According to at least one school of thought, the thieving penguin on David Attenborough's BBC smash hit series 'Frozen Planet' was probably a Scouser. So says Donald Skoob, 93, a janitor at Salford University. Viewers of the nature documentary...
BBC chiefs moved quickly to cover up the embarrassment of the head of music at Radio 1 and 1Extra, George Ergatoudis, after he took part in a TV quiz last night. Mr Ergatoudis was appearing on Christmas University Challenge, a variation on the reg...
Following the BBC Frozen Planet polar bear scenes - which were actually filmed in a zoo - controversy, a probably even more profoundly shocking revelation is about to rock the nation to its very foundations. Former BBC special effects wizard, Keit...
TV chef Michel Roux Jr has been labelled "over-privileged and insensitive" after his latest TV show on Friday. The double Michelin-starred chef appeared on Masterchef: The Professionals - Michel's Classics preparing "sumptuous dishes close to his...
BBC executives were today denying the entire series was faked, but agreed some footage could have been misleading. One exec said: 'Ok, the footage of Attenborough in his back yard wading through polystyrene made to look like snow was a little fake...
BBC bosses have today admitted faking a number of scenes in their wildlife showcase piece Frozen Planet, which viewers had assumed were filmed in the wild. In fact most of the scenes were filmed in the Iceland, not the country but a branches of the s...
The elusive Higgs Boson - the theorised particle which inspired a 10 billion pound hole in the ground has been found. Well so the BBC would have you believe. The BBC, famed for producing misleading 'factual' programming claims to have photographed...
An A-level student with 'wisdom beyond her years' has been crowned the BBC's Young Apprentice 2011. Zara Brownless, 16, won the accolade by impressing Lord Sugar with her online video game Piggy Panic. He told her: "You are calm, articulate and...
The BBC, renowned for making computer generated space and pro-evolution dinosaur propaganda programmes is today in hot water over it's latest hit - Frozen Planet. Footage of baby Polar Bears in a dutch zoo, was interspersed with footage of Polar B...
The show has been a problem for ITV since it was launched in September 2010, receiving appallingly low ratings. Bleakley and Chiles were poached from BBC's The One Show earlier this year in a bid to improve Daybreak's fortunes. The move failed and...
Annual BBC charity TV marathon Children In Need was celebrating another record-breaking Friday night gala, with more than £23 million raised so far. And local misery "Knocker" Pratt is making a significant contribution to that total. Mr Pratt i...
The BBC is to strip Children in Need's flagship fundraiser, Pudsey the Bear, of his modesty preserving eyepatch amidst swingeing cuts to the budget for this month's annual broadcast, according to reports. Pudsey, who sustained the head wound when...
The BBC revealed today that following an internal pilot study, it will not be re-introducing the popular TV show 'It's a Knock-out'. The show, which topped the ratings during the 70's and early 80's featured teams from different towns across the U...
BBC chiefs are fearing a huge drop in viewing figures for their latest Alice Roberts vehicle, Origins Of Us. The second episode of the three part story of human evolution airs tonight but following an angry response to last week's first part, BBC2...
TV expert on all things human, Alice Roberts, is back on UK screens tonight in a new series, causing excitement among her thousands of fans nationwide. Dr Roberts launches a three-part documentary series Origins Of Us on BBC2 in which she explores...
The BBC has announced that Television Centre, it's iconic Shepherd's Bush headquarters, is up for sale and QPR are negotiating to purchase the site. The ambitious Premier League football club plan to build a new stadium at White City to accommodat...
Fit-as-a-butcher's-dog TV cook Lorraine Pascale has been urged to "beef it up" on her new show. The former model, who was introduced to TV audiences last year with a series about baking, now has Home Cooking Made Simple airing on BBC. But the n...
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