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Production - On Location - It's a dirty job ...
Think your job's the pits? Try treading wool in a barrel full of urine or handling medieval explosives for a living. Tony Robinson did just that for a new Channel 4 series.
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Production - Money for new rope.
Howard Webster asks television graphics producers how the trend for movie-style visual effects in factual programmes has affected their businesses and whether it means more money or more headaches.
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Production - Competing in the big wide CG world.
As more CG work becomes available, Howard Webster asks if smaller graphics companies can get in on the act.
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Production - No place like home.
A lot is riding on Five's uber-format Back to Reality, which has a price tag of£4.7m. Michael Rosser finds out how the money was used to create a Truman Show-style world under constant public surveillance.
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Ratings - ITV1 beats all comers as nation gets jungle fever.
BBC2 Sherlock Holmes 25 34 Ready,Steady,Cook Thu 16.30
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Off the Record - Suspicious Minds.
The powers-that-be at the Royal Television Society would do well to avoid ITV drama don Nick
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Off the Record - The (Sky) Office.
Spotted lunching at The Ivy last week: James Murdoch and his predecessor Tony Ball. Unfortunately, OTR's
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NewsPEER POLL: Should Five pull Back to Reality?
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should Five pull Back to Reality?
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BBC learning cuts jobs in bid to refocus
The BBC is to cut 12 posts in its learning division as part of a restructure that will see it put more money into fewer projects.
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Rick Stein's Food Heroes (BBC2) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'Cookery programmes and their accompanying books are widely recognised as a form of porn, providing quick and easy ...
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Wire in the Blood (ITV1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'There's no denying that, whenever he's required simply to be a TV star, Green can do quite a decent job. Here, how...
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Wire in the Blood (ITV1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'Last night's episode, written by the impressively sick Alan Whiting, was seriously, outlandishly odd.'...
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Fallen Angel: The Real Charlotte Church (ITV1) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'As the title suggests, hagiography it was not. Bitchy hatchet job, more like.'...
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Fallen Angel: The Real Charlotte Church (C4) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'I have a doozie: Fallen Network: The Real Channel 4, a documentary about how a young television channel, once love...
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NewsBurdick quits Telewest
Telewest managing director Charles Burdick has left the company to 'pursue other opportunities'.
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NewsColin and Edith replace Mark and Lard
BBC Radio 1 duo Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley are to be replaced by Colin Murray and Edith Bowman when they leave the station next month.
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NewsAction Time duo quit ITV
Two more senior Carlton programme executives have left ITV as a result of the merger.
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NewsFive's Milligan close to moving to Sky
Five's deputy chief executive Nick Milligan is understood to be on the verge of quitting to take up a senior commercial role at BSkyB.
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RatingsNo Place Like Home attracts just 2.8m
BBC1 stumbled again in peaktime as No Place Like Home attracted just 2.8 million (11.5%) and was overtaken by BBC2, Channel 4 and ITV1.
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NewsComedy duo save Xfm's Bacon
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, stars of Channel 4 comedy Spaced , are to host Richard Bacon's show on Xfm while he presents Back to Reality for Five.