Sir Michael Lyons has warned BSkyB and other critics of the BBC that the public will see through any attempt to undermine the corporation for self-serving reasons.

Bravo has acquired widely-hyped gladiator drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand to headline its summer schedule following its success in the US.

The BBC’s indie champion Krishan Arora has been moved out of his existing role to focus on the production community outside London.

BBC director general Mark Thompson has told staff he is “incredibly angry” about how the corporation’s strategy review leaked to the Times, and promised a “full investigation” to find out who was responsible.

Autistic children will attempt to produce their own musical for the London stage in a forthcoming Channel 4 series.

ITV1 crime drama Blue Murder has been dropped after five series on the channel, to make way for new properties.

ITV has gone back to the drawing board after a £5m deal to sell its Bristol studios fell through.

Married, Single, Other fell below 4m viewers last night, leaving the ITV1 comedy drama languishing behind a repeat of New Tricks on BBC1.

The BBC has begun filming on two feature-length episodes of Inspector George Gently – the first to be filmed in north-east England.

Katie Taylor has won the race to succeed Jon Beazley as head of BBC in-house entertainment.

The Wonders of the Solar System proved a wonder for BBC2 last night, with the new documentary series falling only 1m viewers short of BBC1’s Seven Ages of Britain.

Ofcom has rapped BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live for broadcasting the f-word, months after escaping censure for a similar slip-up.

Jazz FM has launched a new weekly magazine show hosted by former Sky business editor Michael Wilson.

ITV1 and Five were neck-and-neck at 9pm on Friday night, with Michael Winner’s Dining Stars and US drama The Mentalist both watched by 2.1m.

BBC1’s Let’s Dance for Sports Relief pushed all the right buttons for viewers on Saturday night, leaving Ant and Dec’s new ITV1 gameshow in its wake.

Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that 54% of women on TV were aged 16 to 39, compared with 36% of men.The findings give context to the BBC’s appointment of four older female newsreaders and also cast new light

Channel 4 is to launch its HD version of Film4 exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.

Sky News will have an all female production and broadcasting team on Monday 8 March to mark the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day.

BBC Worldwide is to produce a spin-off ice dancing show for ABC based on its successful Dancing with the Stars format.

MP George Galloway has attacked a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into his relationship with the Islamic Forum of Europe , branding it a “dirty little programme”.