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So Big Brother is being evicted from the C4 schedules and it’s time to measure its legacy. It’s not all bad. BB certainly did revolutionise TV programming: along with coverage of Wimbledon and Glastonbury, it helped popularise the use of the “red button” to access other video streams; it also brought in phone voting, connecting [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2009 under Television. Tags: Big Brother, Castaway 2000, Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 4, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, Jack Dee, Strictly Come Dancing, Vanessa Feltz, X Factor. Comments: None

The TV industry may not agree with Gerhard Zeiler’s assessment of Channel 4 and Five being “complementary broadcasters” (the cultures of the two places are radically different, as is their history), but C4 changed the day it started selling its own advertising in 1993.
From that point on, its public service remit has been in tension [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 under Broadcasting, Television. Tags: Andy Burnham, BBC, Big Brother, C4 News, Channel 4, Dispatches, Five, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, ITV, Ofcom, public service broadcasting, Strictly Come Dancing. Comments: 1

lucecannon.com is a reality TV-free zone for lots of reasons. One: reality TV and coverage of it is everywhere so it doesn’t need to be here. Two, three, four, five and six: it’s just not my particular tasse du the and I shall attempt to explain why. But it will have to be quick and [...]

Posted on December 11th, 2008 under Television. Tags: BBC, Channel 4, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, ITV, Jay Hunt, John Serjeant, Strictly Come Dancing. Comments: 4