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  • Chris Evans announced as new Top Gear host

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    Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans has been unveiled as the new lead-host of BBC Two’s Top Gear. He and “an all-new” line-up of co-presenters will replace Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond when the show returned later this year.

  • BBC announces longer regional news bulletins

    BBC announces longer regional news bulletins

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    Viewers in England will see the post 10pm regional news programme extended to 15 minutes, Monday to Thursday, from January 2015 until the beginning of June.

  • Jim Broadbent joins Ben Wishaw in BBC Two’s London Spy

    Jim Broadbent joins Ben Wishaw in BBC Two’s London Spy

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    Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling will appear opposite Ben Wishaw in London Spy, a major new BBC Two drama from Tom Rob Smith.

  • BBC announces BBC Two HD launch date

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    A new HD version of BBC Two HD will launch next month, replacing the current BBC HD channel which shows selected content from BBC Two, Three and Four. The channel will be a simulcast network version of the BBC Two schedule and will go live at 6am on Tuesday 26 March. Announcing the launch date,…

  • Alastair Sooke talks about the Treasures Of Ancient Rome

    Alastair Sooke talks about the Treasures Of Ancient Rome

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    Alastair Sooke talks about his new series which takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire. The Romans have a reputation for being brilliant engineers and soldiers, but what isn’t as well known is that they also gave us wonderful artistic treasures. In the three-part Treasures Of Ancient Rome, Sooke argues that…

  • Writer Stephen Butchard and star Warren Brown on new BBC One’s Good Cop

    Writer Stephen Butchard and star Warren Brown on new BBC One’s Good Cop

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    Warren Brown stars in the lead role of Stephen Butchard’s Good Cop, a new four-part drama which sirs on BBC One from Thursday 30 August. Warren plays young Liverpool response cop PC John Paul Rocksavage (Sav). When he witnesses the brutal attack on his partner, the impact this has on him throws his whole life…