BSkyB discovered a fun way of reporting its “mixed” half-year financial results today. The broadcaster, which announced a £112m net loss because of its pigheaded decision in 2006 to purchase a 17.9% stake in ITV at an hysterically overblown price just to stop Virgin Media doing the same, simply commandeered the business update on [...]

I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! was beaten for the first time in the ratings on Friday… by Children in Need.
It’s baffling that up to 8.7m people are tuning in to watch what must be the least inspiring selection of jungle D-listers yet. But the fact that, at its peak, 10.9m were watching [...]

Well done ITV. Not for profiting to the tune of £7.8m by taking money from uncounted phone-in votes but for releasing news of it on the same day that the BBC announces massive budget cuts and 1,800 redundancies.
The date of the BBC announcement has been known for weeks. Michael Grade says that he chose today [...]

Apparently, 112 people complained to Ofcom that Sir Trevor McDonald’s jokey description of Bernard Manning as a “fat, white bastard” was “inappropriate and/or racist”.
On News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald on 24 June, Sir Trev said:

“It’s time for Racist and Dead, this week, it’s the turn of corpulent, narrow-minded northerner Bernard Manning. Personally, I never [...]

I’ve noticed that almost all TV producers are now frantically admitting to faking bits of reality shows lest one of the tabloids rumbles them first. The latest is one Simon Cowell (never heard of him), who says he staged a bit of the new series of X-Factor. Apparently, a scene where Cowell discusses rehiring Louis [...]

Why is it that both the UK’s main network broadcasters are tonight televising the final of a talent contest where the winner gets to be in a West End musical? Is it some kind of sick prank? How did one channel work out that the other’s Grease final would be held on the same Saturday [...]