Where did it go wrong for Channel Five and Dan Chambers? Rightly or wrongly, Channel Five still seems to be stuck in that "no man's land" between the average satellite/cable channel and the long-established four terrestrial channels; it has the...

It has taken a day or so of analysis of the publicly available BARB data, but there are one or two interesting conclusions out of this week's data. It doesn't happen very often with multi-channel programmes, and it is more...

I have noticed something in my observations of the various blogs and commentators on the internet, and that is that there is no single "enemy" organisation for conservatives. Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Natalie Solent and others regularly target almost all...

I've been looking forward to watching Torchwood - the new Doctor Who spinoff series "for adults" - for a long time, and didn't mind the prospect of seeing it first on BBC Three because normally they turn off their...

Paul Waters has died. Starting his career with ATV, then moving on to BBC telefilm and then BBC radio, "Paulie" did mostly behind-the-scenes jobs until the invention of "Wake Up to Wogan", where he gradually moved closer to front-of-house, not...

Media Guardian: Beyond soap - BBC embraces villains, plot twists and Latin style of telenovela So the Brazillian style soap opera, or Telenova, is coming to the UK. The difference is that there's a fixed number of episodes - self...

Sony BRAVIA Advert Website Sony ad bursts on to screens Normally a new television commercial can go to air relatively unnoticed, but when it's the followup to a critically acclaimed advert featuring lots of multicoloured balls bouncing down a street...

Samsung launches BluRay player in the UK (BBC Radio 4, Today, Business Report) The first player from one of the two high-definition optical disc formats has been launched in the UK: it's Samsung's BluRay Disc (BRD) player and it'll cost...

I don't know about anyone else, but I discovered a cool little sci-fi series a few weeks ago, A Town Called Eureka, running on Sky. Unfortunately I missed the first few episodes and as a result I looked the show...

Well, there are a few surprises coming out of the latest publicly viewable ratings. On the channel side, we see that the joint highest rating channels right now, according to share of viewing are ITV2 and Sky Sports 1, both...

BBC threatens to abandon Manchester move It seems fairly obvious that the BBC won't get all of its own way relating to the forthcoming licence fee settlement. Although Tessa Jowell is in favour of a larger-than-inflation rise for the licence...

The recent sad passing of naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin inevitably raises questions about how we produce television programmes about the natural world. The BBC spends vast amounts of our money on natural history programming, and the resulting multi-award-winning...