ITV
Tom Mockridge appointed Chair of the Royal Television Society
Tom is the CEO of Virgin Media and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of parent company Liberty Global, the world’s largest international TV and broadband company. Tom joined Liberty Global in June 2013 following the acquisition of Virgin Media. During the previous two decades he worked for News Corporation in a variety of senior roles across the world. He started his career as a newspaper journalist in his native New Zealand, then in Australia, before becoming an adviser and spokesperson for the Federal Treasurer, the Honourable Paul Keating.
This week’s top TV: 7 - 13 November
Monday: Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match
BBC4
As election fever reaches its peak in the US, American comedian Rich Hall looks back at the dirty tricks that have been played in presidential races past. The nasty campaigns and unsavory moves covered proves it wasn't just Trump and Clinton who dished out low blows.
This week’s top TV: 31 October – 6 November
Monday
Dark Angel
ITV, 9pm
The horn of plenty: TV in a hyperconnected world
Comedian Hugh Dennis aired the thoughts of many trying to navigate the new television landscape when he introduced this session. In a video diary shown to conference delegates, he was seen stuck inside a room for a month. His task was to watch all the content available to modern audiences.
“Watching telly used to be so easy,” he complained. “Four channels, maybe five – everyone watched the same thing in the same place at the same time, unless your family was at the cutting edge of technology and had a VCR.”
This week’s top TV: 24 – 30 October
Monday
Be Your Own Doctor
Channel 4, 8.30pm
Be Your Own Doctor is a health programme for modern society, where we turn to Google before GPs when we're ill.
Ashley Banjo to host Diversity special on ITV
The one-hour extravaganza, titled Diversity Steal The Show, will include celebrity guest appearances, pranks, dance routines, and a competition offering one amateur performer the chance to share the stage with Banjo and co.
Margaret Emsley: 'Our programmes must fully reflect the community that we serve.'
Having cut her teeth as a print news journalist, Margaret Emsley has spent the last 18 years at ITV Yorkshire working on the Calendar regional news programme in Leeds. Starting out as a bulletin writer, she worked her way up the ranks and today oversees the entire production of the daily news show.
Watch: 'You don't own a TV? What is all your furniture pointed at?'
This week’s top TV: 26 September – 2 October
Monday
Morgana Robinson’s The Agency
BBC Two, 10pm
Comedian and impressionist Morgana Robinson (The Windsors, Toast of London) stars in this new mockumentary series about a fictional talent agency, in which she plays the entire roster of celeb talent.