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
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...
For Fecal Use Only also sounds like the worst and most scatalogical James Bond film ever
@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. Newsround presenter on set.
@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.
Absolute star. Also how after finishing, his repeated main takeaway was all the joy he encountered along the journey; it’s what we need right now
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
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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
Trademarking ‘enormo indie’ for you right now
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
