All BBC articles – Page 671
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News
TMi presenters to front CBBC Skate Nation
CBBC has ordered a Strictly Come Dancing-style show for teenage roller and inline skaters, fronted by TMi’s Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes.
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Features
Listening out for voices of the future
Station bosses have to get out of their offices – and their cities – if they are to find the talent that will keep radio relevant in a changing media world. Sarah Crawley-Boevey reports.
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Features
Hope Springs
Before they could hijack primetime with their Highland caper, the team had to turn a sleepy village into a setting fit for glamorous bandits and (not too) dark plotlines, says Brian Park.
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Ratings
The tricky drama series mix
Channels need quietly steady performers to balance out their risky big hitters.
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Ratings
BBC4's better sort of viewer
Critically acclaimed US drama Mad Men has hardly been a ratings goldmine for BBC4 but it has delivered in other ways.
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BBC moving 13 news roles to the North
BBC News is to bolster its presence in the North by moving around 13 posts and creating at least three new jobs in Salford.
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Canvas on track for launch in 2010, says Huggers
BBC technology chief Erik Huggers has said Project Canvas is still aiming to launch in the first half of next year – insisting it is “appropriate” for the corporation to lead the way in developing an open standard.
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BBC bosses reject C4's call to curb acquisitions
BBC chiefs today flatly rejected a demand from Channel 4 that the corporation should stop buying American programmes, insisting it helped to keep the costs of making British programmes down.
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Canvas partners hit back at critics
Project Canvas’s partners, the BBC, ITV and BT, have fought back against critics of the IPTV joint venture, saying that the initiative will transform the TV industry.
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BBC pays libel damages to West Ham duo
The BBC has paid undisclosed libel damages to West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola and first-team coach Steve Clarke after a contributor claimed on Radio 5 Live they were planning to take over at rival club Chelsea.
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Grey's Anatomy star cast in BBC hospital drama
Grey’s Anatomy’s Kevin McKidd is to star in another medical drama – a BBC production that transplants Greek classic The Odyssey to a British city hospital.
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BBC presenter clashes with peer over salary
Labour peer Lord Foulkes has hijacked a BBC News Channel interview about MPs expenses to launch a blistering attack on BBC presenter salaries.
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Sky airs Project Canvas objections
BSkyB has attacked the BBC Trust’s decision to not carry out a full market review on the BBC, ITV and BT broadband joint venture Project Canvas.
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BBC3 orders Russell Tovey comedy
BBC3 has commissioned a broadcast pilot set entirely in a couple’s bedroom, starring Being Human actor Russell Tovey.
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BBC poaches C4's Ahmed in new Knowledge hirings
Channel 4’s Aaqil Ahmed has been poached to run the BBC’s religion and ethics department as part of the second round of Knowledge appointments – in which four of the key commissioning jobs have been handed to existing BBC staff.
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BBC2 developing new Sarah Waters drama
BBC2 is eyeing an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel The Night Watch as a one-off feature-length drama.
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The Broadcast Interview
Ben Stephenson, controller, BBC drama commissioning
The BBC’s top drama commissioner is happy to engage with his critics but won’t be deflected from offering shows that appeal to all audiences.
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The Broadcast Interview
Bal Samra, BBC
The man who takes care of business at the BBC tells Chris Curtis how a mixture of new technology and a change of mindset could help the whole industry save and survive.
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The Broadcast Interview
Mark Thompson, BBC
The BBC’s director general talks to Emily Booth about shaping the digital future, wrestling with editorial standards - and why slicing up BBC Worldwide is a very bad idea.