When TV Was TV : Inside the GoggleBox

Not only is television the most powerful medium of our generation, but it's also the most exciting.

Since broadcasts first started in Britain in 1936 as a public service free of advertising, almost 80 years later there are now as many as 500 channels available in this multibillion pound industry.

At the push of a button, it can bring the horrors of the Ukraine, the thrills of the winter olympics or the suicide of much-loved Coronation Street character Hayley Cropper into the nation's living rooms.

Using the vast photo archive of the Daily Mirror, this book will celebrate the story of British television over the decades and the celebrities the medium has created, this book will be a revealing, amusing and entertaining exploration of all things television.