Top Gear will return, BBC insists
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The BBC says Top Gear will return in the summer - despite host Jeremy Clarkson declaring that it will not.
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Anti-smoking campaigners ask the BBC to apologise after Top Gear presenters lit pipes on the show.
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The BBC's flagship pop music programme Top of the Pops is to move from Fridays to Sundays.
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The British Grand Prix is set to be dropped from the 2005 Formula One calendar, former champion Jackie Stewart said on Thursday. &quot;At the moment it seems that the calendar is not
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FORMULA One is likely to continue with the same number of teams next season despite Ford&#39;s decision to quit, world motorsport head Max Mosley said yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - Users of YouTube's online video service will soon be able to view news, TV series, documentaries, and other programs from the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC). Under the nonexclusive partnership, the BBC and its commercial subsidiary BBC Worldwide will create its own advertising-funded commercial "channels" on YouTube, the companies said Friday. The deal comes on the heels ofÂ revenue-sharing agreementsÂ YouTube has reached with other content providers, including Wind-up Records and the National Basketball Association, which plans its own NBA channel. The BBC is keen to broaden its audience and, in particular, use YouTube to generate new revenue. By promoting current programming via YouTube, the broadcasting company also hopes to attract users to its own Web-based, on-demand iPlayer service, formerly known as iMP (integrated Media Player). While the BBC, the U.K. public broadcaster, will provide advertising-free clips of news shows and promotional content linked to TV series such as "Doctor Who" and "Life on Mars," its commercial unit will offer an ad-funded entertainment channel, "BBC Worldwide," featuring clips from programs including "Top Gear," "Spooks" and "The Catherine Tate Show." Another channel, BBC World, will deliver around 30 news clips per day, with up-to-the-minute news and analysis from around the world. The content will come from the BBC Global News Division. Users will be able to comment on clips and post their own video responses to communicate with the BBC and other viewers. Advertising-funded clips will be available only to users outside the U.K. The BBC's deal with YouTube could spark criticism from media companies that accuse the broadcasting company of bending the rules of its public service broadcasting mission, funded by a compulsory license fee, by moving into commercial Web ventures. The company's new on-demand offerings, including the iPlayer service, are currently undergoing a "public value test" by the BBC Trust, which works on behalf of license-fee payers. The offerings have been given provisional approval pending a further consultation and final decision by May 2.
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The BBC could screen footage of a high-speed accident in which a presenter of car show &quot;Top Gear&quot; was seriously injured, a newspaper has reported.
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The BBC has held talks with a trio of media giants over the future of BBC Worldwide. It however denied reports that the talks with Time Warner, Walt Disney and Bertelsmann centred on the possible sale of its BBC Worldwide Unit.
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Anarchic 1970s children's show Tiswas is to return to ITV with original host Chris Tarrant.
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Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is improving in hospital after he crashed a car during filming.
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RDF Media says it expects more work from the BBC, despite a misleading trailer it made featuring the Queen.
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Jackie Stewart is confident that the British Grand Prix will go ahead as normal next year. Formula Oneâs governing body announced last week that there would be no race in Britain in 2005 because of a cash-wrangle with the owners of Silverstone.
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Luxury car company Aston Martin is expected to be sold imminently, bringing it back into British ownership.
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The producers of the car show &quot;Top Gear&quot;, whose presenter is in hospital after a 300-miles-per-hour (480-kph) jet car crash, said that they had postponed the new series indefinitely.
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BBC director general Mark Thompson says he will make sure reality and lifestyle shows provide public value.
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The head of Formula One has told the BBC Silverstone will definitely not be included in the 2005 racing calendar. Bernie Ecclestone and the British Racing Driver&#39;s Club (BRDC) failed to reach a financial agreement
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Doctor Who is to take a "gap year" in 2009, returning for a fifth series in spring 2010, the BBC reveals.