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BBC director general Tony Hall has apologized 12 days after a reporter used the N-word on-air, prompting outrage from both viewers and the British broadcaster’s employees. Up until Sunday, the BBC had staunchly defended social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin’s use of the word in describing a race hate attack…

BBC Radio host DJ Sideman announced that he’s quitting the team following a reporter’s use of the n-word in a news segment.  The BBC Radio 1xtra host, whose real name is David Whitely, announced his departure from BBC in an Instagram post. “I just don’t feel comfortable being aligned with the organization,” Whitely…

The BBC has dropped the first trailer for Steve McQueen's Small Axe anthology series to mark 50 years since London’s Mangrove protest, when Black people demonstrated against police harassment. The trailer focuses on Mangrove, one of five self-contained episodes in McQueen's series, which tells the story of the protest…

John Preston Teams With BBC For Stonehouse John Preston, the author of the book behind Golden Globe-winning BBC/AMC series A Very English Scandal, has been commissioned to pen a BBC drama about a British politician who faked his own death. Stonehouse, named after John Stonehouse who staged his death on a Miami beach…

A BBC journalist’s Zoom video call captured the dramatic moment that the Lebanese capital of Beirut was rocked by a giant explosion at the city’s port on Tuesday. BBC Arabic journalist Maryam Toumi was conducting an interview from the BBC’s office in Beirut, which is around 1.5 miles from the epicenter of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Above is the first sneak peek of John Boyega in Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated series Small Axe, which will drop on the BBC and Amazon later this year. McQueen’s anthology drama, which has been in the works since 2014, tells five stories from within London's West Indian community between the 1960s and…

Race Across The World, the Studio Lambert reality competition series that won a BAFTA last week, is heading to China as part of a raft of finished tape sales clinched by All3Media International. The All3Media-owned distributor has inked its first deal with Chinese streamer Huanxi Media, which encompasses 110 hours of…

BBC appoints new Scotland chief BBC Scotland has named program maker, commissioner and award-winning broadcaster Steve Carson (pictured) as its new director, replacing Donalda MacKinnon, who steps down later this year. Carson is currently head of multi-platform commissioning for BBC Scotland and will be elevated to…

David Hare, creator of the BBC and PBS drama Roadkill, said that he has written a new play based entirely on his experience contracting coronavirus. The screenwriter-playwright revealed Wednesday he had written the one-man play Beat the Devil during a panel for the Hugh Laurie-fronted drama at PBS’ TCA virtual press…

A BBC reporter used the N-word without censorship during a report on an unprovoked racist attack on a British healthcare worker. Fiona Lamdin, a social affairs correspondent, was reporting on the incident in the city of Bristol for regional BBC news service Points West on Tuesday evening. During her description of the…

With four Emmy nominations announced on Tuesday, BBC/ Hulu limited series Normal People got its just desserts—almost. Although one of its two leads, Paul Mescal, received an acting nom, Daisy Edgar-Jones did not. As magnetic love match Connell and Marianne in this adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, the…

Amazon will co-produce the BBC’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford's celebrated novel The Pursuit Of Love, with an eye-catching cast joining Lily James. Deadline first revealed last December that James will star in the three-part Emily Mortimer-penned series, while we also reported in June that it will be among the first…