Detailed accusations about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes were censored after viewers tried to post them on a BBC tribute web page after his death.

Thousands of pages of evidence gathered during an inquiry into Newsnight’s decision to drop its Jimmy Savile investigation are set to published today, the BBC has reported.

The review into Newsnight’s shelving of a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades long campaign of sexual abuse is due to be released today.

The review into Newsnight’s shelving of a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades long campaign of sexual abuse will be released tomorrow.

Reality show Big Brother was the most complained about TV programme of the year in the UK, new figures show.

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 lawyer for Lord McAlpine said the former Conservative Party treasurer will be taking legal action against “a lot of people” who linked his name with unfounded allegations of child sex abuse.

ITV’s director of television has admitted Phillip Schofield was “wrong” in confronting David Cameron with a list of alleged paedophiles on live TV, adding that the action was “misguided”.

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

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.

HE is the man who has been labelled the India-rubber-ball of British public life because of his unerring ability to bounce back from personal disasters which would have crippled and possibly destroyed most people.