BBC4 could be axed to put BBC3 back on TV, it was claimed last night. Corporation bosses are deciding what to include in the broadcaster's Annual Plan. One change, as revealed by the Daily Mail this ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is considering a U-turn on closing BBC4 as a television channel amid solid ratings and a backlash against cuts at the corporation. The BBC said last year that it would shut down ...

The BBC is expected to announce that arts channel BBC4 faces being shut down to save money. Sources say Corporation bosses are to unveil swingeing cuts to other parts of its output today as well as ...

LONDON -- Digital arts web BBC4 is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year with a look back at the past, focusing its lens on the Edwardian era and the surprising similarities between life then ...

James Purnell responds to talk of rolling news and children’s TV channels also being under threat as corporation looks to make £650m in savings The BBC’s strategy chief James Purnell said there are no ...

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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. The BBC’s homage to the theatre continues. Last weekend we had a fully fledged stage play with a couple ...

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LONDON — Asked by a reporter why she had agreed to play English children’s writer Enid Blyton in a low-budget BBC biopic based on the storyteller’s troubled life, Helena Bonham Carter opted for irony.

BBC4 is to broadcast The Frost Report Is Back in March 2008; the show is a two hour special celebrating the hugely influential satire show fronted by David Frost which ran for two series between 1966 ...

Chris Smith, who was replaced as culture secretary by Tessa Jowell earlier this year, has criticised her decision to approve BBC4. "I thought she was right to give the BBC some but not all of their ...