EXCLUSIVE: The drumbeat of BBC cuts continues, with Deadline hearing that roughly 4% of the British broadcaster’s technology unit is expected to take voluntary redundancy. Around 151 employees are set to exit BBC Media Tech, the unit that helps power online services including iPlayer and BBC Sounds. The voluntary redundancies are expected to deliver savings […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter1h ago
Production has started this week on “Baile,” a new comedy feature co-commissioned for the BBC Gaeilge, the Irish-language arm of BBC Northern Ireland, and Ireland’s national Irish-language broadcaster TG4. Produced by Belfast based Village Films with support from Northern Ireland Screen’s Irish Language Broadcast Fund, the comedy drama follows Bríghid, a fiercely independent woman in […]
Variety•Alex Ritman2h ago
The BBC’s North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali explains how the Medicare breach happened, and why it matters.
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Debbie Beard and Amanda Thorpe speak to the BBC's Simon Jack at the launch of a new suicide prevention toolkit.
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The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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The UK has jammed satellites to defend itself from hostile threats, the BBC has been told.
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Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy on Tuesday said he asked President Trump to reconsider his ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW reporters from covering his administration and the White House. “I’ve urged the president to reconsider his position,” Ruddy told “BBC Newsnight” in an interview. “I hope he will. I think it would be a…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini15h ago
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is preparing to announce the closure of TV and radio services, with speculation rife that youth network BBC Three is at risk of being unplugged for a second time. Deadline hears that the BBC is expected to unveil what one source described as “audience-facing” closures early next week, as the UK broadcaster […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter19h agoSony is the first music company to join the alliance that includes The Walt Disney Co., BBC, Fox Entertainment, Condé Nast and more.
Andre Agassi advised former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu to avoid judging her effort by her results and be comfortable with herself, after she said his autobiography inspired her attempts to shake off a five-year performance slump in the majors. Eight-times Grand Slam winner Agassi endured a four-year barren spell between winning the 1995 Australian Open and 1999 French Open, during which his ranking fell to 141st in the world. The American wrote about his battle to regain his form in his autobiography in 2009. Briton Raducanu, 23, has not reached the last eight of a major since her shock 2021 U.S. Open triumph. "I would encourage her to focus on being the best of herself on a daily basis, but don't judge that by results or thinking that somehow you have to be 100%," Agassi told the BBC on Wednesday. "You have to learn to be 100% of whatever percent you're at (and) be comfortable in your own identity inside of that, not what people say." Japan's Naomi Osaka, who won her fourth Grand Slam in 2021, also took inspiration from Agassi's book last year, when she reached the U.S. Open semi-finals for the first time in five years.
There are fears of a return to war in the northern region as tensions between the government and TPLF escalate.
BBC23 Sept
John Cleese is unhappy with the BBC for removing sketches from comedy series That Mitchell and Webb Look. The BBC confirmed earlier this week that jokes featured in David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s show had been cut ahead of it being restored to iPlayer for its 20th anniversary. As many as 11 sketches were removed, […]
Deadline•Jake Kanter23 Sept
The BBC’s China correspondent and US editor explain everything you need to know ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting in Washington DC.
BBC23 Sept
Burnham seemed nervous at first, knowing how explosive these encounters with Trump can be, writes BBC political editor Chris Mason.
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In an interview with the BBC, Kristalina Georgieva says economic shocks had pushed "debt levels up like a staircase not to heaven".
BBC22 Sept
The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
BBC22 Sept
The BBC goes inside the prison where prisoners were trapped in stifling, cramped conditions.
BBC22 Sept
Over 30 years have passed since Ang Lee worked his magic on Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, and, aside from a 2008 BBC mini-series, it’s taken until now for someone else to have a bash at a feature film version. It’s surprising it’s taken so long; a quick revisit shows that the 1995 Sense and Sensibility […]
Deadline•Damon Wise22 Sept
Lord Newby is to chair the inquiry, commissioned in response to the discrimination case brought by David Campanale who is claiming £790,000 in damages The Liberal Democrats have quietly commissioned a review into the treatment of figures who hold religious views within their ranks, weeks after the Guardian revealed the religious discrimination claim against the party by the former candidate David Campanale. Campanale, a former BBC journalist, was selected in 2021 as the party’s candidate for Sutton and Cheam, but was removed in August 2023. He has argued that discrimination against his Christianity cost him his political career in a civil case against the party. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Aletha Adu Political correspondent22 Sept
The BBC's Frank Gardner explains why the narrow waterway is key to oil transportation and the world economy.
BBC22 Sept