60 acast.com Insiders: The TV Podcast https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast en Expectation / Hat Trick Television, TV,media,BBC,Fincham,Mulville,HIGNFY Expectation / Hat Trick 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 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 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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]]> 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 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 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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]]> true Expectation / Hat Trick info+67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b@mg-eu.acast.com 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b insiders-the-tv-podcast episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1744142999390-5890fed5-0a62-463f-9516-8033f5a1e4f9.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast Insiders: The TV Podcast <![CDATA[Greg Dyke on the BBC’s new DG, how to get your staff on side & the importance of public service broadcasting]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:03:00 GMT 34:41 69cedc8ef44b357ce944c772 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/greg-dyke-on-the-bbcs-new-dg-how-to-get-your-staff-on-side-t 69cedc8ef44b357ce944c772 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b greg-dyke-on-the-bbcs-new-dg-how-to-get-your-staff-on-side-t full 3 13 Jimmy and Peter are joined by former Director General Greg Dyke as he talks the highs and lows of his time running the BBC, and what advice he’d give to Matt Brittin as he prepares to take on the top job.


During his 4 years as DG, Dyke oversaw huge changes at every level of the organisation, from the birth of the iPlayer to a concerted effort to make the BBC less London-centric. But it was the row with the government over the Iraq war, and the Hutton Report that followed, that came to define his time in charge. He talks candidly about what that experience was like, and his regrets looking back more than 20 years later.


Plus, the bygone era of union dominance of television, unlikely book buying in Kampala, and why, if anyone ever asks you to join the LWT share options scheme, you should always, always say yes.


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.


YouTube: / @insiderstvpodcast

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter are joined by former Director General Greg Dyke as he talks the highs and lows of his time running the BBC, and what advice he’d give to Matt Brittin as he prepares to take on the top job.


During his 4 years as DG, Dyke oversaw huge changes at every level of the organisation, from the birth of the iPlayer to a concerted effort to make the BBC less London-centric. But it was the row with the government over the Iraq war, and the Hutton Report that followed, that came to define his time in charge. He talks candidly about what that experience was like, and his regrets looking back more than 20 years later.


Plus, the bygone era of union dominance of television, unlikely book buying in Kampala, and why, if anyone ever asks you to join the LWT share options scheme, you should always, always say yes.


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.


YouTube: / @insiderstvpodcast

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Matt Brittin to be the next DG, SNL UK launches on Sky, and Bob Monkhouse’s famous joke books are back in the news Matt Brittin to be the next DG, SNL UK launches on Sky, and Bob Monkhouse’s famous joke books are back in the news Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:05:00 GMT 34:50 69c56bcd26c1fb9c07799e36 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/matt-brittin-to-be-the-next-dg-snl-uk-launches-on-sky-and-bo 69c56bcd26c1fb9c07799e36 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b matt-brittin-to-be-the-next-dg-snl-uk-launches-on-sky-and-bo full 3 12 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the challenges that lie ahead for Matt Brittin as he’s (finally) confirmed as the next DG. While he’s doubtless a vastly able and experienced corporate leader, his in-tray already looks unenviable. We wish him well. 


The British iteration of SNL launched last weekend. There was a bit of sniping from the critics, but it was fundamentally a really strong start, and a very funny show. Could this be the turning the point that convinces broadcasters to start commissioning sketch shows again? 


And in this week’s political-correctness-gone-mad news, Peter and Jimmy offer their analysis of the fuss around The Repair Shop and Bob Monkhouse’s joke books.


Plus, Peter’s youthful dreams of being a cox (in the rowing sense), Jimmy’s zooms with the obscenely handsome Jamie Dornan, and the unlikely link between Matt Brittin’s Cambridge alma mater and the world of television. 


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.


YouTube:   / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the challenges that lie ahead for Matt Brittin as he’s (finally) confirmed as the next DG. While he’s doubtless a vastly able and experienced corporate leader, his in-tray already looks unenviable. We wish him well. 


The British iteration of SNL launched last weekend. There was a bit of sniping from the critics, but it was fundamentally a really strong start, and a very funny show. Could this be the turning the point that convinces broadcasters to start commissioning sketch shows again? 


And in this week’s political-correctness-gone-mad news, Peter and Jimmy offer their analysis of the fuss around The Repair Shop and Bob Monkhouse’s joke books.


Plus, Peter’s youthful dreams of being a cox (in the rowing sense), Jimmy’s zooms with the obscenely handsome Jamie Dornan, and the unlikely link between Matt Brittin’s Cambridge alma mater and the world of television. 


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.


YouTube:   / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Amol Rajan on leaving the Today Programme, the BBC's future and leaping into the "Digital Narnia" of the creator economy]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:01:00 GMT 44:21 69bbf72ac1a572dcd4c6ae58 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/amol-rajan-on-leaving-the-today-programme-the-bbcs-future-an 69bbf72ac1a572dcd4c6ae58 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b amol-rajan-on-leaving-the-today-programme-the-bbcs-future-an full 3 11 Jimmy and Peter are joined by broadcaster and soon-to-be media entrepreneur Amol Rajan to talk about the smaller but even more important future for the BBC, the rise of the creator economy and why YouTube versus Netflix is the media battle of our age.


They also unpack what it takes to build a media company in 2026, from audience-first thinking to monetisation challenges, and why individual creators are becoming more powerful than institutions. Amol shares his plans to create a global, intellectually curious audience through podcasts, video, live events and more whilst reflecting on lessons from legacy media and figures like Piers Morgan who’ve successfully followed the audience.


Plus, crashed boats, care homes and Amol’s presenting tips for Jimmy and Peter…


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.


YouTube:   / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter are joined by broadcaster and soon-to-be media entrepreneur Amol Rajan to talk about the smaller but even more important future for the BBC, the rise of the creator economy and why YouTube versus Netflix is the media battle of our age.


They also unpack what it takes to build a media company in 2026, from audience-first thinking to monetisation challenges, and why individual creators are becoming more powerful than institutions. Amol shares his plans to create a global, intellectually curious audience through podcasts, video, live events and more whilst reflecting on lessons from legacy media and figures like Piers Morgan who’ve successfully followed the audience.


Plus, crashed boats, care homes and Amol’s presenting tips for Jimmy and Peter…


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.


YouTube:   / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[New BBC funding ideas, uncertainty over CNN's future and Meghan Markle’s jam making empire consciously uncouples from Netflix]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT 37:10 69b31cf25668adfee63a2fa5 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/uncertainty-over-cnns-future-new-bbc-funding-ideas-and-megha 69b31cf25668adfee63a2fa5 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b uncertainty-over-cnns-future-new-bbc-funding-ideas-and-megha full 3 10 Jimmy kicks us off with his tales from the Writers Guild Awards in New York and the feeling on the ground around David Ellison’s takeover of Paramount and the future of CNN. Then, Peter outlines the BBC’s latest ideas as to how it will fund itself in the streaming age where licence fee evasion costs the BBC more than £1 billion a year.

Later, they discuss what we can learn from the end of Meghan Markle’s partnership with Netflix as her lifestyle brand ‘As Ever’ heads out into the world selling jam and “flower sprinkles”.


Plus, Barry White running CBS News, George Osborne getting booed at the Paralympics and why a traumatic memory from Peter’s childhood inspired him to commission Robin Hood years later…


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy kicks us off with his tales from the Writers Guild Awards in New York and the feeling on the ground around David Ellison’s takeover of Paramount and the future of CNN. Then, Peter outlines the BBC’s latest ideas as to how it will fund itself in the streaming age where licence fee evasion costs the BBC more than £1 billion a year.

Later, they discuss what we can learn from the end of Meghan Markle’s partnership with Netflix as her lifestyle brand ‘As Ever’ heads out into the world selling jam and “flower sprinkles”.


Plus, Barry White running CBS News, George Osborne getting booed at the Paralympics and why a traumatic memory from Peter’s childhood inspired him to commission Robin Hood years later…


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The Banijay All3 Mega Merger, BBC Bafta Fallout and Paramount emerge victorious in the battle for Warners The Banijay All3 Mega Merger, BBC Bafta Fallout and Paramount emerge victorious in the battle for Warners Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:09:00 GMT 37:14 69a9c5d7e2ffe1fef6f531c2 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-banijay-all3-mega-merger-bbc-bafta-fallout-and-paramount 69a9c5d7e2ffe1fef6f531c2 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-banijay-all3-mega-merger-bbc-bafta-fallout-and-paramount full 3 9 Jimmy and Peter unpack the Banijay / All3Media merger, and ask what the creation of a €4.4bn mega indie with some 170 creative labels across 25 countries could mean for the rest of the sector. 


As Paramount prevail over Netflix in the battle for Warner Bros Discovery, we discuss what the future holds for Warner’s output - not least Donald Trump’s bete noire CNN.  


And we talk all things BBC, and the controversy around their Bafta coverage. 


Plus, Everton’s new kick off strategy, the (hitherto untested) link between being good at rowing and being a good Director General, and Prince Phillip not doing a Nazi salute. 


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.


YouTube:   / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter unpack the Banijay / All3Media merger, and ask what the creation of a €4.4bn mega indie with some 170 creative labels across 25 countries could mean for the rest of the sector. 


As Paramount prevail over Netflix in the battle for Warner Bros Discovery, we discuss what the future holds for Warner’s output - not least Donald Trump’s bete noire CNN.  


And we talk all things BBC, and the controversy around their Bafta coverage. 


Plus, Everton’s new kick off strategy, the (hitherto untested) link between being good at rowing and being a good Director General, and Prince Phillip not doing a Nazi salute. 


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.


YouTube:   / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Lisa McGee on creating How to Get to Heaven from Belfast & what the future holds for Derry Girls]]> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:08:00 GMT 38:20 69a07fdf0e30955851bd8327 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/lisa-mcgee-on-creating-how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast-wha 69a07fdf0e30955851bd8327 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b lisa-mcgee-on-creating-how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast-wha full 3 8 Jimmy and Peter welcome Lisa McGee into the studio, creator of the BAFTA and Emmy-winning Derry Girls and the writer behind Netflix’s new comedy-drama How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.


Lisa explains how she moved from pure sitcom into mystery, how writers’ rooms are now her preferred way to work and why music is so central to her storytelling, even when the rights negotiations get painful.


Together, they also discuss the post-Game of Thrones production boom in Northern Ireland, the challenge of balancing comedy and drama in an industry that often separates the two and whether Derry Girls might one day take to the stage….


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter welcome Lisa McGee into the studio, creator of the BAFTA and Emmy-winning Derry Girls and the writer behind Netflix’s new comedy-drama How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.


Lisa explains how she moved from pure sitcom into mystery, how writers’ rooms are now her preferred way to work and why music is so central to her storytelling, even when the rights negotiations get painful.


Together, they also discuss the post-Game of Thrones production boom in Northern Ireland, the challenge of balancing comedy and drama in an industry that often separates the two and whether Derry Girls might one day take to the stage….


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Can TV Copy the Music Industry? Sky’s Ad/Subscription Paradox & Latest BBC Cuts]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:07:00 GMT 37:14 69977cc7f8a4f13cff0b1eb0 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/can-tv-copy-the-music-industry-skys-adsubscription-paradox-l 69977cc7f8a4f13cff0b1eb0 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b can-tv-copy-the-music-industry-skys-adsubscription-paradox-l full 3 7 Jimmy and Peter chat about whether the music industry’s rights-roll-up model could ever work for television after a listener question about untapped TV archive potential. From there they tackle the thorny question of how channels like Sky still run adverts on premium subscription channels and what that says about the future of ad-funded TV. They also unpack the latest BBC cost-cutting plans ahead of charter negotiations and the Government’s BBC Green Paper consultation (including the mysteriously under-marketed “Freely”), before rounding off with the latest on the ITV–Sky/Comcast takeover talks slowing down thanks to the messy reality of splitting ITV Studios from the broadcast business.


Plus, what hiring a Cabinet Secretary and a Director General has in common, Peter’s airport immigration story that inspired a cavity-search comedy sketch and a detailed account of Jimmy’s use of the fast-forward feature on his TV...


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter chat about whether the music industry’s rights-roll-up model could ever work for television after a listener question about untapped TV archive potential. From there they tackle the thorny question of how channels like Sky still run adverts on premium subscription channels and what that says about the future of ad-funded TV. They also unpack the latest BBC cost-cutting plans ahead of charter negotiations and the Government’s BBC Green Paper consultation (including the mysteriously under-marketed “Freely”), before rounding off with the latest on the ITV–Sky/Comcast takeover talks slowing down thanks to the messy reality of splitting ITV Studios from the broadcast business.


Plus, what hiring a Cabinet Secretary and a Director General has in common, Peter’s airport immigration story that inspired a cavity-search comedy sketch and a detailed account of Jimmy’s use of the fast-forward feature on his TV...


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> ITV’s picture-in-picture ads, day drinking with Claudia Winkleman and the Wild West era of 90s reality TV (with Gill Wilson)  ITV’s picture-in-picture ads, day drinking with Claudia Winkleman and the Wild West era of 90s reality TV (with Gill Wilson)  Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:06:00 GMT 41:06 698e09ed1506be1a7e30f874 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/itvs-picture-in-picture-ads-day-drinking-with-claudia-winkle 698e09ed1506be1a7e30f874 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b itvs-picture-in-picture-ads-day-drinking-with-claudia-winkle full 3 6 Jimmy and Peter briefly discuss the two latest industry curveballs: fresh Westminster chat about a potential BBC–Channel 4 tie-up, and ITV squeezing ad breaks into rugby scrums, before inviting Gill Wilson into the studio…


Gill Wilson is Head of Factual at Plum Pictures, the co-founder of indie label Betty and a former Channel 4 commissioning editor heading up Features and Daytime with programmes including 'Escape to the Chateau', 'Love it or List it', and 'The Supervet'.


Together, they get into the differences between being a commissioner and producer when around 97% of ideas put forward by producers are met with a “no” and how the business has shifted from TV’s wilder, more maverick side in the 90s to now, where duty of care is on the rise but our producers proximity to audiences is closer than ever.


Plus: Jimmy’s newspaper comment that got a Gill’s train station show stopped in its tracks, Tom Jones’ trip to the rugby and Peter's does a rendition of King Lear...


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter briefly discuss the two latest industry curveballs: fresh Westminster chat about a potential BBC–Channel 4 tie-up, and ITV squeezing ad breaks into rugby scrums, before inviting Gill Wilson into the studio…


Gill Wilson is Head of Factual at Plum Pictures, the co-founder of indie label Betty and a former Channel 4 commissioning editor heading up Features and Daytime with programmes including 'Escape to the Chateau', 'Love it or List it', and 'The Supervet'.


Together, they get into the differences between being a commissioner and producer when around 97% of ideas put forward by producers are met with a “no” and how the business has shifted from TV’s wilder, more maverick side in the 90s to now, where duty of care is on the rise but our producers proximity to audiences is closer than ever.


Plus: Jimmy’s newspaper comment that got a Gill’s train station show stopped in its tracks, Tom Jones’ trip to the rugby and Peter's does a rendition of King Lear...


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Trump’s fury at the Grammys, the BBC’s latest funding conundrum & Channel 4’s Big Gamble]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:05:00 GMT 33:46 69852e7d5dd05b22519de30d true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/trumps-fury-at-the-grammys-the-bbcs-latest-funding-conundrum 69852e7d5dd05b22519de30d 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b trumps-fury-at-the-grammys-the-bbcs-latest-funding-conundrum full 3 5 Jimmy and Peter tune into Donald Trump’s latest reality show – the Grammys – and his threats to sue host Trevor Noah, before unpacking leaked details from a BBC board meeting about plans for a post-licence-fee future and questioning whether Channel 4 risks alienating the independent sector by expanding its in-house production.


Plus, tales of World Cup hospitality, BBC executives hiding from the rain in Salford and everyone’s favourite cooking utensil: the wok…


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter tune into Donald Trump’s latest reality show – the Grammys – and his threats to sue host Trevor Noah, before unpacking leaked details from a BBC board meeting about plans for a post-licence-fee future and questioning whether Channel 4 risks alienating the independent sector by expanding its in-house production.


Plus, tales of World Cup hospitality, BBC executives hiding from the rain in Salford and everyone’s favourite cooking utensil: the wok…


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[The Cup of Tea That Led to Ludwig, TV’s Algorithmic Future & Cancellation Nightmares w/ Kenton Allen]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:05:00 GMT 44:35 697bc3ce65c54ec919609e7e false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-cup-of-tea-that-led-to-ludwig-tvs-algorithmic-future-can 697bc3ce65c54ec919609e7e 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-cup-of-tea-that-led-to-ludwig-tvs-algorithmic-future-can full 3 4 Jimmy and Peter kick off with a rapid roundup of the latest TV headlines like The Traitors heading to the stage, Nigella Lawson joining The Great British Bake Off and the revival of Farmer Wants a Wife in the UK, before welcoming Kenton Allen into the studio.


Kenton Allen is CEO of Big Talk, one of the UK’s leading film and television production companies, and the producer behind hits including Rev, Him & Her, Mum, Friday Night Dinner, and most recently Can You Keep a Secret.


Together, they discuss the origins of Ludwig and the development of its American adaptation, finding a home for Mitchell & Webb on YouTube and how AI can be used both to market new shows and uncover untapped value in archive content.


Plus: unexpected encounters with listeners at urinals, how to respond when broadcasters claim they have no money and Kenton’s horror story of a US TV show cancellation…


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.


YouTube: / @insiderstvpodcast

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter kick off with a rapid roundup of the latest TV headlines like The Traitors heading to the stage, Nigella Lawson joining The Great British Bake Off and the revival of Farmer Wants a Wife in the UK, before welcoming Kenton Allen into the studio.


Kenton Allen is CEO of Big Talk, one of the UK’s leading film and television production companies, and the producer behind hits including Rev, Him & Her, Mum, Friday Night Dinner, and most recently Can You Keep a Secret.


Together, they discuss the origins of Ludwig and the development of its American adaptation, finding a home for Mitchell & Webb on YouTube and how AI can be used both to market new shows and uncover untapped value in archive content.


Plus: unexpected encounters with listeners at urinals, how to respond when broadcasters claim they have no money and Kenton’s horror story of a US TV show cancellation…


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.


YouTube: / @insiderstvpodcast

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Has YouTube changed the BBC’s strategy? Why Amol Rajan went solo & will MediaWan buy North Road? ]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:03:00 GMT 37:41 69725b7c8262298970e12f27 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/has-youtube-changed-the-bbcs-strategy-why-amol-rajan-went-so 69725b7c8262298970e12f27 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b has-youtube-changed-the-bbcs-strategy-why-amol-rajan-went-so full 3 3 Jimmy and Peter dig into the latest mergers and acquisitions chatter, including MediaWan’s interest in North Road and the broader risks of buying creative companies built around individual talent. Next, they chat the BBC’s decision to commission bespoke content for YouTube and what that signals about platform strategy, public service broadcasting, and where audiences are really heading. Then, they discuss Amol Rajan’s decision to step away from Radio 4’s Today programme, prompting a wider discussion about control, reach, lifestyle, and whether you should ever “quit the hit.”


Plus, there’s a sighting of megastar Margot Robbie, tales of attempts to buy BBC Three for £1, Donald Trump on skis and the Sky remote that almost ended a marriage…


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Jimmy and Peter dig into the latest mergers and acquisitions chatter, including MediaWan’s interest in North Road and the broader risks of buying creative companies built around individual talent. Next, they chat the BBC’s decision to commission bespoke content for YouTube and what that signals about platform strategy, public service broadcasting, and where audiences are really heading. Then, they discuss Amol Rajan’s decision to step away from Radio 4’s Today programme, prompting a wider discussion about control, reach, lifestyle, and whether you should ever “quit the hit.”


Plus, there’s a sighting of megastar Margot Robbie, tales of attempts to buy BBC Three for £1, Donald Trump on skis and the Sky remote that almost ended a marriage…


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Banijay & All3Media Mega-Merge, Netflix's $83 billion play & The BBC standing firm against Trump]]> Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:06:00 GMT 28:31 696966f52f4375874a776238 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/banijay-all3media-mega-merge-netflixs-83-billion-play-the-bb 696966f52f4375874a776238 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b banijay-all3media-mega-merge-netflixs-83-billion-play-the-bb full 3 2 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the potential Banijay–All3Media mega-merger and unpack why “independent TV” may soon exist in name only. They challenge headline claims that YouTube has overtaken the BBC, interrogate what those numbers really mean, and ask who actually pays for content in a platform-first world.


Then, it's Netflix’s all-cash play for Warner Bros and a discussion about the fragile future of broadcast news, the economics of Sky News and Channel 4, and what happens to impartial journalism when linear television fades.


Lastly, we get an update on Trump vs the BBC, with the broadcaster set to stand firm in Florida...


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the potential Banijay–All3Media mega-merger and unpack why “independent TV” may soon exist in name only. They challenge headline claims that YouTube has overtaken the BBC, interrogate what those numbers really mean, and ask who actually pays for content in a platform-first world.


Then, it's Netflix’s all-cash play for Warner Bros and a discussion about the fragile future of broadcast news, the economics of Sky News and Channel 4, and what happens to impartial journalism when linear television fades.


Lastly, we get an update on Trump vs the BBC, with the broadcaster set to stand firm in Florida...


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Why The Traitors Changed Format, will Disney buy Taylor Swift and can YouTube rule TV? (with Tim Hincks) Why The Traitors Changed Format, will Disney buy Taylor Swift and can YouTube rule TV? (with Tim Hincks) Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:01:00 GMT 36:47 69602e2b1f7886a9b8896e95 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/why-the-traitors-changed-format-will-disney-buy-taylor-swift 69602e2b1f7886a9b8896e95 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b why-the-traitors-changed-format-will-disney-buy-taylor-swift full 3 1 This week, Peter and Jimmy are joined by Tim Hincks, co-CEO of Expectation and former global president of Endemol responsible for shows like Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, 8 Out of 10 cats, Would I Lie to You? Black Mirror, Humans and Peaky Blinders…


They take a look at some predictions for what 2026 might hold, digging first into why The Traitors has made a bold format shift while it’s still on the rise (and what happens in the room when producers decide to change a hit), plus the industry’s obsession with “the next Traitors” and why copying a breakout doesn’t usually end well.

Next, they examine the possibility (and possible reality) of ‘micro-budgets’, the state of play when it comes to getting scripted shows funded and whether YouTube will become the ‘undisputed king of TV’.


And finally, they unpick the idea Disney may one day aquire Taylor Swift, what it would actually mean to “buy” a global superstar and why the next boardroom battle might be over individuals, not companies.


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy are joined by Tim Hincks, co-CEO of Expectation and former global president of Endemol responsible for shows like Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, 8 Out of 10 cats, Would I Lie to You? Black Mirror, Humans and Peaky Blinders…


They take a look at some predictions for what 2026 might hold, digging first into why The Traitors has made a bold format shift while it’s still on the rise (and what happens in the room when producers decide to change a hit), plus the industry’s obsession with “the next Traitors” and why copying a breakout doesn’t usually end well.

Next, they examine the possibility (and possible reality) of ‘micro-budgets’, the state of play when it comes to getting scripted shows funded and whether YouTube will become the ‘undisputed king of TV’.


And finally, they unpick the idea Disney may one day aquire Taylor Swift, what it would actually mean to “buy” a global superstar and why the next boardroom battle might be over individuals, not companies.


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.


YouTube:    / @insiderstvpodcast  

Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com

Instagram: @InsidersTVPod

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Trump sues the BBC for $10bn, the Gordian Knot of Charter renewal, and looking ahead to the world of TV in 2026. Trump sues the BBC for $10bn, the Gordian Knot of Charter renewal, and looking ahead to the world of TV in 2026. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:05:00 GMT 29:33 69446a86accce1f842e5b101 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/trump-sues-the-bbc-for-10bn-the-gordian-knot-of-charter-rene 69446a86accce1f842e5b101 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b trump-sues-the-bbc-for-10bn-the-gordian-knot-of-charter-rene full 2 25 This week, as Donald Trump files his $10bn legal action against the BBC in Florida, Jimmy and Peter ask how the corporation might best respond. And we discuss the government’s newly minted Green Paper on Charter renewal, and the alternatives being considered for the future funding of the BBC - is the licence fee the worst option, except for all the others? 


Plus, Jimmy’s Christmas in Memphis, Samir Shah’s breakfast, and our continued failure to secure a sponsorship deal with the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as Donald Trump files his $10bn legal action against the BBC in Florida, Jimmy and Peter ask how the corporation might best respond. And we discuss the government’s newly minted Green Paper on Charter renewal, and the alternatives being considered for the future funding of the BBC - is the licence fee the worst option, except for all the others? 


Plus, Jimmy’s Christmas in Memphis, Samir Shah’s breakfast, and our continued failure to secure a sponsorship deal with the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[A new Chief Exec at Channel 4, the bidding war for Warner Bros, and the unlikely link between "With Love, Meghan" and The Liz Truss Show]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:05:00 GMT 33:26 693ae99f593d8f20b6f9161a true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/a-new-chief-exec-at-channel-4-the-bidding-war-for-warner-br 693ae99f593d8f20b6f9161a 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b a-new-chief-exec-at-channel-4-the-bidding-war-for-warner-br full 2 24 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the appointment of Priya Dogra as the new Chief Exec of Channel 4. Her commercial background will doubtless be vital in helping C4 to navigate the commercial challenges it faces. But how will she approach and articulate her editorial vision for the channel? We talk all the latest twists and turns in the Netflix / Paramount bidding war for Warners. And we give ourselves an early Christmas gift by watching the "With Love, Meghan" Christmas special on Netflix and The Liz Truss Show on YouTube - do they actually have rather more in common than you might imagine? 


Plus, the politics of personalised parking spaces, Peter’s deeply disappointing school trip to Coventry, and is everything (including this podcast) always too long? 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the appointment of Priya Dogra as the new Chief Exec of Channel 4. Her commercial background will doubtless be vital in helping C4 to navigate the commercial challenges it faces. But how will she approach and articulate her editorial vision for the channel? We talk all the latest twists and turns in the Netflix / Paramount bidding war for Warners. And we give ourselves an early Christmas gift by watching the "With Love, Meghan" Christmas special on Netflix and The Liz Truss Show on YouTube - do they actually have rather more in common than you might imagine? 


Plus, the politics of personalised parking spaces, Peter’s deeply disappointing school trip to Coventry, and is everything (including this podcast) always too long? 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[More pressure on BBC Chair Samir Shah, Gary Lineker’s big money Netflix deal, and a Q&A at Content London.]]> Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:05:00 GMT 36:39 6931f4fcaef2c71c1d8306e8 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/more-pressure-on-bbc-chair-samir-shah-gary-linekers-big-mone 6931f4fcaef2c71c1d8306e8 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b more-pressure-on-bbc-chair-samir-shah-gary-linekers-big-mone full 2 23 This week, the pod comes live from the Content London TV conference. We discuss the latest in the BBC leadership saga, and ask whether you need to be a bit of a bruiser in the mould of Christopher Bland or Marmaduke Hussey to be a really effective BBC Chair? And Peter and Jimmy answer some great questions from the Content London audience - does indie production have a sustainable future; is legacy TV in terminal decline; and what’s the best (and worst) way to develop an idea? 


Plus, an unlikely duet with Myleene Klass, Peter’s Dickensian Christmas, and what the Americans really mean when they say “let’s circle back”.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, the pod comes live from the Content London TV conference. We discuss the latest in the BBC leadership saga, and ask whether you need to be a bit of a bruiser in the mould of Christopher Bland or Marmaduke Hussey to be a really effective BBC Chair? And Peter and Jimmy answer some great questions from the Content London audience - does indie production have a sustainable future; is legacy TV in terminal decline; and what’s the best (and worst) way to develop an idea? 


Plus, an unlikely duet with Myleene Klass, Peter’s Dickensian Christmas, and what the Americans really mean when they say “let’s circle back”.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Andy Wilman on Top Gear, The Grand Tour, and Clarkson’s Farm. Andy Wilman on Top Gear, The Grand Tour, and Clarkson’s Farm. Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:03:00 GMT 40:32 6928d814c4da9138ec566626 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/andy-wilman-on-top-gear-the-grand-tour-and-clarksons-farm 6928d814c4da9138ec566626 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b andy-wilman-on-top-gear-the-grand-tour-and-clarksons-farm full 2 22 It’s another guest ep!


This week Peter and Jimmy are joined by Andy Wilman, the genius producer behind Top Gear, The Grand Tour, and Clarkson’s Farm. 


Andy tells the story of the extraordinarily ordinary Top Gear pilot, and traces how the series grew into a record breaking TV behemoth, before unravelling slowly… and then all at once. We discuss the Top Gear team's move to Amazon and The Grand Tour (and how close Richard and James really were to staying at the Beeb). And we ask whether the Clarkson / Wilman Top Gear really had to end the way it did? 


Andy’s new book, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, is available now in all good bookstores, and would make an excellent Christmas present. Get it while stocks last. Maybe buy two, just to be safe. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> It’s another guest ep!


This week Peter and Jimmy are joined by Andy Wilman, the genius producer behind Top Gear, The Grand Tour, and Clarkson’s Farm. 


Andy tells the story of the extraordinarily ordinary Top Gear pilot, and traces how the series grew into a record breaking TV behemoth, before unravelling slowly… and then all at once. We discuss the Top Gear team's move to Amazon and The Grand Tour (and how close Richard and James really were to staying at the Beeb). And we ask whether the Clarkson / Wilman Top Gear really had to end the way it did? 


Andy’s new book, Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, is available now in all good bookstores, and would make an excellent Christmas present. Get it while stocks last. Maybe buy two, just to be safe. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The BBC’s legal stand off with Donald Trump, Sky’s bid for ITV, and Alex Mahon’s take on TV’s AI future. The BBC’s legal stand off with Donald Trump, Sky’s bid for ITV, and Alex Mahon’s take on TV’s AI future. Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:05:00 GMT 28:21 691f5fb63962bb012e1ec70c false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-bbcs-legal-stand-off-with-donald-trump-skys-bid-for-itv 691f5fb63962bb012e1ec70c 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-bbcs-legal-stand-off-with-donald-trump-skys-bid-for-itv full 2 21 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the latest fallout from the Panorama edit row, not least the Culture Secretary's suggestion that the next DG should have a news and current affairs background. Is that really the lesson to be learned from this, and what the BBC needs right now? And we talk Sky’s move to buy ITV’s broadcast business. However compelling the business case might be, isn’t it an immutable fact that consolidation of broadcasters inevitably means fewer customers for indies to sell to?


Plus, all the things wrong with country music, Peter’s special loathing for the word “curate”, and what Scotland’s World Cup success tells us about the importance of live TV. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the latest fallout from the Panorama edit row, not least the Culture Secretary's suggestion that the next DG should have a news and current affairs background. Is that really the lesson to be learned from this, and what the BBC needs right now? And we talk Sky’s move to buy ITV’s broadcast business. However compelling the business case might be, isn’t it an immutable fact that consolidation of broadcasters inevitably means fewer customers for indies to sell to?


Plus, all the things wrong with country music, Peter’s special loathing for the word “curate”, and what Scotland’s World Cup success tells us about the importance of live TV. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> A turbulent week of resignations at the BBC, the challenges facing the next DG, and the vibrant health of the indie sector in Northern Ireland. A turbulent week of resignations at the BBC, the challenges facing the next DG, and the vibrant health of the indie sector in Northern Ireland. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:05:00 GMT 36:16 691629917a0043834af92aef false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/a-turbulent-week-of-resignations-at-the-bbc-the-challenges-f 691629917a0043834af92aef 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b a-turbulent-week-of-resignations-at-the-bbc-the-challenges-f full 2 20 This week, Jimmy and Peter unpack the extraordinary events of the last seven days at the BBC. With Tim Davie and Deborah Turness both offering their resignations, we discuss how the BBC got itself into this mess, and where it goes from here. 


And, as the pod comes live from the Belfast Media Festival, we ask whether there’s still an unconscious bias when it comes to nations and regions commissioning, and what more can be done to make sure broadcasters and producers really make the most of the vast pool of talent in Northern Ireland. 


Plus, the runners and riders to be the next DG (maybe Jimmy or Peter fancy it?), and long-suffering producer Owen makes an appearance. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy and Peter unpack the extraordinary events of the last seven days at the BBC. With Tim Davie and Deborah Turness both offering their resignations, we discuss how the BBC got itself into this mess, and where it goes from here. 


And, as the pod comes live from the Belfast Media Festival, we ask whether there’s still an unconscious bias when it comes to nations and regions commissioning, and what more can be done to make sure broadcasters and producers really make the most of the vast pool of talent in Northern Ireland. 


Plus, the runners and riders to be the next DG (maybe Jimmy or Peter fancy it?), and long-suffering producer Owen makes an appearance. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Panorama's Trump edit and the BBC's latest own goal, Kim Kardashian’s zero-star Disney drama debut, and the $7bn Micro Drama boom. ]]> Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:05:00 GMT 33:07 690d05c4c1ed8717c5884bdd false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/panoramas-trump-edit-and-the-bbcs-latest-own-goal-kim-kardas 690d05c4c1ed8717c5884bdd 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b panoramas-trump-edit-and-the-bbcs-latest-own-goal-kim-kardas full 2 19 This week, Peter and Jimmy unpack the row over the “misleading” edit in Panorama's Trump doc. Could (and should) there be resignations? We talk Kim Kardashian’s appallingly reviewed new drama “All’s Fair”. Does being panned in the press actually put streaming audiences off, or does it simply pique their interest and make them more likely to try a show for themselves? And we dip a toe into the fascinating and fast-growing world of micro drama.


Plus, our first live stage show, an idea for a new gig for Nadine Dorries, and an apology to Bruno Brookes (and Andy Peebles too).


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy unpack the row over the “misleading” edit in Panorama's Trump doc. Could (and should) there be resignations? We talk Kim Kardashian’s appallingly reviewed new drama “All’s Fair”. Does being panned in the press actually put streaming audiences off, or does it simply pique their interest and make them more likely to try a show for themselves? And we dip a toe into the fascinating and fast-growing world of micro drama.


Plus, our first live stage show, an idea for a new gig for Nadine Dorries, and an apology to Bruno Brookes (and Andy Peebles too).


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Disney departs Doctor Who, Winkleman & Norton to become BBC chat show stablemates, and memories of Prunella Scales. ]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:05:00 GMT 35:35 6903a3fae030ed3cd5b773a0 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/disney-departs-doctor-who-winkleman-norton-to-become-bbc-cha 6903a3fae030ed3cd5b773a0 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b disney-departs-doctor-who-winkleman-norton-to-become-bbc-cha full 2 18 This week, with Claudia Winkleman reportedly being lined up for a BBC chat show (to be produced by Graham Norton's company), Peter and Jimmy ponder how that’s going to work in practice, and remember some chat show hits (and misses) of their own. And as Disney announce they’re ending their deal with the BBC to make Doctor Who, we ask what the future holds for the series, and whether the BBC’s cast-iron commitment to the so-called “Whoniverse" makes it a show that’s simply too big to fail?


Plus, failing to book Bruno Brookes, Strictly gossip from Peter’s hairdresser, and some free advice for agents everywhere: never let your clients see the swimming pool in your second home.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, with Claudia Winkleman reportedly being lined up for a BBC chat show (to be produced by Graham Norton's company), Peter and Jimmy ponder how that’s going to work in practice, and remember some chat show hits (and misses) of their own. And as Disney announce they’re ending their deal with the BBC to make Doctor Who, we ask what the future holds for the series, and whether the BBC’s cast-iron commitment to the so-called “Whoniverse" makes it a show that’s simply too big to fail?


Plus, failing to book Bruno Brookes, Strictly gossip from Peter’s hairdresser, and some free advice for agents everywhere: never let your clients see the swimming pool in your second home.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[Claudia & Tess's departure from Strictly, Paddington's day in court, and memories of the fallout from Brass Eye's Paedogeddon. ]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:05:00 GMT 36:32 68faa3b918bcdad2abbcd9ae true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/claudia-tesss-departure-from-strictly-paddingtons-day-in-cou 68faa3b918bcdad2abbcd9ae 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b claudia-tesss-departure-from-strictly-paddingtons-day-in-cou full 2 17 This week, Jimmy and Peter discuss the future of Strictly, and what to make of the mid-series announcement that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are leaving the show. As Studio Canal file their first court papers in the Paddington vs Spitting Image case, we indulge ourselves one more time in the story (and the publicity) that never stops giving. And we ask what (if anything) the results of the Our BBC, Our Future survey really tell us?


Plus, Jimmy sings Sondheim, William G Stewart’s middle name, and the only commissioner (so far) ever to slam the phone down on Peter.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy and Peter discuss the future of Strictly, and what to make of the mid-series announcement that Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are leaving the show. As Studio Canal file their first court papers in the Paddington vs Spitting Image case, we indulge ourselves one more time in the story (and the publicity) that never stops giving. And we ask what (if anything) the results of the Our BBC, Our Future survey really tell us?


Plus, Jimmy sings Sondheim, William G Stewart’s middle name, and the only commissioner (so far) ever to slam the phone down on Peter.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Meghan Markle’s impressive efforts to spin her Netflix deal, the demise of the 9pm slot, and an “Oxbridge gang” running television? Meghan Markle’s impressive efforts to spin her Netflix deal, the demise of the 9pm slot, and an “Oxbridge gang” running television? Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:05:00 GMT 33:20 68f1538018d2c089efda8968 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/meghan-markles-impressive-efforts-to-spin-her-netflix-deal-t 68f1538018d2c089efda8968 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b meghan-markles-impressive-efforts-to-spin-her-netflix-deal-t full 2 16 This week, Peter and Jimmy ask whether Harry and Meghan’s much-diminished first look deal with Netflix is really the “sign of strength” that Meghan claims. But lest anyone roll their eyes too hard, isn’t that blend of resilience and self-delusion exactly what every good independent producer needs? And as Banijay strike a deal that “paves the way” (but no more than that) for the return of The Inbetweeners, we talk the science and art of programme announcements. 


Plus, Sir Phil Redmond’s eyebrows, what to say on a first date, and the perils of swapping analogue pounds for digital pennies.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy ask whether Harry and Meghan’s much-diminished first look deal with Netflix is really the “sign of strength” that Meghan claims. But lest anyone roll their eyes too hard, isn’t that blend of resilience and self-delusion exactly what every good independent producer needs? And as Banijay strike a deal that “paves the way” (but no more than that) for the return of The Inbetweeners, we talk the science and art of programme announcements. 


Plus, Sir Phil Redmond’s eyebrows, what to say on a first date, and the perils of swapping analogue pounds for digital pennies.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[A “very upset" Paddington Bear, Euan Blair and last week’s HIGNFY, and the BBC’s renewed call for big family sitcoms ]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:05:00 GMT 35:43 68e8076bde9a2a62c459eaac false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/a-very-upset-paddington-bear-euan-blair-and-last-weeks-hignf 68e8076bde9a2a62c459eaac 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b a-very-upset-paddington-bear-euan-blair-and-last-weeks-hignf full 2 15 This week, Peter and Jimmy debate the wisdom of Studio Canal’s decision to bring legal action against Avalon over the portrayal of Paddington Bear in the new Spitting Image. Jimmy talks about the error that found its way into last Friday’s ep of Have I Got News For You, and what's happened in the days since the show went out. And we discuss the results of the latest BBC tender process, and how remarkably successful BBC Studios are at winning BBC contracts. 


Plus, the circuitous journey of Expectation’s Osbornes doc, Jimmy’s epic day at the Strictly record, and a shout out to our long-suffering lawyer Simon. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy debate the wisdom of Studio Canal’s decision to bring legal action against Avalon over the portrayal of Paddington Bear in the new Spitting Image. Jimmy talks about the error that found its way into last Friday’s ep of Have I Got News For You, and what's happened in the days since the show went out. And we discuss the results of the latest BBC tender process, and how remarkably successful BBC Studios are at winning BBC contracts. 


Plus, the circuitous journey of Expectation’s Osbornes doc, Jimmy’s epic day at the Strictly record, and a shout out to our long-suffering lawyer Simon. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Guilty viewing, shows we wish we’d made, and what the overnights do (and don’t) tell you about success. Guilty viewing, shows we wish we’d made, and what the overnights do (and don’t) tell you about success. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:05:00 GMT 25:11 68de8b7d38a313e2f15d0ec3 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/guilty-viewing-shows-we-wish-wed-made-and-what-the-overnight 68de8b7d38a313e2f15d0ec3 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b guilty-viewing-shows-we-wish-wed-made-and-what-the-overnight full 2 14 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the programmes they love that they didn’t make, but rather wish they had. And we ask what the popularity of re-watching old shows means for producers and broadcasters - if you can get consistently strong ratings playing familiar things, are you inevitably less likely to commission new stuff? 


Plus, the margins on drug smuggling, why the original BBC Tinker Tailor looks a bit ropey now, and the unlikely role the TalkBack cafetiere played in the history of British comedy. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the programmes they love that they didn’t make, but rather wish they had. And we ask what the popularity of re-watching old shows means for producers and broadcasters - if you can get consistently strong ratings playing familiar things, are you inevitably less likely to commission new stuff? 


Plus, the margins on drug smuggling, why the original BBC Tinker Tailor looks a bit ropey now, and the unlikely role the TalkBack cafetiere played in the history of British comedy. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Trump vs Kimmel, ITV turns 70, and all the news from RTS Cambridge (without the boring bits) Trump vs Kimmel, ITV turns 70, and all the news from RTS Cambridge (without the boring bits) Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:05:00 GMT 36:14 68d596626a283f70b79c27f8 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/trump-vs-kimmel-itv-turns-70-and-all-the-news-from-rts-cambr 68d596626a283f70b79c27f8 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b trump-vs-kimmel-itv-turns-70-and-all-the-news-from-rts-cambr full 2 13 As Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air this week (and to record ratings), Peter and Jimmy reflect on the extraordinary row between ABC and the White House, and the enduring power of satire to rile thin-skinned politicians who can’t take a joke. 


We discuss all the news from the RTS Cambridge Convention, including the case for improved tax breaks, particularly at lower price points, in the hope that half hour comedy can benefit just as much as drama. And we say happy 70th birthday to ITV (even though, according to the newly minted Fincham Rule Of Anniversaries, that’s “not a very big deal”).


Plus, a word for poor Grace Archer, a quick audition for Radio 3, and Peter patiently explains the format of a nice little satirical show called “Have I Got News For You” that he thinks Jimmy might enjoy.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> As Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air this week (and to record ratings), Peter and Jimmy reflect on the extraordinary row between ABC and the White House, and the enduring power of satire to rile thin-skinned politicians who can’t take a joke. 


We discuss all the news from the RTS Cambridge Convention, including the case for improved tax breaks, particularly at lower price points, in the hope that half hour comedy can benefit just as much as drama. And we say happy 70th birthday to ITV (even though, according to the newly minted Fincham Rule Of Anniversaries, that’s “not a very big deal”).


Plus, a word for poor Grace Archer, a quick audition for Radio 3, and Peter patiently explains the format of a nice little satirical show called “Have I Got News For You” that he thinks Jimmy might enjoy.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Andy Harries on The Crown, the genius of Caroline Aherne, and his much maligned talking dog detective show. Andy Harries on The Crown, the genius of Caroline Aherne, and his much maligned talking dog detective show. Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:05:00 GMT 39:38 68caf46adc62f0e1d62df541 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/andy-harries-on-the-crown-the-genius-of-caroline-aherne-and 68caf46adc62f0e1d62df541 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b andy-harries-on-the-crown-the-genius-of-caroline-aherne-and full 2 12 Something a bit different this week - we've got a guest!


Peter and Jimmy are joined by legendary producer Andy Harries. He was Head of Comedy and Head of Drama at Granada, before setting up Left Bank Pictures in 2007. His enviable list of credits include The Royle Family, Cold Feet, The Deal, The Queen, The Crown, and Department Q.


We discuss the BBC’s bemused response when they first received The Royle Family, and their resistance to the idea of a sitcom being shot single camera, without an audience (footsteps in which The Office would follow reasonably successfully just a few years later). Andy takes us back to the crucial pitch meeting where Netflix bought The Crown - a commitment to 20 hours of television across two series at £5m per hour... not a bad Friday at the office. And he talks the importance of risk taking - perhaps unsurprising from the man who sold a 10 ep series of Strike Back to Sky, having not only not read the book, but not even optioned it when he made the deal.


Plus, dressing like the Beach Boys, the debt Cold Feet owes to the Golden Rose of Montreux, and pitching a show fronted by the Two Fat Ladies (even though one of them had been dead for 6 months).


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Something a bit different this week - we've got a guest!


Peter and Jimmy are joined by legendary producer Andy Harries. He was Head of Comedy and Head of Drama at Granada, before setting up Left Bank Pictures in 2007. His enviable list of credits include The Royle Family, Cold Feet, The Deal, The Queen, The Crown, and Department Q.


We discuss the BBC’s bemused response when they first received The Royle Family, and their resistance to the idea of a sitcom being shot single camera, without an audience (footsteps in which The Office would follow reasonably successfully just a few years later). Andy takes us back to the crucial pitch meeting where Netflix bought The Crown - a commitment to 20 hours of television across two series at £5m per hour... not a bad Friday at the office. And he talks the importance of risk taking - perhaps unsurprising from the man who sold a 10 ep series of Strike Back to Sky, having not only not read the book, but not even optioned it when he made the deal.


Plus, dressing like the Beach Boys, the debt Cold Feet owes to the Golden Rose of Montreux, and pitching a show fronted by the Two Fat Ladies (even though one of them had been dead for 6 months).


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Piers Morgan heads to 5, life at Fox after Rupert Murdoch, and Tim Davie’s plan for an ever-ready BBC presenter subs bench. Piers Morgan heads to 5, life at Fox after Rupert Murdoch, and Tim Davie’s plan for an ever-ready BBC presenter subs bench. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:05:00 GMT 37:16 68c33a758b1c6a4828e856f7 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/piers-morgan-heads-to-5-life-at-fox-after-rupert-murdoch-and 68c33a758b1c6a4828e856f7 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b piers-morgan-heads-to-5-life-at-fox-after-rupert-murdoch-and full 2 11 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the DG’s appearance at the Culture Media and Sport committee, and his big idea to have a “succession plan” in place for every BBC presenter, just in case they happen to become embroiled in something unsavoury. We talk Piers Morgan Uncensored, and the smart move by all involved to start playing it on 5. And as we all come to the terms with the news that Melvyn Bragg is stepping down from In Our Time after 27 years, Peter remembers the jolly old chat they had when he asked Melvyn to come and see him so he could hell him he was cancelling the South Bank Show.


Plus, the Murdoch succession, Jimmy’s sartorial tips for your next parliamentary appearance, and why Jay Hunt still says the best no in the business.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the DG’s appearance at the Culture Media and Sport committee, and his big idea to have a “succession plan” in place for every BBC presenter, just in case they happen to become embroiled in something unsavoury. We talk Piers Morgan Uncensored, and the smart move by all involved to start playing it on 5. And as we all come to the terms with the news that Melvyn Bragg is stepping down from In Our Time after 27 years, Peter remembers the jolly old chat they had when he asked Melvyn to come and see him so he could hell him he was cancelling the South Bank Show.


Plus, the Murdoch succession, Jimmy’s sartorial tips for your next parliamentary appearance, and why Jay Hunt still says the best no in the business.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Crime Special: From the verdant cosiness of Midsomer Murders, to the gritty dramas of Jed Mercurio. Crime Special: From the verdant cosiness of Midsomer Murders, to the gritty dramas of Jed Mercurio. Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:05:00 GMT 31:29 68b9d02e45004e42c97c836c false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/crime-special-from-the-cosiness-of-midsomer-murders-to-the-g 68b9d02e45004e42c97c836c 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b crime-special-from-the-cosiness-of-midsomer-murders-to-the-g full 2 10 This week, as the all-conquering Thursday Murder Club tops the Netflix charts, we take a deep dive into the crime and detective genre. 


Jimmy talks about his long-running and hugely successful partnership with Jed Mercurio, and Peter tells the story of his hit series, The Chelsea Detective. And we ask, is there an unlikely common ground between cosy crime and panel shows - both perennially out of fashion with commissioners, but consistently beloved of viewers? And for writers and producers looking for their next hit crime drama, is it a safer bet to adapt a successful novel, or come up with something new?


Plus, Leonard Cohen lyrics, funny scousers, and Richard Osman’s Swedish TV format that's still going strong 30 years on.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as the all-conquering Thursday Murder Club tops the Netflix charts, we take a deep dive into the crime and detective genre. 


Jimmy talks about his long-running and hugely successful partnership with Jed Mercurio, and Peter tells the story of his hit series, The Chelsea Detective. And we ask, is there an unlikely common ground between cosy crime and panel shows - both perennially out of fashion with commissioners, but consistently beloved of viewers? And for writers and producers looking for their next hit crime drama, is it a safer bet to adapt a successful novel, or come up with something new?


Plus, Leonard Cohen lyrics, funny scousers, and Richard Osman’s Swedish TV format that's still going strong 30 years on.


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Netflix and the row over TV tourism, ITV’s efforts to poach Michael McIntyre, and Peter’s fond (ish) memories of the ill-fated Daybreak. Netflix and the row over TV tourism, ITV’s efforts to poach Michael McIntyre, and Peter’s fond (ish) memories of the ill-fated Daybreak. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:05:00 GMT 43:06 68b0b3a57620a68ee6c9a486 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/netflix-and-the-row-over-tv-tourism-itvs-efforts-to-poach-mi 68b0b3a57620a68ee6c9a486 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b netflix-and-the-row-over-tv-tourism-itvs-efforts-to-poach-mi full 2 9 This week, Jimmy and Peter unpack all the news from Edinburgh, from the bad tempered sniping between Netflix and Channel 4, to the headlines from James Harding’s McTaggart lecture (or could it also be read as a 5000 word job application to be the next DG?). And, from Eric and Ern, to Brucie’s Big Night, to Trinny and Susannah, we talk the decidedly chequered history of talent who make the move from the BBC to ITV.


Plus, Jimmy drafts a grumpy letter to the Times, Peter wonders if his children were all born in a barn, and the importance of pivoting to a creator economy (whatever that means). 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy and Peter unpack all the news from Edinburgh, from the bad tempered sniping between Netflix and Channel 4, to the headlines from James Harding’s McTaggart lecture (or could it also be read as a 5000 word job application to be the next DG?). And, from Eric and Ern, to Brucie’s Big Night, to Trinny and Susannah, we talk the decidedly chequered history of talent who make the move from the BBC to ITV.


Plus, Jimmy drafts a grumpy letter to the Times, Peter wonders if his children were all born in a barn, and the importance of pivoting to a creator economy (whatever that means). 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Trump vs South Park, C5 revive Play for Today, and explaining comedy to the Germans. Trump vs South Park, C5 revive Play for Today, and explaining comedy to the Germans. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:05:00 GMT 40:24 68a777bf352b565deb453757 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/trump-vs-south-park-c5-revive-play-for-today-and-explaining 68a777bf352b565deb453757 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b trump-vs-south-park-c5-revive-play-for-today-and-explaining full 2 8 This week, Jimmy shares his highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe, and Peter tries to remember what on earth his McTaggart was about. We discuss doing comedy in the age of Trump, and South Park’s successes in riling the White House. And we talk the return of Play for Today - another smart move from 5’s Ben Frow?


Plus, Jimmy’s friendly chat with Cherie Blair, the perverse logic of banning shows, and we finally answer the question that's been on everyone’s lips... is Roy Wood Jnr, the host of HIGNFY in the US, related to Roy Wood, the lead singer of Wizard (clue: no). 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy shares his highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe, and Peter tries to remember what on earth his McTaggart was about. We discuss doing comedy in the age of Trump, and South Park’s successes in riling the White House. And we talk the return of Play for Today - another smart move from 5’s Ben Frow?


Plus, Jimmy’s friendly chat with Cherie Blair, the perverse logic of banning shows, and we finally answer the question that's been on everyone’s lips... is Roy Wood Jnr, the host of HIGNFY in the US, related to Roy Wood, the lead singer of Wizard (clue: no). 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Harry and Meghan’s new (watered down) Netflix deal, the streamers’ continued push into sports rights, and memories of Biddy Baxter. Harry and Meghan’s new (watered down) Netflix deal, the streamers’ continued push into sports rights, and memories of Biddy Baxter. Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:05:00 GMT 42:49 689e18a866f126ae3fb763ff false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/harry-and-meghans-new-watered-down-netflix-deal-the-streamer 689e18a866f126ae3fb763ff 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b harry-and-meghans-new-watered-down-netflix-deal-the-streamer full 2 7 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss Harry and Meghan’s newly announced Netflix first look deal, and why it’s a much diminished beast compared to the output deal they had before. As Disney+ buys up the rights to show Spanish football in the UK, we ask whether live sport is the next frontier for the streamers. And we remember Blue Peter producer Biddy Baxter, who's died at the aged of 92. An inspirational leader and maverick producer who wasn’t afraid to make enemies... and did. 


Plus, how to pronounce DAZN, Peter’s Blue Peter garden designer, and Jimmy’s views on his old mate Cycling Mikey. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss Harry and Meghan’s newly announced Netflix first look deal, and why it’s a much diminished beast compared to the output deal they had before. As Disney+ buys up the rights to show Spanish football in the UK, we ask whether live sport is the next frontier for the streamers. And we remember Blue Peter producer Biddy Baxter, who's died at the aged of 92. An inspirational leader and maverick producer who wasn’t afraid to make enemies... and did. 


Plus, how to pronounce DAZN, Peter’s Blue Peter garden designer, and Jimmy’s views on his old mate Cycling Mikey. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The renaissance of the old fashioned audience sitcom on Netflix, the secret of a good TV title, and is taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe still worth the cost and bother? The renaissance of the old fashioned audience sitcom on Netflix, the secret of a good TV title, and is taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe still worth the cost and bother? Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:05:00 GMT 36:33 6894b161f9482328d0a55f03 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-renaissance-of-the-old-fashioned-audience-sitcom-on-netf 6894b161f9482328d0a55f03 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-renaissance-of-the-old-fashioned-audience-sitcom-on-netf full 2 6 This week, as the Edinburgh Fringe gets underway, Peter and Jimmy ask whether having success at the Fringe is still a worthwhile route for performers who want to carve out a career on television. 


And we talk Netflix’s new (but decidedly retro) sitcom Leanne. Given that Friends is still one of the streamer’s most watched shows, is the only surprising thing about Leanne that it’s taken Netflix quite so long to start commissioning audience sitcoms that feel like they were made in the 1990s? 


Plus, cocaine at Strictly, the weather in Norway, and, at long last, a definitive answer to that most pressing of questions from the world of the TV executive - how to tell the difference between Perrier and San Pellegrino. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as the Edinburgh Fringe gets underway, Peter and Jimmy ask whether having success at the Fringe is still a worthwhile route for performers who want to carve out a career on television. 


And we talk Netflix’s new (but decidedly retro) sitcom Leanne. Given that Friends is still one of the streamer’s most watched shows, is the only surprising thing about Leanne that it’s taken Netflix quite so long to start commissioning audience sitcoms that feel like they were made in the 1990s? 


Plus, cocaine at Strictly, the weather in Norway, and, at long last, a definitive answer to that most pressing of questions from the world of the TV executive - how to tell the difference between Perrier and San Pellegrino. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The rise and rise of YouTube, a mixed bag of results from ITV, and some good (and very bad) advice on how to a pitch a show. The rise and rise of YouTube, a mixed bag of results from ITV, and some good (and very bad) advice on how to a pitch a show. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:05:00 GMT 46:08 688bccb910d9919845d0417a false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-rise-and-rise-of-youtube-a-mixed-bag-of-results-from-itv 688bccb910d9919845d0417a 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-rise-and-rise-of-youtube-a-mixed-bag-of-results-from-itv full 2 5 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the news that YouTube has become the second most watched video platform in the UK - what does its inexorable rise mean for both producers and broadcasters? And we talk ITV, and try to look beyond their not-great-but-not-quite-as-bad-as-expected results, and ask if they’re getting the big strategic questions right?


Plus, the perils of slow lifts, Jimmy’s efforts at self-immolation in the name of selling a show, and the pilot that Peter made that was so bad, everyone at TalkBack just assumed it was a massive practical joke (it wasn’t, it was just terrible). 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the news that YouTube has become the second most watched video platform in the UK - what does its inexorable rise mean for both producers and broadcasters? And we talk ITV, and try to look beyond their not-great-but-not-quite-as-bad-as-expected results, and ask if they’re getting the big strategic questions right?


Plus, the perils of slow lifts, Jimmy’s efforts at self-immolation in the name of selling a show, and the pilot that Peter made that was so bad, everyone at TalkBack just assumed it was a massive practical joke (it wasn’t, it was just terrible). 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Cancelling Colbert, the shifting balance of power in the world of the chat show, and (another) week of difficult headlines for the BBC. Cancelling Colbert, the shifting balance of power in the world of the chat show, and (another) week of difficult headlines for the BBC. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:05:00 GMT 42:46 68828754f6d4262b073ea8eb false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/cancelling-colbert-the-shifting-balance-of-power-in-the-worl 68828754f6d4262b073ea8eb 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b cancelling-colbert-the-shifting-balance-of-power-in-the-worl full 2 4 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the smorgasbord of news from the BBC, from the future of Masterchef to the devil in the detail of the annual report. And we talk CBS’s decision to cancel the Late Show, and ask whether the age of the made-for-TV chat show is coming to an end? 


Plus, Clive Anderson upsetting the Bee Gees, Jimmy’s dinner with Jeremy Hunt, and why you should be wary of any meeting where someone tells you how much they “value” you (you’re almost certainly about to be fired). 

 

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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the smorgasbord of news from the BBC, from the future of Masterchef to the devil in the detail of the annual report. And we talk CBS’s decision to cancel the Late Show, and ask whether the age of the made-for-TV chat show is coming to an end? 


Plus, Clive Anderson upsetting the Bee Gees, Jimmy’s dinner with Jeremy Hunt, and why you should be wary of any meeting where someone tells you how much they “value” you (you’re almost certainly about to be fired). 

 

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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The state of the audience sitcom, the best (and worst) ways to cancel a show, and the difference, such as there is, between selling and lying. The state of the audience sitcom, the best (and worst) ways to cancel a show, and the difference, such as there is, between selling and lying. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:05:00 GMT 38:36 6879451e6fb6cef50f434835 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-state-of-the-audience-sitcom-the-best-and-worst-ways-to 6879451e6fb6cef50f434835 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-state-of-the-audience-sitcom-the-best-and-worst-ways-to full 2 3 This week, in a special Q&A episode, Peter and Jimmy ask whether the audience sitcom has become a dying breed, and if there’s sufficient willingness amongst broadcasters to persist with series while they find their feet? And we discuss the tricky business of cancelling a show, and whether there’s ever a good way to do it. Peter recalls the day his scheduler dared him to cancel Last Of The Summer Wine, and Jimmy talks Episodes, and the time the BBC did their level best to cancel it, only to fail quite completely. 


Plus, bottle episodes, the nine lives of Room 101, and what happened when Murphy’s Irish Stout rang TalkBack and offered to pay Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews piles of cash to write a sitcom set in a bar in Ireland. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, in a special Q&A episode, Peter and Jimmy ask whether the audience sitcom has become a dying breed, and if there’s sufficient willingness amongst broadcasters to persist with series while they find their feet? And we discuss the tricky business of cancelling a show, and whether there’s ever a good way to do it. Peter recalls the day his scheduler dared him to cancel Last Of The Summer Wine, and Jimmy talks Episodes, and the time the BBC did their level best to cancel it, only to fail quite completely. 


Plus, bottle episodes, the nine lives of Room 101, and what happened when Murphy’s Irish Stout rang TalkBack and offered to pay Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews piles of cash to write a sitcom set in a bar in Ireland. 


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.


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 


Instagram: @InsidersTVPod


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Spitting Image returns (but this time on YouTube), the F1 movie and the debt it owes to television, and the biggest Apple TV series you’ve never heard of. Spitting Image returns (but this time on YouTube), the F1 movie and the debt it owes to television, and the biggest Apple TV series you’ve never heard of. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:05:00 GMT 36:31 686fe33cfe0897380e90813e false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/spitting-image-returns-but-this-time-on-youtube-the-f1-movie 686fe33cfe0897380e90813e 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b spitting-image-returns-but-this-time-on-youtube-the-f1-movie full 2 2

This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the news that Spitting Image is coming back as a YouTube series, and the ways producers can make premium content for YouTube while still turning a profit. And we ask whether Netflix have missed a trick after spending all that time, money, and effort teaching us all about F1 in Drive to Survive, only for Apple to swoop in and make the F1 movie? 


Plus, the joys of a bottle episode, how to get your kids to text you back, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.


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.


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insiderstvpod/


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]>

This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the news that Spitting Image is coming back as a YouTube series, and the ways producers can make premium content for YouTube while still turning a profit. And we ask whether Netflix have missed a trick after spending all that time, money, and effort teaching us all about F1 in Drive to Survive, only for Apple to swoop in and make the F1 movie? 


Plus, the joys of a bottle episode, how to get your kids to text you back, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.


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.


Email: InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InsidersTVPodcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insiderstvpod/


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The BBC and the controversy at Glastonbury, the return of Blind Date on Disney, and the surprising part Wayne Rooney played in the story of HIGNFY. The BBC and the controversy at Glastonbury, the return of Blind Date on Disney, and the surprising part Wayne Rooney played in the story of HIGNFY. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:05:00 GMT 39:35 6866a776c5e2437fab2a7190 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-bbc-and-the-controversy-at-glastonbury-the-return-of-bli 6866a776c5e2437fab2a7190 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-bbc-and-the-controversy-at-glastonbury-the-return-of-bli full 2 1 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the Glastonbury controversy that the BBC has found itself embroiled in, and Peter offers some eye-witness reporting from on the ground at the festival. We talk Disney’s latest non-scripted announcements, including the return of Blind Date. And we ask why, when you sell a format to the Australians, they always seem to try and make it smuttier than anyone ever imagined it could possibly be. 


Plus, Jimmy’s day at Wimbledon with Johnny Vaughan, a visit to Cilla’s house, and why you should immediately go out and buy a new Mini. 


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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the Glastonbury controversy that the BBC has found itself embroiled in, and Peter offers some eye-witness reporting from on the ground at the festival. We talk Disney’s latest non-scripted announcements, including the return of Blind Date. And we ask why, when you sell a format to the Australians, they always seem to try and make it smuttier than anyone ever imagined it could possibly be. 


Plus, Jimmy’s day at Wimbledon with Johnny Vaughan, a visit to Cilla’s house, and why you should immediately go out and buy a new Mini. 


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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> <![CDATA[The challenges ahead for Kate Phillips as the BBC’s new content chief, the parlous state of the TV freelance landscape, and Peter Fincham: "Oxbridge-y c**t”.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:05:00 GMT 38:20 685d7d464a2d8b8b517cdfa7 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-challenges-ahead-for-kate-phillips-as-the-bbcs-new-conte 685d7d464a2d8b8b517cdfa7 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-challenges-ahead-for-kate-phillips-as-the-bbcs-new-conte full 1 12 This week, as Kate Phillips is confirmed as the new BBC Chief Content Officer, Peter and Jimmy unpack the big issues piling up in her inbox. As the commissioning downturn continues to bite, we discuss the immensely challenging outlook for TV freelancers across the industry.  And we pay tribute to the much loved Joanna Beresford, whose death was announced this week - a woman to whom countless producers owe a vast debt.


Plus, Sir Trevor McDonald's Bernard Manning gags, the unlikely part Bridget Jones played in Peter’s career, and what people really mean when they say it’s not about the money (clue: it’s absolutely definitely about the money).


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as Kate Phillips is confirmed as the new BBC Chief Content Officer, Peter and Jimmy unpack the big issues piling up in her inbox. As the commissioning downturn continues to bite, we discuss the immensely challenging outlook for TV freelancers across the industry.  And we pay tribute to the much loved Joanna Beresford, whose death was announced this week - a woman to whom countless producers owe a vast debt.


Plus, Sir Trevor McDonald's Bernard Manning gags, the unlikely part Bridget Jones played in Peter’s career, and what people really mean when they say it’s not about the money (clue: it’s absolutely definitely about the money).


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Royal Special: TV and the monarchy Royal Special: TV and the monarchy Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:05:00 GMT 41:12 68543e1968b0c25e388dd9d8 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/royal-special-tv-and-the-monarchy 68543e1968b0c25e388dd9d8 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b royal-special-tv-and-the-monarchy full 1 11 This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the complex (and occasionally combustible) relationship between television and the royals. They unpack how the Faustian deal works, and what happens when it goes wrong.


Jimmy shares fond memories of the time HIGNFY suggested Prince Harry had taken cocaine, only for the show to find itself in hot water for upsetting an entirely different aristocrat. And Peter talks all things Queen-gate, and tells his side of the story.


Plus, Jimmy’s water cooler encounter with Princess Di, the story of the commissioning of Grand Designs, and, for some reason, an honourable mention for Bernie The Bolt. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy discuss the complex (and occasionally combustible) relationship between television and the royals. They unpack how the Faustian deal works, and what happens when it goes wrong.


Jimmy shares fond memories of the time HIGNFY suggested Prince Harry had taken cocaine, only for the show to find itself in hot water for upsetting an entirely different aristocrat. And Peter talks all things Queen-gate, and tells his side of the story.


Plus, Jimmy’s water cooler encounter with Princess Di, the story of the commissioning of Grand Designs, and, for some reason, an honourable mention for Bernie The Bolt. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Attenborough and the alchemy of on screen talent, Netflix’s push into the world of unscripted, and why we keeping sending comedians to do travelogues? Attenborough and the alchemy of on screen talent, Netflix’s push into the world of unscripted, and why we keeping sending comedians to do travelogues? Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:05:00 GMT 39:57 684b2af0ed4130e24392809f true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/attenborough-and-the-alchemy-of-on-screen-talent-netflixs-pu 684b2af0ed4130e24392809f 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b attenborough-and-the-alchemy-of-on-screen-talent-netflixs-pu full 1 10 This week, as Sir David Attenborough’s new doc arrives on the small screen, Peter and Jimmy discuss the lightning-in-a-bottle that is on screen talent, and explore the peculiarly British appetite for eccentrics on TV. As Netflix set out their ambition to create “unscripted universes” on the platform, we unpack what that really means, and why, as the cost of making high end drama keeps rising, big returnable unscripted formats look all the more appealing. And we ask whether the time has come for the PSBs to consider merging in order to compete with the financial heft of the streamers


Plus, Jimmy remembers a lunch with Boris Johnson, Peter commissions listeners to help devise a cooking-dating crossover format, and Richard Osman, renaissance man. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as Sir David Attenborough’s new doc arrives on the small screen, Peter and Jimmy discuss the lightning-in-a-bottle that is on screen talent, and explore the peculiarly British appetite for eccentrics on TV. As Netflix set out their ambition to create “unscripted universes” on the platform, we unpack what that really means, and why, as the cost of making high end drama keeps rising, big returnable unscripted formats look all the more appealing. And we ask whether the time has come for the PSBs to consider merging in order to compete with the financial heft of the streamers


Plus, Jimmy remembers a lunch with Boris Johnson, Peter commissions listeners to help devise a cooking-dating crossover format, and Richard Osman, renaissance man. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The future of soaps in the era of streaming, the joys of SXSW London, and the murky world of BBC nations and regions commissioning. The future of soaps in the era of streaming, the joys of SXSW London, and the murky world of BBC nations and regions commissioning. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:05:00 GMT 40:24 6841e46ba13d337373295612 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-future-of-soaps-in-the-era-of-streaming-the-joys-of-sxsw 6841e46ba13d337373295612 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-future-of-soaps-in-the-era-of-streaming-the-joys-of-sxsw full 1 9 This week, as the BBC invites indies to pitch for Casualty (made, and soon to be set, in Wales), we unpack the controversy around the nations and regions tender process, and the ways in which producers occasionally push their luck when it comes to the definition of a "regional" production. We talk the future of soaps, and ask how they adapt to a streaming world. And with SXSW arriving in London this week, Peter and Jimmy take the opportunity to remember TV conferences they’ve known, loved, and really enjoyed being part of. Which, frankly, doesn’t take them very long at all. 


Plus, herding geese in the Cotswolds, cancelling The Bill, and all the gossip from Charlotte Moore’s leaving do. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as the BBC invites indies to pitch for Casualty (made, and soon to be set, in Wales), we unpack the controversy around the nations and regions tender process, and the ways in which producers occasionally push their luck when it comes to the definition of a "regional" production. We talk the future of soaps, and ask how they adapt to a streaming world. And with SXSW arriving in London this week, Peter and Jimmy take the opportunity to remember TV conferences they’ve known, loved, and really enjoyed being part of. Which, frankly, doesn’t take them very long at all. 


Plus, herding geese in the Cotswolds, cancelling The Bill, and all the gossip from Charlotte Moore’s leaving do. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Channel 4’s controversial plans for in-house production, word clouds with Ant and Dec, and the comedy of Ken Dodd’s tax affairs. Channel 4’s controversial plans for in-house production, word clouds with Ant and Dec, and the comedy of Ken Dodd’s tax affairs. Thu, 29 May 2025 23:05:00 GMT 36:33 683895a69bd0275f2cbc266b true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/channel-4s-controversial-plans-for-in-house-production-word- 683895a69bd0275f2cbc266b 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b channel-4s-controversial-plans-for-in-house-production-word- full 1 8 This week, Jimmy and Peter ask what Channel 4’s plans to push into in-house production could mean for the UK indie sector. They discuss the BBC’s latest report into the state of British comedy (and whether they might perhaps be better to just commission more comedy, rather than write reports about it). And they talk the art of note giving, and ask whether there’s ever a good way of telling a star they’re anything other than fabulous?


Plus, buying Baywatch, the perils of slippery glass bridges, and why you should hire unhinged lunatics. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy and Peter ask what Channel 4’s plans to push into in-house production could mean for the UK indie sector. They discuss the BBC’s latest report into the state of British comedy (and whether they might perhaps be better to just commission more comedy, rather than write reports about it). And they talk the art of note giving, and ask whether there’s ever a good way of telling a star they’re anything other than fabulous?


Plus, buying Baywatch, the perils of slippery glass bridges, and why you should hire unhinged lunatics. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Special Episode: Remembering Alan Yentob Special Episode: Remembering Alan Yentob Mon, 26 May 2025 23:05:00 GMT 22:50 68349eb95895b9ea587d33d8 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/special-episode-remembering-alan-yentob 68349eb95895b9ea587d33d8 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b special-episode-remembering-alan-yentob full 1 With the sad news of the death of Alan Yentob, Peter and Jimmy take the opportunity to remember their old and much-loved friend, to celebrate his life and work, and to pay tribute to the huge impact he had on the world of British television. 


There's also, inevitably, a plug for the River Cafe in there. We think it’s what Alan would have wanted. 


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production. 


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> With the sad news of the death of Alan Yentob, Peter and Jimmy take the opportunity to remember their old and much-loved friend, to celebrate his life and work, and to pay tribute to the huge impact he had on the world of British television. 


There's also, inevitably, a plug for the River Cafe in there. We think it’s what Alan would have wanted. 


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production. 


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC, the shakeup at ITV Daytime, and Peter does a turn (and gets us a plug) on the Today Programme. Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC, the shakeup at ITV Daytime, and Peter does a turn (and gets us a plug) on the Today Programme. Thu, 22 May 2025 23:04:00 GMT 32:46 682f6c9681b7c3749cd895c7 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/gary-linekers-departure-from-the-bbc-the-shakeup-at-itv-dayt 682f6c9681b7c3749cd895c7 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b gary-linekers-departure-from-the-bbc-the-shakeup-at-itv-dayt full 1 7 This week, Peter and Jimmy unpack the end of Gary Lineker’s time at the BBC, and ask whether the corporation has a more wide-ranging problem when it comes to managing big talent. And we talk the latest changes to the ITV daytime schedule across Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women, and ask what the channel are really trying to achieve. 


Plus, Jimmy’s final day at Goodison Park, the (perhaps overdue) demise of Granada Men and Motors, and the commandment at the BBC that seems to require everyone to say “it’s all about the iPlayer” in every single meeting.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Peter and Jimmy unpack the end of Gary Lineker’s time at the BBC, and ask whether the corporation has a more wide-ranging problem when it comes to managing big talent. And we talk the latest changes to the ITV daytime schedule across Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women, and ask what the channel are really trying to achieve. 


Plus, Jimmy’s final day at Goodison Park, the (perhaps overdue) demise of Granada Men and Motors, and the commandment at the BBC that seems to require everyone to say “it’s all about the iPlayer” in every single meeting.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Dispatches from the BAFTAs, controversy at Question Time, and a podcast sponsorship deal in the offing? Dispatches from the BAFTAs, controversy at Question Time, and a podcast sponsorship deal in the offing? Thu, 15 May 2025 23:05:00 GMT 34:28 68262564696b5d1232b4901c true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/dispatches-from-the-baftas-controversy-at-question-time-and- 68262564696b5d1232b4901c 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b dispatches-from-the-baftas-controversy-at-question-time-and- full 1 6 This week, Jimmy brings us an eyewitness report from the front line at the BAFTAs, and we talk weird categories, surprising winners, and what this year’s awards tell us about the state of the British television industry. And we unpack the row between Question Time and Reform MP Richard Tice, and ask whether the work of BBC Verify is definitely the right way of supporting the brilliant journalism that the BBC does. 


Plus Fiona Bruce swearing, the secret canine code of sound designers, and why we're SUCH big fans of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy brings us an eyewitness report from the front line at the BAFTAs, and we talk weird categories, surprising winners, and what this year’s awards tell us about the state of the British television industry. And we unpack the row between Question Time and Reform MP Richard Tice, and ask whether the work of BBC Verify is definitely the right way of supporting the brilliant journalism that the BBC does. 


Plus Fiona Bruce swearing, the secret canine code of sound designers, and why we're SUCH big fans of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The Father Ted musical, Trump’s baffling film tariffs, and the Downton video game spin off that never was. The Father Ted musical, Trump’s baffling film tariffs, and the Downton video game spin off that never was. Thu, 08 May 2025 23:05:00 GMT 47:04 681cf617ad1a4a435054a37a true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-father-ted-musical-trumps-baffling-film-tariffs-and-the- 681cf617ad1a4a435054a37a 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-father-ted-musical-trumps-baffling-film-tariffs-and-the- full 1 5 This week, Jimmy talks candidly about the Father Ted musical, its difficult and sometimes painful evolution, and where the project is up to now. We ask what Trump’s film tariffs might mean for the British TV industry. And Peter and Jimmy discuss how to sell our homegrown shows internationally, and why some formats work abroad while others, for some reason, just don’t. 


Plus living next door to John Cleese, set visits to I’m a Celeb and long lunches with Ant and Dec, and buying 100 hours of Flipper the dolphin.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, Jimmy talks candidly about the Father Ted musical, its difficult and sometimes painful evolution, and where the project is up to now. We ask what Trump’s film tariffs might mean for the British TV industry. And Peter and Jimmy discuss how to sell our homegrown shows internationally, and why some formats work abroad while others, for some reason, just don’t. 


Plus living next door to John Cleese, set visits to I’m a Celeb and long lunches with Ant and Dec, and buying 100 hours of Flipper the dolphin.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> A new Chief Exec at Channel 4, why politicians all end up wanting to be on the telly, and is it time for the BBC to reboot Top Gear? A new Chief Exec at Channel 4, why politicians all end up wanting to be on the telly, and is it time for the BBC to reboot Top Gear? Thu, 01 May 2025 23:05:00 GMT 43:21 6813dbbc6ac0e5213bfe10a8 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/a-new-chief-exec-at-channel-4-why-politicians-all-end-up- 6813dbbc6ac0e5213bfe10a8 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b a-new-chief-exec-at-channel-4-why-politicians-all-end-up- full 1 4 This week, with Alex Mahon’s announcement that she’s leaving Channel 4, Peter and Jimmy assess the challenges a new Chief Exec will face. We talk the alchemy of Top Gear, and when (if ever) is the best time to reboot a hit show from yesteryear. And in the light of the latest batch of M&A rumours around ITV, we ask whether buying the broadcaster and its production arm would actually be good business? 


Plus, the joy of soft leather car seats, why politicians all end up wanting to be on the telly, and the REALLY big question on everyone’s lips… will Peter or Jimmy being going for the C4 job?


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, with Alex Mahon’s announcement that she’s leaving Channel 4, Peter and Jimmy assess the challenges a new Chief Exec will face. We talk the alchemy of Top Gear, and when (if ever) is the best time to reboot a hit show from yesteryear. And in the light of the latest batch of M&A rumours around ITV, we ask whether buying the broadcaster and its production arm would actually be good business? 


Plus, the joy of soft leather car seats, why politicians all end up wanting to be on the telly, and the REALLY big question on everyone’s lips… will Peter or Jimmy being going for the C4 job?


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> The fate of the linear schedule, Jimmy’s offer to buy BBC3, and a Downton lunch with Julian Fellowes. The fate of the linear schedule, Jimmy’s offer to buy BBC3, and a Downton lunch with Julian Fellowes. Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:05:00 GMT 33:55 680a67ba3e9267867b3390b5 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/the-fate-of-the-linear-schedule-jimmys-offer-to-buy-bbc3-and 680a67ba3e9267867b3390b5 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b the-fate-of-the-linear-schedule-jimmys-offer-to-buy-bbc3-and full 1 3 This week we’re delving into the Insiders inbox to answer some brilliant questions from listeners. In the age of streaming, what’s the point of the linear schedule? What’s become of the multi-camera audience sitcom? And is there a secret to making successful period dramas? (Answer: not really, but sort of...).


And as if that wasn’t enough, we talk Peter’s mother-in-law, Jimmy letting his kids skive off school, and Julian Fellowes being pleasingly odd.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week we’re delving into the Insiders inbox to answer some brilliant questions from listeners. In the age of streaming, what’s the point of the linear schedule? What’s become of the multi-camera audience sitcom? And is there a secret to making successful period dramas? (Answer: not really, but sort of...).


And as if that wasn’t enough, we talk Peter’s mother-in-law, Jimmy letting his kids skive off school, and Julian Fellowes being pleasingly odd.


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> SNL comes to the UK, taxing the streamers, and some truly terrible Roger Moore impressions. SNL comes to the UK, taxing the streamers, and some truly terrible Roger Moore impressions. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:05:00 GMT 36:33 6801368645e1f487c1c0654d true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/taxing-the-streamers-snl-comes-to-sky-and-some-truly-terribl 6801368645e1f487c1c0654d 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b taxing-the-streamers-snl-comes-to-sky-and-some-truly-terribl full 1 2 This week, as Sky announce they’re making a British version of Saturday Night Live, we ask, will it work here? Jimmy and Peter talk the pitfalls and impracticalities of the idea suggested by a committee of MPs to tax the streamers to help fund the UK production sector. And as Angela Rippon (aged 80 years young) prepares to host HIGNFY next week, we recall some of our favourite older hosts, including Brucie, Roger Moore, and the pleasingly bonkers William Shatner. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> This week, as Sky announce they’re making a British version of Saturday Night Live, we ask, will it work here? Jimmy and Peter talk the pitfalls and impracticalities of the idea suggested by a committee of MPs to tax the streamers to help fund the UK production sector. And as Angela Rippon (aged 80 years young) prepares to host HIGNFY next week, we recall some of our favourite older hosts, including Brucie, Roger Moore, and the pleasingly bonkers William Shatner. 


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 (series 69 now airing), 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod.

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> HIGNFY goes to America, Father Ted (but without the Catholic priests), and Volcano Live on the BBC HIGNFY goes to America, Father Ted (but without the Catholic priests), and Volcano Live on the BBC Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:03:00 GMT 53:31 67f7f3c778ad3c79010d38b2 true https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/hignfy-goes-to-america-father-ted-and-volcano-live 67f7f3c778ad3c79010d38b2 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b hignfy-goes-to-america-father-ted-and-volcano-live full 1 1 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!


This week, Jimmy lifts the lid on the selling of Have I Got News For You to the Americans, Peter attempts to get us sued by both Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller as he tells the the story of Pop Idol and The X Factor , and we discuss the thorny issue of how to decide who does and doesn't get a mention (and sometimes a hefty format fee too) when the credits roll at the end of a show.


Jimmy is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His incredible list of hit shows includes 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 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 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> 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!


This week, Jimmy lifts the lid on the selling of Have I Got News For You to the Americans, Peter attempts to get us sued by both Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller as he tells the the story of Pop Idol and The X Factor , and we discuss the thorny issue of how to decide who does and doesn't get a mention (and sometimes a hefty format fee too) when the credits roll at the end of a show.


Jimmy is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His incredible list of hit shows includes 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 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 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.


Our email address is InsidersTVPod@expectationtv.com, or you can get in touch via our socials at @InsidersTVPod

 

New episodes every Friday.


Insiders: The TV Podcast is an Expectation and Hat Trick co-production.


The producer is Owen Braben

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> Insiders: The TV Podcast Insiders: The TV Podcast Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:18:47 GMT 0:41 67f7ef6778ad3c79010bef08 false https://shows.acast.com/insiders-the-tv-podcast/episodes/insiders-the-tv-podcast 67f7ef6778ad3c79010bef08 67f584c18e7bdeb4a631c65b insiders-the-tv-podcast trailer 1 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 incredible list of hit shows includes 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 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 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]> 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 incredible list of hit shows includes 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 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 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


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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