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Clementi review suggests sensible way forward for a new BBC under ultimate Ofcom control
An independent review commissioned by the UK Government to look at how the BBC is governed and regulated has concluded…
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Creative
Sherlock’s top rating ‘Abominable Bride’ was another example of abominable storytelling
We often hear that ‘storytelling’ is the skill driving the so-called content revolution. Trouble is it seems to be a…
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BBC’s ‘Pure Drama’ shows best of RKCR/Y&R
We’ve sometimes wondered at the BBC’s use of agencies when the corporation itself should be stuffed with creative talent. That…
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News
Peston for ITV – a coup or an own goal?
ITV has secured a coup – or has it? – by poaching the BBC’s high profile economics editor Robert Peston…
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Why the BBC is right to get its retaliation in first against its right wing rivals
“In our view a diminished BBC would simply mean a diminished Britain.” This was the statement – self-regarding hyperbole according…
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Media
BBC dumbs down Wimbledon coverage – which makes it a bit like the advertising business
The BBC’s capacity for shooting itself in the foot is legendary. Even the good stuff it commissions comes back to…
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New broom Whittingdale is not likely to kill the BBC – however much the Tory press wants him to
The Telegraph (one of those beacons of balanced reporting that illuminate Britain’s fourth estate) thinks the new Tory government has…
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Karmarama back in the saddle for the Beeb with Radio One ‘repositioning’
At the tail end of last year there was a big pitch for the BBC, involving some of London’s finest…
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BBC narrows search to BBH and RKCR/Y&R
Many of London’s finest spent the weeks before Christmas working on a pitch for the BBC account, latterly with Karmarama.…
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