The World Cup Coverage Battle | BBC’s 500 Job Cuts | The Government’s Social Media Green Paper

TV Insiders Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville tackle the World Cup coverage battle, the TV Festival's Manchester move, the BBC's 500 job cuts, and the Government's social media green paper - recorded on the UK's hottest June day on record!

Topics discussed:

The UK's Prime Minister

England cs Ghana

The World Cup coverage battle between the BBC & ITV

The Edinburgh TV Festival moving to Manchester

The BBC's 500 job cuts

The Government's social media green paper

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:30 The UK's next PM

02:06 England vs Ghana

02:32 What's on the show today?

03:13 The World Cup coverage battle

10:00 The Edinburgh TV Festival moves to Manchester

14:30 Hydration Break

14:53 The BBC's 500 job cuts

25:01 The Government's social media green paper

35:25 Outro

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Jimmy Mulville is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His list of hit shows includes Have I Got News For You, Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, and Episodes. In the US Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1997 which ran on ABC for seven years and was the first British series to be recreated for American network television by a British producer.

Peter Fincham ran TalkBack, where he executive produced many of their biggest shows including I’m Alan Partridge, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and Da Ali G Show. He went on to be Controller of BBC1, then he was Director of Television at ITV, before returning to the independent sector as the co-CEO of Expectation, the company behind Clarkson's Farm and Alma's Not Normal. New episodes every Friday.

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