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NewsBBC3 plans prompt 750 complaints
The BBC has received nearly 750 complaints and comments about its plans to close BBC3 as a linear television channel.
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NewsBBC and C4 vie for corruption reporting award
BBC1’s Panorama and Channel 4’s Unreported World are to square off in the inaugural award for corruption reporting at this year’s One World Media Awards.
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NewsThe Millie Show opens on CBBC
CBBC has commissioned a series from The Foundation fronted by Dani’s House star Millie Innes.
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NewsBBC to inject arts into mainstream programming
The BBC is poised to inject more arts content into mainstream programming and revive art series Civilisation 45 years after it aired.
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NewsGovernment to launch licence fee decriminalisation review
The government is poised to launch a year-long consultation on decriminalising licence fee evasion.
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NewsNick Clegg voices concerns over licence fee evasion plans
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has indicated that he is listening to BBC concerns over decriminalising licence fee evasion.
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NewsPeter Moffat closes the case on Silk
Silk creator Peter Moffat has confirmed that BBC1’s courtroom drama will not return for a fourth series.
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NewsCBeebies’ origination quotas relaxed
Ofcom has approved plans to reduce CBeebies’ origination quotas to bring them into line with CBBC.
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NewsStrictly wins Craft gong
Strictly Come Dancing will be honoured with the Special Award at the Bafta Craft Awards on 27 April.
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NewsBBC3 orders sitcoms prior to online move
BBC3 is lining up a sitcom set in a young offenders’ institution and has recommissioned three of its biggest comedies as it begins to increase its online experimentation.
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NewsIndies lobby Trust on quotas
The bosses of some of the UK’s biggest indies used a high-level meeting with the BBC Trust to make the case for changing the corporation’s commissioning quotas during charter renewal negotiations next year.
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NewsBBC2 reveals 50th anniversary plans
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse will take a sideways glance at BBC2’s output as part of a raft of programming celebrating the channel’s 50th anniversary in April.
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NewsITV research boss steps down
ITV’s director of planning and research Daniel Cook has left the company after more than two and a half years.
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NewsGoogle Chromecast launches in UK
Google’s media-streaming device Chromecast has gone on sale in the UK today, allowing users to send programmes from a mobile device or laptop to view on their TV.
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NewsBBC spent £6,500 suing Daily Star
The BBC spent more than £6,500 on legal fees helping former chief financial officer Zarin Patel to correct a Daily Star article that claimed she personally helped presenters “dodge” tax.
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NewsComedy Playhouse revived by BBC
BBC1 is to revive its Comedy Playhouse strand with a hat-trick of sitcom pilots, including a story starring Hugh Dennis as a BBC weatherman.
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NewsRDF hires BBC producer Catherine Welton
BBC features and factual entertainment producer Catherine Welton is to join RDF Television’s Bristol division as an executive producer.
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NewsBBC apologises for North Korea doc
The BBC has apologised after a high-profile undercover Panorama film on North Korea last year breached a number of the corporation’s editorial guidelines.
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NewsKate Harwood leaves BBC to revive Euston Films
BBC in-house drama boss Kate Harwood is leaving the corporation after 24 years to revive an iconic production brand for Fremantle Media UK.
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NewsCohen: BBC1 drama budget boost aimed at youngsters
The £30m drama funding boost handed to BBC1 under the radical changes to BBC3 will be used to commission content that appeals to young audiences, Danny Cohen has pledged.