BBC Exceeds Creative Diversity Commitment Target as Original Content Spend Crosses $2 Billion

The American Red Cross announced a historic change in the organization’s policies regarding blood donations by gay and bisexual men. Under this new donor screening process, all donors answer the same eligibility questions regardless of gender or sexual orientation and will be assessed for blood donation based on individual risk factors, not on sexual orientation.

temporary suspension last week .Free made a brief appearance on Charlie Hedges’ Dance Anthems Ibiza show on Sunday (July 30) but was cut off for expressing her dislike of a song that was playing.After being introduced on Hedges’s show, Free commented on the song Hedges was playing, sharing that she hated it. She began to further criticise the song, leading Hedges to turn down her mic. “Sorry, I’m taking your mic down,” Hedges announced.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Nexstar reported its second-quarter 2023 earnings Tuesday, revealing the TV stations group giant had turned a profit of $153 million in Q2, while its CW broadcast network posted a loss of $78 million for the April-June quarter. For the CW, which was formally acquired by Nexstar in October 2022 from Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, a year-over-year comparison can’t be drawn based on the lack of financial results disclosed publicly by its former parent companies.

BBC Asian Network’s Breakfast Show host Nikita Kanda and Waterloo Road actor Adam Thomas are the latest stars to join the Strictly Come Dancing 2023 line-up.

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Strictly Come Dancing has confirmed the ninth celebrity of the cast of 2023. Radio and TV host Nikita Kanda is joining the show when it returns later this year.The news was announced on her breakfast show on the BBC Asian Network on Tuesday morning.

Nick Owen has opened up about his prostate cancer diagnosis and says it was the "worst day of his life" when he found out. The BBC Midlands Today presenter, 75, has been a staple on the show for 26 years.

BBC presenter Nick Owen has confirmed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Jeremy Vine has opened up on how he will feel about the end of his BBC career.

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan has revealed his "artistic choice" is to blame for audiences struggling to hear the dialogue.

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Although she might be best-known to millions as the face of Breakfast weather - after all she did join BBC News in 1998 and has stayed put ever since - Carol Kirkwood is also a best-selling writer. With her third book, Secrets of the Villa Amore, about to hit shelves, we caught up with the 61-year-old who admits she is enjoying loved-up, pre wedding bliss with police officer fiancé Steve Randall. Aside from her literacy success, there’s equally exciting things going on in Carol’s life at the moment, especially when it comes to her life away from Breakfast.

Carol Kirkwood, 61, is enjoying loved-up, pre wedding bliss with police officer fiancé Steve Randall and has just released her third novel, Secrets of the Villa Amore. When we speak to Carol mid-afternoon on a Monday, she’s already been awake for more than 12 hours (but you’d never know it, given her infectious energy she seems to bring to everything she does) and is arriving back at her Berkshire home after a morning’s shift presenting the weather on BBC Breakfast.The last few weeks have been a whirlwind; Not only as she travelled to and from London to report the weather at Wimbledon, but she’s been doing the rounds to publicise her latest book- all in the hopes of securing a third bestseller. Given her 3am daily wake-up calls, where does she find the energy let alone the time to write a book? “You know that expression ‘if you want a job done, give it to a busy person’,” she laughs.

Carol Kirkwood has opened up on how her fiance wakes her up for her BBC Breakfast shifts.

Eddie Kadi has been announced as the fifth celebrity to join this year’s Strictly Come Dancing line-up.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Helen Skelton is under fire from BBC bosses for breaking the rules in her Morning Live contract after posting an Instagram post with brand names, it has been reported.The Countryfile presenter, 40 took to Instagram this week to share details of her Morning Live outfits and tagged a number of brands behind the creations. This included a striped shirt and trousers from the UK-based retailer Boden, along with a blue jumpsuit. Fans went wild for the stunning outfits worn by last year's Strictly Come Dancing star, but all the brand tags have since been removed as it was seen as breaking the BBC rules on promotions.

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has opened up about her struggles with chemotherapy and how it's making her feel.

A female BBC journalist has discovered that she receives more than 80% of all the online abuse received by the entire corporation.

Nina Warhurst- star of BBC Breakfast - yesterday thanked her thousands of fans for their love, support and well wishes following the birth of her third child last month.Taking to Twitter yesterday morning, the business news presenter posted two adorable snaps of her newborn baby, with one of the heartmelting pictures showing Nina herself cradling her latest addition, a tiny baby girl, in her arms in hospital. "Thank you for the messages!" she told fans.

††† (Crosses), the side-project of Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and multi-instrumentalist and producer Shaun Lopez, have announced a new album titled ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’.The album follows recent EP ‘PERMANENT.RADIANT‘, a one-off double A-side of ‘Initiation’/’Protection’ and a George Michael cover.The new album, due out on October 13 via Warner, features The Cure’s Robert Smith and Run The Jewels’ El-P.Discussing its creation, Moreno said in a statement: “When we started working on ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’, there was so much more light coming in my life, for numerous reasons.“There’s a lot more optimism. Even the darker themes are more romanticised and not coming from a place of despair.”Watch the video for new single ‘Invisible Hand’ and see the artwork and tracklist for ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’ below.1. ‘Pleasure’ 2. ‘Invisible Hand’ 3. ‘Found’ 4. ‘Light As A Feather’ ‘Pulseplagg’ ‘Runner’ ‘Big Youth’ (feat. El-P) ‘End Youth’ (Reprise) ‘Last Rites’ ‘Ghost Ride’ ‘Grace’ ‘Eraser’ ‘Natural Selection’ ‘Girls Float † Boys Cry’ (feat. Robert Smith) ‘Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.’Speaking to NME last year about the future of the project, Moreno said: “To use Deftones as an analogy: when we did our first record, we were just trying to figure out what the hell we were doing, ‘Around The Fur’ was us getting some confidence and success with that, then when we made ‘White Pony’ that was us saying, ‘We can do anything now’.“People liked what we did and we had the freedom to expand.