The titan of University Challenge reckons it’s time the BBC stopped treating audiences like idiots

Veteran broadcaster says University Challenge 'pays the audience the courtesy of assuming that we're quite clever enough to take part'

The Highland cottage owned by disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile will be sold at auction today.

Jane Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer.

The new series of Doctor Who will feature one of the scariest monsters viewers have seen, according to the show’s star Matt Smith.

The BBC has released photographs of the forthcoming seventh series of Doctor Who.

Here’s one the viewers chose earlier. The next presenter of Blue Peter will be selected by audience vote after competing in a new talent show, the BBC announced.

The pipe-puffing, braces-wearing Denis Forman was one of the godfathers of commercial television in Britain. He firmly believed in making high-quality programmes that were also popular. Under his stewardship, Granada Television was particularly noted for the investigative journalism and dramas that it produced for the ITV network.

Glamour model Lacey Banghard became the third person evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother House.

New figures show rival period dramas Call The Midwife and Downton Abbey outshone Coronation Street in the Christmas Day battle of the period dramas.

Viewing figures slump in the great Christmas TV turn-off - audience numbers are lowest for a decade

Christmas Day television is now dominated by home-grown drama rather than the light entertainment shows that filled schedules 20 years ago, according to a survey of the changing face of festive viewing.

Another soap opera Christmas wedding? You'd think there were 364 other days of the year to get hitched. Daisy Wyatt looks back on the best Michaelmas marriages from the nation's two favourite soaps