All BBC articles – Page 674

  • hole in the wall
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    Sarah Edwards bolsters BBC entertainment

    2009-12-14T10:02:00Z

    The BBC has recruited Sarah Edwards, head of entertainment development at TalkbackThames, to bolster its in-house entertainment production team.

  • The Today Programme
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    Today announces guest editor line up

    2009-12-11T10:04:00Z

    Guest editors including former England football captain Tony Adams, influential artist David Hockney and crime writer PD James will take the helm of the Today programme over the festive period, the BBC announced.

  • Terry Wogan
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    Radio industry honours reluctant Wogan

    2009-12-11T09:59:00Z

    Broadcasting legend Sir Terry Wogan was honoured by the UK radio industry today as he prepares to bow out from his Radio 2 Breakfast Show, and admitted: “I don’t really want to go”.

  • BBC
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    Murray to debunk German stereotypes for BBC4

    2009-12-10T17:54:00Z

    BBC4 plans to combat negative stereotypes about German culture in a two-part factual series fronted by comedian Al Murray.

  • Porridge
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    BBC ditches Siemens from £80m DMI scheme

    2009-12-10T09:22:00Z

    The BBC’s £80m Digital Media Initiative is floundering so severely that the corporation has ditched technology partner Siemens.

  • Pedigree Dogs
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    Pedigree Dogs was "on the money", producer claims

    2009-12-09T14:46:00Z

    Pedigree Dogs Exposed producer Jemima Harrison has claimed today’s Ofcom ruling as a victory after it rejected Kennel Club allegations that the doc was unfairly edited.

  • BBC3
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    BBC3 charts 9% year on year growth

    2009-12-09T11:36:00Z

    BBC3 is on course to increase its share of 16-to 34-year-olds to 4.4% by the end of the year – in line with growth for all the BBC’s digital channels.

  • MasterChef
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    MasterChef heading to France

    2009-12-09T11:33:00Z

    It was a long time coming, but MasterChef is finally going to teach the French how to cook.

  • BBC
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    BBCW may be sold off by Government

    2009-12-08T15:19:00Z

    The BBC is on a new collision course with Number 10 after the government included BBC Worldwide in a list of assets it may sell.

  • iPlayer
    News

    BBC hires first iPlayer scheduler

    2009-12-08T11:05:00Z

    The BBC has appointed its first “head of content release” – a new addition to the scheduling team that will oversee how content is launched on iPlayer as well as on linear TV.

  • James Corden and Mathew Horne
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    Horne and Corden "on hold"

    2009-12-08T10:34:00Z

    The future of Mathew Horne and James Corden’s sketch show is looking shaky after the BBC suspended production of the second series.

  • Watson & Oliver
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    BBC2 greenlights Watson & Oliver pilot

    2009-12-07T16:55:00Z

    BBC2 has greenlit a pilot from female comedy duo Watson & Oliver to be made by Peep Show producer Robert Popper and French and Saunders exec Jo Sargent.

  • Mark Thompson
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    Top BBC staff must "justify salaries"

    2009-12-07T11:12:00Z

    BBC staff earning more than £150,000 are to be forced to publicly justify their salaries in a Government bid to crack down on public-sector pay and bonuses.

  • Andrew Marr
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    Marr to take over Dimbleby duties

    2009-12-07T10:03:00Z

    The BBC’s Andrew Marr has been told that he is to take over covering some of the big state and ceremonial occasions from David Dimbleby in 2012.

  • Rhod Gilbert
    News

    BBC taps Northern Ireland indies for entertainment shows

    2009-12-03T11:36:00Z

    Northern Ireland indies have landed a flurry of major BBC network orders, including an eight-part National Lottery series and an entertainment pilot starring Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert.

  • merlin
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    BBC1 orders third series of Merlin

    2009-12-03T11:03:00Z

    BBC1 has ordered a third series of Shine Television’s hit family fantasy drama Merlin.

  • Rob Brydon
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    BBC2 to pilot Talkback’s The Rob Brydon Show

    2009-12-03T08:00:00Z

    BBC2 is piloting a new entertainment show fronted by Rob Brydon and produced by Talkback Thames.

  • Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting
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    BBC to run fresh TV fakery course

    2009-12-03T08:00:00Z

    Key daytime suppliers will be hauled into the BBC for yet another lesson on avoiding TV fakery following the Reef Television scandal over Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting and other shows.

  • Wayne Garvie
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    Garvie: business as usual under new BBCW rules

    2009-12-02T16:10:00Z

    New limits on BBC Worldwide imposed by the BBC Trust last week will not change the behaviour of the business or stop it taking stakes in indies, managing director of content and production Wayne Garvie has claimed.

  • Women in Love (1969)
    News

    BBC4 unveils love and sex season

    2009-12-02T12:44:00Z

    BBC4 is to dramatise DH Lawrence’s controversial novels The Rainbow and Women in Love in a new season about love and sexuality in 20th century literature.