Students across the country are plotting their next destructive ramapage following a chance quip from radio legend Sir Terry Wogan on popular student "TV while stoned" game show Never Mind The Buzzcocks. The outrage revolves around a discussion on...
Fears that the strike at the BBC over Pensions might spread throughout the Corporation and continue into 2011 have led the Queen to intervene. 'My Christmas message is in danger' she said 'the people are used to hearing me on Christmas Day and bei...
London - (Rioters): "Fat chance, mate," is how the Beeb's NUJ father-of-chapel summed up the odds this afternoon. The 48 hour walk out will see a widespread Guy Fawkes weekend news blackout. Hacks are hacked off about austerity measures messin...
In the heady days of the mid 1980s, Band Aid, and the subsequent Live Aid concerts, were just what was needed to end third world famine and poverty. Bob Geldof was elevated from mediocre pop singer to saint status overnight. A pop record sold mill...
There are seismic rumblings at the BBC Television Centre, in the wake of Wayne Rooney's decision to sign a new five year contract with Manchester United. It seems that senior BBC executives were convinced that Rooney's football career was over, in...
ITV production chiefs are tearing their hair out wondering what on earth went wrong with their plans to revitalise their morning news magazine show. Viewing figures for Daybreak make depressing reading for the independent network - just 600,000 vi...
A chance to literally own your very own piece of broadcasting history emerged after the BBC today indicated it would auction 150 copies of Carnage on the Scale of What Happened in Europe During the Two World Wars - the corporation's official book of...
Horace Lintmeyer, inventor of some of the world's most memorable boutique cocktails including the Rusty Nail and the Fuzzy Navel, says the names of those popular drinks were actually derived from real life events. Interviewed as part of the BBC's...
The BBC announced yesterday that it is to scrap plans for their forthcoming show "Celebrity Talent". A spokesman said that despite interviewing more than 800 D list celebrities it had been impossible to find enough of them with some modicum of tal...
A group of female fans of TV historian Michael Wood have contacted us demanding to put their side in the continuing Alice Roberts dress/undress saga. Since late August, we have been following the wrangling between fan groups eager to see TV presen...
The endless story concerning the required state of dress for female TV presenters dragged in another new name yesterday. It emerged that the latest object of fan desire is BBC political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg when our reporter was approach...
Former newsreader and one time Princess Diana look-a-little-likey, Selina Scott, will not be presenting a BBC documentary retracing the steps of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who cashed his chips somewhere down the Antarctic in 1912. Insiders claim...
Cats from all over the world are now competing with each other to get their story of alleged cruelty to be the most read on the BBC's news website. Attention seeking moggies are literally falling over themselves to make their owners look like the...
BBC Chief Sir Michael Lyons has issued an ultimatum to producers of the corporation's programmes: put the show on ice or face the consequences. Lyons is ambitious to replicate the success of rivals ITV's skateaway success Come Dancing on Ice and n...
Claims of "dumbing down" leveled by angry viewers following the cancellation of Eggheads has been strongly refuted by the BBC. Many viewers became incensed when they learned the popular quiz show, which pits challengers against Britain's most resp...
Nick Clegg heaped pressure upon himself after he made a gaff of epic proportions during the recording of a seemingly harmless food programme on the BBC. The programme - "tastes of your childhood" - is meant to be nothing more than a vehicle for C...
Fans of BBC documentary series Coast are bracing themselves for a bust-up between two of their favourite female presenters. As we reported last week, fans of presenter Dr Alice Roberts were disappointed that she is keeping her clothes on for her n...
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