All BBC articles – Page 667
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FeaturesBBC comedy: Nothing funny about playing safe
With BBC comedies having been outstripped by C4 at the Baftas, are the corporation’s commissioners stifling the laughter by being too risk-averse?
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Behind The ScenesOccupation, BBC1
Derek Wax and Nick Murphy battled desert storms and camel tagine to film Occupation
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NewsRenegade’s redecorating couples ordered by BBC3
Renegade Pictures is to apply its Don’t Tell The Bride format to interior decoration in a 6 x 60-minute series for BBC3.
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NewsBBC2 gives greenlight to Bwark ad agency sitcom
The Inbetweeners producer Bwark has had the greenlight from BBC2 for a full series of its pilot comedy, The Scum Also Rises.
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NewsBBC talent facing 25% pay cuts
BBC stars earning above £100,000 a year are facing pay cuts of 25% when their deals come up for renegotiation – and some of the highest paid names are expected to have their salaries halved.
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NewsBBC3 calling for 3pm start
The BBC has suggested bringing BBC3’s start-time forward to 3pm – but the BBC Trust has reservations.
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NewsBBC boosts Scottish production
The BBC is on track to meet its Scottish production targets - boosted by three Scottish network comedies including the return of Rab C Nesbitt and a BBC4 Scottish season featuring The Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi.
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NewsGriffiths named Newsround editor
Owenna Griffiths has been named editor of CBBC’s Newsround, replacing Sinead Rocks who has moved to BBC Current Affairs as executive producer.
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NewsBBC to pay out nearly £1m after libel battle
The BBC is to pay nearly a million pounds following a libel battle over claims made in a Panorama programme about an IVF doctor.
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CommentRising from the Ashes
How did Ashes to Ashes become both the most entertaining and frustrating show on TV, wonders Robin Parker
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NewsGilchrist to join BBC comedy
CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist is to join the BBC’s in-house comedy department as creative and business director.
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NewsBBC lands the best job in the world
BBC1 has ordered a doc on the search for a caretaker for an Australian tropical island - widely billed as “the best job in the world”.
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NewsBBC Trust calls for more info on Project Canvas
The BBC Trust has given the Project Canvas team the green light to launch a charm offensive after it called on the BBC executive to put more details about the project into the public domain.
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RatingsThe Apprentice hits new high
BBC1’s The Apprentice hit a personal best last night as 9.2m viewers (38.7%) tuned in to the penultimate show, the show’s biggest ever audience.
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NewsBBC Trust under fire over pay scrutiny
A government report into BBC radio production efficiencies has been overshadowed by a spat with the BBC Trust over whether presenters’ salaries should be made public.
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BBC goes for Gold in Worst team’s Olympics spoof
The BBC is lining up a mockumentary about the 2012 Olympic Games from the writers of The Worst Week of My Life.
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ITV and UTV defend £100m budget for regional news
ITV and UTV have stepped in to defend Ofcom’s proposed £100m budget for regional news, after the BBC dismissed the figure as “fantasy”.
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NewsBBC1 revives spirit of Tomorrow's World
BBC1 is to reinvent the Tomorrow’s World format with new science series Bang Goes the Theory.
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Primates to "funk up" CBeebies
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington is to “funk up the channel” with a major new 52 x 22-minute live action series fronted by primates.
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NewsBBC4 needs more Answers
BBC4 has commissioned 13 more episodes of offbeat quiz show We Need Answers following a three-part trial run.