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NewsBake Off broke BBC brand rules
Love Productions has broken BBC editorial rules by borrowing prominently branded Smeg fridges for use in The Great British Bake Off.
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NewsCumberbatch 'cynical' about US Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch has hit out at a new Sherlock Holmes drama in the US and suggested that star Jonny Lee Miller took the job for the “pay cheque”.
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NewsAdam Hills lands BBC NI comedy panel show
Adam Hills, the host of Channel 4’s offbeat late night Paralympics show, is to front a new comedy panel series for BBC1 Northern Ireland.
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NewsBBC Trust rebukes Diane Abbott’s appearance fees
The BBC has been rapped for allowing Diane Abbott’s appearances on This Week to become “too frequent” after becoming a shadow cabinet minister.
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NewsShaw exits C4 to join BBC
Tanya Shaw is leaving Channel 4 to join the BBC’s factual features and formats commissioning team.
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NewsExecs anxious over lack of ent hits
A blockage in the pipeline of big, home-grown entertainment formats is causing anxiety across the industry, execs admitted at Edinburgh.
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NewsPact challenges BBC quotas
Pact raised questions with the BBC Trust about in-house guarantees ahead of last weeks’ Edinburgh International Television Festival – at which the size and scope of Vision Productions came under scrutiny.
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NewsCitizen Khan sparks 185 complaints
The BBC has received 185 complaints about the portrayal of the Muslim community in its new post-watershed sitcom Citizen Khan.
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NewsBBC Scotland puts 35 jobs at risk
BBC Scotland has placed 35 jobs at risk of redundancy as it bids to make cutbacks under the Delivering Quality First initiative.
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NewsBBC DG may revitalise in-house production
The size and shape of BBC in-house production is believed to be one of the most pressing issues facing incoming director general George Entwistle, with a source close to the BBC suggesting that “he staked his DG-ship on revitalising in-house.”
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NewsBBC4 cuts will hurt indies and ratings
BBC4 controller Richard Klein has openly bemoaned the budget cuts his channel faces under the Delivering Quality First scheme - warning it is likely to impact ratings and indies.
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NewsSalmond reveals plans to break up BBC
Alex Salmond has set out plans to break up the BBC and create a Scottish public service broadcaster if the nation wins independence.
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NewsMoffat teases Sherlock 3
The team behind Sherlock have revealed filming details of its third series – including three clues about the forthcoming episodes.
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NewsCohen: Jubilee pageant 'not BBC’s finest hour’
Danny Cohen has admitted that the BBC let itself down with its coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant and confirmed that The Voice UK will be cutback next year.
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NewsWalliams to star in BBC1 school sitcom; more new commissions
Little Britain comedian David Walliams has created a new school-based sitcom for in which he will star as a chemistry teacher - one of several new comedy, drama, factual and entertainment commissions for BBC1.
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NewsThe Voice to feature "spinning chairs" in more episodes
BBC1’s The Voice will extend the ‘blind auditions’ of the early rounds to more episodes of the second series in a bid to stop viewers tailing off.
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NewsBBC3 to deliver season for young parents
A season on the challenges facing young parents will put the spotlight on dads behind bars and in the delivery room will be shown on BBC3 in the spring.
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NewsHeggessey and Harries call for BBC production re-think
Former BBC1 controller Lorainne Heggessey and Left Bank Pictures chief executive Andy Harries have called on the BBC to radically rethink its in-house production division.
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NewsBBC2 drama to combine Wolf Hall and sequel
BBC2 has ordered a six-part drama that will combine Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in a single series.
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NewsThompson fires parting shot over future BBC cuts
Mark Thompson is leaving the BBC with a warning to the government: forcing the corporation to make more cuts could have disastrous effects.