Redmond attacks British TV for being ?too safe'

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Mersey TV chairman Phil Redmond has hit out at the ?banal' state of peaktime TV and claimed that excessive editorial regulation is preventing UK programme makers producing hits such as HBO's The Sopranos, writes Steve Aston.

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