Think media celebs are spoilt rotten? They are, confesses Jesse Mulligan – right up until the day they say goodbye.

Revisiting our enormous Campbell Live tribute page from May 2015, farewelling the iconic TV3 show and the marvelous man at the helm of it.

With yesterday's terrible news about flagship current affairs show 3D, Duncan Greive assesses the MediaWorks' strategy, a year on from its flashy launch.

John Campbell picked up a one game contract with the Sky Sports team to turn out for a little test match he'd organised in Samoa. Duncan Greive assesses his performance.

Bringing together the best television moments of the week, including Come Dine With Me's beautiful bromance, Campbell's low-key cameo and Newsworthy's sauna dramas.

John Campbell returned to our screens last night for a brief stint as Hurricanes expert and official guidance counsellor to his once-competitor, The Crowd Goes Wild.

In this month's comic, José Barbosa celebrates the best moments from the first week of Come Dine With Me – the Campbell Live substitute packed with baked beans and broom women.

It’s local content, it starts with a well-presented white guy driving around in a fast car. Joe Nunweek asks – did we get the 7pm show we deserved?

It's the final day of Campbell Live, so we've set up a tribute shrine for friends, colleagues, fans and driving dogs to post their memories of JC and the team. Will be updated regularly.

"The show, and its genial host, has been with us since that marvelous day when Cook and several of his party first set foot on New Zealand soil on October 8, 1769," writes Steve Braunias.

"Even though I'm absolutely Campbell Live's target demographic, and it's the type of current affairs that I enjoy watching and think is immensely valuable, I don't actually watch it."

Duncan Greive asks what the Campbell Live debacle means for the plurality of voices in our media.

"Simply a stone in the shoe for a channel remaking itself in the image of its new board – what you might call the NZX Factor."

After today's news that John Campbell is leaving TV3, Alex Casey recaps the Campbell Live episode that followed.

Greg Bruce interviews his own mother about her devotion to Seven Sharp's Mike Hosking over "smarmy" John Campbell.