A triumphant return for Anne and Watchdog

Hopefully I’m not the only person to be cheered at the return of PROPER Watchdog with Anne Robinson back at the helm. At last here was a consumer show which didn’t treat the audience like so many thickies waiting for their next dose of reality TV.

The BBC needs more reform and less rhetoric

I’m really getting fed up with BBC bosses hiding behind Licence Fee payers when it suits them and ignoring them when it doesn’t. The BBC has to change, but before it does we need to be able to have a sensible debate about what the public want from it.

The BBC’s woes are wholly of its own making

The decision to force the BBC to share some of the licence fee was only possible because its bosses, including the trust, have become deaf to the complaints and grumbles of ordinary licence fee payers and frittered money away with no regard for the institution they were entrusted with.

David Tennant to guest star in Sarah Jane spin-off

David Tennant is to guest star in a two-part story in the third series of Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. Executive Producer Russell T Davies promised viewers to “a full-on appearance for The Doctor as he and Sarah Jane face their biggest threat ever.”

Reggie Perrin returns Friday

Martin Clunes revives a comedy legend when Reggie Perrin returns to BBC One in a modern-day update of the classic British sitcom The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin. The series tells the story of an average man finding it increasingly difficult to put up with the monotony of life, the disappointing marriage, the office grind as head of disposable razors at male-grooming firm Groomtech and the daily commute.

Waterloo Road re-opens after fire

Waterloo Road, the setting for BBC One’s school based drama, opens for a new 20 episode term later this week following the devastating fire which gutted half the school at the end of the last series.

Next Page »