The BBC is marking one hundred years of broadcasting in Wales. On Februay 13th 1923, in a small room on the first floor in Castle Street, Cardiff, Sir John Reith, Controller of the BBC spoke the first words which were broadcast by the BBC in Wales. To celebrate this historic milestone, the BBC is offering […]
VICE Distribution, the global distribution division of VICE Media Group, and BBC have partnered to bring The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate to UK audiences. The documentary, which details Tate’s alleged sexual abuse and assaults, is available immediately to stream on iPlayer and will premiere on BBC Three on February 21st. Produced by VICE World […]
Britain’s leading forum for television and media, the Royal Television Society (RTS), has shortlisted the nominations for the prestigious RTS Television Journalism Awards 2023, in partnership with Wolftech and Dataminr. The awards ceremony will take place on March 1st 2023 at the London Hilton on Park Lane and will be hosted by Dan Walker, 5 […]
Richard Sharp, the BBC chair, has told MPs his only role in providing a loan to Boris Johnson shortly before he got the job was to “ensure due process was followed”. Sharp said he had personally told Johnson as well as Rishi Sunak, the then chancellor, that he was going for the BBC job before […]
Death in Paradise spin-off series Beyond Paradise, made by Red Planet Pictures and coming to BBC One and iPlayer on February 24th. Co-commissioned by the BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée Martha Lloyd after their nail-biting will-they-won’t-they romance reached its emotional finale in Saint Marie in 2017. Viewers […]
The first episode of the third season of Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley has been watched by 11.3 million people so far, as revealed by 30 Days All Screens data. Happy Valley has also been the biggest on-demand title across all platforms in the UK so far this year. The third and final season of the […]
The BBC will continue to champion local music across England with fresh plans for BBC Introducing on local radio and BBC Sounds. In the future, 20 new BBC Introducing programmes will broadcast across the BBC’s 39 local stations each week. For the first time ever these 20 shows will each broadcast twice a week (on […]
ITV and the BBC have teamed up to expand the pool of registered psychologists with experience of working in television. Together, the broadcasters have developed a continuing professional development programme which has been accredited by the British Psychological Society. HCPC registered practitioner psychologists from a wide range of backgrounds are now invited to apply. The […]
More than 33 million people listened to BBC Radio stations live each week during the final quarter of 2022, according to new RAJARs. Radio 5 Live boosted its live audience to 5.57 milion with its news and sports content, including Formula 1 and 2022 FIFA World Cup. Radio 4 and its agenda-setting breakfast show, Today, […]
Matthew Amroliwala, Christian Fraser, Yalda Hakim, Lucy Hockings and Maryam Moshiri will be chief presenters on the BBC’s news channel – BBC News – which will be broadcast in the UK and around the world. Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News, commented: “I’m thrilled to announce the faces of our channel. This team’s editorial leadership, […]