BBC Axes, ITV Revives: Britain's TV Landscape Gets a Shake-Up

Live at the Apollo is dead, and nobody in British comedy is pretending otherwise. After more than two decades on BBC screens, the stand-up showcase has become the latest casualty of the corporation's cost-cutting blitz. The final series will be recorded at Hammersmith Apollo later this year before the curtain falls for good. Comedian Adam Rowe hit BBC Breakfast to argue the show should still exist: "It was a massive platform… I think there should be a home for...