ABSTRACT
The Daily Mail’s veteran TV critic Peter Paterson retired in September 2006 and was not replaced. His column had consisted of reviews of the previous night’s TV. It was replaced by more previewing of programmes for the upcoming evening. The paper that had pioneered popular TV reviewing with writers like Peter Black had decided that the sub-genre was dead. The complex relationship between national daily newspapers and national daily TV had taken another lurch forwards. On both sides, it is a love-hate relationship, one of media that are similar and need each other, but are consequently often antagonistic.
