Writers and actors are finding their audiences on the capital’s new TV channel, London Live

The capital’s first 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week television channel, launches on Monday. Its editorial director, Stefano Hatfield, explains its hopes and aims – and suggests what to look out for

Two of the most senior figures in British television comedy have accused the BBC of turning its back on younger audiences in favour of courting the high arts establishment.

Just as BBC Newsnight reporter Duncan Weldon thought he had answered Conservative critics who claimed he might be a Labour Party stooge, Harriet Harman has sent him a public expression of “solidarity”.

Tony Hall, the BBC Director General, today threw an arm around the arts establishment by offering new positions to grandees from the Tate gallery and the National Theatre in an attempt to safeguard the broadcaster’s reputation for producing high quality cultural programmes.

The BBC's spectacular fundraising marathon featured sporting stars and celebrities urging the public to donate to good causes

A respected scientist has attacked the Daily Mail for implying that she was chosen to speak on Newsnight because of her gender and skin colour – saying it has put her off ever appearing on television again.

My Mosley moment, by ‘leftie’ BBC newsman

One of the station's former producers recalls how the network was written off prematurely

The BBC plans to apologise to London School of Economics students for an undercover journalist joining a group on their trip to North Korea last year, after its Trust found that the corporation’s editorial guidelines had been breached.

The BBC is to bring back Comedy Playhouse, the historic series of one-off sitcoms that discovered some of Britain’s most-loved shows, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Last of the Summer Wine and Are You Being Served?

The Chris Blackhurst interview: Juggling roles that range from chairman of Global Radio to an adviser for Goldman Sachs, Lord Allen is seemingly all business, all the time. And that’s how he likes it

The BBC is under fire for postponing a debate on homosexuality in Islam which it had planned to air in a programme titled Free Speech.

The Saudis, UAE and Bahrain are in confrontation with Qatar over it's support for jihadi rebels in Syria and its satellite television station’s willingness to provide a platform for critics of the Gulf monarchs and their allies

The BBC has unveiled a raft of new content exclusive to its revamped iPlayer service amid fears that channels such as CBBC and BBC4 could be at risk from new threats to the organisation’s ability to collect the licence fee.