Location: sofa Mood: ecstatic Listening to: Documentary about cybermen on Tomb of the Cybermen DVD Just been watching the Special Features on the new disc of The Three Doctors which arrived (inna box with Robots of Death and TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN WOOHOO)

London, Monday 30th January, 2012: Elisabeth Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of Shine Group, will give this year’s MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, it was confirmed today. Now in its 37th year, for the first

30 January 2012 Last updated at 05:51 ET The first phase of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry is looking at media "culture, practices and ethics" The Press Complaints Commission is a "complaints body" not a "regulator", its former director has told the Leve

It's possible, then, that Mark Thompson is just plain lucky. It would not be hard for him to leave the BBC in better shape than he found it, given that both he and Michael Grade turned up in the aftermath of the Hutton crisis. But plenty have wanted to b

When BBC lifer Mark Thompson left the BBC to run Channel 4 in 2002, he didn't expect to return quickly. Greg Dyke was in his pomp – and, warming to his new brief, Thompson was quick to criticise the publicly funded broadcaster as basking in a "jacuzzi of

Ronald Wolfe was one half of a comedy writing partnership with Ronald Chesney whose dominance of commercial television schedules in the 1970s earned them the nickname “ITV’s Two Ronnies”. Ironically, the pair’s first hit, The Rag Trade, had been turned d

BBC37.00 Top Gear 8.00 Don't Tell the Bride 9.00 Cherry Healey: Like a Virgin 10.00 Eastenders 10.30 Russell Howard's Good News 11.05 Family Guy 11.50 American Dad! 12.35 Cherry Healey: Like a Virgin 1.35-2.05 Russell Howard's Good NewsBBC47.00 World New

Next Monday Channel 4 will spend most of the evening celebrating its 30th birthday, though its first programme did not go out until November 1982. The anniversary will be marked on Monday by what is described as ‘The Channel Four Mash Up’ in which some o

Next Monday Channel 4 will spend most of the evening celebrating its 30th birthday, though its first programme did not go out until November 1982. The anniversary will be marked on Monday by what is described as ‘The Channel Four Mash Up’ in which some o

From his early days on Crackerjack to his roar of “Come on down” on The Price is Right, Leslie Crowther was a household name for most of his life. He was also a gifted musician and a devoted family man. His wife and five children remember a lot of laught

The title of a new book celebrating the centenary of Britain's first Liberal synagogue was inspired by broadcasting boss Michael Grade. A Place to Call My Jewish Home – Memories of The Liberal Jewish Synagogue 1911–2011, is published next week. LJS says