TV matters Every Thursday, Mark Lawson dissects the issues behind the week's most significant moments on telly
Great British Bake Off's past winners – where are they now? From TV chefs to cooking authors, past victors forge ahead with their culinary careers
TV matters: Room 101 and MasterChef Mark Lawson The two shows are returning to the screen with rejigged formats, but in his last TV matters column for the Guardian Mark Lawson warns that change can be risky
TV matters: the Public Enemies chaos Mark Lawson The BBC pulled its drama Public Enemies and replaced it with a Panorama about the Stephen Lawrence murder. Could the chaos this caused viewers have been avoided?
TV matters: festive fixtures Mark Lawson Jools's Annual Hootenanny is the nearest thing we have today to an annual favourite such as Morecambe & Wise
TV matters: The most popular shows of 2011 Mark Lawson In a year of astonishing political, financial and media developments, the most watched news bulletin featured Prince William and Kate Middleton getting hitched, writes Mark Lawson
TV matters: Daybreak Mark Lawson Temporary hosts Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway are desperate to show they are the right people for the job. What excitement at breakfast time, writes Mark Lawson
TV matters: Variety shows Mark Lawson It was designed as a transitional format in the early days of mainstream TV. But Variety has proved strangely resilient
TV matters: Christmas comes early Mark Lawson The schedules should not become an advent calendar – 17 December is soon enough for festive specials
TV matters: Only Fools and Horses Mark Lawson Viewers will laugh again when the much-loved chandelier scene is repeated – but what does that tell us about comedy, asks Mark Lawson
Why humiliation TV needs willing victims, no matter how vulnerable they might be Mark Lawson Both X Factor and I'm A Celebrity have made the most of losing two vulnerable contestants, but has the price been too high?
TV matters: Life's Too Short – the trailer Mark Lawson Viewers are clearly irritated by constant repetition of the same trailers – so why run them, asks Mark Lawson
TV matters: PBS UK Mark Lawson Transatlantic sea-change: now the US is sending upmarket programming to Britain, writes Mark Lawson
TV matters: royal reporting Matt Lawson Prince Charles says he wants to be taken seriously, so he has to accept that a less deferential style of royal reporting is inevitable
TV matters: advertising breaks Mark Lawson Viewers may complain that shows such as Downton Abbey are spoiled by too many ad breaks – but that's the nature of the beast, writes Mark Lawson
TV matters: The Jury Mark Lawson ITV's The Jury is that rare thing, a television remake – but will it work, asks Mark Lawson
TV matters: Televised trials Mark Lawson The televised trials of Amanda Knox and Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray suffer from a serious case of OJ Simpson-envy
TV matters: Philip Glenister in Hidden Mark Lawson Will we be able to believe in Glenister as Harry Venn when his Gene Hunt still looms so large, asks Mark Lawson
TV matters: Downton Abbey v Spooks Mark Lawson The aristos beat the espios, but going head-to-head on the same evening isn't the fraught business it used to be, writes Mark Lawson
TV matters: Red or Black? Mark Lawson Given the furore over Nathan Hageman, should game shows do background checks on their contestants?
TV matters: celebrity talent shows Mark Lawson Rory Bremner on Strictly Come Dancing, Kirsty Wark on Celebrity MasterChef – there's a subtle class system of celeb talent contests at work here, writes Mark Lawson
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