TV Insiders Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville address your comments and questions regarding the BBC's Sarah Everard drama, axing long-running TV shows, Claude writing quiz show questions, as well as discussing Michael Grade's recent comments about terms of trade.

Topics discussed:

Michael Grade's comments regarding terms of trade

The BBC's Sarah Everard drama

Exploitative true crime shows

TV quiz show question writing

Claude and the use of AI in TV

Axing long-running TV shows

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:12 Michael Grade's comments regarding terms of trade

09:59 Question 1) regarding the BBC's Sarah Everard drama

12:11 Question 2) regarding the BBC's Sarah Everard drama

13:26 Statement from Lindsay Salt, BBC Director of Drama

19:16 Question 3) regarding exploitative true crime TV shows

20:49 Question 4) some dramatisations are simply poor taste

23:09 Questions from Kenton Allen

24:16 Question 5) regarding TV quiz show question writing and AI

29:59 Peter's Bob Dylan quiz

35:01 Question 6) regarding the axing of long-running TV shows

37:09 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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