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NewsBBC2 goes back to school for student vet series
BBC2 has ordered a Vet School-style series following a group of students in their final year at the Royal Veterinary College.
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NewsBBC gets tough on diversity
The BBC is to ramp up the social profiling of its workforce and could introduce the ‘Rooney Rule’ into its recruitment processes under plans to radically boost diversity.
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NewsMoore eyes real-life stories for ‘provocative’ drama
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore wants to tap into her factual roots to adapt real-life stories into “provocative” new dramas for the channel.
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NewsAcorn mulls ‘Sherlock’ take on Christie tales
Hercule Poirot could become a hacker or Jane Marple swap her tweed coat for a onesie after Acorn Productions revealed plans to contemporise the Agatha Christie franchise.
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NewsBBC3 on the brink of online move
The BBC wants to change BBC3 from a traditional TV channel to an online-only brand that will super-charge the iPlayer.
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NewsBBC2 to host Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage debate
BBC2 is to host a live political debate between Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP’s Nigel Farage over the forthcoming European elections.
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NewsBBC3 threat: the industry responds
Fears for the future of BBC3 have sparked a Twitter campaign to save the channel.
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NewsBBC eyes online-only future for BBC3
The BBC is drawing up plans to turn BBC3 into an online-only channel, Broadcast can reveal.
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NewsBroadcast Breakfast with BBC4's Cassian Harrison
There are just a few seats remaining at this week’s Broadcast Business Breakfast where BBC4 boss Cassian Harrison will share his plans for the station.
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NewsBBC2 plans Stoke City kit-man biopic
Pete Bowker has penned a one-off BBC2 drama about a former Stoke City kit man, which will star Toby Jones and be directed by Entourage’s Julian Farino.
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NewsRadio 1 digital producers exit for social start-up
BBC Radio 1 digital execs Alistair Parrington and Laura-May Coope are leaving the station to launch social media agency, Social Life.
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NewsBBC3 doc ‘infringed’ privacy of nurse
BBC3 has been rapped for failing to disguise the identity of nurse in a Cherry Healey-fronted documentary examining the health conditions associated with excessive drinking.
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NewsBBC launches three apprenticeships
The BBC has launched three apprenticeship schemes as the corporation bids to better reflect the makeup of modern Britain.
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NewsBBC bids on Antiques Road Trip bulk order
STV Productions has been commissioned to make a further four series of Antiques Road Trip for BBC1 and a fourth series of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip for BBC2.
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NewsBBC to open Top Gear talks
The BBC is poised to open talks with hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May over another long-term deal for Top Gear.
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NewsSky drops BBC retransmission fees
Sky is to drop the retransmission fees it charges the BBC and ITV after agreeing fresh terms with both broadcasters.
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NewsDixon departs RTE for BBCW
George Dixon is to join BBC Worldwide to oversee commissioning across its international channels after leaving Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.
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NewsBBC signs Agatha Christie deal
The BBC has signed a deal with the Agatha Christie estate to return the author to the “pantheon of truly great British writers” on the 125th anniversary of her birth through a range of new dramas.
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NewsCohen: Match of the Day must be more diverse
BBC director of television Danny Cohen is set to make Match of the Day the next target of his diversity mission after banning all-male comedy panel shows.
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NewsBBC Store gets greenlight from Trust
The BBC’s plans to launch a download-to-own portal for archive programming have taken a step forward after being approved by the BBC Trust.