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As from 13 March 2014 you'll discover 17,526 British TV ads conveniently on hand for immediate free viewing online. The tellyAds archive of TV adverts is getting bigger every day, resulting in this being the UK's best free collection of TV commercials.

As from 13 March 2014 you'll discover 17,526 British TV ads conveniently on hand for immediate free viewing online. The tellyAds archive of TV adverts is getting bigger every day, resulting in this being the UK's best free collection of TV commercials.

FACEBOOK FAKE: Gerard O'Donovan reviews Channel 4's The Girl Who Became Three Boys, the story of Gemma Barker, who disguised herself as a series of boys so that she could date girls.

FACEBOOK FAKE: Gerard O'Donovan reviews Channel 4's The Girl Who Became Three Boys, the story of Gemma Barker, who disguised herself as a series of boys so that she could date girls.

The 30-second commercial for All Nippon Airways (ANA) was designed to promote its expanded offering of international flights from Tokyo's Haneda airport, and first aired on Saturday. It shows two men in ANA uniforms discussing how "exciting" it is that the airline now offers services to Vancouver and Hanoi.

Panel shows such as QI and Mock the Week will no longer have all-male line-ups, the BBC's director of TV has said.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual people were portrayed for 5 hours and 43 minutes - 4.5 per cent of total programming. Lesbian, gay and bisexual people were portrayed negatively for two hours and three minutes. Lesbian, gay and bisexual people were positively and realistically portrayed for just 46 minutes, 0.6 per cent of total programmes monitored. Three quarters of portrayal was confined to just four programmes - Hollyoaks, I'm A Celebrity..., How to Look Good Naked and Emmerdale. Half (49 per cent) of all portrayal was stereotypical. Gay people were depicted as figures of fun, predatory or promiscuous. Lesbian, gay and bisexual people were portrayed negatively for two hours and three minutes - accounting for 36 per cent of all portrayal. Just seven minutes featured scenes where homophobia was challenged.

Good news, for those of you who had lost hope in modern society. According to a report by the thinktank Demos today's teenagers - or youth, as certain newspapers prefer to dub them - far from being antisocial hoody-clad riot-mongers, are actually highly concerned with social issues, keen to volunteer, and take fewer drugs and drink less alcohol than previous generations.

Brilliant alternative to the stereotype.

A plan by the New York Police Department to use Twitter to boost its image seems to have backfired. Users were asked to tweet a photo of themselves with officers and add the hashtag #myNYPD as part of a social media campaign.