Posts Tagged ‘ ITV ’

Lord Carter, remember him, has just got a new job. He's off to...
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Here's a thought. What happens to the media business if the Conservatives don't win the election. A hung parliament would be great for the Lib Dems...
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Sky’s decision to flog the majority of its 17.5 per cent stake in ITV yesterday is revealing. Rather cruelly Sky said this morning that it only now intends to hold onto its residual 7.5 per cent for the “medium term”, which is a significant softening from the “long term” phraseology used repeatedly by James Murdoch when he swooped in to thwart...
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Watching Gordon Brown welling up on Piers Morgan tonight (Feb 14), I wanted to bring back Adam's pre-interview comment to the front page.
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As if you are not depressed enough if you’re watching TV on a Saturday night – along comes Take Me Out to eliminate your few remaining brain cells. It recreates a provincial nightclub meat-market
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Its weaknesses are also its greatest strengths – ITV’s Popstar to Operastar is fatally flawed as a primetime television concept, yet somehow you have to keep watching the car crash burnout. Problem one – no one likes opera.
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Britain’s laziest paper review is stuck on the Sunday Times, the title that tells you what wine Archie Norman was drinking when he first wooed Adam Crozier.   For those still caring, the drink in question was a red Burgundy, although sadly neither the price and vintage of the  beverage was revealed by the newspaper....
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Calm, rational analysis from Nicola Methven of the Mirror today on Adam Crozier’s appointment. It’s a fun read, but I think her conclusion — “ITV is heading for oblivion” is, to state the obvious, a bit harsh. You can the duller, balanced and more accurate view
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Adam Crozier?!? Beehive City said earlier this week that ITV’s chairman Archie Norman would go for an outsider (although I also thought the appointment would be a little more time in coming). I even guessed that Norman’s old Asda mate Allan Leighton would be the man, but in fact it was his former partner...
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So, while we are at it, what happened to Peter Fincham…the man who was being described by his friends as the ‘standout candidate’ for C4. Ok, so he is hardly suffering as director of telly at ITV. But having made such an overt play for the C4 job in the autumn, it may not...
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