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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

LONDON — Janice Hadlow, head of U.K. digital web, BBC4, announced last week she was stepping down. This was most emphatically not because her station’s fortunes were in free fall or that she had ...

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 ...

LONDON — BBC4 — the pubcaster’s digital web, which airs “Mad Men” — will continue to buy acquired shows, despite plans to cut the overall BBC acquisitions budget by 25%. BBC4’s controller Richard ...

As part of the BBC’s budget cuts, BBC4 will cut all comedy and drama programmes in favour of a focus on the arts. According to MediaGuardian, the digital channel, which produced one-off dramas Eric ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Television news every morning. The first time Gregor Weber saw a Vermeer, he fainted. Decades on from that quasi-religious experience, ...

BBC4 to celebrate Bob Dylan on Friday 10th January, ahead of the UK cinema release of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN - a film by James Mangold - will be released on Friday 17th January. Set in ...

BBC4 has acquired Gaelic-language channel BBC Alba’s biggest drama yet, An t-Eilean (The Island), in a deal overseen by All3Media International. First announced by Broadcast, the £1m-per-ep crime ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Amanda Farnsworth, planning editor of the BBC's television news, has been appointed editor of BBC4's evening news programme. She is currently in the process of recruiting staff for the programme, ...