A leaked BBC management memo has revealed a host of changes to the corporations political line-up. According to the memo, several of the BBC's political heavyweights are to be replaced in what many reckon is the biggest BBC shake up in years. P...
Never mind the bollocks - it's Question Time! BBC chiefs are bracing themselves for they don't quite know what tonight as political debate show Question Time features former Sex Pistol John Lydon as a panellist. Lydon - or Johnny Rotten, as he...
Top broadcast journalist Robert Peston has ambitious career plans for when the current world-wide financial crisis ends. The BBC's business editor is planning to take Hollywood by storm and star in a series of adventure blockbusters portraying the...
As part of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, London council workers have been dredging the river Thames. They have turned up a remarkable array of artefacts. "This is a remarkable, layered, history of London," said Dan Cruikshank, BBC Historian. "...
Speculation surrounded the ITV sports team last night when an anonymous twitter account said they were banned from the stadium. Viewers had noted during the England v France game that Adrian Chiles, Jamie Carragher and Gareth Southgate were in a s...
Football fans tonight joined together in unity to congratulate broadcaster ITV for their coverage of Euro 2012 Group D match England v France. Supporters were naturally worried that the commercial broadcaster was given rights to the opening match...
The BBC announced today that Monty Python cast will join the broadcaster to act as football pundits and reporters during the Euro 2012 tournament in Poland and Ukraine, and also during the Olympics. It is believed the comedy sketch show cast who b...
Plans announced this week for a swathe of new TV light entertainment programmes have boosted the numbers of volunteers for a vigilante organisation. TV Repair Man, the shadowy group pledged to ridding the TV schedules of what it describes as "moro...
Football pundit Alan Hansen was mocked by fans today over his selections on the BBC website today for the tournament which starts on Friday. He named a top four to watch of Brazil, Scotland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Brazil are ineligible f...
Sky watchers and astronomers alike are said to be amazed following a sensational once in a lifetime occurrence, when a black 1977 Ford Transit appeared on the Sun earlier today. It's strongly suspected that the van, Reg No. HGT 432 S, is a piece o...
Yesterday's Diamond Jubilee River Pageant has today been blasted by entertainment watchdogs as being either the worst, or else the second worst televised Royal event ever. Neville Grant, a spokesman for the British Television Media Authority said...
Toe-curlingly awkward chat show host, Alan Partridge, has shocked the political world by announcing his withdrawal from the next London Mayoral contest in 2016. The "foot in the mouth" presenter's decision comes after the BBC last night announced...
Underground television pressure group TV Repair Man is threatening to disrupt production of the BBC's proposed replacement for Saturday evening entertainment show Total Wipeout. BBC1 has announced that it is lining up Wipeout presenter Richard Ham...
2012 may not be the end of the whole world, but it was the final year that Teletext was broadcast in the UK. For those under thirty, Teletext was like the internet on a television, before there was internet on the television. Hundreds of pages of inf...
Papers released by the government today under the accidental off-side rule, reveal that during the height of the cold war, Britain's intelligence service -MI6, carried out a wide ranging investigation of the popular entertainer Bruce Forsyth. Init...
Thousands of viewers will be switching on to the lastest series of the BBC's popular Coast on Sunday fearing the show will never be the same again. According to all the previews for the first couple of episodes of series seven there will be no app...
Economic historian Niall Ferguson has been chosen by the BBC to give the 2012 Reith Lectures. The lecture series titled The Rule of Law and its Enemies will explore the influence of man-made institutions on global economic growth and democracy.
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