A rush of over-75s claiming pension credit to keep their free TV licences is set to cost the Government £600million a year, This is Money can reveal. An estimated 300,000 more people have successfully applied for the traditionally underclaimed benefit since the BBC announced it was axing the licence fee perk for all but the … Read more
BBC Children In Need boss Rosie Millard, 54, leaves her husband and four children for a 66-year-old multi-millionaire television producer Former BBC Arts Correspondent walked out on her family before Christmas She has moved in with award-winning TV producer Alexander Graham, 66 Partner is chairman of the Scott Trust which publishes The Guardian newspaper By … Read more
Succession actor Brian Cox, 73, says #MeToo-era women love it when he tells them to ‘F**k off’ By Chris Hastings Arts Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday Published: 03:14 BST, 29 March 2020 | Updated: 03:14 BST, 29 March 2020 As media mogul Logan Roy in the hit TV drama Succession, Brian Cox is the embodiment … Read more
Succession actor Brian Cox, 73, says #MeToo-era women love it when he tells them to ‘F**k off’ By Chris Hastings Arts Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday Published: 03:14 BST, 29 March 2020 | Updated: 03:14 BST, 29 March 2020 As media mogul Logan Roy in the hit TV drama Succession, Brian Cox is the embodiment … Read more
From the BBC’s useful new Coronavirus Global Update to Mel Giedroyc Is Quilting and Blackout, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 28 March 2020 Coronavirus Global Update Covid-19 may have come from China but its spread has been horrifyingly global. This useful new BBC … Read more
‘We’d love to bring it back’: Little Britain’s Matt Lucas confirms he and David Walliams are in talks with Netflix to reboot the beloved BBC comedy By Lisa Mcloughlin For Mailonline Published: 15:05 GMT, 27 March 2020 | Updated: 01:26 GMT, 28 March 2020 Little Britain’s Matt Lucas has confirmed that he and David Walliams … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn is accused of ‘narcissism’ after boasting that the coronavirus pandemic proved he was ‘absolutely right’ on public spending Outgoing Labour leader said he had been ‘denounced’ over spending plans But has told the BBC his views were vindicated by government rescue funds Corbyn led Labour to one of the worst defeats in its … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn is accused of ‘narcissism’ after boasting that the coronavirus pandemic proved he was ‘absolutely right’ on public spending Outgoing Labour leader said he had been ‘denounced’ over spending plans But has told the BBC his views were vindicated by government rescue funds Corbyn led Labour to one of the worst defeats in its … Read more
Doctors celebrated its 20th anniversary on Thursday and the popular BBC medical soap has given a collection of celebrities their acting break over the last two decades. Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke, The Crown’s Claire Foy and Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer are just some of the names to have appeared on the programme since its launch on 26 … Read more
The BBC is temporarily scrapping its local news bulletins on Breakfast from next Monday as the broadcaster deals with the coronavirus outbreak. BBC London and South East presenter Lynda Hardy announced at the end of this morning’s bulletins on Breakfast that the local news would be ‘paused’. But there will still be bulletins at lunchtime, … Read more