The Mail agrees to buy the Telegraph: but where’s the money coming from? And will the Government wave it through? Private Eye’s Adam MacQueen, writer on the magazine’s Street Of Shame, laments another twist in the Telegraph saga.

Also on the show: the budget offered no new tax credits for the film and TV industry... but at least there’s another big studio being built. Cara Kotschy, co-founder of post production house Residence Pictures, explains what all these studio projects mean for the sector.

All that plus: Michael Prescott faces MPs, as do various BBC execs, a lost Blackadder script goes on sale... and, in the Audio Network Media Quiz, we connect three more underreported stories from the week.

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What The Media Club has been reading this week:

Mail agrees to buy the Telegraph

BBC at CMS Select Committee

Deadline on the lack of tax credits in the budget

Bid For The Blackadder Chrismas Special That Never Was

Marlow Film Studios approved

Trump Secures Rush Hour 4

Dale Vince's Newspaper

Stranger Things Gets The Pop Up Radio Treatment

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