The Wire

It’s been a torrid ten years for commercial free to air television as they compete with pay TV and the expanding digital choice of things to watch on screens. But thanks to ingenuity born of desperate competition between networks, ordinary TV has survived and is thriving, and even showing signs of a return to producing quality current affairs.

Michael Bodey’s book details the personality power plays behind the scenes and how television has managed to re-invent itself often enough to keep its loungeroom audience .