Television news from 10 February 2008

Setanta in play after £1.5bn bid (Daily Telegraph)
BT, Virgin and Disney likely to look at offers for football broadcaster. more

Sexist, racist ... I truly loved it (Media Guardian)
Through a politically incorrect haze of cigarette smoke, Lynn Barber spots a TV hit... more

Flat Earth mud that the BBC hasn't broadcast (Media Guardian)
One small point seems to have gone missing in all the press and broadcast lathering about Nick Davies's Flat Earth News... more

Charlotte Church is ready for TV return (Digital Spy)
Charlotte Church plans to return for a third series of her Channel 4 chat show. more

US studios reach deal with writers (Financial Times)
Hollywood studios were gearing up last night to restart television production after writers gave their approval to an agreement that would end the industry's worst labour stoppage in two decades... more

The true winner of Super Tuesday (Media Guardian)
There are still some BBC heroes; people who stand out in the crowd of Shepherds Bush frontmen flown out to the US to tell us what happened on super licence-fee-spending Tuesday... more

Murdoch’s ‘shattered’ Chinese adventures exposed (Rapid TV News)
Since 1993, when Rupert Murdoch bought Star TV, he has been knocking on China’s door. Now a book from a key Murdoch lieutenant (who first introduced Wendi Deng to Murdoch) says the efforts were “blundered” and “wasted money”. more

Spain looks at converging digital standards (Rapid TV News)
“Proyecto Hermes” is the name of a new project recently begun in Spain aimed at converging different digital TV technologies. more

Freeview NZ wants PVR (Rapid TV News)
Freeview New Zealand is in talks with electronics manufacturers to licence a hard-drive set-top box to offer a PVR product on the open market. more

US studios close deal with writers (Financial Times)
Hollywood studios were gearing up last night to restart television production after writers gave their approval to an agreement that would end the industry's worst labour stoppage in two decades... more