Latest BBC News – Page 378
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NewsBBC2 acquires ‘German Band of Brothers’
BBC2 has picked up its first foreign language drama since 2001 – a series dubbed the German Band of Brothers.
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NewsBBC S&PP quits central London facility
BBC Studios and Post Production is to pull out of its central London facility after just 12 months as part of a shake-up of its post production division.
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NewsCBeebies launches Playtime app
The BBC has launched a channel-wide CBeebies app, featuring shows including Alphablocks, Octonauts and Something Special, to help child development.
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NewsWall to Wall secures more WDYTYA & Long Lost Family
Wall To Wall has won new series commissions for its BBC and ITV genealogy formats Who Do you Think You Are and Long Lost Family.
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NewsBBC World News orders Escape from Boardroom
The bosses of Spyker Cars and Oxfam are among those preparing to embed themselves in the frontlines of their companies for a new Twofour series for BBC World News.
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NewsJeff Anderson lands BBC daytime role
BBC Production’s factual arm has handed Watchdog editor Jeff Anderson responsibility for its daytime output.
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NewsBBC Connected Studio focuses on Scottish referendum
The BBC is to attempt to engage Scottish teenagers in news and current affairs online ahead of the referendum during its next Connected Studio event.
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NewsKPMG to investigate BBC pay-outs
The BBC has asked auditors KPMG to look into cases where its severance pay guidelines may have been breached.
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NewsDigby Jones to front BBC2 manufacturing series
BBC2 has commissioned a three-part series that will see Lord Digby Jones attempt to help three British manufacturers get in shape for the future.
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NewsBBC2 moves into Tudor Abbey Farm
Lion TV is turning the clock back to the year 1500 for the fourth installment in its hugely successful Farm franchise for BBC2.
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NewsBBC2 spend down by £46m in 2012
BBC2’s spend on original programming in 2012 fell by £46m year-on-year, as BBC1’s investment grew by a similar amount according to Ofcom’s PSB Annual Report.
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NewsBBC orders social experiment and Paramedics series
A social experiment that will relocate 100 unemployed youngsters to an ageing Dorset town and a series from the team behind Junior Doctors are the latest commissions for BBC Entertainment North.
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NewsBBC cooks up Nutopia science series
BBC has ordered How We Got To Now, a six-part science series from Nutopia.
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NewsBBC orders factual format from iCreate
The BBC has commissioned factual format Make My Dream, the first project to come out of its fledgling staff crowdsourcing platform iCreate.
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NewsThird time lucky for The Syndicate
Kay Mellor’s Rollem Productions has been recommissioned to make a third series of The Syndicate, which will return to BBC1 in 2015.
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NewsBBC staff weary of change, Hall warned
Tony Hall has been warned that he may encounter ‘change fatigue’ among the BBC’s 20,000 staff if he attempts to radically overhaul the corporation’s structures.
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NewsCohen scraps BBC4 controller
The role of BBC4 controller has been formally scrapped and will be replaced with a channel editor.
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NewsSky in PSB talks over retransmission fees
BSkyB is hoping to hammer out commercial agreements with each of the public service broadcasters in a bid to defuse the row over retransmission fees.
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NewsNick Grimshaw halts R1 breakfast show slide
Rajar: Nick Grimshaw halted his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show slide as Radio 4 pulled in a record 11m weekly listeners.
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NewsKatz makes first Newsnight hires
Incoming Newsnight editor Ian Katz has hired Channel 4’s head of home news as part of a senior management shakeup.