Thursday is Broadcast day, so here are my highlights from today’s issue:
SMG want the BBC to hand over Radio 3’s FM frequency allocation to Virgin Radio (no comment!)… Five want to show a live Caesarean birth on TV (and there was me thinking it was an emergency procedure, so how can it be planned for a live TV slot?)… ITV have commissioned nine more hours of television I’ll never watch (Footballers’ Wives is returning)… Living TV are to show a series in which Gail Porter enlists an American “medium” to speak to dead Hollywood legends (just as well they’re happy to make time for a satellite station)… Sky One are to make a show called Sun, Sea & Silicone in which four girls go to Penang for “cut-price plastic surgery”… C4 has ordered a programme called F**k the Watershed…
Who says that TV is dumbing down?
Last night Jeremy Paxman was interviewing Stephen Carter from Ofcom on Newsnight about publication of Ofcom’s Public Service Review (pdf) yesterday.
I’ll spend a little more time reading through it before commenting, but I’d say that Paxman asked some tough but fair questions last night.