TV & Radio

Programmes such Skins (pictured), Misfits,The Inbetweeners and PhoneShop have set E4 apart from rivals BBC Three and ITV2 in the battle for young viewers

Is this a magic formula to attract young people back to television?

E4's hit teen shows include Skins and Misfits but it's still criticised for making 'vacuous pap'. The controller Angela Jain argues her case to Ian Burrell

Inside TV & Radio

Victory on the menu: Virgin keeps its electronic programme guide

Monday, 7 December 2009

Few television viewers think twice about the on-screen programme guide they use to change channels, but it has been the subject of a fierce court battle which could have repercussions around Europe.

'Newsnight and Paxman are what the BBC is all about'

Sunday, 6 December 2009

Peter Rippon reflects on his year as editor of the flagship news show. Matthew Bell reports

Anti war anger over Question Time panellists

Friday, 4 December 2009

The BBC was involved in a fresh row over its flagship Question Time programme today when it was accused of not reflecting public opinion in a line-up of panellists set to discuss the war in Afghanistan.

Renault and Porsche launch new TV initiatives

Friday, 4 December 2009

Renault and Porsche are reaching out to customers by introducing new TV services. Renault has taken up its own dedicated channel on the Sky system, while Porsche Experience TV uses the web as a delivery mechanism.

Five signs YouTube deal to offer shows on demand

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Five has signed a deal with YouTube to make shows such as The Hotel Inspector, The Gadget Show, Neighbours and Home And Away available for catch up viewing on the video-sharing website.

BBC 'sorry' for Boycott outburst

Monday, 30 November 2009

The BBC has apologised to radio listeners after a foul-mouthed outburst from Geoffrey Boycott during its cricket coverage.

Ian Burrell: Viewers deceived by the BBC again

Monday, 30 November 2009

The BBC Trust has today condemend the "serious and repeated" breaches of BBC guidelines by independent production comapny Reef Television in making daytime programmes on BBC One and BBC Two.

Cash for trash? BBC seeks payout over faked scenes

Monday, 30 November 2009

The BBC Trust reported "serious and repeated" breaches of editorial guidelines in a number of daytime shows, including faked scenes.

Sport on TV: We should be more clinical in the way we look at depression

Sunday, 29 November 2009

The word "jocks" either conjures up images of Scots or American high school quarterbacks. While the former may be envisaged as dour, stony-faced and apparently under a permanent black cloud, we would not expect the latter to be affected by any kind of mental anguish. The whole point of the expression is that sporting achievement among the young goes hand in hand with immunity to any kind of introspection. After all, they get the prettiest girls, the open-top cars, the adulation of the crowd. The quarterbacks, that is, not the Scots. Who needs a convertible under all those black clouds?