Insiders: The TV Podcast
Old friends Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville are the ultimate TV insiders, and in their new podcast, they'll share their insights and analysis of the goings on in the world of television. In short, they're going to get together once a week to gossip!Jimmy is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His hit shows include Have I Got News For You (series 69 now airing), Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, and Episodes. In the US Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway in 19...
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Episodes (96)
Amol Rajan on leaving the Today Programme, the BBC's future and leaping into the...
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New BBC funding ideas, uncertainty over CNN's future and Meghan Markle’s jam mak...
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The Banijay All3 Mega Merger, BBC Bafta Fallout and Paramount emerge victorious...
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Lisa McGee on creating How to Get to Heaven from Belfast & what the future holds...
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Can TV Copy the Music Industry? Sky’s Ad/Subscription Paradox & Latest BBC Cuts
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ITV’s picture-in-picture ads, day drinking with Claudia Winkleman and the Wild W...
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Trump’s fury at the Grammys, the BBC’s latest funding conundrum & Channel 4’s Bi...
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The Cup of Tea That Led to Ludwig, TV’s Algorithmic Future & Cancellation Nightm...
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Has YouTube changed the BBC’s strategy? Why Amol Rajan went solo & will MediaWan...
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Banijay & All3Media Mega-Merge, Netflix's $83 billion play & The BBC standing fi...
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Why The Traitors Changed Format, will Disney buy Taylor Swift and can YouTube ru...
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Trump sues the BBC for $10bn, the Gordian Knot of Charter renewal, and looking a...
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A new Chief Exec at Channel 4, the bidding war for Warner Bros, and the unlikely...
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More pressure on BBC Chair Samir Shah, Gary Lineker’s big money Netflix deal, an...
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Andy Wilman on Top Gear, The Grand Tour, and Clarkson’s Farm.
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The BBC’s legal stand off with Donald Trump, Sky’s bid for ITV, and Alex Mahon’s...
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A turbulent week of resignations at the BBC, the challenges facing the next DG,...
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Panorama's Trump edit and the BBC's latest own goal, Kim Kardashian’s zero-star...
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Disney departs Doctor Who, Winkleman & Norton to become BBC chat show stablemate...
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Claudia & Tess's departure from Strictly, Paddington's day in court, and memorie...
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Meghan Markle’s impressive efforts to spin her Netflix deal, the demise of the 9...
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A “very upset" Paddington Bear, Euan Blair and last week’s HIGNFY, and the BBC’s...
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Guilty viewing, shows we wish we’d made, and what the overnights do (and don’t)...
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Trump vs Kimmel, ITV turns 70, and all the news from RTS Cambridge (without the...
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Andy Harries on The Crown, the genius of Caroline Aherne, and his much maligned...
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Piers Morgan heads to 5, life at Fox after Rupert Murdoch, and Tim Davie’s plan...
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Crime Special: From the verdant cosiness of Midsomer Murders, to the gritty dram...
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Netflix and the row over TV tourism, ITV’s efforts to poach Michael McIntyre, an...
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Trump vs South Park, C5 revive Play for Today, and explaining comedy to the Germ...
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Harry and Meghan’s new (watered down) Netflix deal, the streamers’ continued pus...
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The renaissance of the old fashioned audience sitcom on Netflix, the secret of a...
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The rise and rise of YouTube, a mixed bag of results from ITV, and some good (an...
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Cancelling Colbert, the shifting balance of power in the world of the chat show,...
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The state of the audience sitcom, the best (and worst) ways to cancel a show, an...
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Spitting Image returns (but this time on YouTube), the F1 movie and the debt it...
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The BBC and the controversy at Glastonbury, the return of Blind Date on Disney,...
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The challenges ahead for Kate Phillips as the BBC’s new content chief, the parlo...
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Royal Special: TV and the monarchy
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Attenborough and the alchemy of on screen talent, Netflix’s push into the world...
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The future of soaps in the era of streaming, the joys of SXSW London, and the mu...
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Channel 4’s controversial plans for in-house production, word clouds with Ant an...
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Special Episode: Remembering Alan Yentob
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Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC, the shakeup at ITV Daytime, and Peter doe...
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Dispatches from the BAFTAs, controversy at Question Time, and a podcast sponsors...
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The Father Ted musical, Trump’s baffling film tariffs, and the Downton video gam...
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A new Chief Exec at Channel 4, why politicians all end up wanting to be on the t...
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The fate of the linear schedule, Jimmy’s offer to buy BBC3, and a Downton lunch...
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SNL comes to the UK, taxing the streamers, and some truly terrible Roger Moore i...
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HIGNFY goes to America, Father Ted (but without the Catholic priests), and Volca...
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