All BBC articles – Page 551
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NewsBBC3 reboots Snog, Marry, Avoid
BBC3’s make-under show Snog, Marry, Avoid is being refreshed for its fifth series with comedian Ellie Taylor as presenter.
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NewsRadio 4 hunts 'New Elizabethans'
BBC Radio 4 is kicking off a hunt to find the 60 public figures who have had the greatest impact on life in the UK during the Queen’s reign to mark the Diamond Jubilee and create “a radio portrait of our age”.
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NewsAndrew Davies to adapt Les Misérables
Andrew Davies is working on a £10m adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables for drama co-production specialist Lookout Point, which is also planning to revive Lawrence of Arabia.
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NewsTwenty Twenty recruited for BBC1 conscripts drama
The final intake of National Service men is to be dramatised by Twenty Twenty in a new commission for BBC1 Daytime.
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NewsWhisper races off with first BBC1 commission
Whisper Films has won its first commission since being set up a year ago - a doc with the brother of Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton.
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CommentThe jewel in the year’s TV crown
The Jubilee will be a traditional affair – has the BBC got it right?
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Behind The ScenesDeath Unexplained, BBC1
The second episode of our series showed why treating the dead as people, not just coroner’s cases, was so important, says Alice Perman.
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NewsBBC mulls Poliakoff returner
BBC2 is considering developing Stephen Poliakoff ’s five-part drama Dancing on the Edge into a returning series, set in the offices of a 1930s music paper.
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NewsC4 commissioner quits for BBC Salford role
The commissioner of Made In Chelsea, Tool Academy and Playing It Straight is leaving Channel 4 to spearhead the BBC’s entertainment output in Salford.
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NewsBBC News channel blunders same day Trust praises
The BBC Trust has praised the BBC’s rolling news and Parliament coverage on the same day the BBC News channel broadcast the wrong verdict from the Harry Redknapp trial.
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NewsCoronation Street moves to Sunday over football clash
ITV is shifting an episode of Coronation Street to a Sunday night slot due to a clash with a high profile football match - leading the BBC to reschedule the final Call the Midwife.
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NewsLive Easter special moves from BBC3 to BBC1
BBC1 to to broadcast a live modern adaptation of the Passion story following a string of hit live events on BBC3.
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NewsBBC orders global childbirth doc
The BBC has ordered “a major global” documentary about childbirth around the world.
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NewsBBC unveils Diamond Jubilee concert plans
The BBC is promising to stage the biggest concert in its history to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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NewsSkillset to boost creative apprenticeships
Skillset will financially incentivise 500 small creative businesses to take on their first apprentices, it has announced today.
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NewsBroadcasters lobby Cameron for cameras in court
The BBC, Sky and ITN have sent a letter to the Prime Minister David Cameron and party leaders Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, to urge the ban on cameras in court to be lifted.
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NewsBBC3 comedy quiz to reveal state of the nation
Greg James and Russell Kane are to host new entertainment series for BBC3 that promises to reveal what the British public really think.
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NewsDavid Jason to direct BBC1 comedy
Only Fools and Horses star David Jason is turning his hand to directing for a new BBC1 sitcom set in a struggling family funeral parlour.
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News6 Music to celebrate decade on-air
Laura Marling, Spiritualized and Orbital are among the artists which will help BBC Radio 6 Music to celebrate its tenth anniversary with a series of live performances.