Michael Grade

Media Talk podcast: How TV covered the US Elections

This week's ingredients include: Swearing.On this week's podcast, we look back at the media coverage of the US elections, from a US and UK perspective. Maggie Brown and Owen Gibson stayed up for most of the night between them,...

Jonathan Ross backlash caused by 'resentment' over salary, says Terry Wogan

Sir Terry Wogan has defended the amount Jonathan Ross is paid by the BBC, but said the suspended presenter's £18m three-year deal was the reason the backlash against the Andrew Sachs prank calls incident became so fierce.The...

Gordon Ramsay gives up swearing

Gordon Ramsay is to tone down his bad language because of the uproar over swearing on TV. The telly chef, 41, whose Channel 4 show the F Word was named after his infamous foul-mouthed outbursts, says he wants to be known for...

Saving banks the Lloyd's way

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of these extraordinary times is the pace of the adjustment. , the builder, this week announced that its year-on-year house sales have fallen by 45%, while figures for the housing market...

ITV reports decline in broadcasting revenue

ITV revealed the impact of the recession yesterday when it reported a 5% decline in broadcasting revenue in the first nine months of this year and forecast a drop of 9% in advertising revenues in the fourth quarter. ITV's...

ALEX BRUMMER: King faces the boldness test

Now that Barack Obama is safely home as president-elect the recovery in equity markets on both sides of the Atlantic has cooled.Investors are now anxiously waiting to see who will be moving into the Treasury and who will...

TV doesn't need filth to be fab

WHEN I was a child my mum used to say to me: “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all,” which means, if I had paid any attention to her, I would have spent most of my childhood in silence. She’d get very upset...

ITV Broadcast and Online to merge

ITV is to merge its online and programming operations in a restructure that will see Jeff Henry, managing director of ITV Consumer, step down from the role. Henry, who was responsible for the digital interactive and gaming...

Top politicians join Mirror campaign to stamp out F-word on TV

The Mirror's call to stop the swearing on telly has been backed by top politicians of all parties. Itv boss Michael Grade (below) kicked off the campaign when he vowed to wage war on the "unrestrained, indiscriminate" use of...

Top Gear Row Over Prostitute Gag

1:21pm UK, Tuesday November 04, 2008 Jeremy Clarkson has sparked fresh BBC controversy by joking about murdering prostitutes. Clarkson made the joke on BBC's Top Gear programme The Top Gear presenter, 48, made the quip about...