The Media Show: Building the Uncanny empire

媒体秀:构建超凡帝国

The Explanation

2026-04-23

22 分钟
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Uncanny, the BBC podcast about paranormal stories, has grown way beyond radio. There's a live theatre tour, a fan convention, it’s on YouTube and now a new series called Uncanny Cold Cases. Danny Robbins, the creator of Uncanny, talks about where the idea came from and why he thinks audiences keep coming back. QVC has filed for debt restructuring in the US, as it tries to shrink a debt pile of around $6.6bn. The shopping channel, once a giant of tele-shopping, is up against a new generation of buyers who would rather scroll than sit on the sofa with the remote. TikTok Shop alone has around 30 million users in the UK and is now the fourth biggest beauty retailer in the country. Katie Linsell, UK retail reporter at Bloomberg News, lays out what's gone wrong in the US. Rob Locke, presenter on ITV's Shop on TV, talks about what it's really like to sell live in the middle of the night. Hungary has a new Prime Minister. Péter Magyar's win has ended Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power, and he's promised big changes to the media. That includes rewriting Orbán-era media laws, pausing public broadcasting until it can be proven impartial, and shaking up the way the state hands out advertising money. Amrit Singh, Professor of Practice at NYU School of Law, and Iván Nagy, Hungarian political journalist and fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review, discuss what it's been like to work as a journalist in Hungary. Presenter: Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Content Producer: Lucy Wai Researcher: Ruth Waites Technical Coordinator: Chris Brown
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  • Welcome to The Explanation from the BBC World Service.

  • This is Ros Atkins and Katie Razzle, and this is The Media Show.

  • We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.

  • This week on The Media Show, we're looking at the future of the media in Hungary after the defeat of Viktor Orban.

  • Also, as QVC faces financial problems in the US,

  • we 're going to ask whether teleshopping can survive in the age of TikTok shop.

  • And the creator of Uncanny, the hit paranormal podcast, tells us how it's now made the move to YouTube.