ITV boss hits out at swearing (contains strong language) It has frequently been said that television is only a reflection of what happens in real life, but on closer inspection it's usually the case that it's the other way round....

BBC plans another Perfect Day Launched in the autumn of 1997, the BBC's 'Perfect Day' campaign was hugely memorable and distinctive, though its impact was mainly due to an inspired choice of song which topped the charts when released as...

Digital Spy: S4C announces switchoff strategy For the traditional broadcasters, analogue switch off presents a multitude of challenges - not least for welsh language station S4C. It's Welsh only digital service, S4C Digidol, faces a challenge of where does it...

Media Guardian: Digital switchover put back to 2012 Wired.com: Digital TV with a German Accent Compare and contrast. In August 2003 Berlin became the first major city to turn off analogue, just under a year after digital television was turned...

BBC news chief Sambrook moves job In what is presumably one of the final bits of fallout from the toxic nuclear waste (painted with whitewash to fool us, of course) that was the Hutton Report, comes the announcement from the...

Limit child TV viewing to an hour each day, study urges With evidence such as this proposing that children should watch as little television as possible, the future of the BBC's CBBC Channel may now begin to appear less...

ITV to reprise TV classics OK, so BBC One has recently - and perhaps rightly - been criticised for "lack of variety", but it's a hotbed of cutting edge innovation by comparison to what's being planned for ITV1. Words fail...

Ofcom to allow TV shock jocks Recently Ofcom has come under pressure from broadcasters (particularly Channel Five) to allow the equivalent of 'shock jocks' on British television, and although the broadcasters' argument centres principally around the noble concept of 'freedom...

A week in the life of BBC One After praising the BBC for it's impartiality in an article I have just written, I do think this article reads a little too much like a press release......

Grade orders review of BBC1 schedule I'm glad that I'm not the only person in the world to feel that BBC One has become rather dull as of late, with the temptation to compete head on with ITV1 being too...

Inge Meysel dies at 94 [English] Ah, but for the transitory and temporary nature of television. Inge Meysel was so ubiquitous and so much the face of post-war West German television that her passing, even at such a "good innings",...

Digital Spy: ITV plans soap spinoffs for teatime Perhaps it says something about the imagination of the commissioners at ITV, that they seem to think the answer to their problem of low ratings between 5 and 6pm, can be solved...

BBC online services: redefining the remit "The BBC has just under four months to redefine the remit for its online services, the government has said. The Graf Report, commissioned by the government, also said at least 25% of the BBC's...

Digital Spy: Sky 'tries to keep' ITV3 off Freeview Whatever you think of the tactics of BSkyB, this move may actually be doing Freeview viewers a favour. Of course it depends on the exact content of ITV3, but given the...

VG Nett: Fjernkontrollen fyller 50 It's 50 years since the first remote control was unleashed on the world, by all accounts - well this Norwegian account anyway. But the fact that only our Scandinavian friends seem to have noticed this...