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The senior BBC employee who made a string of highly antisemitic Facebook posts has left the corporation. It was decided on Friday that Senior Schedule Co-Ordinator Dawn Queva would exit after Deadline revealed posts including references to the “holohoax” and numerous extreme antisemitic conspiracy…

Jonnie Irwin's co-presenters have paid tribute to the popular British TV frontman following his death aged 50, announced Friday. Irwin, who fronted property shows Escape to the Country on the BBC and A Place in the Sun on Channel 4, had previously revealed his cancer diagnosis in 2022, sharing his…

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EXCLUSIVE: A senior BBC schedule co-ordinator has been called out for a string of antisemitic Facebook posts in which she referred to the “holohoax” and peddled extreme conspiracy theories. Deadline understands that the BBC has been notified of the posts made by Dawn Queva, a Senior Scheduling…

EXCLUSIVE: Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are back in business as cameras are set to roll on Season 6 of JK Rowling’s Strike later this month. Deadline hears that the BBC and HBO detective drama will begin principal photography on February 12, with Tom Burke reprising his role as a war veteran…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC director general has held "listening meetings” with staff as the British broadcaster seeks to address internal unrest over perceived bias in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. Several BBC insiders said Tim Davie and other senior managers have sat down with employees in recent…

Lenny Henry is to present his final Comic Relief this year. The comedian co-founded the charity with fabled director Richard Curtis in 1985 and has since hosted multiple BBC telethons and been involved closely with the organization. He said it was time to see “new faces” at the helm but remains…

Kim Kardashian is producing and featuring in a documentary series about Elizabeth Taylor for the BBC. Hot off the heels of its Superman Christopher Reeves doc being eyed by Warner Bros. Discovery at Sundance, Searching for Sugar Man producer Passion Pictures is behind Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar…

He could dish it out in the movie, but apparently couldn’t take it in real life. Jamie Dornan said on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs that he and his wife shut themselves off from the world in a bid to escape the arrows which greeted his film Fifty Shades of Grey’s release in 2015. Fifty Shades of…

Controversy over the promotion of ear seeds and acupuncture as a recovery aid for ME on Dragons’ Den has led the BBC to edit the program and add a clarification. The episode of the 20-year-old business format was removed from BBC iPlayer earlier this week following a backlash to Giselle Boxer’s Acu…

The BBC enjoyed fresh success with its second season of The Traitors, which drew its highest ever audience with its second season finale airing on Friday evening in the UK. A reported peak of 6.9million tuned in to discover the winner of the 'blink murder'-inspired reality TV show, set in a Scottish…

The BBC has pulled an episode of Dragons’ Den after a backlash due to a claim from a contestant that acupuncture and ear seeds helped her recover from ME. Letters have now been sent to politicians and to the BBC over the claim, and others, which could force the long-running business format into a…