All BBC articles – Page 478
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RatingsRadical Lives starts slow
SATURDAY: BBC2 documentary Melvyn Bragg’s Radical Lives got underway with 400,000 viewers as the penultimate day of the Commonwealth Games won the lion’s share of the audience.
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RatingsCommonwealth Games scores ratings gold
SUNDAY: The Commonwealth Games closing ceremony was the most watched show on Sunday and comfortably beat the audience from four years ago.
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NewsBBC4 paints docs for abstract art season
BBC4 has commissioned a raft of documentaries for a new abstract art season that will launch later this year.
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NewsBBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans hits 15 year high
Chris Evans has recorded the largest-ever audience figures recorded by Rajar, after his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show pulled in 9.91m listeners.
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RatingsThe Stuarts fails to overthrow The Plantagenets for BBC2
WEDNESDAY: BBC2’s three-part history documentary of The Stuarts got underway with 1.3m - down on the channel’s audience for The Plantagenets earlier this year.
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NewsBBC S&PP to work on Elstree-based Tumble
BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP) will provide studio and post-production services from Elstree Studios and BBC Elstree for BBC1’s new primetime Saturday night gymnastics show Tumble.
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NewsBBC1 takes a punt on Coral doc
Boundless has secured access to high-street bookmaker Coral for a three-part documentary series for BBC1.
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NewsBBC backs learning initiative
Former BBC multiplatform boss Simon Nelson has secured the support of the corporation for his online social learning initiative, FutureLearn.
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NewsBBC News cuts sparks union ballot
Bectu, National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Unite are to ballot their members to take strike action over BBC News cuts.
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NewsBBC Trust chair shortlist shrinks
The list of potential candidates vying to become BBC Trust chair is growing ever shorter, further to Lord Sebastian Coe’s public exit from the race.
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NewsBBC Trust expenses drop 10% year-on-year
The BBC Trust’s expenses claims have dropped by 10% year-on-year in the six months from October to March 2014.
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NewsBBC expands BAME talent scheme
The BBC Academy has added extra dates to its Expert Voices: BAME Talent programme to extend its reach.
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NewsBal Samra lands beefed up role
BBC commercial director Bal Samra has been handed a beefed up role with responsibility for the broadcaster’s business partnerships, spend management and global and digital developments.
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RatingsTulisa & Blinging Up Baby docs perform solidly
MONDAY: Channel 5 and BBC3 performed solidly with tabloid TV documentaries Blinging Up Baby and Tulisa: The Price of Fame.
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NewsLord Coe out of BBC Trust race
Lord Sebastian Coe has ruled himself out of the race to become the next BBC Trust chair.
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NewsTop Gear 'racial term' breaks Ofcom rules
Ofcom has found Top Gear in breach of its regulations for using a “pejorative racial term” in its Burma special episode.
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RatingsRed Arrows doc soars to 2.4m
SUNDAY: BBC2’s documentary about the Red Arrows transported 2.4m as Channel 4’s The Mill dipped by 200,000 from last week’s opener.
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NewsBBC1 to explore childhood holidays with Raise The Roof
Glasgow-based indie Raise the Roof is to delve into celebrities’ childhood holiday memories for a BBC1 daytime series.
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RatingsAdam Peaty Commonwealth gold peaks with 3.7m
SATURDAY: BBC1’s Commonwealth Games coverage peaked with 3.7m (22.6%) as England’s Adam Peaty picked up gold in the men’s 100m breaststroke final.
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NewsUnions demand BBC News external recruitment freeze
Bectu, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Unite have called on BBC News to only consider internal candidates for the latest crop of vacancies to counter the impact of imminent redundancies.