Future-proofing the BBC

TV must change with the times

Playing away

Premier League goes international?

Part 4: embracing the 1950s

ITC meets ABDC

Part 3: the war and after

Love, cigars… and television

Part 2: the pre-war years

Lew dances into showbusiness

Part 1: the early years

‘Mr Television’ makes a start

All new nonsense

The habit of slapping "ALL NEW" on everything

Overarching logic

Widescreen television is the future. But it's not the past

Wrong-footed Four

Carl Ellis on sci-fi and fantasy programmes on Channel Four

New horizons

Carl Ellis on how satellite (nearly) always treats imports better

Undoing the inevitable

Carl Ellis wants to unpick the Carlton-Granada tie-up

TV Asylum

Carl Ellis looks into the world of import and export

Roswell mystery

Carl Ellis on the use and abuse of imported programmes

Premiership problems

Carl Ellis on the errors in TV rights

Rugby International

Carl Ellis watches the Super League

A league of their own

Carl Ellis sees Rugby League spread

News At When

The mistake of messing with the Ten

Regional fun and games

Carl Ellis's overlaps ruin a football game

News makes news

Sky vs BBC

Corporate manslaughter

Carl Ellis can't remember being confused by Central

New Affiliations

How ITV could have been done