Dispatches from the BAFTAs, controversy at Question Time, and a podcast sponsorship deal in the offing?

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.

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

The producer is Owen Braben.

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