21 Dec 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
Tony Hancock, for a Boxing Day BBC Two documentary, 'The Unknown Hancock'.
19 Dec 2005
| by by Joe Lepper
LONDON - The BBC is to launch a web-based soap opera aimed at teenagers called 'Wannabes', which...to the characters and helping them make difficult personal choices."
This is the BBC's second online soap, with BBC World Service launching a weekly drama called 'The Flatmates' in the summer aimed at English ...
16 Dec 2005
| by by Joe Lepper
LONDON - The BBC is claiming that around 20 countries are interested in buying up its epic soap...BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm, said there had been a "huge amount" of global interest, with broadcasters in 20 unnamed countries actively seeking to air the hit adaptation.
The BBC has produced the show in a deliberate soap opera style to appeal to a wider audience, broadcasting it in half ...
15 Dec 2005
| by by Joe Lepper
-time scheduling after joining ITV to front his own daytime chat show. At the BBC, he fronted the evening game show ...
14 Dec 2005
| by by Staff
Scorsese for a feature-length film on the singer's life, which ran on BBC Two and PBS in September ...
13 Dec 2005
| by by Joe Lepper
Apple's Top Subscribed Podcasts chart has revealed that Gervais's show has toppled Chris Moyles' BBC Radio 1 breakfast show from the UK top spot and is also now number one in the US, after notching up 180,000 downloads in its first week.
The 12 weekly half-hour shows feature all new material ...
07 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
'The Apprentice' returns to BBC Two next spring....stage on BBC Two's 2006 schedule with 'The Line of Beauty', adapted by Andrew Davies from Alan ...
for the BBC last year, bringing in 4m viewers every week.
BBC Two's winter/spring line-up includes ...
, which follows a woman's addiction to shopping.
Roly Keating, BBC Two controller, said: "Strong ...
07 Dec 2005
's deal with the BBC, which runs to 2008. However, two issues are likely to be key in talks ...
National Stadium, which is part-owned by the FA, has unveiled
Microsoft as the first of four founder ...
between the rights it offers
partner sponsors and those sold for Wembley. For example, with Microsoft ...
06 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
The deal gives the combined sites of ITV.com and FriendReunited.com the eighth largest online presence in the UK in terms of unique users, ranking behind the likes of Google, Yahoo!, eBay and the BBC.
Friends Reunited will operate as a standalone entity, although ITV will integrate its management team, led ...
05 Dec 2005
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - The BBC has appointed E4 head Julian Bellamy as the new controller of BBC Three to replace...It will be Bellamy's first role at the BBC. He has a long background with Channel 4, where he has ...
Brother' from 2001, when the second series aired.
Jana Bennett, director of television at the BBC, said ...
."
BBC Three launched in February 2003 and is available on Freeview and other digital services ...