Media Show

Neil Midgley on Lord Patten's first day as chairman of the BBC Trust; Katherine Rake and Stewart Purvis discuss Ofcom's ruling on what counts as acceptable family viewing and Martin Nisenholtz, the New York Times's head of digital, explains why they have put up a new paywall.

Hugh Tomlinson QC is the barrister in several of the recent high profile celebrity privacy cases. Gill Phillips is head of editorial legal services at the Guardian, who guided the paper through the challenge to the Trafigura superinjunction. What do they make of the recent media reports of celebrities allegedly over-using injunctions to protect their private lives - and can they suggest a system that's fair to individuals and the media? Piers Morgan is in the UK this week for CNN, to cover the royal wedding. In his pub in west London, he tells Steve Hewlett how he landed his CNN job, what he thinks of his critics and whether he stands by his previous comment that phone hacking was "an investigative practice that everyone knows was going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years".

Talksport has accused BBC 5 Live of treading on their toes by broadcasting too much sport and chat. Jonathan Wall, 5 Live's deputy controller, discusses what counts as news. The editor of The Independent Simon Kelner discusses plans for Saturday edition of the i, and, as the world's media gears up for the Royal wedding, AP Television News's operations manager Tim Santhouse talks logistics and CNN's Richard Quest explains how he's preparing for the big day.

The new controller of BBC1, Danny Cohen, on his plans for the future of the channel; following News International's apology for phone hacking at News of the World, Natalie Fenton and Peter Preston discuss whether the British press needs tougher regulation.

Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, talks about the BBC's challenges in his final few weeks in the job; Katie Price's lawyer Mark Bateman discusses Channel 4's failure to apologise after Ofcom found that a joke about Price's son was offensive and Steve Hewlett reports from the British Press Awards.

The culture secretary Jeremy Hunt on his plans for the UK media; Channel 4 foreign correspondent Jonathan Miller on Eman al-Obeidi's and reporting from Libya and has The Times found a way to make online content pay?

Cuts in local radio, dropping Wimbledon and Formula 1, closing down networks at night: just some of the radical options reported in this week's papers as the BBC looks to find ways of balancing its budget after the latest licence fee settlement. Will any of them actually happen and are they even needed? We hear from the senior BBC executive running the review, Pat Younge. Maggie Brown of the Guardian and Richard Brooks of the Sunday Times discuss the ideas. And last week Ofcom announced a full-on review of the tv advertising sales system. Matthew Horsman of Mediatique gives his view on what this might mean for viewers, advertisers and commercial broadcasters.

Have news organisations have sent too many journalists to cover the earthquake in Japan? The BBC's Fran Unsworth and ITV's Tim Singleton discuss. Simon Kelner on rising sales of the "i" and Emma Barnett on delays to plans to tackle internet piracy.

Ex Daily Star reporter Richard Peppiatt on his claims that he made up stories while working on the paper; Ofcom's cheif executive Ed Richards on Ofcom's future and, as Jason Gardiner's catty comments make yet more headlines, Nina Myskow asks if every talent show needs a pantomime villain.

Veteran foreign correspondent Marie Colvin on securing an interview with Colonel Gaddafi, Julian Assange's plans to trademark his own name and product placement: the first example appeared on British television this week but has anyone noticed?

As protests in Libya continue, BBC World News editor Jon Williams and Channel 4 correspondent Alex Thompson discuss whether social media makes it easier to report from Libya; Mark Thompson and Anne McElvoy on the role of the next chair of the BBC Trust and veteran documentary maker Roger Graef on My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.

The internet TV service YouView has been delayed again and is not expected to launch until 2012. Steve Hewlett asks YouView's chief executive Richard Halton when it will finally arrive. TV Critic David Butcher takes a look at OK! TV, the new showbiz show from Channel 5 and David Elstein and Chris Goodall explain what has happened to the News Corp bid for BSkyB.

As Question Time's editor leaves due to the programme's move to Glasgow, Steve Hewlett discusses the BBC's plans to move programmes out of London. Emma Barnett on media giant AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post and TalkSport's Moz Dee on the decision to hire Andy Gray and Richard Keys.

The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger discusses working with WikiLeaks; Prof George Brock on Wikileaks's new partnership with the Telegraph and Baroness Peta Buscombe of the Press Complaints Commission responds to complaints about its handling of the phone hacking scandal.

As the BBC announces substantial cuts, Steve Hewlett talks to the Director General Mark Thompson about cuts, job losses, the licence fee settlement and the corporation's strategy; Maggie Brown and Tim Suter discuss the BBC's future; Stewart Purvis, the former Partner for Content & Standards at Ofcom, looks at the recent Ofcom report into News Corps bid for BSkyB.