Paul Dacre: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: The Euro 2020 Final, which featured a dramatic England penalty defeat to Italy and chaos as thousands of un-ticketed fans attempted to storm Wembley Stadium, is to be charted in a Netflix feature documentary from My Daughter’s Killer producer Rogan Productions.

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4’s landmark documentary series about former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has been put on ice indefinitely.

"Because then I could give it back when that lying, evil thug Paul Dacre enters the House of Lords," he explained.John was offered a peerage over 20 years ago by former Liberal-Democrat leader, Paddy Ashdown.However, in 1999 he turned it down and joked that he didn’t want to accept the offer as it would mean spending winters in EnglandJohn said: “I turned down a peerage actually.“Paddy was going to offer me one when he ceased to be leader of the Lib Dems, for political services – not because I was a wonderful human being but because I’d helped them a lot.“But I realised this involved being in England in the winter and I thought that was too much of a price to pay," he told The Mirror in 2011.The Fawlty Towers star divides his time between England and sunny California.

Michael Grade may be one of the British television industry’s elder statesmen, but this does not necessarily make him the right person to lead the country’s TV regulator Ofcom, apparently.

British broadcasting heavyweight Michael Grade, who has overseen every major UK broadcaster, has been appointed Chair of media and broadcasting regulator Ofcom, bringing to an end an at-times controversial hiring process that has been running for more than a year.

K.J. Yossman After a two-year search, U.K.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe BBC has responded to the story that’s the talk of the British TV industry: that the government is poised to appoint the right-wing Daily Telegraph columnist Charles Moore as the BBC’s next chairman.The Sunday Times reported over the weekend that it was a “done deal” that Moore would get the top job, even though the government is yet to launch a formal recruitment process for the role.The news shocked many industry watchers, given Moore has a history of being nakedly aggressive towards the BBC and was fined by a court in 2010 for failing to pay his licence fee.A Very English Scandal actor Hugh Grant described the prospect of Moore at the BBC, and former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre becoming the new