The man in charge of BBC TV has said he expects to lose viewers when BBC3 moves online.

The BBC Trust has ruled out taking further action after leaked footage showed Jeremy Clarkson allegedly using a racist term during filming for Top Gear.

Sherlock fans might be in luck.

The pay bill for some of the BBC’s biggest screen and radio stars, including Graham Norton and Jeremy Clarkson, is to be examined in a review by the BBC Trust which will look at how the costs compare to commercial rivals.

The BBC has confirmed plans to shut down the digital TV channel BBC Three in autumn next year, moving all of its programming online to the BBC iPlayer service.

Former BBC director general Mark Thompson says a failed digital media initiative at the broadcaster, which resulted in a loss of about £100m (about €120.5m), deteriorated under his watch.

The public spending watchdog is to investigate BBC severance packages after it emerged almost 200 senior managers received pay-offs of more than £100,000 (€122,137) each in the past three years.

A review has absolved senior BBC executives of trying to bury an explosive story about one of its best-known children’s television stars, saying management errors were to blame for the fact that a planned exposé on paedophilia claims against the late Jimmy Savile was cancelled.

One of the BBC's top news executives resigned today in the wake of a damning report into the BBC's decision to drop a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile's sex abuse.

BBC sports presenter Dan Walker has apologised after “humiliating” two football fans by joking about their weight.

The BBC Trust chairman insisted he had to give former director general George Entwistle a huge payoff when he quit in the wake of paedophilia scandals engulfing the corporation — and hinted that Entwistle wanted even more money.

The head of the Royal Opera House, Tony Hall, was given the biggest job in broadcasting today after being appointed BBC director-general as the corporation acted quickly to move on from its crisis.

A BBC trustee who was involved in the decision to give George Entwistle a £450,000 (€560,000) payoff for resigning as director general insisted today he still believes it was the right thing to do.

The BBC’s director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell have stepped aside, according to reports.

Britain’s BBC must undergo a radical overhaul in the wake of “shoddy” journalism which led to the resignation of its chief or its future will be in doubt, the head of the state-funded broadcaster’s governing body said yesterday.

A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general said today.

The BBC could face a full public inquiry into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal if the corporation’s investigations fail to “get to the bottom” of the accusations, Britain's Culture Secretary Maria Miller has warned.

An inquiry into the BBC’s “culture and practices” during the era of star presenter Jimmy Savile’s campaign of sexual abuse is to begin today.

Former pop star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter has been bailed until December after his arrest by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Officers investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal today arrested former pop star Gary Glitter.

The decision not to prosecute Jimmy Savile over abuse allegations in 2009 will come under the spotlight again after the Prime Minister said Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer will review legal papers from the case.

The BBC is investigating up to 10 “serious allegations” involving past and present employees, director general George Entwistle said today.

Former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith and ex-Sky News executive Nick Pollard are to lead the BBC’s independent reviews stemming from the Jimmy Savile sex abuse allegations.

A senior member of staff at the BBC has revealed he questioned Jimmy Savile over rumours about his private life more than 20 years ago.

Jimmy Savile visited wards at an NHS hospital to find children to abuse, it has been claimed.

Jimmy Savile's headstone will be broken up and sent to landfill after it was removed late last night.

David Cameron raised the prospect today that Sir Jimmy Savile could be posthumously stripped of his knighthood amid allegations of sexual abuse against young girls.

The chairman of the BBC Trust said allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile could not be excused as behaviour from a time when “attitudes were different”, and gave his backing to inquiries by police and the corporation.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson breached BBC guidelines by comparing a Japanese car to people with growths on their faces.

George Entwistle is to become the new Director General of the BBC.

The BBC is set to cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of changes aimed at making savings of around 20%, according to sources.

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The BBC said today it had apologised to the Mexican ambassador over remarks made on Top Gear.

The British government was warned today that it risked hitting Britain's reputation across the world after funding cuts were blamed for the loss of 650 jobs and the closure of five language services at the BBC World Service.

Late broadcasting legend John Peel is to return to the airwaves, as the BBC airs a series of his finest moments.

Katie Price says her lawyers will be writing to Channel 4, over comments made by comedian Frankie Boyle about her son on his TV show.

Michael Parkinson has blasted Russell Brand as “pointless”.

Veteran broadcaster Terry Wogan has hit out at excessive salaries at the BBC, saying top earners could afford to take a 15% pay cut.

BBC's top-paid TV stars face having their wages revealed.

Comedian Frankie Boyle has written an open letter slamming the BBC governing body’s “cowardly rebuke” of his jokes about Palestine.

CLAIMS that aid money sent to Ethiopia was spent on weapons are “palpable nonsense”, Band Aid founder Bob Geldof said yesterday.

Claims that aid money sent to Ethiopia was spent on weapons are “palpable nonsense”, Band Aid founder Bob Geldof said today.

The Band Aid Trust will complain to the British broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about a BBC report that alleged millions of pounds raised for famine relief in Ethiopia was spent on weapons, one of its trustees said today.

THE BBC is to close radio stations, slash spending on its website and cap other parts of its budget.