Media Monkey
The Guardian's simian diarist brings you media industry gossip
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BBC cost cuts lead to 'closet' Rio Olympics interview with Dawn AireyFormer senior Sky, ITV and Channel executive who is now Getty Images chief packed into makeshift World Service studio
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Daily Mail embraces Laura Trott – but snubs Jason KennyWinner of six Olympic golds only gets a mention as fellow cyclist’s fiancé in paper’s front-page subhead
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Fireman Sam Qur'an row gets alarm bells ringing at BBCCorporation gets more than 1,000 complaints about episode showing character stepping on holy book – but it doesn’t air the show
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Media Monkey: BBC bashing, Baby Cow turns poacher and period dramaHead of BBC Films set to move to join Steve Coogan’s indie, and Andrew Davies turns to crunching down Les Miserables
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Theresa May schmoozes the Spectator – but where's Boris?Tory leadership contender finds time for small talk at rightwing magazine’s summer party – but there is no sign of her failed rival
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Media Monkey’s Diary: Sarah Vine, FT party, and Theresa May’s spin doctorJapanese absent from pink ’un’s guest list, Adam Boulton pursues the wrong Laura Kuenssberg and Michael Gove connections
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Mel Giedroyc backs Mary Berry for Bond at great women galaThe Bake Off presenter was hosting the National Film & Television School dinner, and urged producers to hire more women
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Regrets, I've had a few: Kelvin MacKenzie and the great Brexit U-turnThe former Sun editor has admitted to feeling ‘buyer’s remorse’ after voting for Britain to leave the EU
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Media Monkey: Jeremy Paxman, Robert Peston and BrexitITV’s political editor feels a bit of a tweet, TV referendum banana skins round-up, and Mail Online has a huge float for Cannes Lions
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'UK votes to leave UN' reports Fox NewsUncertainty dominates in the wake of Brexit, but Monkey is quite sure the US news channel has its facts wrong on this
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Made in Chelsea's Jamie on Brexit: 'it's a delicious mix of Frosties and KitKat'E4 reality show stars film skit urging young people to vote in EU referendum
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Media Monkey’s Diary: Rupert Murdoch, Brexit and cross-dressingCan media mogul maintain Twitter silence over Europe and Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow harks back to Blackadder
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Piers Morgan and Trevor McDonald still on the case at ITVPresenters to return with new series of their true crime shows
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Media Monkey: Newsnight double acts, i, Jonathan RossBBC anchors pair up for EU referendum coverage, Oly Duff prompts echoes of the past, and cloud looms over Wossy at ITV
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ITV's News at Ten enjoys bumper night as BBC pushes back bulletinTom Bradby show attracts about 1.5 million more viewers than usual – suggesting John Whittingdale may have had a point
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Media Monkey: Radio Times’s Euro 2016 dilemma and BBC’s raunchy VersaillesJonathan Edwards gets in a sporting spin, Ilie Nastase plays it cool, and Daily Mail astrologer Oscar Cainer’s debut
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Media Monkey: Martin Sorrell, dead lesbians and Thatcher matchmakingJohnny Hornby on WPP succession, City AM’s Christian May gets his girl and kickstarting Jacquie Lawrence’s drama
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Grayson Perry: willy or won't he design a Chelsea Flower Show garden?BBC blurs out Post-it note on artist’s cape as former anti-gardener enjoys a celebrity tour of the RHS event with Monty Don
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Media Monkey: Kevin Lygo, Jim Naughtie and David AttenboroughNew ITV econonics editor Noreena Hertz on decision making and Robert Peston’s Sunday dilemma
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Rupert Murdoch gets right royal welcome despite Sun's Brexit headlinePaper’s owner invited to Buckingham Palace garden party day before watchdog blasts misleading headline
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Mirror gets Square Eyes in TV battle with the SunPaper throws down the glove to its rival by launching what it claims is ‘Britain’s best TV gossip column’
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Andy Coulson follows Rupert Murdoch in touring TelegraphEx-News of the World editor visits paper’s editorial conference, weeks after visit by his former employer
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Could Jeremy Clarkson's BBC nemesis have ended up as his Amazon boss?Former director of TV Danny Cohen rumoured to have talks with The Grand Drive broadcaster
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Noel Edmonds gets it dead wrong on the future of the BBCDeal or No Deal presenter channels Alan Partridge as he describes the corporation as a ‘terminally ill corpse’
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Good sport John Whittingdale does the business for the TelegraphCulture secretary finds time amid preparing BBC white paper to speak at conference organised by broadsheet’s publishers
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Amazon: not always prime for creative freedom?Director Whit Stillman says streaming service was ‘on top of absolutely everything’ when he was shooting Chloe Sevigny pilot
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BBC Studios: will Tony Hall's plans be hobbled by top execs legging it?Director general dubbed ‘Barren Hall of Birkenhead’ after string of high-level departures from new production arm
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Media Monkey: The New Day, Chris Evans and The ArchersWhere next for the Trinity Mirror paper’s editor, Mail goes easy on Top Gear host, and Radio 4 soap seeks a W1A-style editor
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Local TV group rides the Boaty McBoatface waveMade Television shamelessly leaps on bandwagon by rebranding itself as Telly McTellyface
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The Sun's Hugh Bonneville review puts drama centre stagePaper takes unusual step of covering Downton Abbey star’s performance in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People
Media Monkey: Karen Bradley, the Great British Bake Off, and Ed Vaizey