All BBC articles – Page 573

  • EastEnders
    News

    BBC soap budgets revealed

    2011-03-22T13:46:00Z

    The cost per hour of the BBC’s continuing drama has tumbled by 20% over the last eight years – but the National Audit Office said it was unable to tell if the shows represent value for money.

  • Mrs Brown's Boys
    News

    Mrs Brown's Boys to return for second series

    2011-03-22T11:23:00Z

    The BBC has ordered a second series of Irish comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys.

  • Mark Thompson
    News

    Thompson to outline BBC cuts strategy

    2011-03-22T08:43:00Z

    BBC director general Mark Thompson will give the first briefing on the corporation’s new strategy today.

  • Boat Race
    News

    HD first for Boat Race

    2011-03-21T12:50:00Z

    The BBC will broadcast the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge in high definition for the first time this year.

  • Panorama
    News

    Panorama "invaded privacy"

    2011-03-21T12:31:00Z

    BBC investigation strand Panorama has been censured for broadcasting a private phone number.

  • iPlayer
    News

    iPlayer viewing on iPad up 22%

    2011-03-21T12:21:00Z

    The number of BBC iPlayer shows being streamed to Apple iPads rocketed by 22% in February compared with the previous month.

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    News

    US to give BBC cash for technology

    2011-03-21T12:17:00Z

    The US government has agreed to help the BBC get software to stop certain countries jamming the broadcaster’s World Service output.

  • BBC News
    News

    BBC missed f-word in student protests

    2011-03-21T12:16:00Z

    The BBC has apologised for broadcasting images of a protester with a swear word on his forehead, saying the producers had not noticed it until after transmission.

  • Mark Thompson
    News

    BBC 'does use private detectives'

    2011-03-21T08:47:00Z

    Private detectives have been and continue to be used occasionally by the BBC to help make its investigative programmes, the corporation’s director-general has said.

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    News

    BBC staff slam local radio proposals

    2011-03-18T10:26:00Z

    BBC staff have peppered the Ariel letters page with criticism of proposals to cut BBC local radio output, describing them as “a travesty” and stressing the service’s “incalculable value”.

  • BBC White City
    News

    BBC 'paying out unearned allowances'

    2011-03-18T08:05:00Z

    The BBC is wasting millions of pounds a year paying allowances to staff who do not qualify for them, it has been reported.

  • World Service
    News

    World Service journalist blames bosses for cuts

    2011-03-18T08:00:00Z

    The BBC has come under fire for its lack of dedication to public service, with a senior journalist claiming this hampered the corporation when negotiating its new licence fee settlement.

  • BBC redundancies
    News

    BBC eyes redundancy savings

    2011-03-17T07:00:00Z

    The BBC’s “gold-plated” redundancy package could be scrapped as part of plans being put forward to meet its £1.3bn funding cut.

  • houses_of_parliament.jpg
    News

    Lords committee seeks views on BBC compliance

    2011-03-17T07:00:00Z

    Programme-makers are to be called to give evidence about the BBC’s compliance culture to a House of Lords select committee, as part of a wide-ranging review of the BBC Trust.

  • Pat Younge
    News

    BBC1 ring-fenced as cost-saving themes emerge

    2011-03-17T07:00:00Z

    Pat Younge has revealed that BBC1 could well be ring-fenced as he outlined the main themes to have emerged from talks over how the corporation can save £1.3bn over four years from 2013.

  • Janice Hadlow
    The Broadcast Interview

    Janice Hadlow, BBC2

    2011-03-17T06:59:00Z

    With the BBC facing swingeing cuts, critics of BBC2 have called its role into question. But a new slate of commissions will redefine the channel, its controller tells Catherine Neilan.

  • The Kennedys
    News

    BBC2 to air Kennedys drama

    2011-03-16T13:01:00Z

    A multi-million dollar miniseries about the rise of the Kennedys, pulled by the History Channel in the US, is to air on BBC2.

  • William and Kate
    News

    BBC to broadcast royal wedding globally

    2011-03-16T11:35:00Z

    The BBC is to broadcast a live feed of the royal wedding around the world, making it available to viewers outside the UK on its Entertainment channel.

  • Brian Cox
    News

    Cox the star of RTS awards

    2011-03-16T08:41:00Z

    Science presenter Professor Brian Cox was the star himself after becoming a double winner at the Royal Television Society Awards.

  • bodies
    News

    Bodies creator returns with gritty cop drama

    2011-03-15T12:22:00Z

    Bodies writer Jed Mercurio is to put the “controversial and perverse realities of 21st century policing” under the spotlight in his new BBC2 drama, Line of Duty.