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LONDON: Twitter accounts of prominent Taliban members were reported displaying blue ticks, the platform’s paid-for verification feature, a BBC investigation revealed. According to the report, two top officials and four supporters purchased the blue tick subscription to have their profiles verified. This includes Hedayatullah Hedayat, the head of the Taliban department for

By Max Goldbart, Jesse Whittock Soccer’s governing body FIFA estimates that five billion people will tune in to watch the Qatar World Cup, marking a new record for a global sporting event. This will be a spectacle like no other. The World Cup tends to put a country’s social order under the microscope. Spain, Argentina

By Max Goldbart International TV Co-EditorIn an unprecedented move, the United Nations has formally raised “grave concerns” with Iranian officials over treatment of BBC News staff operating in the region.The BBC filed a complaint with the UN earlier this year regarding BBC News Persian staffers, which spotlighted online violence against journalists, gendered attacks faced by

Universal International Studios has been leaning into local language productions over the last six months, reveals president Beatrice Springborn at the Series Mania Forum 2022 on Tuesday. The studio has partnered with French-Vietnamese writer and showrunner Quoc Dang Tran who is behind the series “Call My Agent!” and “Parallèles.” In a session moderated by Deadline

Pose This week, the Newswrap welcomes Zinc Media’s London director of television Greg Sanderson, who oversees Films of Record, Brook Lapping, Blakeway, Red Sauce and Supercollider, and freelance writer-director Sophie Bernberg to talk LGBTQ+ representation in TV.  The pair set out their personal experiences, from witnessing incidents of homophobia to being ’the only one in the room’, and reveal where they think progress has been made and where there is room for improvement.  Speaking ...

Nida Manzoor More than a week has passed since the explosive Lord Dyson report blew the lid on the BBC’s 1995 Diana interview.  With a review into why Martin Bashir was rehired due out next week, plus another in September, Max Goldbart and Hannah Bowler analyse what the corporation can do next to bury the hatchet, win back trust and ensure its detractors don’t go too far.  Later, we’ve got exclusive audio from Hannah’s interview with this month’s cover star Nida Manzoor, the creator...

Broadcast senior reporter Max Goldbart joins the team to discuss the BBC’s future as the corporation’s commissioning restructure gets underway

As the industry reels from the Noel Clarke allegations, Meriel Beale and Alex Pumfrey discuss what can be done Last week’s Noel Clarke allegations sparked a debate around how this alleged behaviour was allowed to thrive in TV, and turned the focus to what can be done to prevent these incidents from happening again. Two people working tirelessly in this space are Bectu bullying and harassment officer Meriel Beale and The Film & TV Charity chief executive Alex Pumfrey, who join Hannah Bowler an...

Dhanny Joshi (left) and Brandon Relph   If you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years you may have missed the broadcasters being a little bit worried about those elusive 16-34s.  As young indie bosses forging youth-skewing shows, Big Deal Films’ Dhanny Joshi and Studio Be’s Brandon Relph think about this demographic quite a bit. They joined the Newswrap this week to tell us more. Speaking to Max Goldbart and Hannah Bowler, Dhanny and Brandon assess the broadcasters’ succ...

2021-03-12T12:59:00+00:00 Bectu head Philippa Childs urges broadcasters to get tough on bullying after this week’s GMB walkout  Following a whirlwind week, the Broadcast Newswrap gets into the weeds of Piers Morgan’s GMB departure and Bectu head Philippa Childs is on hand to assess how the development will impact the industry’s fight against bullying and harassment. Meanwhile, international editor John Elmes, reporter Hannah Bowler and senior reporter Max Goldbart discuss GMB successio...