Emily Baker

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

It’s been two years since the UK hosted Eurovision in Liverpool, but our renewed interest still doesn’t seem to be waning. Not only were the semi-finals given a primetime slot on BBC One this week, but over a million of us tuned in to each show to see who would make it to tonight’s Grand Final. This evening, the 26 qualifying songs will compete for the final time in Basel, with each act hoping to impress both the juries and the voting public around the world.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

Taskmaster was once TV’s best kept secret. Having made the jump from the Edinburgh Fringe stage to the screen in 2015, it was hidden away on Dave’s Tuesday night schedule, watched by the half a million of us (sometimes fewer) who had heard it was the next big thing. Back then, Taskmaster was fresh and rebellious – just the right amount of weird. Even a move to Channel 4 in 2020 didn’t dull its shine. But now, 10 years on, all that magic seems to have vanished.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

Fred and Rose West are two of Britain’s most infamous serial killers. The couple murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, including Fred’s stepdaughter, eight-year-old Charmaine. Their bodies were buried in their Gloucester home, which the press dubbed a “house of horrors”. When there was no more room in the cellar, the mutilated, dismembered girls were put in the ground of the garden.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

“Survive until 2025.” That was the mantra of workers in the TV industry last year, amid a catastrophic drought of work. But almost halfway into 2025, the lack of jobs is even starker. “I know a sound recordist who is working in Tesco,” says director Stephen Gallacher. “I have a friend who is very well established in the industry who has found work as a binman.” Recently, someone he knows in the industry tried to end their own life. The British TV industry is on the brink of a mental health crisis.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Baker

You will probably already know that ADHD diagnoses are on the rise – a recent study by academics at the University of Huddersfield and Aston University has found that the number of ADHD prescriptions have increased by 18 per cent year on year since the Covid pandemic. Usually, that’s presented as a bad thing – that doctors are being too enthusiastic with their diagnoses, that social media is convincing neurotypical people that they have a disorder.