Nigel Farage in one of his 10 appearances on Question Time in the last decade.
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The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
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Broadcasters can struggle to report impartially when they have to single out one party for making dubious claims.
L-R: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Flynn (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru), Penny Mordaunt (Conservatives), Angela Rayner (Labour), Nigel Farage (Reform UK) and Carla Denyer (Green Party).
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The multi-party debate is an opportunity for smaller parties to get their messages across.
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Audience research can tell us what voters really want to see in debates.
A.J. Odudu and Will Best present Big Brother on ITV.
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Once huge ratings draws, reality TV shows are facing dwindling audiences in the UK and elsewhere. Is this the end of the genre, or can it adapt to survive?
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A universal fee still seems the most obvious way to fund Britain’s most important public broadcaster.
Families no longer gather around the television to watch programmes together as they did in previous decades.
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Countries around the world are debating whether free-to-air television has a future.
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Current affairs TV began over 60 years ago in New Zealand. The end of the long-form format leaves local journalism greatly diminished.
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was portrayed as a bullying, tyrant in Spitting Image.
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Thatcher provided the show with its star turn, but her government’s policies were also influential in bringing the programme to air.
The Six Nations Championship is classified as a ‘category B’ tournament by the UK government.
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When Six Nations’ broadcasting deal with the BBC and ITV ends in 2025, there are fears the tournament could move to a subscription service.
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You might think someone is guilty because of unconscious opinions you hold regarding certain traits.
The Queen’s second-last Christmas broadcast, in 2020, during the COVID lockdown.
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For many people, the royal Christmas broadcast is a festive tradition that brings comfort, reassurance and a connection to the past.
Just three months after his left arm was amputated in 1990, Mohamed Amin was back at work with a bionic arm.
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His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
The BBC’s veteran foreign correspondent Jeremy Bowen reporting from Syria, 2014.
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If the first casualty of war is truth, it’s not often the fault of the journalists on the frontline who do a tough job in difficult circumstances.
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This season places environmental issues front and centre more than any BBC nature programme before it.
Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning.
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Coogan’s profile as both an actor and as a comic contributed to the questions raised ahead of his portrayal of Jimmy Savile.
The cast of Ghosts, series five.
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Ghosts’s mix of humour and poignancy echoes real 19th century attempts to communicate with spirits.
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Working practices in the TV industry are in dire need of change to stop workplaces from being environments that facilitate abuse and harassment.
Ruth Wilson as Lorna Brady.
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Set in the fictional town of Kilkinure in western Ireland, the BBC drama captures the story of an unmarried mother who was formerly detained in a Magdalene Laundry.
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Michael Parkinson, who has died at 88, demonstrated the art of the good interview night after night.