Massive record audience of 11m for The Celebrity Traitors finale last night. Just look at these numbers. Nothing on TV comes close right now.

A game I rarely tire of: comparing the anti-BBC opinion in certain newspapers with the TV recommendations in those same newspapers. Sometimes it comes together so perfectly.

I dug into two years of Netflix viewing figures — and just look at the Brits representing. Half of the Top 10 TV shows are made in the UK, and that's not even including Bridgerton, which is basically British. Remarkable clout. deadline.com/2025/07/netf...

In important, but quite dry, news: Ofcom says YouTube must give special prominence to content from the BBC, ITV, C4 and C5.

If YouTube refuses (feels likely!), Ofcom says ministers should force its hand with legislation. Below, graphs showing why this is now getting existential for broadcasters.

The BBC screwed up horrendously at Glasto and MPs have every right to be angry, but take a breath and read these quotes. It's starting to look an awful lot like a minister telling the BBC what to do. That doesn't feel like a desirable precedent for anyone - including Lisa Nandy.

Two stories in two days, The Sun has turned on BBC Breakfast boss Richard Frediani. The first big test for the BBC since the “line in the sand" of its workplace culture review? Here’s the Deadline story that started it all: deadline.com/2025/04/bbc-...

A week after revealing more bullying allegations against BBC Breakfast's boss, Deadline's reporting has now been cited in the Mail, Times and more. The BBC, which espouses zero tolerance on such matters, has not said a word. Not one. deadline.com/2025/04/bbc-...

Davie cautioned against giving Westood a final warning in April 2010 after a complaint regarding the DJ's on-air sexual innuendo about “red velvet cake.”

Davie told the barrister review that the threat of firing Westwood could have been "disproportionate" to his remarks.

A subplot of the Tim Westwood review: how clean is Tim Davie? The BBC director general headed up radio for 4 years of Westwood's era.

Today's barrister review says Davie had "very limited involvement with Westwood or issues relating to him," but there was one nugget (cont.)...

Gotta note the chutzpah of The Sun publishing a (legally sourced) story like this literally as news breaks of Prince Harry and News Group Newspapers holding last-ditch talks to settle a blockbuster privacy trial.

Here are the receipts. The BBC says it's unfair to compare Netflix to one channel, so I also stacked it up against channel portfolios.

None of this is particularly surprising, but tables like this really bring home to me how Netflix is disrupting decades of order in TV viewing.

Announcing schedule changes today, GB News says it's making "inroads" against established rivals. It's not wrong. GB News is now the only major British news channel trending upwards in terms of audience reach, per Barb data. In a major news year, this is significant.

There's been talk for some time that Mishal Husain wanted to leave Today, but for the BBC to lose her altogether is an enormous blow for the corporation. A journalist of incomparable class.

For a small insight into the weaponisation of UK privacy law, consider the sorry case of a Spurs star being racist about his club captain.

We're now at the point where people are pleading privacy after their wrongdoing is literally captured by TV cameras invited into their homes for hours.

I came across this (decade old!) picture yesterday and it really made me think about the great times of Twitter. How a simple viral picture would bring joy for a day. Anyway, I'm posting it here cos, well, this place feels like it's gathering a similar sort of momentum — and that's nice.

Quite a low-key announcement from the BBC on Gary Lineker. No director general quote, no extensive herogram, though of course this could follow when he steps down after the 2026 World Cup.

Reader, this is literally what happened. Oh, and it's all Meghan's fault, natch.

One of my favourite genres of unhinged media takes is newspaper columnists pronouncing on the death of ludicrously successful companies after huffily deciding one night that there's nothing decent to watch on telly.

In a period of brain-battering, all-consuming political news, I find it quite comforting to know that actually, what some people really care about, is Homes Under the Hammer scheduling errors.