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Lily Cole studied art history at Cambridge

Meet the new Melvyn Bragg (she's a model performer)

07 March 2012 12:00 AM

Watch out, Melvyn Bragg – Lily Cole, the freckle-faced, flame-haired film actress and supermodel, has cast herself in a new role as an arts commentator and broadcaster.

The spend of the world: the costly time-travel TV series ‘Terra Nova’

Spielberg's small-screen, budget-busting sci-fi series is Terra over

07 March 2012 12:00 AM

The sci-fi series about an imperilled planet that cost the earth now appears to have paid the price. Terra Nova is terra over. Never heard of it? That's because it wasn't very good, despite breaking small screen records with an extra-terrestrial budget.

Alan Carr hangs up Radio 2 headphones

06 March 2012 01:36 PM

Comedian Alan Carr is quitting his Radio 2 show.

BBC in Worldwide hunt

06 March 2012 12:00 AM

The BBC has begun the search for a new non-executive chairman of BBC Worldwide, the arm responsible for sales of programmes overseas and merchandising.

Sport on TV: England's old failures all want pizza the action now

04 March 2012 12:00 AM

It didn't take long for the pundits to set England's caretaker manager an impossible task for the so-called "impossible job". Before Stuart Pearce's first game in charge (ITV1, Wednesday), Gareth Southgate told the team to "express themselves, play with freedom". You mean they shouldn't just turn up and play as if they've never met before, never even played football before?

BBC unveils the John Peel wing

03 March 2012 12:00 AM

The BBC is to name a wing of the newly refurbished Broadcasting House after its pioneering DJ John Peel.

80 years of the BBC World Service

01 March 2012 12:00 AM

For eight decades it has brought a bit of Britain into the homes of listeners from America to Zanzibar. Peter Popham hears its birthday broadcast

BBC unions spurn 1 per cent pay rise offer

29 February 2012 04:13 PM

Unions representing staff at the BBC today reacted angrily to a 1% pay offer, saying it was "completely unacceptable."

Fred West drama up for awards

29 February 2012 12:00 AM

The controversial ITV1 drama Appropriate Adult, about Fred West, has received three nominations at this year's Royal Television Society awards, including a Best Actor nod for Dominic West for his role as the notorious serial killer.

Sky has the bulk of rights to the Premier League

Al Jazeera 'could challenge Sky' for Premier League rights

28 February 2012 04:35 PM

Premier League clubs could be in for another massive television cash windfall with a serious challenge to Sky's domination of top-flight domestic TV coverage by Al Jazeera now a "realistic prospect", according to the European head of ESPN.

Clarkson discussing Wednesday’s strikers, said on The One Show: 'I’d have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families'

BBC boss Mark Thompson sank Jeremy Clarkson satnav deal

28 February 2012 02:09 PM

The decision to reverse Jeremy Clarkson's deal to record a voiceover for a Top Gear satnav went to the very top of the BBC when director-general Mark Thompson "intervened", according to a report published today.

The boat comes in for Geordie Shore as tourism booms

26 February 2012 12:00 AM

Despite fears that the North-east series was a freak show, hotels are busy and the diary is full

Sport on TV: Hollywood takes a gamble as 'Luck' is dogged by bad breaks

26 February 2012 12:00 AM

The unbridled success of another HBO production, the horseracing drama Luck (Sky Atlantic, Saturday) has been tempered by the fact that two horses had to be killed after sustaining injuries during filming. This knowledge cannot but qualify the pleasure of watching the lavish production. In an age when animation and CGI dominate media output, such a waste of life is simply not necessary. Since it stars Dustin Hoffman as a mafia boss just out of jail and looking for revenge, one can only hope no one ends up with a real horse's head in their bed.