The Daily Mirror is looking to take a version of highly-rated TV critic Ian Hyland’s column five days a week, as the newspaper looks to keep pace with the trend for more frequent TV reviews.
Hyland, one of the best known and highly regarded TV critics in the UK, currently writes a weekly column for the Daily Mirror.
However, it is understood that the historical idea of a weekly column is becoming outdated in the fast-paced modern digital and social media world.
It is not known when Hyland’s weekly column will be discontinued and when the new five-day strategy is to be implemented.
Trinity Mirror declined to comment on the plans, which are yet to be finalised.
The 46-year-old, who began his career as a show business columnist on the Sunday Mirror in 2000, has written a weekly column for the Mirror since joining from the Mail on Sunday in 2013.
He spent two years at the Mail on Sunday, joining from the News of the World which was shut in 2011 in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
In January, the Sunday Mirror’s TV critic, Kevin O’Sullivan, left after 10 years with the newspaper.
News of O’Sullivan’s column being dropped sparked an outpouring on social media, including support from former Mirror editor Piers Morgan and TV presenter Matthew Wright, and more than 1,100 people signed an online petition to get him reinstated.
