The reviews are in for Fiona Bruce’s first episode of Question Time, which aired last week. Fiona Bruce took over from David Dimbleby following his departure at the end of 2018 after 25 years of ...

This week’s Five Things covers a week of news (see what we did there?). We have a new social media warning, a new President-Elect, a new development in GDPR, a new presenter for Radio 4’s ...

The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers has announced that the takeover of Sky will now be settled by auction. Both Fox and Comcast have been attempting to take over the broadcaster for some time, with ...

Chris Evans is leaving Radio 2 after 13 years with the station. The presenter of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show is rejoining Virgin Radio, the broadcaster he left in 2001. Evans announced on his Monday ...

This week’s Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed includes a high profile social media ban, the rise of online TV, the very shy Tories, Australians going mad for portraits of the Queen and Ed Balls ...

The cult phenomenon, Love Island, is going stateside following the announcement that ITV has sold the rights to CBS. In a further boon to the broadcaster, the new series will be produced by ITV Entertainment. ...

This week’s Five Things You Should Have Missed – sorry I meant to write ‘Shouldn’t’, rather than ‘Should’ – includes Google’s record fine, the new BuzzFeed News, Trump’s bizarre approach to communication, the Top 50 ...

This week’s Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed includes BBC star pay, Facebook’s fine, the billion-pound tussle for Sky, the Twitter-follower purge and the Build-A-Bear promotion. 1. BBC salaries The BBC has released its annual ...

The latest PR, media and comms stories including the battle of the Christmas ads, Twitter’s increase in character, Sky News’ future, Vogue’s new look and Alex Salmond on RT.   1. Advertising is beginning to ...

Channel 4 has announced that Ian Katz has been appointed director of programmes, following Jay Hunt’s departure in September. Katz is currently editor of BBC’s Newsnight and was previously deputy editor of the Guardian. His ...

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, currently hosted by Nick Grimshaw, has dropped to its lowest listening figures since records began. With just 4.93 million weekly listeners in the third quarter of 2017, the show is ...

This week’s big stories of the week from the world of PR, media and communications, including PRWeek Awards, Crimewatch, a white paper, McDonald’s and parenting bloggers. 1. 30 years of PRWeek Awards Vuelio were delighted ...

One of the UK’s longest continuously airing programmes has been cancelled by the BBC. The announcement was originally reported by the Sun, which claims BBC bosses want to ‘spend more on dramas’. Crimewatch is currently ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Bell Pottinger The troubled PR giant is having a terrible week. James Henderson, CEO, resigned on Sunday. ...

The consolidated viewing figures for the first episode of Great British Bake Off make it one of Channel 4’s most watched programmes of all time. Taking into account time-shifted viewing over a seven-day period, the ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Hurricane Harvey The devastating Hurricane Harvey and flooding that ensued across Texas has held the international media’s ...

Amazon has hinted that it’s about to get serious about streaming live TV sports, threatening the dominance of traditional broadcasters like Sky. Speaking at Edinburgh’s International Television Festival, Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios said: ...

The Mail Online is set to expand on its success in the US market, where it has already achieved the status of the most popular English-language news site, with the launch of a new hour-long ...

Streaming media giant Netflix has made its first acquisition, of the Glasgow-based comic book publisher Millarworld, in a deal some media pundits are comparing to Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of Marvel comics in 2009. Millarworld ...

Carolyn McCall has been appointed ITV’s first female chief executive. She will succeed Adam Crozier early next year. McCall is joining ITV from easyJet where she has been chief executive for seven years. She was ...