All BBC articles – Page 340
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NewsFormer BBC entertainment boss Jon Beazley dies
Former BBC in-house entertainment boss and Strictly Come Dancing showrunner Jon Beazley has died after a short illness.
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RatingsSport Relief peaks with 6.1m
FRIDAY: Sport Relief 2016 was well down on the audience who tuned in the BBC1 fundraiser in 2014.
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NewsRona Fairhead fears tactical delay of charter renewal
BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead has warned that any delay to charter renewal could offer the government the opportunity to push through more radical cuts to the corporation.
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NewsBBC parks The Getaway Car
BBC1 has parked primetime entertainment format The Getaway Car to make way for physical gameshow Can’t Touch This, which will air in its Saturday slot.
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RatingsSix Nations finale down on 2015
SATURDAY: BBC1’s Six Nations coverage built to a peak of almost 9m as viewers flocked to England’s grand slam victory over France.
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NewsBBC4 visits James May's workshop
James May is to front a three-part Plum Pictures series for BBC4 in which the former Top Gear presenter will rebuild everyday objects to see what makes them tick.
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Behind The ScenesCan't Touch This, BBC1
Getting a commission turned out to be the easy bit - the real test was losing our location and having to build three new sets in a building with a leaky roof, says Stellify’s joint managing director Matthew Worthy
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NewsPeers could block BBC governance reforms
Lord Anthony Lester QC is planning to table a private members bill that will block culture secretary John Whittingdale’s proposed reforms to BBC governance.
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FeaturesBBC: falling behind
The BBC has dropped to third place in the best broadcaster to work with ranking this year, and tops the worst broadcaster to work with list for the first time since 2013.
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RatingsBrendan O’Carroll's Easter Rising doc lands 1m
WEDNESDAY: Brendan O’Carroll’s personal history of the Easter Rising informed 1m on BBC2.
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NewsLabour accuses government of 'bullying' BBC & C4
Shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle has criticised the government’s “ideological approach” to the broadcasting sector and accused her opposite number John Whittingdale of “bullying” the BBC and Channel 4.
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NewsBBC3 orders Jane Treays addiction doc
Mum, Heroin and Me director Jane Treays is to produce a Rare Day documentary about drug addiction for BBC3 – as Pulse Films secures a film about legal highs.
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NewsTheroux explores alcoholism and brain injury for BBC2
Louis Theroux will return to BBC2 this year with two hour-long films dealing with alcohol addiction and brain injury.
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NewsBBC savings plans unpicked
How the BBC will go about the gruelling task of meeting its £800m savings target by 2022
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NewsPeter Bowker plots WW2 epic
Peter Bowker is eyeing up a multi-lingual World War II drama as his next BBC project – and plans to go deeper into society’s attitudes toward autism in a second series of The A Word.
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News7 Wonder examines skinheads for BBC4
DJ and film director Don Letts is to appear in a BBC4 documentary about skinheads from 7 Wonder.
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NewsMo Farah doc races to BBC1
The Class of 92 indie Fulwell 73 has been commissioned to produce an hour-long documentary chartering Mo Farah’s brutal training schedule in the build up to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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NewsBBC tightens conflict of interest rules
The BBC Trust has tightened its guidance around conflict of interest issues for senior managers following Alan Yentob’s departure in the wake of the Kids Company scandal.
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NewsPuttnam: BBC EU coverage strangulated
The BBC’s “strangulated” EU referendum coverage is failing to effectively inform viewers, according to Lord Puttnam.
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NewsWho's in charge of the Top Gear steering wheel?
The BBC editorial lead on Top Gear has become as much of a mystery as the identity of The Stig - but Broadcast can now unmask the executive responsible for the BBC2 show.