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NewsTennant to voice animated Doctor Who series
David Tennant is to voice an animated spin-off series of Doctor Who set to debut this autumn.
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Channels agree five-year ban on revisiting Kangaroo
Project Kangaroo partners the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have made a five-year agreement with the Competition Commission that they will not try to acquire any part of their rivals video-on-demand activities.
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BBC orders online sketch show from RDF
The BBC has commissioned an online sketch show featuring a vicar and a rabbi grappling with their laddish tendencies.
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R2 to pre-record Jonathan Ross show
Jonathan Ross is to pre-record his Radio 2 show to make sure it is “watertight” against future editorial breaches.
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BBC4 to dramatise life of Fonteyn
Anne-Marie Duff, star of The Virgin Queen and Is Anybody There?, is to play late ballet icon Dame Margot Fonteyn in a BBC4 biopic.
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BBC awarded £17.5m in bonuses despite cuts
The BBC paid £17.5m in bonuses last year to 9,777 staff – despite trenchant job cuts throughout the corporation.
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Thompson admits cuts risk quality of BBC News
BBC director general Mark Thompson has admitted cuts in BBC News risk damaging its quality – but pledged to “correct it immediately” if it does so.
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MPs reject licence fee freeze
More than 150 MPs voted to freeze the BBC licence fee at last year’s level yesterday - but the Tory motion was comfortably defeated in the House of Commons.
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NewsBBC to publish its top level exec expenses
The expenses spotlight is set to turn on the BBC later this year when the corporation begins publishing details of claims made by its executive board members.
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BBCW launches factual YouTube channel
BBC Woldwide has launched a factual YouTube channel after extending its deal with the video-sharing site.
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NewsHadlow plans to give BBC2 feel-good factor
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow is planning to give the channel an “optimistic” overhaul and aims to put more firepower behind its arts coverage.
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NewsBBC staff angry at £10m Discovery commission
BBC Natural History Unit staff are upset after its former head, Keith Scholey, won a £10m-plus commission from Discovery with an idea similar to one they also pitched.
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NewsBBC2 to look at key to success for John Lewis
BBC2 will look at John Lewis’s 150-year history and how the department store business is weathering the current recession in a documentary series.
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Gyles Brandreth to host BBC2 quiz show Knowitalls
BBC2 is to air a quiz show without any questions. Knowitalls will be hosted by politician-turned-Countdown regular Gyles Brandreth.
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BBC1 will profile life of World War vet Harry Patch
The modern-day life of Harry Patch, the last surviving fighting soldier of the First World War, will be profiled in a one-off documentary for BBC1.
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Give us the WoCC, radio indies tell BBC management
Radio indies are urging the BBC to extend the Window of Creative Commission to its radio output.
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BBC1 to hunt Junior Apprentice
Sir Alan Sugar will challenge 10 teenagers to win a £25,000 career boost in spin-off series Junior Apprentice.
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Lyons: No area of the BBC safe from cuts
BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons has told Broadcast there are “no safe areas” at the corporation as it continues to squeeze every pound of the licence fee.
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BBC names new Scotland commissioner
The BBC has hired Sam Anthony as its knowledge commissioning executive producer for Scotland – fresh from Jane Root’s new indie Nutopia.
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Attenborough to unveil 'missing link'
David Attenborough is set to explore the 47 million-year-old ‘missing link’ in human evolution in a primetime BBC documentary.