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Tag: Television

  • Michael Grade’s ITV – now 20% smaller!

    Back on 28 November 2006, when Michael Grade walked in to 200 Grays Inn Road to take the ITV helm the share price stood at 110.75p. Today it was just 89.1p. That’s a drop of just under 20 percent, or as we say in journalism – nearly a fifth. Of course, share prices can go…

  • The future of Channel 4

    David Lloyd calls for a new public endowment for Channel 4 in the Guardian today. It’s an edit of a very entertaining lecture he gave at City University last Tuesday – and which we’ll post soon on our website. He mischievously fuelled speculation that Mark Thompson wasn’t the first choice for Channel 4 CEO when…

  • Phoney calls

    The news that someone from the Jo Whiley show called in pretending to be a listener is obviously a one-off. It can never have been industry practice to behave so, erm, underhandedly… Back in the day, however, TV execs did used to pay inordinate attention to “viewers’ calls.” The editor of a famous series –…

  • Endless amusement…

    Rosie Boycott (onetime-Indie editor) got dumped from Hell’s Kitchen last night. With her final words, she summarised the difference between running a newspaper and a restaurant: in a restaurant you want to serve the same piece of lemon tart every night, on a newspaper you want every story to be different…it keeps you endlessly amused.…