Gordon Brown to appear on The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC. James Purnell, director of radio and education, wants programmes made by the BBC to be given more prominence in television guides and on subscription services and warns that public service broadcasters could miss out on a golden age of television. “If we don’t update the rules we’re at serious risk of losing something very special about our British culture,” he writes in The Daily Telegraph today. He pointed to the rise of on-demand services that give people more choice over which shows to watch and when, with “free-to-air” services becoming harder to find. “On the new Sky box, Sky Q, there is no one button…

Source: The Times March 20, 2017 00:33 UTC