Responding to the government’s Green Paper, the BBC Trust has said it wants improved protections for the BBC’s independence to provide more time between fixed date general elections and the end of the next charter.
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Watching football on TV is growing painfully expensive and surely an indication of a market that is not working, writes Raymond Snoddy.
A little over 6 million viewers tuned in at 7:30pm to see Phil Mitchell confront the Beale’s about their highly dubious behaviour, only for mini-Norman Bates, Bobby, to come in with a classic golf club sneak attack.
In all of the depressing and low-rent places to be given the irreverent documentary treatment by lazy producers so far, the dusty bookies of yesteryear have, miraculously, managed to escape the glare of prime time TV.
For the second consecutive month, ITV’s revenues were down on 2014, dropping -10.7% to almost £97m in June, whilst Channel 4 was up almost 30%.
Ofcom report shows that public service broadcasting channels spent a total of £2.85bn on content in 2014 – a 2% increase on 2013 – despite a continuation of the longer term decline in viewing.
With a fairly lacklustre line-up over the weekend, it was up to Sunday’s schedule to entice back all those viewers who had escaped their darkened living rooms for a life under the summer sun in the great outdoors.
Thursday night saw Channel 5 herald the trumpets and turn the hype dial all the way up to 11 as the 16th series of Big Brother finally came to an end of 66 expletive-filled days.
The public review will assess the way the BBC is funded, its current scale, governance and purpose.
After exploring the lives of domestic cats, dogs, and human babies, ITV’s premier prime time pseudo-science show was back – this time unveiling the secretive and guarded world of identical twins.