10 biggest TV talking points of 2012

Pip ‘Paxman’ Schofield ambushes David Cameron (November)
Interviewing the Prime Minister on ‘This Morning’ about the child sex abuse scandal, Schofield thought he’d pulled off the stunt of a career when he blindsided the PM with a list of names, understood to contain senior Tories, who were believed to be paedophiles. Boasting that “it had taken three minutes research on the internet to find them” turned out to be as daft as it sounded – among ... more 

Pip ‘Paxman’ Schofield ambushes David Cameron (November)
Interviewing the Prime Minister on ‘This Morning’ about the child sex abuse scandal, Schofield thought he’d pulled off the stunt of a career when he blindsided the PM with a list of names, understood to contain senior Tories, who were believed to be paedophiles. Boasting that “it had taken three minutes research on the internet to find them” turned out to be as daft as it sounded – among those fingered by Pip was the entirely innocent Lord McAlpine, whose name was visible on camera. A humiliating apology and pay-out followed. less