Radio shows: UK
New shows
• ITMA (It's That Man Again) (BBC from 12 July). Comedy starring Tommy Handley. It ends with the untimely death of Handley in January 1949.

Radio shows: US
New shows
• Blondie (CBS network from 3 July). Screwball comedy, based on the comic strip by Chic Young.
• Ellery Queen (CBS from 18 June). Mystery series.
• Mr District Attorney (NBC from 3 April). Nightly 15-minute serial,  weekly 30-minute format from June for the next 13 years.
• When a Girl Marries (CBS from 29 May). Soap. Start of an 18-year run.

Print media
• Batman, created by Bob Kane.
• Day of the Locust, the movel by Samuel West, is set in a downbeat Hollywood.

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