All BBC articles – Page 568
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NewsBBCW plans global broadcast of Diamond Jubilee
BBC Worldwide will air coverage of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations across five continents this weekend.
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RatingsJimmy Doherty and Royals fail to perform
TUESDAY: The launch of Jimmy Doherty’s first Channel 4 series attracted an audience of 1.4m failing to meet the slot average, while ITV1’s royal-themed programmes also struggled.
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NewsThompson: politicians must decide over Scottish BBC
Mark Thompson has said the politicians must establish whether the BBC could be carved up to create a separate Scottish entity, rather than the broadcaster itself.
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NewsFood Inspectors to return to BBC1
BBC1 has ordered a second series of The Food Inspectors and is moving it to the 8pm slot.
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RatingsPanorama scores 3.5m with football racism doc
MONDAY: A Panorama documentary featuring evidence of racism in Poland and Ukrainian football clubs ahead of the Euro 2012 drew the strand’s third biggest audience of the year, while the first episode of Springwatch broadly maintained last year’s viewing figures.
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NewsThe Voice tops iPlayer charts
BBC1 talent show The Voice was the most viewed show on the iPlayer in March and April, with around 1.5m requests for its biggest episodes.
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NewsDirk Gently falls victim to DQF
The holistic detective Dirk Gently has become the latest victim of the BBC’s cost-cutting initiative DQF.
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NewsRichards has applied for DG role, Ofcom confirms
Ofcom has confirmed that its chief executive Ed Richards has applied for the position of director general at the BBC.
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RatingsEurovision and The Voice take a tumble
SATURDAY: The Eurovision Song Contest’s audience dipped by 2m on last year’s performance while The Voice UK continued to slide in the ratings – on a day that BBC1 managed to maintain the lion’s share of the audience.
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NewsRafaele and Humphreys handed new BBC roles
Former Channel 4 documentaries commissioner Aysha Rafaele has been made head of BBC in-house documentaries and Natalie Humphreys has been made pan-UK controller of factual network production as the BBC finalises its in-house team.
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NewsLegal wrangle over BBC4's Room At the Top resolved
A BBC4 adaptation of classic 1950s novel Room At The Top will finally make it to air after being dropped last year because of a legal wrangle over the rights to the story.
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NewsBBC strikes three-year Premier League highlights deal
Match of the Day will be made available on iPlayer for the first time after the BBC struck a £180m deal to hold on to Premier League highlights for another three years.
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NewsBBC trainee scheme deadline approaches
The BBC is inviting final applications for its Production Management Trainee Scheme.
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RatingsHouse beaten by Glee on Sky1
The last ever episode of House attracted fewer viewers than the last episode of the current series of Glee on Sky1, which managed to draw in the channel’s biggest audience of the day.
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NewsWestwood leaves 1Xtra drivetime in schedule shakeup
Digital radio station BBC 1Xtra will replace Tim Westwood as host of its drivetime show with up-and-coming talent Charlie Sloth as part of a schedule shake-up.
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NewsHunt warned PM about "caving in to" Sky bid opponents
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt sent a memo to prime minister David Cameron in November 2010 in which he warned against “caving into the Mark Thompson / Channel 4 / Guardian line” over News Corp’s takeover bid for Sky.
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NewsBBC2 follows Tube hit with spotlight on Planners
BBC2 is looking to follow the success of ob doc series The Tube with an eight-parter lifting the lid on life as a council planning officer.
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NewsPeretti probes obesity for BBC2
BBC2 has greenlit a 3 x 60-minute Jacques Peretti documentary series for Fresh One investigating the history of obesity.
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NewsBBC 999 Awards to challenge ITV’s Pride of Britain
BBC1 is poised to celebrate the heroics of the UK’s emergency services in a special awards ceremony that will rival ITV1’s Pride of Britain Awards.
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NewsHammond to front Saturday night prank show
BBC1 is lining up Richard Hammond to head a team of actors and comedians who will play pranks on members of the public for the Saturday night slot vacated by Total Wipeout.