TV Picks: 27th April – 3rd May
Grayson’s Art Club
Channel 4
Monday 27th April, 8pm
The Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry hosts a new show to get the nation’s creative juices flowing during lockdown.
Blood
Channel 5's Ben Frow swaps Big Brother for "life-affirming" shows
It’s a good time to sit down with Ben Frow, Channel 5’s director of programmes. A purple patch that started with the station winning Channel of the Year at the Edinburgh TV Awards last August has just been topped with the station’s best Christmas since 2005 – and all this after Frow’s “carnage” assessment of the first half of the year.
From his now much more comfortable perch, the executive is happy to reel off a catalogue of titles that, in those first months of 2018, passed most of the nation by.
Bill Malone delivers Dan Gilbert Memorial Lecture
Virgin Media Television’s director of programming said: “We’re constantly being told that linear TV is dead, but the facts actually present a different picture.”
In Ireland, Virgin Media is “bucking the trend and showing continual growth in audiences”, a result, he claimed, of a “notable step up in [the] scale, ambition and quality” of programming.