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Netflix's saucy Regency romp Bridgerton showed its reach and confidence Credit: NICK BRIGGS/NETFLIX Netflix is about to get pricier. The streaming service is hiking its basic subscription to £9.99 from £8.99 per month while “premium” users – who pay extra for HD and multi-device streaming – will be paying £13.99 from £11.99. The increase prompted BBC Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford to tweet: “Netflix is now more than the BBC licence and there is no radio, no live TV, no news online etc etc”.  The pushback from other social media users was swift and to the point. Th...

The BBC is in safe, if unexciting, hands with this defender of the status quo 14 January 2021 • 10:15pm Richard Sharp, the former Goldman Sachs banker who will succeed Sir David Clementi as BBC chairman Credit: House of Commons/PA Richard Sharp's appearance in front of Thursday’s The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) was a job interview with a difference. For he was auditioning for a role he’d already got.  The pre-appointment hearing of the new BBC Chairman began with committee members flocking to declare their interests, “I am Spartacus” style. “I declare tha...