Will a new year mean a new start for ITV? The troubled commercial broadcaster is hoping to turn over a leaf with a new schedule launching next week. Will it be enough to lay the ghost of 2007? With me in for the first media podcast of 2008 is Janine Gibson, editor-in-chief of MediaGuardian, to talk over Michael Grade's plans.
Plus we cross to LA for the latest on the US writers' strike, as Leno and Letterman go back to work.
Also, is it the end of the line for live blogging? And we pick over the entrails of the Christmas TV schedules with Gareth McLean.