Media UK

GMTV format to be overhauled
From Media Guardian. Posted September 8 2008, 5.48am
GMTV's senior management are to overhaul the breakfast TV service this autumn and intend to inject it with more populist journalism. By Maggie Brown (more)

Need to know: Lehman split ... BBC in talks ... Opec summit
From The Times. Posted September 8 2008, 12.26am
Economics (more)

Rivals want limits set on Worldwide arm of BBC
From Daily Telegraph. Posted September 8 2008, 12.01am
BBC Worldwide chief executive John Smith faced something of a conundrum last year. The corporation's commercial arm had ambitious plans to bring the Top Gear brand to the world, through magazines, websites, foreign remakes and live events. Then noises stage left suggested its star, Jeremy Clarkson, was being wooed by ITV and American Idol creator Simon Fuller. (more)

Editorial: In praise of ... Jon Stewart
From Media Guardian. Posted September 7 2008, 11.13pm
Editorial: A reminder of the relief that good comedy can bring to agonising times (more)

Watch this: The Children | The Price of Property | Extreme Fishing With Robson Green | The Dark Side of Fame
From Media Guardian. Posted September 7 2008, 11.12pm
Sarah Dempster on The Children | The Price of Property | Extreme Fishing With Robson Green | The Dark Side of Fame (more)

Paul Howlett's TV film picks: Breaking and Entering | Raising Arizona | Les Enfants du Siècle
From Media Guardian. Posted September 7 2008, 11.11pm
Paul Howlett on Breaking and Entering | Raising Arizona | Les Enfants du Siècle (more)

Media: BBC looks at whether TV licence reminders strike right tone
From Media Guardian. Posted September 7 2008, 11.09pm
Review to examine complaints that marketing and collection tactics are heavy-handed (more)

Arrival of reality television show shakes bourgeois Parisians
From Media Guardian. Posted September 7 2008, 11.05pm
TV singing contest Star Academy is confronted with 2,400-signature petition from locals (more)

Ex-ITV chief to advise Goldman and join Endemol
From Financial Times. Posted September 7 2008, 7.37pm
Charles Allen, the former chief executive of ITV, has been appointed as a senior adviser to the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs and will take a seat on the board of its main media investment, the European TV producer Endemol (more)

Pro-Tamil Tiger TV channel launched in Europe - Sri Lanka website
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 7 2008, 11.44am
Text of report by Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence website on 6 September A close relative of the Sea Tiger leader Soosai has launched a new television channel for LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] propaganda in Europe named Valary TV, which is to start telecasting from the French capital on September 6, 2008. This [...] (more)

Latest 'X Factor' draws 9 million
From Digital Spy. Posted September 7 2008, 11.11am
The latest round of X Factor auditions pulls in more than 9 million viewerfs. (more)

Poland wins Eurovision Dance Contest
From Digital Spy. Posted September 7 2008, 9.22am
Poland are announced as the winners of this year's Eurovision Dance Contest. (more)

Rafael Behr: Maestro proves the BBC knows the score
From Media Guardian. Posted September 6 2008, 11.08pm
Rafael Behr: The BBC faces a difficult choice when dealing with serious art (more)

Editorial: The government should not look to Jeremy Kyle for answers
From Media Guardian. Posted September 6 2008, 11.08pm
Editorial: The ambition, presumably, is that Mr Kyle's scorn for fecklessness can be used to shame indolent Britons out of welfare dependency (more)

Kathryn Flett on television: Fiona's story, BBC1 | The children, ITV1 | Lost in Austen, ITV1
From Media Guardian. Posted September 6 2008, 11.07pm
Kathryn Flett on television: Fiona's story, BBC1 | The children, ITV1 | Lost in Austen, ITV1 (more)