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The closure has caused delays with an emergency alarm causing travel chaos at one of the capitals main stations.

THE last of the stock belonging to the old Beales department store chain has been sold for £2,500, an update from administrators has revealed.

The team dive into this week’s shock £36bn AT&T/Discovery deal, while ITV and C4’s drama bosses join the Restart Conference The global TV world was rocked this week by the £36bn AT&T/Discovery mega-merger, an eventuality that no one saw coming bar a handful of US execs who enjoy a spot of golf. International gurus John Elmes and Jesse Whittock are joined by Ampere Analysis research director Richard Broughton to discuss, in a week that also saw reports of a potential Amazon/MGM buyout. The...

2021-03-12T12:59:00+00:00 Bectu head Philippa Childs urges broadcasters to get tough on bullying after this week’s GMB walkout  Following a whirlwind week, the Broadcast Newswrap gets into the weeds of Piers Morgan’s GMB departure and Bectu head Philippa Childs is on hand to assess how the development will impact the industry’s fight against bullying and harassment. Meanwhile, international editor John Elmes, reporter Hannah Bowler and senior reporter Max Goldbart discuss GMB successio...

2021-03-12T16:18:00+00:00 Bectu head Philippa Childs urges broadcasters to get tough on bullying after this week’s GMB walkout  Below is a transcription for the hard of hearing of this week’s Broadcast Newswrap podcast, featuring Bectu head Philippa Childs and the Broadcast team analysing all the fallout from Piers Morgan’s GMB walkout    Max Goldbart [00:00:03] Hello and welcome to the Broadcast Newswrap your shorthand guide to the week’s TV news stories featuring the biggest news...

2021-02-19T14:58:00+00:00 5 News editor Cait FitzSimons and media commentator Ben Fenton assess the landscape as GB News and News UK prep launches The broadcasting world is alive with the buzz of two news channels launching in the coming months and who better to assess the state of play than ITN’s 5 News editor Cait FitzSimons and media consultant and commentator Ben Fenton. The pair talk to John Elmes as GB News and News UK prepare to launch channels, discussing how the duo will fit in the...

The Newswrap team dissect an unforgettable year for British broadcasting and production

At the start of lockdown, when a potent mix of nursery closure, Zoom ineptitude and Covid confusion made life almost unbearable, Quiz was a beacon of light. It was tense and silly, with wonderful performances that went beyond caricature or impression to round out the show’s Major players (groan) – led by a sheepish and sweaty Matthew Macfadyen. When so much drama is about solving brutal murders, here was a more joyous conundrum: did an upper middle-class nitwit really outsmart a TV juggerna...