Earlier tonight I saw a delightful bit of PR puff on BBC1’s The One Show about the O2 Arena - aka the Millennium Dome - being the most popular concert venue in the world, ahead of Madison Square Garden in New York.
Strange, because according to the Manchester Evening News earlier this week, the MEN Arena [...]

Presenter Nicky Campbell got into a spot of bother this morning on The Big Questions, a religious/”issues” programme I found myself watching on BBC1.
The author Joanne Harris was on there as a guest and Campbell was talking to her about a religious experience she supposedly once had. He reminded her of the time she fell [...]

Fancy that - Peter Fincham, controller of BBC1, has quit. As predicted here, it was never likely that he would escape unscathed from the so-called “Crowngate” scandal.
As the Times reports:
Mr Fincham wrongly told a July 11 press launch that a forthcoming documentary would show the Queen storming out of a sitting with the celebrity photographer [...]

My regular reader (sic) will be itching for a verdict on the relaunched North West Tonight, which I almost promised the other day.
Thankfully, the temporary studio of last week has been replaced by something glistening and new that nonetheless looks reassuringly similar to what was there before. However, in accordance with the current fashion, Gordon [...]