adrian monck

Category: Media

  • Grade – the half-corona of success

    In March the FT reported that pre-Hutton, Michael Grade was part of a team trying to put together a private equity bid for ITV. [FT ] Now, in the two years before he qualifies for a senior rail card, Grade trades a six figure pay cheque for seven, and coasts into Grays Inn Road on…

  • Writing school…

    I’m not a fan of Jeff Jarvis ordinarily, but this is a nice piece of critical work.

  • David Dimbleby for Chairman

    The campaign should begin now – not least to persuade David Dimbleby to throw his hat in the ring once more. The new BBC Trust will need a chairman willing to hold the BBC to account. Plus the ability to repeat the kind of homilies about BBC values that always sounded so inappropriate when voiced…

  • TV News critics 2

    Mark Lawson (like me, shamefully overlooked by Cotswold Life, see right) obviously took my earlier blog to heart. He has a piece in today’s Media Guardian – which if not a mea culpa is a kind of they-a culpa – calling on TV critics to reinvent themselves…