Falling ratings for primetime news suggest the days when presenters were household names are drawing to a closeIt has been one of the paradoxes of the year: as TV viewers continue to hunger for updates on the pandemic – the biggest story since the seco…
Rupert Murdoch’s launch of talkTV is about opportunism as much as ideology | Emily Bell
Piers Morgan will be presenting a nightly talkshow in this new venture aimed at outflanking the ailing GB NewsThe human Marmite of British journalism, Piers Morgan, is about to be spread very thinly. He has signed a global commentary deal with Rupert M…
Britain’s broadcast media is too valuable to be the toy of politicians and moguls | Will Hutton
Rupert Murdoch launches a new channel, C4 is threatened and notions of impartiality seem up for grabs. Are we seeing a challenge to the old order?Britain’s stubborn attachment to non-Tory values infuriates and worries Conservative politicians to equal …
Now Andrew Neil has left GB News, I’m selflessly volunteering to replace him | Hussein Kesvani
Neil was an analogue artefact struggling to break through in an online worldSo it’s farewell to Andrew Neil. While the former chairman and lead presenter of GB News had decades of print and television experience, it was clear from the start of his late…
Behind the scenes of Andrew Neil’s departure from GB News
Sources say presenter was in legal battle with rightwing channel’s bosses over his £700,000-a-year contractWhen Andrew Neil took a leave of absence from GB News a fortnight after its 13 June launch, the rightwing news channel and its star presenter spe…
Andrew Neil resigns as lead presenter and chairman of GB News
Ex-BBC host was unhappy with technical mistakes, loss of key staff and the channel’s political directionAndrew Neil has resigned as lead presenter and chairman of GB News following differences in the direction of the rightwing channel.The ex-BBC host w…
Andrew Neil will not make expected return to GB News next week
Unclear when or if presenter will return to station he founded, as GB News plans for relaunchFresh doubt has been cast over Andrew Neil’s continued involvement in GB News as it emerged he will not be making his expected return next week to work at the …
Andrew Neil enters his broom cupboard years | Stewart Lee
Thanks to the arrival of Nigel Farage at GB News, the veteran newsman now finds himself among the mops and DomestosA woman I went on a blind date with in 1988 told me that witches she knew would consort with the devil at midnight, on the meadow by the …
I’ve been watching Nigel Farage on GB News so you don’t have to. Consider yourself lucky | Catherine Bennett
The struggling channel is more talked about than watched. The solution: a show from the ex-Ukip leaderNigel Farage may not be the best-loved emergency service, but as demonstrated by his recent work for GB News, the struggling, consciously patriotic ne…