ARCHIVE ▸ STEPHEN ARNELL
26 Jan 2022
New Channel 4 chair Dawn Airey has certainly become a British Broadcasting Heavyweight. But does she have a genuine passion for TV?
20 Apr 2021
As celebrities continue to launch their own production companies, Stephen Arnell considers the offers
03 Mar 2021
With BBC Three set to find itself back on our TV screens, broadcast consultant Stephen Arnell evaluates the challenges the channel will face.
03 Sep 2020
Broadcast consultant Stephen Arnell worries that Channel 4 has struck the wrong chord with its plans for a Black Takeover Day
27 Jul 2020
Stephen Arnell, a former editorial consultant on BritBox, evaluates whether the streaming service's new slate of original shows will be enough to cut through an overcrowded SVOD marketplace.
18 May 2020
Stephen Arnell examines two important media news stories, both of which have a pandemic connection.
Rather than giving the ubiquitous chef yet another gig, the broadcaster could have made a much stronger connection with financially anxious viewers, writes Stephen Arnell.
05 Mar 2020
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The original Spitting Image was very much 'water cooler TV' with audiences of 15m. With only an estimated few hundred thousand subscribers, there's no way it can perform this feat for BritBox.
21 Feb 2020
The top job at the Beeb can only go to a masochist in search of full-time flagellation, writes Stephen Arnell. So who is likely to throw their hat in the ring?
07 Feb 2020
Can the Corporation, in its current form, survive an emboldened Conservative government? It's not looking good, writes Stephen Arnell.
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