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NewsBBC DMI bosses collected £18,000 in bonuses
The BBC paid senior managers overseeing the failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI) £18,000 in bonuses, it has emerged.
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NewsR4 political chief slams BBC portrayals of disability
BBC Radio 4’s chief political correspondent Gary O’Donoghue has criticised the corporation’s drama output for allowing actors to effectively “black up” to play people with disabilities.
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NewsDynamo heads to BBC1
BBC1 has snapped up the rights to air some of the first series of Watch’s hit magic show Dynamo: Magician Impossible.
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NewsBBC lifts lid on DMI failings
A PwC report has revealed the BBC’s most senior executives did not have “sufficient” grasp of the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) to challenge its faltering progress, before it was axed at a cost of £98.4m.
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NewsMark Freeland lands senior BBC Productions role
Comedy exec Mark Freeland has been named BBC Productions controller of fiction & entertainment and will head up the corporation’s in-house drama, entertainment and comedy teams.
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NewsTeamRock wins rights to repeat Radio 1 show
National DAB radio station TeamRock has signed a landmark agreement with the BBC to repeat a Radio 1 broadcast first aired 20 years ago.
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NewsLorraine Pascale fronts fostering doc for BBC2
TV chef Lorraine Pascale is to front a BBC2 film about foster care in the UK.
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NewsMiranda lined up for BBC adaptation
Miranda Hart is being lined up to star in a BBC comedy series written by novelist Kathy Lette.
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NewsStoryville orders Daisy Asquith doc
BBC4 doc strand Storyville and the Irish Film Board (IFB) have ordered a documentary from Crazy About One Direction-director Daisy Asquith.
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NewsLord Nelson life dramatised by BBC2
The letters of Lord Horatio Nelson are to be turned into a drama doc for BBC2 by Oxford Scientific Films.
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NewsBBC2 buys Coast Australia
The Coast format is to come full circle after the Australian version of the factual series was picked up by BBC2.
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NewsMPs attack BBC ‘culture of cronyism’
The BBC has risked its reputation by allowing a culture of “cronyism” to develop over senior management payoffs, according to an influential group of MPs.
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NewsBBC: Comedy panel shows should include women
The BBC has told producers there is “no excuse” for not having women on comedy panel shows as it looks to hit new gender representation objectives set by the BBC Trust.
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NewsBBC Trust brings in finance expert
Former Prudential UK and Lloyds of London chief executive Nicholas Prettejohn is to join the BBC Trust.
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NewsBBC & Showtime add more Episodes
BBC and US network Showtime is bringing back Matt LeBlanc’s Episodes for a fourth series ahead of the launch of series three.
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NewsBBC Trust takes a step back
The BBC Trust is to put greater distance between itself and the BBC executive under plans to dramatically improve governance arrangements.
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NewsBBCW lifts lid on male channel
BBC Worldwide’s Tracy Forsyth has revealed detailed plans for the company’s forthcoming male-skewing channel, which will be the key focus of its push on original content.
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NewsBBC Trust stands by Pollard report
The BBC Trust has stood by Nick Pollard’s review of Newsnight’s spiked Jimmy Savile investigation despite it missing a key piece of evidence about former director general Mark Thompson’s role in the saga.
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NewsLovefilm in talks to revive Ripper Street
The BBC is in talks with Lovefilm to bring back Ripper Street following the cancellation of the crime drama.
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NewsBBC Trust's targets for corporation to be revealed
The BBC Trust will be more transparent about the targets it sets the corporation and hold it to account more robustly as a result of the payoffs debacle earlier this year.