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NewsCBeebies audio trial proves a turn-off with Radio 7 listeners
The BBC has all but given up on children’s radio after a trial CBeebies block on Radio 7 lost the slot 40% of its listeners in the six months it was running.
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NewsMonty Halls to escape to Outer Hebrides for BBC2
BBC2 has ordered a second series of Monty Halls’ Great Escape from Tigress Productions.
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NewsDoc explores when to take car keys away from elderly
BBC1 will look at the dilemma facing the families of many elderly drivers in a 1 x 60-minute documentary from Matchlight.
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NewsBBCW wins 2Entertain appeal
BBC Worldwide has triumphed over Woolworths’ liquidators in an appeal case over the value of DVD publishing business 2Entertain.
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NewsPeake to play "first modern lesbian" in BBC2 drama
Criminal Justice’s Maxine Peake is to play 19th century landowning lesbian Anne Lister, in a BBC2 dramatisation of her “painfully honest” diaries.
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NewsBragg returns to the BBC
Melvyn Bragg, the longstanding face of arts coverage at ITV, is to return to BBC television where he started his career nearly 50 years ago.
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NewsBBC promotes press chief
BBC head of press Donald Steel has been promoted to a role in which he will advise senior managers in times of “reputational crises” and on the handling of major announcements.
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NewsBBC reschedules the Apprentice
The BBC has rescheduled The Apprentice to avoid clashing with a general election and the show will now go head-to-head with the final series of Channel 4’s Big Brother, it has been confirmed.
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NewsOfcom deals blow to BBC HD plans
Moves by the BBC to copyright programmes held on high definition (HD) Freeview players look unlikely to succeed after Ofcom asked the corporation for more information on the purpose of the system.
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NewsBBC2 gets Argumental
Dave panel show Argumental is to make its terrestrial debut on BBC2 - the first time the broadcaster has picked up an entertainment format from UKTV.
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NewsThompson reassures stars over Mock the Week censure
BBC director general Mark Thompson has given reassurances to key corporation talent that Mock the Week can still be “edgy”, as he was quizzed last night over a BBC Trust ruling regarding a joke about athlete Rebecca Adlington.
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NewsBBC restricting drama writers, claims Poliakoff
“Kafkaesque” committees at the BBC are artificially restricting writers and endangering television drama, Stephen Poliakoff has claimed.
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NewsTop Gear rapped over gory "suicide"
Ofcom has rapped Top Gear over the bloodiness of a sketch that portrayed a man committing suicide, sparking 50 viewer complaints.
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NewsOfcom bows to BBC over Pedigree Dogs ruling
Ofcom has held off publishing rulings about BBC1’s Pedigree Dogs Exposed documentary after sparking “unprecedented” anger from the corporation.
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NewsBroadcasters outline doc wishlists
Sheffield Doc/Fest: ITV1 is looking to commission several blue-chip documentary singles from top-end film-makers for 9pm.
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NewsThompson to urge BBC stars not to lose nerve
BBC director general Mark Thompson is to rally the troops by telling stars that recent “political correctness” rows should not stifle their creativity.
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NewsHunt claims BBC staff 'bribed' to move north
London-based BBC staff are being bribed with taxpayers’ money to relocate to Manchester, according shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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NewsBBC bans Scottish windfarm film
A film about the impact of a wind farm in the Highlands of Scotland has been banned by the BBC on the grounds that it breaks the corporation’s objectivity rules.
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NewsMalone changes tune for BBC schools show
The Choir presenter Gareth Malone is to turn from music to education in a TwentyTwenty Television series for BBC2.
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NewsBBC drive to get iPlayer on TVs boosted by deal with Freesat
The BBC is set to bring iPlayer to Freesat, with closed beta testing to begin on the platform before the end of the month.