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Damian Kavanagh
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BBC Three controller boards Endemol’s Tiger Aspect
BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh is to join Peaky Blinders producer Tiger Aspect in the new…
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BBC3 ploughs extra investment into factual entertainment
BBC3 has announced the first two commissions to benefit from a recent boost in funding…
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Online net BBC Three lands £10m content investment
British online channel BBC Three has bagged an additional £10 million (US$13.9 million) for new…
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Idris Elba to take over BBC Three
Idris Elba is to oversee a “unique and ground-breaking” season of content for the BBC’s…
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Professor Green making weed, child poverty docs
UK rapper Professor Green is making a pair of docs about social issues for the…
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BBC parodies Making a Murderer with spoof
The BBC has commissioned Sexy Murder, a six-part comedy that spoofs true crime hits such…
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Laughing matters at the Edinburgh Int’l TV Festival
Shane Smith and his plan to take over the media world dominated delegate chatter at…
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BBC Three behind most-watched show on iPlayer
The BBC’s youth skewing, online-only network, BBC Three, has produced the most requested show of…
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BBC Three reports online success
Strong viewing figures for new BBC Three drama Thirteen shows that the youth network’s content “cuts…
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Two true-crime dramas for BBC
The BBC has ordered Murdered by My Father, and a new season of Murder for…
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BBC Three goes off air and online today
Youth-skewing channel BBC Three has gone off-air and was an online-only service from noon today…
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BBC Three reveals switchover content plans
The BBC announced two new platforms and a raft of new content for its youth…
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BBC Three orders disability doc
UK digital network BBC Three has commissioned a one-off documentary about so-called freak shows. Actor…
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BBC eyes daytime slot revamps as Dom gets axe
New BBC daytime controller Dan McGolpin (pictured) has axed long-running consumer rights show Don’t Get…
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BBC Three adds shows as closure looms
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL: BBC Three has commissioned a batch of new shows as controller…
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BBC Three goes online-only in March 2016
The BBC plans to turn youth network BBC Three into an online-only service from March…
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Public petition to save BBC Three
A petition signed by more than 270,000 people opposing plans to take youth-skewing network BBC…
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BBC Three controller: channel not for sale
BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh (pictured) has stressed that the network is “not for sale”,…
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Street replaces Kavanagh at BBC Daytime
Jo Street has been named acting controller, daytime, at UK pubcaster the BBC following Damian…
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Bride format leaves BBC Three for BBC One
BBC Three’s key unscripted format Don’t Tell the Bride is moving to BBC One, as…
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Kavanagh named BBC Three online chief
Damian Kavanagh has named as head of the new-look, online-only BBC Three. Kavanagh, currently controller…
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BBC One finds The Link, Warner attached for sales
UK channel BBC One has commissioned a quiz show in which teams attempt to find…
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News brief: ITV’s 12 Yard gets BBC One gameshow order
ITV Studio-backed UK producer 12 Yard has won a commission from BBC One for a…
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BBC tries on Pressure Pad
UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned a 25x45mins gameshow set in a “stunning high tech…