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Spacey Slams BBC's 'Unfair' Talent Searches

Actor slams Webber's Idol clones as ads for musicals

Mar 31, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kevin Spacey has criticized the BBC’s West End reality shows as overt promotions for the musicals they're casting for, the Guardian reports. Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular talent-search series, Any Dream Will Do and I’d Do Anything, sought out new stars for big-budget productions of Joseph and the ... More »

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reality TV • BBC • Britain • Kevin Spacey • West End theater • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat • The Sound of Music • Old Vic theater

OPINION

Fine Arts
Could Use
Some Color

Black author laments lack of company at music, theater events

Mar 5, 08 12:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Britain's culture minister set off a row about high culture and national identity this week in castigating a popular series of classical music concerts for failing to attract a multiethnic audience. For Candace Allen, an African-American author living in London, the debate is more than theoretical: while classical music can... More »

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race • BBC • classical music • Gustavo Dudamel • Candace Allen • Proms • Cecilia Bartoli • Margaret Hodge • Simón Bolìvar Youth Orchestra

BBC Cuts 1,800 Jobs, Updates
for Digital Age

Funding shortfall, shifting audience
leads to restructuring

Oct 18, 07 5:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The BBC will cut 1,800 of its 18,000 jobs and integrate its TV, radio and Internet news operations to adapt to the digital age, the public broadcaster announced today. As many as 2,500 positions may be lost, but others will be added, the BBC said, to reflect... More »

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television • layoffs • BBC • broadcasting • job cuts • Internet advertising

$4B Crunch Threatens BBC Jobs

Oct 10, 07 4:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A massive funding shortfall at the British Broadcasting Corporation could trigger unprecedented job cuts, reports the Independent. As many as 2,800 people—about 12% of the BBC's labor force—could lose their jobs. Officials at the BBC, which is financed by a $270 license fee paid by viewers, project... More »

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BBC • Mark Thompson • budget cuts • job cuts • Planet Earth • Panorama • Top Gear • Blue Peter • Helen Ryan • Gerry Morrissey • inquiry

BBC Exec Resigns Over 'Crowngate'

Probe finds that
doc distorted footage
of her highness

Oct 6, 07 7:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A BBC chief resigned yesterday over footage of the Queen allegedly storming out of a photo session, the Los Angeles Times reports. A probe found that she never stalked out; another clip of her was spliced into the BBC doc. An ex-exec who led the "Crowngate" probe said the... More »

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Queen Elizabeth • BBC • documentary • BBC1 • Annie Leibovitz • Peter Fincham • RDF Media

Lonely Planet Will Keep BBC Company

British media giant
buys 75% stake in popular travel brand

Oct 1, 07 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The BBC is lacing up its hiking boots after acquiring a 75% stake in travel guidebook company Lonely Planet. The deal, announced today, nets the BBC a travel brand with a library of some 500 travel guides, a popular website, and a TV series shown in 100 countries. It’s... More »

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travel • BBC • travel tips • Lonely Planet • Across Asia on the Cheap • British Broadcasting Corporation

Summer of Scandals Leaves BBC in Crisis

Top anchor accuses
net of 'catastrophic
loss of nerve'

Aug 24, 07 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Brits are having a crisis of conscience over the BBC: A summer of scandals has left the BBC's squeaky-clean image compromised. The UK's public broadcaster has aired rigged call-in games, sneakily edited news stories, and credulity-straining reality shows. A leading broadcaster charges the station has suffered "a catastrophic... More »

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television • BBC • Jeremy Paxman • Andrew Marr • Mark Thompson • scandal

25 Essential Websites

Email? Shopping? News? Time picks the destinations you just can't live without 

Aug 20, 07 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - You find a restaurant on Citysearch, buy movie tickets on Fandango, and then go home and Google the guy you shared a cab with. Was there a time before the Internet? Here are the first 10 of Time's 25 can't-live-without websites:
  1. Amazon.com
  2. BBC.co.uk
  3. Citysearch.com
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Google • Internet • ESPN • eBay • BBC • Digg • Facebook • list • Craigslist • website • Citysearch.com • Del.icio.us • Amazon.com

Moscow Boots BBC from Airwaves

Denies any connection with ongoing British diplomatic salvo

Aug 18, 07 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow thrust the BBC into the geopolitical limelight yesterday by axing its radio service from Russian airwaves. Media pundits are blaming the decision on rising anger between Moscow and Britain as the head of Russia's BBC called the radio silence “highly irregular and extremely disappointing.” But a Russian... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • BBC • Moscow • Ekho Moskvy • Bolshoye Radio • Radio Leningrad • FM radio • Britain

BBC Grovels Over Royal Tantrum

Apologizes for editing clips to make it appear Queen stormed out of photo shoot

Jul 13, 07 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - BBC television has offered a groveling apology to Queen Elizabeth for making it appear she threw a royal tantrum with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, the Guardian reports. Producers edited video clips—implying the Queen stormed out of a photo shoot—to promote a documentary. She was actually hurrying to the... More »

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Queen Elizabeth • BBC • Buckingham Palace • Annie Leibovitz

Hamas Frees Kidnapped Lioness

Crime gang stole cub Sabrina from Gaza zoo 20 months ago

Jul 10, 07 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas soldiers yesterday freed Sabrina the lioness in a raid on a Palestinian crime gang that kidnapped her 20 months ago. The four-month-old cub and a pair of Arabic-speaking parrots were snatched from the Gaza zoo, and Sabrina was left to languish in a dark cell where curious spectators snapped... More »

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Alan Johnston • BBC • Palestine • Hamas • kidnapping • lioness • lion • captivity

Venus Advances to Semifinals

Comeback champ drives to be lowest seed to win Wimbledon

Jul 6, 07 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three-time Wimbledon champ Venus Williams advanced to the tournament semifinals after defeating fifth-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets yesterday. Crushing returns capped the 6-3 6-4 victory that wins her a face-off against Ana Ivanovic. Williams, who has played only occasionally this season and was seeded 28th, is trying to become... More »

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BBC • Ana Ivanovic • Wimbledon • Serena Williams • Svetlana Kuznetsova • Venus Williams

Johnston Tells of 'Appalling,' 'Terrifying' Ordeal

Freed BBC reporter describes kidnapping

Jul 4, 07 10:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alan Johnston's 16 weeks in captivity were an "appalling" experience that made him feel "buried alive," the BBC reporter tells the Evening Times of Glasgow. Johnston, freed yesterday, said he dreamed of freedom "but always woke up in that room." In Jerusalem yesterday after being... More »

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Gaza • Alan Johnston • BBC • Hamas • kidnapping • Army of Islam • hostage

Johnston Release Boosts Hamas

Freeing BBC reporter is attempt to send message

Jul 4, 07 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alan Johnston's release after 12 weeks in captivity was used by Hamas today to separate itself from the al-Qaeda-inspired kidnappers, and to assert its ability to secure order in Gaza, the BBC reports. The freed reporter was taken to the home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, who was outsted as... More »

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Gaza • Alan Johnston • BBC • Hamas • Ismail Haniya • Mamoud Abbas • Britain

BBC Reporter Freed in Gaza

Alan Johnston handed over to Hamas after 114 days in captivity

Jul 4, 07 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter held by an Islamist faction in Gaza for 114 days, was released early today, saying it was "fantastic" to be free. The reporter was handed over to officials of Hamas, now in control of the Gaza Strip, by his captors, a militant splinter group... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Gaza • Alan Johnston • BBC • Hamas • kidnapping • Army of Islam • Ismail Haniya • Britain

Abductors Release Video
of Kidnapped BBC Reporter

Journalist in captivity since March 12

Jun 1, 07 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a video posted on the Internet today, a captured BBC reporter says he is in good health and has been well treated. It is unclear when the footage of a beleaguered-looking Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza City March 12, was taken. Toward the end of the footage,... More »

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Alan Johnston • BBC • Palestine • kidnapping • Army of Islam • reporter • Gaza City • militant • al-Qaeda

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