The BBC puts Doctor Who out to tender - no Christmas special, no Russell T Davies, no Bad Wolf. Broadcast’s Insight Editor Rebecca Cooney on what’s really been going on behind the TARDIS doors.
Also on the show: how do you explain the world to an eight-year-old? Vanessa Harriss, editor of The Week Junior, on the healthy business of children’s media - and why kids still want it in print.
All that plus: ITV, Channel 4 and Sky tell the BBC to stop paddling up Schitt’s Creek... Rhodri Talfan Davies lands the deputy DG job... and, in The Audio Network Media Quiz, everybody’s moving house.
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What The Media Club has been reading this week:
BBC puts Doctor Who out to tender; Christmas special scrapped
ITV, C4 and Sky call for BBC to cut back on international acquisitions
Rhodri Talfan Davies named BBC Deputy Director-General
Goalhanger tops Sunday Times fastest-growing companies list
Tony Livesey to step back from BBC radio show
Mehdi Hasan launches Zeteo in the UK
Only Murders in the Building moves to London for series six
Karl Warner to relocate to LA for BBC Studios global creator role
Miss Me? leaves the BBC to go commercial