If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!QI takes two whole hours to record. That’s not two hours of stopping, stalling and chopping bits out, but two hours of full-on, unbroken chat. I know because we got tickets to see a recording tonight, at the London [...]

Apart from selling off Television Centre, the BBC is set to make 1800 staff redundant in its effort to plug a £2bn funding gap. It’ll be the invisibles who disappear, of course: not the big names.
But when you look at the numbers, that makes sense. You could argue that Jonathan Ross should go, on account [...]

I daresay there was upset when the BBC moved our of Alexandra Palace, as there will be when it hands over the keys to Television Centre. To plug a £2bn funding hole it’s selling the iconic building that it’s occupied for the last half century.
What will happen then remains to be seen. It’s a prime [...]

Richard and Judy were first, claiming blissful ignorance when their Channel 4 show was caught making money from callers who would never make it to air.
Jo Wiley was equally unaware when a ‘competition winner’ on her show turned out to be a member of staff, despite the segment in question being pre-recorded.
And now Ant and [...]

After months of the BBC’s minor misdemeanours being plastered all over the papers, they have been put into sharp relief by lurid stories of far more serious goings-on at ITV.
The independent broadcaster, it seems, made £7.8 million from over 8 million viewers by claiming to have entered them into premium-rate competitions they had no chance [...]

Two greats of radio and TV died yesterday, but while one received tributes on Radio 4, and will be highlighted in a special show tonight at 18h30, the other’s passing seems to have gone by relatively unnoticed.
Ned Sherrin, who died following complications with throat cancer, was probably better known for presenting Loose Ends for the [...]

The BBC launched the iPlayer today. After months of user testing (or non-testing in my case, since I was sent a beta test invite some months back but have yet to take it up), it reckons it’s ready to go. Roll-out will be carefully managed, and ramped so that progressively more applicants gain to the [...]

GMTV was shocked and saddened to discover that between January 2003 and April 2007, some of our competition procedures were not carried out correctly. We found out that staff at Opera Telecom had been selecting finalists before the competition lines had closed. This meant that not everyone who entered had a fair chance of winning. [...]

It seems the BBC’s competitions and editing debacle is either more extensive or more embarrassing than we thought, as Director General Mark Thompson has suspended all competitions on its broadcast services - both radio and TV.
I suppose it’s too much to hope this includes the Lottery.
Regardless of the true extent of the irregularities, which are [...]

‘BBC faces fresh deception rows,’ says the Guardian. How shocking. What’s been going on? Has Huw Edwards been fibbing on the ten o’clock news? Has Watchdog been scare-mongering? Has Crimewatch been making up photo-fit pictures of imaginary criminals.
Nope - none of those.
It turns out someone may (or may not) have edited some Flog It! footage [...]