All BBC articles – Page 354
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NewsBBC unveils £12m Songs of Praise tender
Retaining loyal BBC1 audiences should be a key aim of indies hoping to land a £12m contract to produce Songs of Praise, according to the BBC’s tender document.
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NewsBBC boots up Gold Rush game maker
The BBC is launching a Gold Rush ‘game maker’ to tie in with Dan Snow’s forthcoming BBC2 show – enabling audiences to create their own adventure.
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NewsBob Shennan appointed BBC director of radio
Radio 2 and 6 Music boss Bob Shennan has been appointed director of BBC Radio following last month’s promotion of James Purnell.
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NewsBBC3 picks up Australian swimming drama
BBC3 has acquired Matchstick Pictures’ Australian drama series Barracuda from NBCUniversal.
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NewsBBC starts axing Studios jobs
BBC Studios’ bases in London and Bristol will bear the brunt of a large-scale redundancy drive as director Mark Linsey’s plan to slash its headcount by around 15% gets under way.
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NewsBBC tender prompts questions
Producers have raised questions about the value of securing a BBC format after A Question Of Sport and Holby City became the first shows to be put out to tender since the in-house guarantee was scrapped.
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NewsHolby City put out to tender
Producers have been offered the opportunity to land a three-year contract to produce Holby City – the second BBC show to be put out to tender after the broadcaster scrapped in-house guarantees.
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NewsTony Blackburn returns to the BBC
Tony Blackburn is to return to the BBC, eight months after he claimed to have been sacked by the corporation.
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NewsBafta Children's Awards nominations announced
Horrible Histories and online educational platform TrueTube lead the way in the Bafta Children’s Awards nominations after picking up three nods each.
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NewsVoltage cooks up food format for BBC2
Voltage TV has landed a 12-part primetime food competition celebrating home cooking to air on BBC2 next summer.
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NewsBBC releases Question Of Sport tender
Regional producers could be best placed to scoop the £4m contract to produce A Question of Sport after the BBC released its first tender document since scrapping its in-house guarantee.
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NewsSee-Saw adapts Ian McGuire whaling thriller
BBC2 is developing an adaptation of Ian McGuire’s Man Booker-longlisted whaling novel The North Water with See-Saw Films.
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RatingsStrictly hits 10m peak
WEEKEND: Strictly Come Dancing hit a series high on Saturday as The X Factor slipped to a low.
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NewsBBC launches diversity guidelines
The BBC has unveiled new commissioning guidelines that make it compulsory for indies to consider diversity and inclusion as part of the development process.
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NewsBBC Studios exempt from salary disclosure
New rules forcing the BBC to disclose talent salaries in excess of £150,000 will not apply to staff employed by BBC Studios, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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RatingsThe Missing locates 6m
WEDNESDAY: The Missing returned with 6m viewers – comfortably ahead of the audience who tuned in for the first series debut in 2014.
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NewsBBC2 unwraps sweet history
Wall to Wall is going back in time again to discover the history of confectionary for a three-part BBC2 series.
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NewsBBC Studios culls 300 jobs
BBC Studios is to make around 300 staff redundant across all of its major genres, with factual bearing the brunt.
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NewsEurosport boss: BBC Olympics deal made reputational sense
Eurosport chief executive Peter Hutton has revealed that failing to strike an Olympics deal with the BBC would have been a PR blunder for the new rights holder.
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NewsMcDonald unveils upcoming NHU slate
The BBC has unveiled six major natural history commissions across BBC1 and BBC including a follow up of Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur.