The Gardeners' World Blog

There’s a massive debate going on at the moment about the future of television. Now there probably always is within this industry but there is a growing feeling that the current edition is a pretty big deal – and not just for media types to ponder over their morning café lattes.

Much of my work in BBC Sport involves some intense discussions between old and new media people about developing content for interactive platforms. And in the last few weeks we have had the most extensive discussions yet, in which I think we have each learned lots of about the others' world.

At the same time this week there seems to have been a barrage of research and comment on the future of TV/the media/web (and none of it anything to do with the big news of Michael Grade's move).