Top Gear budget cuts will be visible, says Jeremy Clarkson's partner It now seems to be the case that all BBC programming appears to be fair game in the quest for further money saving, judging from these comments made by...

Pull out of Project Kangaroo, broadcasters told With Project Kangaroo still trying to get off the ground, it's perhaps predictable that someone somewhere might conceivably suggest that ITV and Channel 4 ought to pull out of the project altogether despite...

Channel 4's targeting of BBC Worldwide assets is bold and, potentially, brilliant The assertion that Channel 4 is attempting to do something that "is bold and, potentially, brilliant" may be true to an extent, but this move is also potentially...

The battle of what sports the BBC should or should not cover is one which will, inevitably, never draw any consensus.

The BBC and Channel 4 go to war over which hosts the most lavish parties This new spat between ITN/Channel 4 and the BBC, which was caused by a report on last night's Channel 4 News that revealed how much...

Broadcast Now: NetPlay to launch Freeview channel CNN International may be replacing Nuts TV on Freeview in the New Year, and Bid TV may be bidding farewell in deference to something from Discovery Networks, but there still appears to be...

Strictly Come Dancing voting fiasco sparks 200 complaints Although the BBC has promised to carry over all phone votes on this occasion so avoiding any direct accusations of fraud, the inability to plan properly for a particular outcome does carry...

So here are the options we've got so far...

BBC outlines £120m partnership plans with other public service broadcasters After a couple of months where the BBC superficially seemed to be upsetting everyone from readers of the Daily Mail to the newspaper industry, it now needs to quickly start...

Like many I grew up with the creations of Oliver Postgate, and his usal collaborator Peter Firmin. Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, the Clangers, and of course, the utterly wonderful Bagpuss, played a huge part of my childhood, as it did so many others - enchanting and enthralling a whole generation.

BBC News: Baby P official fired without pay So it's happened again. A scandal, a press hullabaloo, the demanding of heads, the swish of the metaphorical axe and said heads duly served up, freshly dripping blood, to a vengeful public...

BBC News: Clarkson joke cleared by watchdog Joking about truck... sorry, lorry drivers killing prostitutes was bound to offend some people. The murder by Steve Wright, a lorry driver, of five prostitutes in Ipswich touched a raw nerve, and was...

John Barrowman item et seq, The Now Show, Series 25, Episode 2, BBC Radio 4 Hats off to BBC Radio 4's The Now Show for, er, raising the issue of John Barrowman's invisible appendage last Friday evening (6:30pm, 5th December)...

Caught in the storm Prior to the 1980s, UK TV broadcasting was predominantly a preserve of the BBC and regional ITV franchises plus a tiny number of cable TV channels, and this was largely because television studio, recording and transmission...

BBC Trust: Survey of BBC services aimed at 13-34 year-olds If you have a spare moment or two today, the BBC Trust are actively seeking views from members of the general public in relation to services primarily aimed at teenagers...

Broadcast Now: More woe for Richard and Judy Oh how the mighty have fallen. Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan jumped ship from Channel 4 - where they had more than 1 million viewers for their chat show - to the...

Project Kangaroo punctured by Competition Commission Competition Commission statement (PDF file) Project Kangaroo is (or perhaps was, given the stance that now seems to be all too clear) an attempt to provide a "one-stop shop" for video-on-demand content from the...

John Barrowman apologises for exposing himself on BBC Radio 1 I was going to start this blog entry with the words "You couldn't make this up", but after recent events that are all too obvious this seems fairly predictable given...

BBC3 and BBC4 face budget cuts At least the downturn in the commercial property market has prevented the BBC from taking the easy, short-term solution of selling the family silver and has instead focused more attention onto the corporation's services;...