EXCLUSIVE: “Bringing BBC Three back to linear TV” would have been far down former BBC Director General Tony Hall’s list of predictions for his successor’s first major piece of business. In 2014, having only just become DG, Hall took the first forward-thinking decision of his own rein … Read entire story.
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EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios Natural History Unit has poached Netflix-backed indie Freeborne Media’s Laura Harris to run its development team alongside newly-promoted Jess Colman. The pair replace Gavin Boyland as dual Heads of Development at the powerhouse BBC Studios division. Deadline revealed in November that Boyland is remaining … Read entire story.
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BBC Director General Tim Davie has said yesterday’s licence fee settlement will leave the public broadcaster with a shortfall of £285M ($390M) by 2027, far lower than previous estimates of up to £2BN ($2.7BN). The corporation still has to separately make millions of pounds in savings … Read entire story.
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Jana Bennett, the British and U.S. TV powerhouse who ran BBC TV, BBC Worldwide and History, has died aged 66. She is survived by husband Richard Clemmow and two children. Bennett was open about her rare condition glioblastoma multiforme in an interview with London’s Evening Standard in 2019, at which … Read entire story.
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Kidscreen Live Delayed Due To Omicron The live element of Kidscreen 2022 in Miami has become the latest Omicron casualty, pushed back to July due to the “impact of the variant on the industry’s ability to travel internationally and meet in person.” The expo, which was due to … Read entire story.
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