A top TV critic has lashed out at celebrity chef Rick Stein's latest TV show. Rick Stein's Spain launched on BBC2 yesterday and promised to investigate the little-known cuisine of the country's regions over four episodes. Viewers were treated t...
British Saturday night television plumbed new depths this evening as that bloke off Doctor Who or something, John Barrowman, hosted a light entertainment TV bollocks extravagaza named 'Tonight's The Night' Which was universally panned by the criti...
Spare a thought for the weather men and women on the BBC - we expect so much from them, they are losing sleep... and worse. Ever since Michael Fish assured the nation there was no hurricane on the way just hours before 1988's "storm of the century...
Female viewers of the popular BBC series Coast are demanding more attractive male presenters. Following last week's episode which did not feature regular long-haired Scot presenter Neil Oliver but managed to squeeze in two new "babes" the BBC has...
Media watchdog, MEW (Media Watchdog) has slammed the BBC by accusing it of favouritism towards depressed sounding Scottish newsreaders, and voiceover artistes on documentary programming. MEW monitors attribute this peculiar practice to the economi...
It's not over 'til the fat lady sings, but there are fears she may have already warbled the death notes for ITV's reality show Popstar to Operastar after ratings halved in just four weeks. Popstar was watched by 6.3 million viewers when its second...
Procedures for complaining to the BBC are "convoluted" and "overly complicated" according to a group of peers. The Lords communications committee says it is difficult for viewers, listeners and web users to know where to go with complaints. Their...
Three popular TV comics will be anxiously awaiting the reaction to their latest programme after warnings were issued by a television vigilante organisation. The second and final episode of Three Men Go To Venice featuring Griff Rhys Jones, Rory Mc...
Popular motoring programme, Top Gear, returns to BBC2 this evening for its 17th season. Presented by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, the show is BBC2's most popular programme and it's best-selling show around the world. It conti...
The BBC has been blasted by one of the country's most powerful media magnates after talks over the sale of TV Centre stalled. As we reported last week, Television Centre, in west London, has been put up for sale by the BBC as part of cost-slashing...
An unexpected bid has been made for the BBC's iconic Television Centre, which is up for sale after 50 years in operation. The sale is part of the BBC's efforts to save money and to 'de-Londonise' operations. Opened in 1960, the 14-acre site - i...
The BBC has employed a "chair champion" to teach staff how to sit properly and comfortably at their desks. Staff moving to the new Salford Quays MediaCity development are being offered a choice of three models of chair, all of which swivel. They a...
The Chairman of the BBC, Lord Dratten, has refused to rule out the possibility that in order for them to reduce the BBC's overall running costs by 20% without having to impact on the BBC's Hindi, Arabic, and Somali World Service broadcasts could mean...
'Mini' celebrity Bernie Ecclestone has done a deal with the BBC to star in the remake of Steptoe and Son. Bernie, who is 80 and weighs in at 5'2", knocked back another lucrative offer to portray dead lookalike artist Andy Warhol. Instead, he will...
The Apple icloud has been revealed, along with the news that it is to be represented by a shiny silver cloud symbol. This cloud symbol has sent shock waves through the world of weather, because everybody knows that that cloud symbol is the BBC we...
Edith Piaf's Non, Je Ne Regret Rien has been the most popular song down the years for castaways on BBC radio's Desert Island Discs. The second favourite is Frank Sinatra's My Way. A BBC insider said: "It just goes to show the type of self-centr...
The cuts are biting harder and deeper and nowhere is it being felt more acutely than at that bastion of British broadcasting, The BBC. Budgets have been trimmed back so much that the corporation is having to plumb even further depths to get show t...
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