All BBC articles – Page 419
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RatingsTomorrow’s Worlds transports 700,000
SATURDAY: Tomorrow’s Worlds bowed out with an average of almost 700,000 on BBC2 as Strictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor by almost 1.5m viewers.
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NewsC5 set to sign Football League rights
Channel 5 is set to pick up the rights to Football League coverage from the BBC after earmarking a primetime slot for a highlights show.
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VideoVIDEO: Top Gear: Patagonia Special
Click to watch the trailer for Top Gear’s controversial Patagonia Christmas special in which the team travel across countries including Argentina.
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NewsDon't Tell The Bride leaps to BBC1
Don’t Tell the Bride is set to leap to BBC1 after BBC3 revealed plans to scrap its factual entertainment formats.
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NewsRetransmission fees and terms of trade part of Ofcom review
Ofcom has fired the starting gun on a consultation into retransmission fees and a shake-up of the terms of trade as part of its public service broadcasting review.
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NewsIf Not Us lands debut BBC order
Brighton-based production company If Not Us Films has landed its first BBC commission – a feature documentary about the history of British policewomen.
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RatingsBBC Awards fail to hit high note
THURSDAY: The BBC Music Awards failed to top the performance by The Brit Awards on ITV as the clash between Russell Brand and Nigel Farage on Question Time propelled it to a three year high.
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NewsDamian Kavanagh lands BBC3 role
Damian Kavanagh will be responsible for commissioning traditional, short-form and “new-form” content for BBC3 after being named digital controller of the channel.
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NewsIndustry plans diversity study
The BBC, ITV and Broadchurch indie Kudos have teamed up with the Edinburgh International Television Festival to investigate the lack of diversity among production crews.
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NewsPeter Horrocks to join The Open University
Peter Horrocks, the director of the BBC World Service group, is to join The Open University following his departure from the BBC.
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NewsBBC to adapt J.K Rowling's detective novels
The BBC is developing a TV series based on J.K Rowling’s detective novels The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm.
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Behind The ScenesThe Wrong Mans, BBC2
With stunts involving helicopters and a moving train, the first series of the The Wrong Mans was hard to top, says Jim Field Smith.
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NewsComedy leads BBC3 revolution
Shane Allen has pledged that BBC3’s move online will boost the quality and quantity of its comedy output after being promised a budget of more than £10m under the plans.
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NewsFeatures & formats at risk from BBC3 online move
BBC3 formats such as Don’t Tell the Bride and Sun, Sea and Suspicious Parents could become potential casualties of BBC3’s proposed move online.
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NewsBlast! delivers Post Office doc to BBC2
The Tube producer Blast! Films is to turn its attention to the Post Office for its latest BBC2 ob-doc series.
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NewsBBC3 online plans revealed
A fifth of BBC3’s new £30m digital budget will be ploughed into short-form content as the corporation bids to put the channel at the heart of young audiences’ online worlds.
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NewsIan Hislop urges BBC to become more 'pugnacious'
Ian Hislop has called on the BBC to become “more pugnacious” BBC after a period of cautious programming.
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NewsBBC extends late evening regional news bulletins
The BBC is to double the length of its late evening regional news bulletins in the run-up to next year’s general election.
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NewsBBC1 lures Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is to make his first series for BBC1 - a three-part investigation into food waste.