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BBC Studios appoints director of digital content
BBC Studios has promoted Anna Cronin to director of digital content. The producer-distributor has assigned…
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BBC Studios: Attenborough’s BBC ties “won’t change” amid SVOD threat
BBC Studios execs have assured that Sir David Attenborough has a “huge and deep relationship”…
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BBC’s Linsey expands role to head content partnerships
BBC Studios has revealed that from September chief creative officer Mark Linsey (pictured) will take…
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A newly unified BBC Studios looks to China
BBC Studios, which has officially merged its production and commercial arms today, is looking for…
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Worldwide ambitions open the Showcase – BBC content event
BBC Worldwide’s annual four-day programming sales event in Liverpool, England, is a regular trip for…
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BBC Studios reaches “new dawn” after Discovery wildlife commission
Discovery Channel has commissioned natural history series The Red List from BBC Studios, marking a…
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BBC merges Studios and Worldwide
UK pubcaster the BBC is merging its production arm, BBC Studios, and commercial division BBC…
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BBC Studios restructures entertainment arm
BBC Studios is splitting its entertainment, music and events arm into two, with current divisional…
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BBC, Amazon team for apocalyptic comedy
UK pubcaster the BBC and subscription VOD service are creating a six-part comedy based on…
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Ahmed exits BBC Studios in rejig
The BBC’s long-serving religious programming chief, Aaqil Ahmed, as the UK’s pubcaster restructures its unscripted…
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BBC Studios to axe 300 jobs in ‘reshaping’
The BBC’s production arm will do away with 300 jobs to “ensure it is the…
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BBC Worldwide ‘confident’ over Top Gear future
The commercial arm of the BBC has rejected fears over the future of motoring series…
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Worldwide exec gets top BBC entertainment role
Kate Phillips has been named as Mark Linsey’s replacement as controller, entertainment commissioning, at UK…
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BBC Studios names factual chief
UK pubcaster the BBC has gone in-house to appoint its first director of factual for…
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BBC Studios to hire commercial genre heads
Mark Linsey wants three commercially-minded executives to oversee the core programme genres at BBC Studios, the…
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BBC Studios exodus continues with unscripted exits
The lead BBC exec at motoring series Top Gear is the latest senior staffer to…
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BBC appoints Studios boss
The BBC is expected to formally appoint Mark Linsey the boss of its new in-house…
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Shillinglaw exits in BBC channels rejig
BBC Two and Four controller Kim Shillinglaw (pictured) is to leave the UK pubcaster, as…
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ITV wins The Voice, questions over X Factor
UK pubcaster the BBC has confirmed it will no longer show The Voice after the…
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Tyler replaces Linsey at BBC Entertainment
Alan Tyler has replaced Mark Linsey as acting controller of BBC Entertainment after the latter…
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BBC Can’t Touch This on Saturday nights
The BBC has ordered a new Saturday night primetime gameshow, Can’t Touch This. In the…
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Ex-ITV Studios exec fills BBC role
A former head of entertainment at ITV Studios in Manchester, UK, has joined UK pubcaster…
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Mark Linsey confirmed in top BBC television role
The BBC’s entertainment commissioning chief Mark Linsey has been confirmed as its new deputy director…