009
ITV, Britain's largest commercial broadcaster, is to cancel its dividend, axe 600 jobs and close its largest Yorkshire studio as it fights the worst advertising conditions in three...
guardian.co.uk
4 March 2009
Michael Grade: the ITV chairman is taking radical measures as ad revenue plunges
ITV is to cut 600 jobs, slice £65m from its programme budget and look to...
The Guardian
3 March 2009
The more television a child watches the less likely they are to be exercising their lungs.
Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
Children who spend hours in front of...
The Observer
1 March 2009
Bringing David Peace's noir Red Riding novels to TV has been superbly achieved by a trio of Britain's brightest talents. Euan Ferguson meets them
Red Riding is a...
More than 6 million viewers watched ITV1's launch of the UK version of the hit US franchise Law & Order.
Andrew Billen in the Times was mostly positive:
Each Law & Order is a little exemplar...
guardian.co.uk
25 February 2009
Dawn Airey, the chief executive of Channel Five, said today that she expects the broadcaster to merge with Channel 4 or another company and get bigger, "by hook or...
guardian.co.uk
25 February 2009
ITV has drawn up a radical plan for a three-way merger with Channel 4 and Channel Five that would prompt one of the biggest shakeups in British broadcasting...
25 February 2009
The Hollywood Reporter
The comedian's project is tentatively called "The Marriage Ref" and features celebrities, comedians and athletes who will judge couples in the midst of...
The Guardian
23 February 2009
• Wedding was heart-rending and happy, says agent
• Money from media deal to secure future for sons
Jade Goody and Jack Tweed. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA...
The Observer
22 February 2009
There's growing excitement about tonight's Academy Awards, both in Britain, which could see a slew of winners, and in India, where hundreds of millions are hoping...
The Observer
22 February 2009
Head of Film4 Tessa Ross has British cinema riding high - but with funding under threat, victory may be bitter-sweet.
Tessa Ross, Head of Drama for Channel 4....
Where next for TV?
What you will be watching on television in five or 10 years is anyone's guess but ours. Ten years ago we couldn't have dreamed that reality TV would take over the airwaves so...
The Guardian
9 February 2009
In her first interview since returning to Five, its chief executive tells James Robinson why a merger with Channel 4 is logical, what she really thinks about those who...
The Guardian
5 February 2009
Jade Goody rose to fame, made a fortune and fell from grace on TV. Now, even as she battles for her life, the cameras are still circling. Hadley Freeman on a poignant...
The Guardian
9 February 2009
If a television writer takes to these pages, it's invariably to complain, whinge and bite the hand that feeds him. This writer isn't going to do that, but, as the...
The Guardian
Monday 16 February 2009
An early scene in the new TV series of Damages features an exchange between Glenn Close's character and a politician. "Girls today could learn something from...
The Guardian
Monday 9 February 2009
Want a hit record? Then get your track played on one of Holby City's slow, meaningful montages. Mark Lawson on the rise of the 'songtage'
A recent Holby City...
Families say reality show was beneficial despite calls for it to be axed.
The Observer
15 February 2009
Parents of children who took part in a controversial Channel 4 reality TV show have...
The Observer
15 February 2009
The reality TV star will sell media rights to raise money for her children
Jade Goody, the reality TV star, is to marry her boyfriend and have her two sons...
Interactive television could finally break through in the United States as cable and satellite operators come under pressure from online video. Some fifty million subscribers will be able to...
Virgin Media reported a change in viewing habits in Britain, as its 3.4 million digital cable television homes generated over half a billion video on demand views in 2008. Over half its customers...
The stars of Sex and the City have signed up for a sequel to last year's hit film of the US TV show.
The film, due to be released by Warner Bros in summer 2010, will reunite Sarah Jessica...
The Guardian
3 February 2009
500 jobs may be lost at London Met as the funding council claws back millions it overpaid.
A senior union official has described the financial crisis at London's...
Source
On 29 January 2009 the Arts and Humanities Research Council announced the launch of a new fellowship scheme with an initial annual allocation of £8 million.
The new AHRC fellowship...
Pubcaster will air commercials in bid to be Asian CNN
28 January 2009
Hollywood Reporter
TOKYO -- Japan's public broadcaster NHK will relaunch its World channel on Feb. 2 as a 24-hour...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –
ABC on Tuesday green-lighted three drama pilots, including one executive produced by "Grey's Anatomy" creator/exec producer Shonda Rhimes.
That project,...
Plea from Disasters Emergency Committee broadcast without corporation's support for the first time in 46 years
Tuesday 27 January 2009
A televised appeal for victims of the humanitarian disasters...
ABC News
January 08, 2009
In a letter to key members of the House and Senate today, Obama Transition Team co-chair John Podesta requested that Congress postpone the switch from analog to digital...
And even though there are many benefits to this transition, there are also a few downsides.
On February 17, U.S. broadcasters will begin transmitting their TV signals only in digital format....
by Joan Bakewell
20 November 2008 00.01 GMT
guardian.co.uk
Swearing, protests and controversy are nothing new. But shared values have been lost, and with them good judgment.
The recent Jonathan...
by John Plunkett
19 November 2008 00.01 GMT
guardian.co.uk
• MPs grill Trust chairman over prank calls scandal
• Director general defends star's reported £6m salary
The BBC was accused...
by Sarah Hughes
18 November 2008 07.00 GMT
guardian.co.uk
US ratings are down for the third series of Heroes, amid reports of creative tensions behind the scenes and departing producers. Can the...
As with previous TV and radio scandals, the Brand and Ross rumpus will be used by BBC managers to justify cuts and caution
Mark Lawson
30 October 2008
The Guardian
Until yesterday morning, the...
Lost in Austen delivered critical acclaim and ABC1 audiences. So why could the high-concept drama be bad news for ITV?
by Stephen Armstrong
The Guardian, Monday October 6 2008
The modern,...
by Polly Toynbee
The Guardian, Monday October 6 2008
We should be celebrating its success - yet the corporation is under attack from all sides, writes Polly Toynbee.
The BBC stands as the only...
By KATHERINE ZOEPF
New York Times
Published: September 18, 2008
DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia—Once a month, Nayla says, she writes a letter to Oprah Winfrey.
A young Saudi homemaker who covers her face...
by Mark Sweney
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday September 30 2008
ITV has outlined plans to reduce staff numbers by 1,000, including 430 from its regional news operation.
The company has kicked off a...
by Polly Curtis, education editor
The Guardian, Tuesday September 30 2008
State schools are increasingly "embarrassed" to talk about God, leaving a moral vacuum which has been filled by celebrity...
By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop
The Hollywood Reporter
Sept 17, 2008, 10:27 AM ET
SINGAPORE -- On Monday, Sony Pictures Television International and the China Film Group will launch "The Game" on...
By James Hibberd
Sept 17, 2008, 01:37 PM ET
Updated: Sept 17, 2008, 08:09 PM ET
HBO has renewed Alan Ball's vampire drama "True Blood" after only two episodes.
"Blood" debuted Sept. 7 on the...
by Mark Sweney
guardian.co.uk Monday September 29 2008
The ITV executive chairman, Michael Grade, has warned that without support for public service broadcasting, the network could not guarantee...
Ian Black, Middle East Editor,
17 September 2008.
Arab soap operas are wildly popular during the Muslim holy month, but conservative clerics are in uproar.
Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, is a...
by Mark Sweney
guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 25 2008
ITV should be allowed to drop some regional news bulletins, reduce regional programming by 50% and cut back on some current affairs...
