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Published 21 September 2023
TVTimes celebrates 10 years as a national magazine
Published 14 August 2023
HTV’s programme controller on why we should see more from the smaller ITV companies
Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
Published 1 May 2023
Meet Roger England, who spent his life behind the cameras of the most popular ITV programmes
Published 24 December 2021
A look back at three-channel Christmas television
Published 12 November 2021
Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC
Published 9 November 2020
There’s a new kid on the Granada block: Phil Redmond aims to take the North West franchise in 1991
Published 31 August 2020
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1987 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 10 August 2020
A trip behind the scenes of the frantic treadmill involved in producing two episodes a week of ‘Coronation Street’ in 1979
Published 25 May 2020
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1984 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 4 December 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1981 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 4 September 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1980 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 9 January 2019
June 1970: a prolonged strike at Granada has just finished, but, the Financial Times asks, will they ever recover? And even if they do, surely Coronation Street is now doomed?
Published 5 May 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1-7 April 1963 for a look at what was on the telly
Published 21 April 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 March 1962 for a look at what was on the telly
Published 9 December 2016
HV Kershaw looks back at Coronation Street’s beginnings in 1960 from the comfort of 1976
Published 18 September 2010
Russ J Graham on what lessons can be learned from ITV making great drama for the BBC