Sunday Round Up: Royal Wedding, Super Injunctions, BBC1, Sony, Facebook
This week's Sunday Round up includes reaction to the Royal Wedding (of course), the continued fall out from the imposition of Super Injunctions, problems for BBC1 and the possible acquisition of the company behind Midsomer Murders by Sony.
All newspapers lead with a Royal Wedding story of some description, many analysing the wedding, the dresses, the hair and much more, although The Sunday Telegraph says that the Royal Honeymoon has been postponed at the last minute due to security risks. Organisers had gone to great lengths to attempt to keep the destination a secret from the press to ensure that the couple were safe, but plans have been postponed at the last minute.
The Premiership footballer who took out a super injunction to prevent the media from reporting his affair with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas, has confessed to his wife. According to The Sunday Mirror, the footballer’s wife confronted him about the affair having become suspicious following rumours circulating as to the person’s identity.
BBC1 is set to struggle to keep its top name stars as a result of impending budget cuts its incoming controller has admitted. Danny Cohen has said that with Channel 4 looking to lure talent such as Jimmy Doherty, and other channels able to flex the commercial muscle, BBC 1 could sees its top names, including Professor Brian Cox depart.
The Observer also says that a Labour MP has claimed that Andrew Marr has dented his own credibility as a journalist having admitted to invoking a super injunction to his an affair. MP Chris Bryant has said that politicians will now refuse to answer the journalist when he poses difficult questions to them in future.
Sony is apparently set to bid to buy the production company behind Midsomer Murders, All3media. The company, which was also rumoured to be an acquisition target of ITV Studios, is apparently to be the subject of a £600m-plus bid reports The Sunday Telegraph.
According to The Observer, a survey claims that the burden of monitoring online threats being made to headteachers is putting schools under strain. The newspaper says that a poll has found that one fifth of headteachers has been bullied through social network sites such as Facebook, with schools increasingly having to call in police to investigate.