All BBC articles – Page 716
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NewsBBC boosts Scottish production
The BBC is on track to meet its Scottish production targets - boosted by three Scottish network comedies including the return of Rab C Nesbitt and a BBC4 Scottish season featuring The Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi.
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NewsGriffiths named Newsround editor
Owenna Griffiths has been named editor of CBBC’s Newsround, replacing Sinead Rocks who has moved to BBC Current Affairs as executive producer.
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NewsBBC to pay out nearly £1m after libel battle
The BBC is to pay nearly a million pounds following a libel battle over claims made in a Panorama programme about an IVF doctor.
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CommentRising from the Ashes
How did Ashes to Ashes become both the most entertaining and frustrating show on TV, wonders Robin Parker
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NewsGilchrist to join BBC comedy
CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist is to join the BBC’s in-house comedy department as creative and business director.
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NewsBBC lands the best job in the world
BBC1 has ordered a doc on the search for a caretaker for an Australian tropical island - widely billed as “the best job in the world”.
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NewsBBC Trust calls for more info on Project Canvas
The BBC Trust has given the Project Canvas team the green light to launch a charm offensive after it called on the BBC executive to put more details about the project into the public domain.
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RatingsThe Apprentice hits new high
BBC1’s The Apprentice hit a personal best last night as 9.2m viewers (38.7%) tuned in to the penultimate show, the show’s biggest ever audience.
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NewsBBC Trust under fire over pay scrutiny
A government report into BBC radio production efficiencies has been overshadowed by a spat with the BBC Trust over whether presenters’ salaries should be made public.
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BBC goes for Gold in Worst team’s Olympics spoof
The BBC is lining up a mockumentary about the 2012 Olympic Games from the writers of The Worst Week of My Life.
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ITV and UTV defend £100m budget for regional news
ITV and UTV have stepped in to defend Ofcom’s proposed £100m budget for regional news, after the BBC dismissed the figure as “fantasy”.
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NewsBBC1 revives spirit of Tomorrow's World
BBC1 is to reinvent the Tomorrow’s World format with new science series Bang Goes the Theory.
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Primates to "funk up" CBeebies
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington is to “funk up the channel” with a major new 52 x 22-minute live action series fronted by primates.
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NewsBBC4 needs more Answers
BBC4 has commissioned 13 more episodes of offbeat quiz show We Need Answers following a three-part trial run.
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NewsBBC1 cools on acquisitions
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt has warned that she will not be shopping for US acquisitions and pledged her support to British productions instead.
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NewsNorton chatshow heads to BBC1
Graham Norton’s BBC2 chatshow will move to BBC1 in the autumn as part of a plan to make him one of the principle faces of the channel.
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NewsBBC1 extends lifeline to Britain's villages
BBC1 is set to transform the fortunes of six villages in a primetime Lottery-funded series.
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BBC disputes ITV regional news cost
The BBC has questioned Ofcom’s estimate for the cost of a regional news service on ITV, amid fears it will have to cover at least some of the shortfall.
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News'Disgusting' Monty Python nearly axed after first series
Monty Python’s Flying Circus was nearly taken off the air after just one series after BBC management lost patience with its “disgusting and nihilistic” humour, newly released documents have revealed.
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NewsDoctor Who selects new companion
Karen Gillan, a relatively unknown 21-year-old, will star alongside Matt Smith as Doctor Who’s new companion.