All BBC articles – Page 665
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NewsBBC3 to air live Schools Question Time
The BBC is to broadcast Schools Question Time live for the first time – with two airings on BBC3 and BBC1 in the same evening.
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NewsPublic wants BBC to pursue risk
A BBC report commissioned in the wake of the Sachsgate scandal has found that the British public wants the corporation to pursue creative risk and accepts that offence may be caused in the process.
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RatingsMurray nets 4.5m for BBC2
BBC2 served up 4.5m viewers last night to cheer on homegrown Wimbledon hopeful Andy Murray as he blasted his way into the next round of the grand slam event.
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NewsBBC Radio plans Whitman and Holiday docs
BBC Radio is taking a look at some of America’s leading cultural icons – with a doc on the poet Walt Whitman on BBC Radio 4, and a Radio 2 special on Billie Holiday, fronted by Neneh Cherry.
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NewsBBC plans 'pop-up restaurant' show
BBC2 is piloting a primetime reality format based on “pop-up restaurants” – the second of its type to hit the headlines in as many months.
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RatingsViewers lose appetite for Supersizers
BBC2 food series Supersizers Eat… lost half a million viewers last night as Sue Perkins and Giles Coren went medieval.
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RatingsBBC scores ace at Wimbledon
The BBC’s coverage of Wimbledon got off to a good start yesterday, with respectable figures across the day for BBC1 and BBC2.
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Clampdown on University Challenge rules
The BBC has tightened the rules for University Challenge in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year’s debacle which saw the ‘winning team’ being disqualified.
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RatingsTop Gear's May boosts BBC4
The Top Gear factor boosted BBC4 last night, with documentary James May at the Edge of Space drawing an average audience of 455,000 – a share of 2.71% – at 10pm.
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Ratings4.3m check in to Hotel Babylon
BBC1 had 4.3m visitors to London’s Hotel Babylon at 9pm on Friday night – a share of 20.1% – edging out ITV1’s Cornish drama Doc Martin.
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RatingsTop Gear’s Stig revealed to 7m
BBC2 juggernaut Top Gear was back with a bang last night as 7m tuned in to see Ferrari-legend Michael Schumacher ‘unveiled’ as the Stig - an audience share of 30%.
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NewsBBC1 to animate Gruffalo
BBC1’s is planning an animated version of the bestselling children’s book The Gruffalo as the centrepiece of its Christmas schedule.
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NewsSunset + Vine strikes tennis deal
Sunset + Vine has extended its contract for the coverage of the Eastbourne and Birmingham tennis tournaments up to 2013.
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NewsBBC Vision "front-loads" cuts
BBC Vision is to make 7.5% in efficiency savings this year, as it front loads its five-year cost cutting plan.
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NewsiPlayer guru honoured at Broadcast Digital Awards
BBC future media controller Anthony Rose was honoured with the Individual Achievement Award for his “ground-breaking” work on the BBC iPlayer at last night’s Broadcast’s Digital Awards.
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NewsBBC comedy chief quits for Sky
The BBC’s comedy chief Lucy Lumsden is leaving the corporation after 11 years to join Sky.
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NewsTalkback unveils Scottish unit with Hole in the Wall order
Talkback Thames is to open a new production base in Glasgow, headed by BBC Scotland’s former creative director of arts and factual entertainment May Miller, and has bagged a second run of BBC1’s Hole in the Wall as its first commission.
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NewsBBC plans strategy to fight top-slice threat
The BBC’s top management was locked in meetings to discuss the fall out from Digital Britain on Wednesday afternoon ahead of a last-ditch attempt to stave off top-slicing - but the mood among rank-and-file staff was very different.
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RatingsBBC develops ‘holy grail’ to revamp the ratings
The BBC is developing a new audience measurement tool that has nailed the “holy grail” of audience metrics by factoring in all timeshifted and online viewing.
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FeaturesBBC3: search for the secret of youth
BBC3 faces several obstacles in its remit to reach 16- to 34-year-olds - not least a brand teens see as uncool. Katherine Rushton reports on how the channel is engaging with its viewers