Ian Hyland
Encyclopedia
Ian Hyland is an English television
critic
.
for the Sunday Mirror
from 2000 to 2005. Until 2011 closure of the newspaper, he wrote for the News of the World
. He currently writes for the Daily Mail. He has been billed as "the TV critic with the widescreen
mouth" due to his outspoken, self-assertive style.
as a regular guest from 2003 to 2005. He returned to the show in April 2010 appearing every Friday to preview television programmes for the week ahead before being replaced by Kevin O'Sullivan.
He has also appeared on This Morning and various TV nostalgia
and retrospective documentaries
.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
.
Journalism career
Hyland wrote a columnColumnist
A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....
for the Sunday Mirror
Sunday Mirror
The Sunday Mirror is the Sunday sister paper of the Daily Mirror. It began life in 1915 as the Sunday Pictorial and was renamed the Sunday Mirror in 1963. Trinity Mirror also owns The People...
from 2000 to 2005. Until 2011 closure of the newspaper, he wrote for the News of the World
News of the World
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...
. He currently writes for the Daily Mail. He has been billed as "the TV critic with the widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
mouth" due to his outspoken, self-assertive style.
Television
Hyland appeared on Five's The Wright StuffThe Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....
as a regular guest from 2003 to 2005. He returned to the show in April 2010 appearing every Friday to preview television programmes for the week ahead before being replaced by Kevin O'Sullivan.
He has also appeared on This Morning and various TV nostalgia
Nostalgia
The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of , meaning "returning home", a Homeric word, and , meaning "pain, ache"...
and retrospective documentaries
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
.