BBC staff members Rupa Jha, Mukesh Sharma, Sanjoy Majumder and Sara Hassan have announced plans to leave the organisation and form a new entity in India which will provide audiences with a number of services across India, as commissioned by the BBC. The establishment of Collective Newsroom Private Limited will allow the BBC and Collective […]

A review into how the BBC should be funded in the future has been launched by Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, as new action is taken to reduce the impact of price rises on licence fee payers. The review, supported by a panel of independent experts soon to be announced from across the broadcasting sector and […]

ITV and the BBC have revealed their coverage plans for the 2024 UEFA European Championship. UK television coverage of the tournament will kick-off on ITV [and STV in Scotland] on June 14th with exclusive live coverage of the opening match between hosts Germany and Scotland in Munich. ITV will show England’s final Group game against […]

Dr Samir Shah CBE has been named as the Government’s preferred candidate for the BBC Chair, the Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has announced. Shah has worked in broadcasting for over forty years. He is currently the CEO and owner of Juniper, an independent television and radio production company. Before Juniper, Shah was head of current […]

For a special documentary as part this year’s BBC 100 Women season, BBC Gender and Identity correspondent Megha Mohan and director Yousef Eldin visited Malawi, alongside three of the world’s most high-profile humanitarians, Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, and Melinda French Gates, to meet the girls at risk from the global issue of child marriage, and […]

Sky has secured the broadcast rights to show a record number of Premier League fixtures in a new four-year deal. With up to 100 more matches each season, its exclusively live coverage will increase by 70 per cent from 2025/26. With four packages awarded, the maximum for any one broadcaster, over 80 per cent of […]

UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has suggested that the government is to block an expected 9 per cent licence fee increase set out in a funding agreement struck by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The fee is supposed to rise in line with inflation from April 2024, and in the three years after that. Speaking […]

BBC Studios Distribution has licensed the Love Productions format, The Great Celebrity Bake Off, to Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE. The Spanish series, titled Bake Off – Famosos al Horno, will be produced locally by Boxfish to air on RTVE’s, La 1 Channel. The Spanish adaptation will be presented by local actor and presenter Paula Vazquez […]

Ahead of the much-anticipated release of Magic Light Pictures production of Tabby McTat on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Christmas, fans are now able to download the Tabby McTat Song. The song has been exclusively performed and recorded by voice cast Rob Brydon, who plays busker Fred in the film, and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù who […]

Magic Light Pictures has created Christmas idents exclusively for BBC One to tie in with the Christmas animated adventure Tabby McTat. The three 40-second animations show Tabby McTat and family enjoying a quiet snooze under the Christmas Tree when they’re abruptly awakened; Stick Man and his family receiving gifts from Santa; and the Gruffalo’s Child’s […]