Instead of sitcoms, people who tuned to NBC last night got Schindler's List. Spielberg's depiction of the Holocaust was shown without traditional commercial breaks in a deal between NBC and Ford, which only ran ads at the film's start and end; it also included its badge on a clock which appeared occasionally during brief breaks in which viewers could make their usual urgent domestic visits. If forecasts are borne out, more Americans saw the film than during its entire run in US cinemas after its release in 1994. Then, some 25 million paid to see the film. Last night's audience was expected to top 30 million.

A television executive yesterday lost his High Court damages claim against a company doctor who said he should not get the job he had been offered because of his drinking habits.

Liver tests on a company executive showed "wildly excessive" drinking during a week-long business convention in Monte Carlo, the Queen's former physician, Sir Anthony Dawson, told the High Court yesterday.

British soldiers sprayed pesticides throughout the Gulf War without being issued with proper protective clothing, documents in the hands of this newspaper reveal.

At the end of Britain's worst Olympics for nearly 50 years, Ian Stafford put some difficult questions to the man who headed the team effort in Atlanta

Forget Olympic medals in Atlanta: in US TV's Patriot Games the battle is for women viewers, writes John Carlin

Beach volleyball day one: Mike Rowbottom sees a new sport make its debut

What will happen to the BBC's World Service?

Ken Jones examines why a long-standing boxing rivalry will not make any impact on prime time American television

American television has never been notable for its intelligence, but the news "anchorman" John Chancellor was a remarkable exception. In an age of weather girls unable to distinguish cumulus from cirrus, and reporters remarkable chiefly for their dentistry, Chancellor exemplified an earlier generation of television presenters who were, first, reporters of news, only secondarily (and embarrassingly to them) celebrities.

A US news service linking NBC and Microsoft promises to fuse television and the Internet. David Usborne reports

Gulliver travels just a little further this Easter: from 18th- century satirical squib to the television screen. By Michael Church

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