TV Insiders Peter Fincham and Jimmy Mulville break down Helena Bonham Carter’s shock exit from The White Lotus Season 4, discuss the huge Celebrity Traitors line-up and celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday.

In this episode:

•The White Lotus announcement from HBO and what “creative differences” actually means in television

•The surprising omission from the Celebrity Traitors cast

•Why the BBC still beats Netflix and Amazon at “event TV”

•How AI is already changing television editing and ADR

•The career decision that made David Attenborough a legend

•PLUS: your reactions to our AI in editing debate, Hollywood power struggles, BBC commissioning insights, and more

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

01:08 Celebrity Traitors lineup revealed

07:49 Helena Bonham Carter exits The White Lotus

15:33 AI controversy in TV editing

22:13 David Attenborough at 100

30:47 Corrections, cocaine and conclusions

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Jimmy Mulville is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His list of hit shows includes Have I Got News For You, Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, and Episodes. In the US Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1997 which ran on ABC for seven years and was the first British series to be recreated for American network television by a British producer.

Peter Fincham ran TalkBack, where he executive produced many of their biggest shows including I’m Alan Partridge, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and Da Ali G Show. He went on to be Controller of BBC1, then he was Director of Television at ITV, before returning to the independent sector as the co-CEO of Expectation, the company behind Clarkson's Farm and Alma's Not Normal. New episodes every Friday.

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