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The door slams shut today on applications for one of the biggest jobs in global broadcasting: running the BBC. Resumes have been dusted off and the BBC’s headhunters have been courting interest as the corporation seeks to replace Tony Hall as director general after he announced his departure in January. It’s not been…

Tony Hall announced his shock decision to stand down as BBC director general on Monday, sparking what is likely to be a six-month race to be his successor. A job advert is already being prepared by the BBC board and prospective candidates will likely be dusting off their resumes for one of the most prestigious roles…

The BBC’s director of content Charlotte Moore has hailed a “record-breaking” year for iPlayer after the British broadcaster’s streaming service was boosted by shows including RuPaul’s Drag Race and Peaky Blinders. At the BBC’s Christmas drinks on Tuesday night, Moore revealed that iPlayer has clocked up 3.55B program…

James Nesbitt has been cast as the lead in new BBC One detective drama Bloodlands, which represents the first commission for Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio’s production company. Dubbed an “Irish noir,” Nesbitt will play Northern Irish police detective Tom Brannick who connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case…

The BBC has provided an insight into how many people are watching box sets of two of its most potent dramas. At a big event in London on Monday for some of the UK’s top television creatives, BBC director of content Charlotte Moore talked up the broadcaster’s streaming service iPlayer, which launched in 2007. Providing…

The BBC is poised to set out plans for a massive reinvention of iPlayer, the pioneering streaming service it launched in the same year as Netflix went live, and punch back in the fight for British talent. At an event in London on Monday evening, director general Tony Hall and content chief Charlotte Moore will set out…

Charlotte Moore, content supremo at the BBC, has warned that the "insatiable greed for data-gathering" is "serving the wrong master" and that the British public broadcaster needs to nurture new, diverse, original storytellers to compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon. BBC Director of Content Moore was speaking…

The BBC has ordered four new dramas for BBC One, including surveillance thriller The Capture with David Heyman’s Heyday Television and NBC Universal International Studios, and Marnie Dickens series Gold Digger. London-set spy thriller The Capture, the brainchild of writer-director Ben Chanan (Cyberbully), will begin…

The BBC has today announced a management reorganization across the channel portfolio with Charlotte Moore stepping up to Controller, TV Channels and iPlayer. At the same time, BBC Two and BBC Four Controller Kim Shillinglaw is leaving the corporation. This is the latest exec shake-up at the BBC following the November d…