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RDF – at least Channel 4 still loves them…
Whilst RDF do about a fifth of their business with ITV and BBC, their main client is the reassuringly silent Channel 4. One of the reality shows RDF produces for them is Property Ladder, and it so happened that friends of ours wangled a slot on it (against my advice). The programme has an agreeable…
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Royal trailer trash
Stephen Lambert, the magnificently monikered Chief Creative Officer at TV production company RDF, is carrying the can for the Queen promo. Last Friday he offered to resign, but David Frank (the DF in RDF) is waiting for the BBC inquiry to run its course (or get going even). When not offering to resign, Lambert is…
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Independent investigations
When will someone not in receipt of a BBC pension conduct an ‘independent’ investigation? [Guardian]
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Islamism in universities
Given the headline above you can perhaps see how would-be terrorists would be keen to up their academic credentials. On which topic, I heard Ed Husain on Today this morning repeating the familiar mantra that universities are centres of Islamist recruitment. It was an odd piece, since it seemed to lack any factual peg –…