All BBC articles – Page 473
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NewsNick Grimshaw halts R1 breakfast show slide
Rajar: Nick Grimshaw halted his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show slide as Radio 4 pulled in a record 11m weekly listeners.
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NewsKatz makes first Newsnight hires
Incoming Newsnight editor Ian Katz has hired Channel 4’s head of home news as part of a senior management shakeup.
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NewsBBC3 to debut all comedy on iPlayer
BBC3 is to premiere all of its scripted comedy on iPlayer from next month as the corporation ramps up its online first strategy.
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VideoVIDEO: That Puppet Show, BBC1
Click to view the launch trailer from BBC1’s forthcoming gameshow co-production with The Jim Henson Company.
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NewsDCMS to abolish retransmission fees
The government plans to abolish retransmission fees and has set out plans to preserve the prominence of PSB broadcasters in a wide-ranging policy paper.
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NewsTreadwell-Collins returns as EastEnders boss
Dominic Treadwell-Collins is to return as executive producer of EastEnders after a three-year absence.
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RatingsOlympic ceremony repeat beats Björk & Attenborough
Björk’s unlikely collaboration with Sir David Attenborough could barely muster 500,000 viewers for Channel 4 on Saturday and was beaten by a BBC3 repeat of the Olympic opening ceremony.
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NewsDCMS aims to protect PSB content on digital platforms
The DCMS will set out measures to protect the prominence of PSBs on new content platforms in the long-awaited Communications Act strategy paper this week.
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NewsBig dog Tim Westwood bows out of Radio 1
Hip hop DJ Tim Westwood is leaving Radio 1 after 20 years as part of a schedule shake-up.
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NewsHall and unions set for August showdown over pay
The BBC unions are set for showdown talks with director general Tony Hall next month as both parties seek to resolve the ongoing pay dispute.
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FeaturesQ&A: Pam Cavannagh, BBC
Find out what programmes BBC’s commissioning executive for daytime and early peak is looking for
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NewsHall demands answers over Fincham’s BBC payoff
BBC director general Tony Hall has asked for a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding a reported £500,000 payoff to former BBC1 boss Peter Fincham.
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NewsiPlayer buffers with summer slump
BBC iPlayer requests fell to their lowest level since the start of the year in June, as the VoD service generated record traffic from mobile and tablet devices.
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FeaturesThe apprentice: you’re hired
Former trainees discuss how the BBC’s production apprenticeships helped them
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Behind The ScenesThe Burrowers, BBC2
Trying to ‘cut a British hillside in half ’ was the maddest thing I’ve ever done says Fiona Pitcher
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NewsStudio Lambert to find Britain’s top interior designer for BBC2
BBC2 is set to hunt for Britain’s best amateur interior designer in a major early-peak format from Studio Lambert.
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NewsBBC raises diversity targets
The BBC has set itself “stretching” new diversity targets and will ramp up the pressure on individual divisions to hit them, after falling short of its goals for 2012.
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NewsBBC baby coverage draws complaints
The BBC’s coverage of the royal baby’s birth riled nearly 380 viewers - with the majority complaining that there was too much of the news filling the airwaves.
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NewsMea Maxima Culpa doc shipped by Content
Alex Gibney’s doc Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, which aired on BBC4 earlier this year, has been sold to a raft of international broadcasters by Content Media.
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NewsTV comic Mel Smith dies aged 60
Mel Smith, the comedian and producer behind some of Britain’s best comedy, died on Friday at the age of 60.