All BBC articles – Page 650
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Behind The ScenesSmall Island, BBC1
Grainne Marmion found Belfast could be the image of wartime London and filming in Jamaica needn’t break the budget - all you need is passion.
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The Broadcast InterviewHilary Salmon, BBC executive producer
Executive producer Hilary Salmon may be rather reserved, but she’s the woman behind the corporation’s noisiest dramas. Katherine Rushton finds out why she has a lot to shout about.
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NewsShine to revive fortunes of brass band for BBC2
BBC2 hopes to do for local brass bands what Strictly has done for ballroom dancing with a three-part Shine Television series fronted by Sue Perkins.
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NewsBBC Trust issues public consultation on editorial guidelines
The BBC Trust has cracked down on “intimidation, humiliation and aggressive behaviour”, in a post-Sachsgate overhaul of the BBC’s editorial guidelines.
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NewsBBC plans Casualty webisode
Casualty is to get its first web-only episode at the end of this month.
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NewsHat Trick brings Israeli panel format to BBC2
MIPCOM: Hat Trick Productions is adapting Israeli news panel show format The Bubble for BBC2.
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NewsChapman strikes first BBC deals
Chapman Entertainment has struck its first deal with the BBC, which has taken its new preschool properties Little Charley Bear and Rah Rah The Noisy Lion.
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NewsBBC staff vote on Salford move
The BBC is to begin recruitment for around 800 jobs at BBC North after almost half of London-based rank-and-file staff agreed to the move to Manchester.
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NewsBBC gives go-ahead for second pregnancy series
BBC3 has greenlit an extended eight-part second run of Underage And Pregnant from Mentorn Media.
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The Broadcast InterviewDarren Childs, BBC Worldwide Channels
BBC Worldwide channels managing director Darren Childs has turned the corporation’s commercial arm into a major international player. He tells Michael Rosser about his ambitions for growth.
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The Broadcast InterviewMark Bell, BBC arts
The man with the BBC’s arts tick is looking to throw off cultural programming’s elitist image and prove that there is more to arts coverage than just music.
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NewsBBC hires Merton for Hollywood and Euro cinema docs
Comedian Paul Merton is to front his first factual show on BBC2 in one of two commissions drawing on his love of cinema.
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NewsBBC seeks out indies for hour-long Wonderlands
The BBC is to extend the length of its Wonderland docs from 40 minutes to an hour and open the strand to indie producers for the first time.
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NewsBBC execs round on ent team
The BBC’s in-house entertainment unit is under fire from the corporation’s own staff for failing to come up with enough new hits.
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NewsHat Trick to produce US TV satire for BBC2
Hat Trick Productions is making a BBC2 sitcom starring Friends actor Matt LeBlanc that satirises the trend for US remakes of British comedy shows.
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CommentThe BBC’s damning debate
The corporation can’t win whatever it does - but it’s not always right.
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Robert Webb named BBC Worldwide chairman
BBC non-executive director Robert Webb QC is to be the next chairman of BBC Worldwide.
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NewsAlesha Dixon to front BBC3 doc
A BBC3 doc about the implications of growing up without a father is to be fronted by singer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Alesha Dixon, to be produced by Flame TV.
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NewsArmstrong to front BBC1 satire pilot
Armstrong and Miller’s subsidiary Toff Media is piloting a companion show to Have I Got News For You that will cast a satirical eye on the week ahead.