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Piers Morgan has sensationally quit Good Morning Britain, the ITV breakfast show he has helped revitalize, after the former CNN anchor said he did not believe Meghan Markle’s mental health issues led to her contemplating suicide. In a statement on Tuesday evening UK time, ITV announced: “Following discussions with…

UK media regulator Ofcom has revoked the broadcasting license of Chinese state-backed network CGTN after it was unable to show that it operates independently of the Chinese Communist Party. Under UK broadcasting laws, organizations that hold broadcasting licenses may be state-funded, but must not be controlled by…

UK media regulator Ofcom has warned that the British government urgently needs to overhaul broadcasting laws if public service broadcasters, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5, are to survive in the age of streaming. Ofcom published early findings from its landmark review of public service broadcasting today…

Britain’s culture secretary Oliver Dowden has denied a report that the government has asked right-wing commentator Charles Moore and former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre to fill two powerful UK media jobs. The Sunday Times reported that Moore has been tapped to be the next chair of the BBC, while Dacre is set to be…

ITV’s flagship daily show This Morning is to be assessed by media regulator Ofcom after presenter Eamonn Holmes made comments about the baseless conspiracy linking 5G with the spread of coronavirus. Ofcom has received 419 complaints about the show on Monday — which was watched by 1.6M people — and a spokesman said…

The ever-deepening ties between the U.S. and UK television industries were laid bare today in a chunky report by Ofcom. The British media regulator dropped a five-year study on the state of play at British public service broadcasters — namely the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and ViacomCBS’s Channel 5. The 67-page report…

A controversial episode of Celebrity Big Brother was the most complained about British show of the decade, while Love Island, The X Factor and ITV daytime show Loose Women also make the list from regulator Ofcom. More than 25,000 people complained about an episode of last year's Celebrity Big Brother on Viacom's…

British broadcaster Channel 5 will keep its commitment to commissioning a "wide range" of UK-originated productions following the merger between Viacom and CBS – a move that has satisfied regulator Ofcom. The British regulator has concluded that the change in ownership of the network "would not have a prejudicial…

EXCLUSIVE: Comcast-owned Sky News is being questioned by Ofcom after wrongly identifying the man who fell from a Kenya Airways flight as it came into land at Heathrow Airport in June. The British media regulator is assessing the report, first published on November 12, in which Sky News said it had solved the mystery…

The BBC is facing the very real threat of extinction unless it can urgently win back young viewers following the explosion in streaming services like Netflix and YouTube. That’s the eye-catching conclusion of an annual health check on the BBC’s output and operations by its regulator Ofcom, which published a 57-page…

The BBC is set to be investigated for breaking its commitment to report separate financials for its production business and distribution division. British regulator Ofcom, which monitors the public broadcaster, has warned that the BBC has "reduced the granularity of reporting" and only provided a "superficial"…

Friends remains the most watched SVOD title in the UK as it emerged that half of British homes now take a streaming service. The classic sitcom topped the list for the first quarter of 2019, according to research from GfK, ahead of Amazon's The Grand Tour, Greg Berlanti's thriller You and NBC comedies The Good Place…