Might give hope to Martin Lewis, who’s campaigned on this issue as his face has been used repeatedly in scam ads leeching off his trusted personal brand & popularity www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

It’s….ITV’s new reality show The Vardys

How a live streaming app that’s rivalling TikTok helped lead to a new BBC thrift shop show hosted by Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page. Plus, finding new funding pots for YouTube channels substack.com/@theindiehus...

All the 1000+ actors/producers/directors who’ve signed the ‘Block the Merger’ letter opposing the Paramount Warner Bros Discovery deal, including Emma Thompson, Rose Byrne, Ben Stiller and JJ Abrams blockthemerger.com/openletter

Big libel defeat… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

This is a very good point & illustrates how much I am not Martin Lewis & hopefully he’ll raise the issue of how price matching exacerbates the effects of dynamic pricing to the Competition and Markets Authority

Thoughts on supermarkets introducing Oasis ticket-style dynamic pricing: - Don’t look back in anger at your receipt, shop around - Market fruit & veg stalls have been doing this for years - Demand for particular ingredients rise when TV cooking shows use them so beware the ‘Bake Off’ effect

If you don’t have a space hug-inspired tear in your eye and aren’t quoting the best Terminator lines this morning then you need to have a word with yourself #they’llbeback www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Whenever David Attenborough speaks, the world listens – so his latest must-watch programme, Secret Garden, which heralds the broadcaster’s 100th birthday and starts tonight on BBC1, is bound to attract attention www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

@backthebbc.bsky.social: #Newsround is 54 years old today - the world's first TV News for Children It's estimated that 750,000+ children watch it each day at school. The old tea-time slot has been swapped to focus on early bulletin designed for schools.

Loostoun we have a problem. The 1969 moon landing had ‘One small step for man’. This moon mission has, ‘For fecal use only’. The inspo quote we all need right now

28-Day Report (09 - 15 Feb): #SmallProphets finds massive catch-up numbers as the launch finalises at 7.6 million viewers. The #WinterOlympics came around with a solid 3.9m.

A summary of the problems of ‘sloppelgangers’ neatly described by @juliaangwin.com . Many of us are on Grammarly giving our ‘advice’ - unaware, untrue and uncompensated . It is specific to a product here, but elsewhere it is also out of control . www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

‘We will egg-sterminate!’ Big news for Doctor Who fans as BBC iPlayer reveals it’s to air two lost eps of the hit show this Easter. Credit for finding the missing eps to @filmisfabulous.bsky.social

Radio 1’s Greg James has got many through hard times with his morning nonsense & empathy, esp during pandemic. So no surprise at huge support for him from listeners over his dad’s illness this morn as Greg also faces gruelling Comic Relief 1000km cycling challenge this week.Donate if you can

"He always goes for the hug but she's sticking with the formalities!" 😅 A nice moment between Princess Anne and Scotland captain Sione Tuipulotu 🤗

Channel 4 sewage scandal series Dirty Business is having an effect with almost 300,000 signatures on a petition to re-nationalise the UK water industry and nearly 1,500 to remove the knighthood from Sir James Bevan, who is now a non-exec director of Welsh Water c.org/D87HYXvRGK c.org/6rF2C7BRNN

Two mega-media deals & BBC response to charter green paper - a busy week to discuss on The Media Club. Plus a chance for me to give credit where credit’s due to @janinegibson.ft.com for coining the term enormo-indie

No not the Geordie one www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian’s positive action work experience is open for applications! There are (paid) schemes for disabled, BAME, and working class wannabe journalists. Because the media needs more people like us. Info here: workwithus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...

WGGB is encouraging members to have their say on BBC Charter Renewal by responding to the Government's public consultation Full information on how to do this here: writersguild.org.uk/future-of-th...

Decluttering getting a rebrand. Curious to see if this works in reverse; if I go more maximalist do trapeze artists & clowns start appearing in my home?

Trump’s exclusive post is also (shock!) monetised by Truth Social with (if you decline cookies & don’t have an account so its algo doesn’t know you) ads about (funnily enough) snoring, enlarged prostrate cures & erectile dysfunction pills. Getting ‘if Reach did geopolitical regime change’ vibes

Inevitable but potentially huge move by the Premier League as more rights holders go direct to consumer via their own platforms. Expect PremFlix to lead to more media owners buying stakes in sports teams for a seat at the rights table

The timing of this commission as a new media dynasty left in pole position for WBD following the decision by Netflix to step away from the bidding process is probably coincidental but interesting www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Succession the movie just got its plot. So many Qs: what might Netflix (unsurprisingly its shares are up) buy instead, how much of media will the Ellisons then control & what would media monolith Paramount Skydance Warner Discovery actually be called? PSWD sounds too much like an illness

Netflix statement on stepping off the WBD bid escalator: “We’ve always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.”

A SOTU response that will have many who don’t know her doing deep dives on Abigail Spanberger this morning

Envisaging a distant future where the behind-the-scenes TV drama about this bid battle is the subject of a bidding war between AppleWarnerDance and AmazonBanaNet

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

The power of great TV: with the airing of Channel 4‘s water pollution drama Dirty Business, in just a day over 26,000 people have signed a petition calling on Kaya Starmer to end the sewage pollution scandal 👏 Channel 4 @iankatz1000.bsky.social and Surfers… you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will

Nothing to see here; just AI encouraging children to contract out using their brains/cheat but I’m sure it’ll all be fine & doesn’t require any kind of intervention at all

Is this bad

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

If you loved Clarkson’s Farm & Rivals then watch Danny Dyer & daughter Dani run a caravan park they’ve invested in for The Dyers’ Caravan Park. The pair attempt to make the seaside holidays Danny remembers from his childhood cool again.He says there, “was a real.. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

“She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to #America: “Don’t go – not with #Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They [ #ICE] don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”

If you read just one thing today, make it this. Shocking. Journalists are dismissed as “mainstream media” by those who don’t want truth spoken to power; yet without them who would expose how big tech is monetising abuse & misogyny & highlight why regulation is needed? 🙌 Janine. Ltd free links so..

Very much a sidebar fact but it’s also Andrew’s birthday today* *only know this as a teacher told me when young it was cool my birthday same day as his…not any more

I’m launching a new podcast with Maisie Adam on Sunday, interviewing people who were instantly famous in the 90s and 00s. Remember Me? starts on Sunday. On YouTube and your podcast places.

Highlights from ace Lisa Nandy iview: “I’ve had criticisms about not telling the media what they can and can’t write & what they can and can’t do.If you look at some of my social media feeds,it’s why haven’t I shut down GB News or why haven’t I shut down the BBC?… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

At the Royal Courts of Justice today to monitor the first test of England and Wales' first (and only) Anti-SLAPP powers in an application brought by @danneidle.bsky.social

Sometimes we’re so busy dealing with the waves we don’t see the tides. If you work in TV/content, take a break for a minute to read this eloquent long view and rallying call to independent producers from British Broadcasting Challenge chair Patrick Younge www.theindiehustle.com/p/mega-merge...

Ironically DVC may have stood for divorce but fortunately this story of AI meddling has a happy ending

Obviously they’ll be cheering on fellow birds of prey the Seahawks www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Noticing another increase in numbers on here - welcome all 🦋 Maybe it’s to do with initiatives like this. Whilst other platforms reward toXicity, Bluesky makes efforts to reduce it

Ex-Nato strategic comms head Mark Laity: “It’s not about PR or spin, but about understanding that policies & actions equal character & feed into the greater story you are telling. You start off with a clear narrative — and then take the actions that support it. Narrative is strategy in story form”

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