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The pair has teamed to take domestic format rights to Destination X for their respective countries, having previously co-commissioned The Traitors, the Dutch format in which constestants have to guess who among them is “faithful” and who is secretly working against the rest.

The BBC is set to slash its annual output by 1,000 hours worth of shows to cope with savings requirements that have shot up by some 40% to almost half a billion dollars.

BBC employees will stage their biggest strike in 13 years today as they walk out in protest over job losses and changes to local content. Around 1,000 National Union of Journalists (NUJ) members are expected to down tools for 24 hours from 11 a.m. local time and the BBC has acknowledged that it will be a difficult day.

BBC employees have voted to stage their biggest strike in 13 years in protest over the corporation’s changes to local content in England. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have warned that they could target King Charles III’s Coronation in May.

The BBC’s head of digital journalism has quit after just four months, prompting further anxiety about the UK broadcaster’s plans to merge its international and domestic news channels. Saeed Ahmed has left the BBC after joining from NPR last October. He was based in Washington and was tasked with overseeing the U.K. broadcaster’s digital news content aimed at U.S. audiences.

The BBC is set to replace the robot cameras in its news channel studio after a string of viral tech fails over the past decade. The British broadcaster has begun the process of acquiring new automated cameras as it looks to reboot its news channel next year. Above, news presenter Victoria Fritz deals with a rogue camera.

The teaser for the special episodes marking the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, which was released on Christmas, not only features David Tennant making his return as the Doctor, but also Catherine Tate as Donna Noble and Neil Patrick Harris as an eccentric and unnamed villain.

As ITVX launches and the BBC gets ready to stream not beam, will event viewing become a thing of the past?

The BBC plans to close its linear channels as it “consolidates activity under one simple, single brand,” Director General Tim Davie has revealed, as he unveiled a blueprint for a digitally-led public service broadcaster. Davie didn’t elaborate on the linear closures during an RTS talk this morning but the declaration raises the possibility of BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four uniting under a single brand, which he described as “The BBC.”

A BBC journalist was reportedly beaten, kicked and arrested by police in China while covering anti-lockdown protests currently sweeping the country. Edward Lawrence, a senior journalist and camera operator in the BBC’s China bureau, was arrested in Shanghai on Sunday evening while covering an anti-“COVID Zero” protest.

Jen Brown is named SVP of programming and content strategy, BBC Studios Global Digital News & Streaming, while Saeed Ahmed is appointed head of digital journalism, U.S.

Major British broadcasters have been engaged in a fierce stand-off with UK newspapers over the rights to the live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. The BBC is producing the bulk of the live feed of the funeral and is footing most of the bill, while ITV and Sky has also invested heavily in coverage. The newspapers via the UK’s News Media Association (NMA) had wanted to strike a deal to use the BBC’s feed on their websites. The rights to the funeral belong to the Royal Family. While the newspapers were always keen to livestream the funeral on their websites, the broadcasters have pushed back on making their coverage available to other outlets in the U.K.

The BBC has donated £1.4M ($1.6M) to charities linked to Princess Diana following the Martin Bashir scandal. The BBC stressed the donations will come from commercial revenue rather than the licence fee, which may have elicited criticism.

BBC has shared details about a new, single unified news network covering both global and domestic news that’s poised to launch in April 2023. BBC previously had two news outlets: BBC News, a U.K.-focused channel, and BBC World News, which catered to a global audience. The two channels are now combining into a single entity that will feature programming which will broadcast around the world.

BBC Director-General Tim Davie has revealed plans for a “digital first” BBC as the broadcaster celebrates its 100th year as well as revealing at hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cutbacks. Davie said he plans to cut £200 million ($250 million) from the budget due to the government’s decision to freeze the license fee, which funds the BBC. The freeze will create a £285 million annual funding gap by 2027-28.

The Rwanda-born, Scotland-raised Gatwa, 29, will be the first Black actor to helm the quintessential British sci-fi show, but he won’t be the first Black Doctor — Jo Martin has played “Fugitive Doctor” in several episodes.

Judy Parnall, BBC’s R&D head of standards and one of this year’s recipients of TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Leadership Award, has carved out a reputation as a leader always thinking several steps ahead, who engenders trust in colleagues and never fails to see the audience perspective in the technology and standards she helps develop.

The BBC World Service has sought and will receive £4.1 million ($5.4 million) in additional funding to counter disinformation around the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The emergency funding would to help the BBC “continue bringing independent, impartial and accurate news to people in Ukraine and Russia in the face of increased propaganda from the Russian state,” the U.K. government said in a statement.