Media Guardian: BBC announces all-female MasterChef presenting team after sacking of Wallace and Torode

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The BBC has announced an all-female presenting team to host MasterChef after the previous judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode were sacked.

Media Guardian: Tennis is new front in TV sport wars as Sky and TNT target female viewers

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Alongside the multibillion-pound battle for Premier League TV rights, tennis has emerged as another key offering in the broadcasters’ scrap for subscribers for one simple reason: unlike every other sporting audience in the UK, the majority of those watching are women.

Media Guardian: Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’

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It was one of the most influential British television series of the last century, renowned for exploring thorny societal issues and bringing the work of emerging talent, such as Ray Winstone, Alison Steadman, Helen Mirren and Dennis Potter, to mass audiences.

Media Guardian: Gareth Bale joins TNT Sports for Premier League and Champions League

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Gareth Bale has joined TNT Sports as one of the broadcaster’s main pundits this season.

Media Guardian: Lisa Nandy trying to bully BBC over its Gaza coverage, says Wolf Hall director

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One of television’s most prominent directors has accused the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, of attempting to “bully the BBC” over its coverage of Gaza, following her repeated attacks on its director general, Tim Davie.

Media Guardian: Toxic behaviour in TV jeopardises key British industry, experts warn

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Toxic behaviour in British television is jeopardising one of the UK’s most important cultural and economic assets, industry experts have warned.

Media Guardian: BBC to look at overhauling licence fee as 300,000 more households stop paying

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A further 300,000 households have stopped paying the licence fee, as the BBC said it was looking at overhauling the payment to secure the corporation’s future “for the long term”.

Media Guardian: BBC breached accuracy guidelines over Gaza documentary, review finds

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A BBC documentary about children in Gaza breached the corporation’s editorial guidelines for accuracy by failing to disclose its child narrator was the son of a Hamas official, an internal review has found.

Media Guardian: Thousands of BBC jobs at risk as broadcaster considers major outsourcing drive

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The BBC is examining a significant outsourcing drive that could put thousands of jobs at risk as it desperately searches for savings, the Guardian understands.

Media Guardian; The Guardian view on the BBC’s future: the broadcaster’s independence and funding face challenges

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The BBC will soon charge US users for full news access.

Media Guardian: Lisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentary

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The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has demanded to know why no one at the BBC has lost their job over the airing of a documentary on Gaza.

Media Guardian: Allies of BBC chief Tim Davie fear latest controversy may damage his leadership (Exited)

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Allies of Tim Davie fear a mounting list of problems could affect his leadership of the BBC for weeks to come, as Labour continues to press the corporation over its livestreaming of Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance.

Media Guardian: Ex-Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan reveals stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis

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The former BBC and Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Media Guardian: Sky Sports could show up to 50 extra WSL games from start of 2026-27 season

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Sky Sports will hold talks with the Women’s Super League about broadcasting up to 50 extra matches each season from the 2026-27 campaign onwards.

Media Guardian: Sky Sports News’ golden age at an end as rival platforms turn up the volume

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Aconstant in pubs, gyms and hotel breakfast rooms, almost always with the sound down.

Media Guardian: UK broadcasters hail rare win over Netflix in battle for streaming ads

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Shows such as Netflix’s TV history-making Adolescence and Disney’s romp Rivals are among the latest hits to continue the subscriber juggernaut, as the US streamers continue to mount pressure on UK TV broadcasters.

Media Guardian: The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: a boon to the UK, as well as audiences elsewhere

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Two years ago, BBC Arabic radio left the airwaves after decades.

Media Guardian: Ministers demand BBC World Service plan for cuts as aid budget slashed

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David Lammy is asking BBC bosses to draw up tens of millions of pounds’ worth of cuts to the World Service as part of the spending review, as the fallout continues from Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the aid budget.

Media Guardian: ITV and Channel 4 face summer of uncertainty amidst leadership issues and potential mergers

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With Channel 4 facing months of stopgap interim leadership and ITV in talks over a potential merger of its programme-making operation with a rival belonging to an Abu Dhabi-backed fund, the UK’s biggest free-to-air commercial broadcasters face a destabilising and uncertain summer.

Media Guardian: Club World Cup to be broadcast live on Channel 5 in UK after DAZN deal

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The Club World Cup will be televised live on 5 this summer after the free-to-air broadcaster reached a sublicensing agreement for the UK with the global rights holder, DAZN.