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£1m winner beats Meldrew swansong in ratings war
21 November, 1.30pm: Last night's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? jackpot programme attracted 3m more viewers than the last ever One Foot In The Grave, according to unofficial figures released today.
Interactive quiz: could you win £1m?TV millionaire thanks to Henry II...
21 November: Victor Meldrew would not have believed it. After two years and just as its appeal appeared to be on the wane, ITV's Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? turned up its first £1m winner just in time to see off the demise of Britain's favourite curmudgeon on BBC1. Recent
BBC rumbled as African orphan prank falls flat
20 November: It must have seemed such a good wheeze at the time. Following in the traditions of Candid Camera, the BBC team plotted to dump the child actor, pretending to be a homeless child from Africa, on somebody's doorstep and watch the hilarious reaction. BBC shake-up shelved
20 November: Ministers have watered down sensitive plans to curb the powers of the BBC's governors to avoid a damaging row with the corporation in the run-up to the election. Olympic gold to BBC gold
16 November: BBC executives meet charismatic Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison to discuss a unique deal that would involve televising his fights and training him to become both a sports pundit and a presenter on non-sports programmes. Does Auntie mean business?
12 November: Iconoclastic newspaperman Jeff Randall is set to upend the BBC's cosy world. I'm no do-gooder. I love ads. But is nothing sacred?
12 November, comment: Steve Barnett on broadcasting. The great dome raid: great film, says BBC
11 November: In what appears to be a case of art imitating life imitating art, the BBC is planning a fictional account of the audacious Millennium Dome diamond snatch. Downing St forces BBC retreat on health poll
2 November: The goverment yesterday accused the BBC of deliberate distortion in its reporting of the readiness of the NHS to cope with a winter crisis. BBC executives
New post signals pro-business switch by BBC
7 November: The BBC director general, Greg Dyke, yesterday delivered a withering attack on the corporation's track record in covering business issues, and named Sunday Business editor Jeff Randall as the man he hopes will put it right. He ain't heavy
23 October: Plucked from independent production at the tender age of 32 and offered the run of the BBC's light entertainment output, David Young didn't disappoint. Maggie Brown meets him... Asset stripping at the Beeb
23 October: Greg Dyke's efforts to beef up BBC1 have had an unexpected casualty, says Maggie Brown - BBC2. 'If I say it will happen, it will happen'
16 October: Hand-picked by Greg Dyke - partly to prevent her being poached - Jane Tranter says she got the job of BBC drama commissioner on her track record. She tells Maggie Brown why her modern-retro recipe will work. Radio 1 axeman quits key post
14 October: The BBC lost one of its most senior executives yesterday when Matthew Bannister, the axeman of Radio 1's ageing disc jockeys, quit the corporation after 22 years. Scheduling
Auntie to bring us 'This Bisexual Life'
22 October: Britain's latest attempt to repeat the hugely successful This Life television formula is on its way. But the next cult series-in-waiting is a raunchy, drug-fuelled, lesbian tale - and is not even set in London.BBC buys animated sitcom that shook US
19 October: The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but he does not usually wear sunglasses and eat Pop Tarts. Yet the BBC has put its faith in an animated sitcom that proved too controversial for US audiences, in the hope that it will attract the sort of cult following enjoyed by The Simpsons and South Park. Royle flush of victory for BBC in news war
18 October: The BBC won the news ratings grudge match in the first day of the corporation's relaunched peak-time schedule, according to figures released yesterday. Battle for TV ratings hots up
19 October: BBC1 and ITV tore up the television schedules yesterday as the ratings battle between the two broadcasters intensified. 1m viewers lost as BBC shifts Panorama to Sunday 'graveyard' slot
17 October: The BBC yesterday defended its decision to schedule Panorama in a "graveyard" Sunday night slot, after the programme at its new time lost a quarter of its viewers in a week.
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