10 h. ago Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it

The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave youThe biggest, and possibly only, failure of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is that the circumstances of its broadcast threaten to overshadow its content.A brief recap: this film was first commissioned by the BBC, only to be dropped when another documentary – Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone – sparked a furore over impartiality. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Murder of charity cyclist Tony Parsons in Scottish Highlands to be investigated in BBC Scotland documentary

The new BBC Scotland series will be broadcast in the autumn.

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16 h. ago How a BBC documentary on doctors in Gaza spiralled into a bitter impartiality row

The documentary, being broadcast on Wednesday night, came close to not being seen at all on British TV after months of delayed dates, acrimonious negotiations and concerns over partiality, writes Rachel Clun

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17 h. ago ‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Marwan al-Sultan, a renowned cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital, is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the past 50 days, says Palestinian medical organisationAn Israeli airstrike has killed one of Gaza’s most senior doctors in a “catastrophic” loss to the already decimated healthcare system. A number of family members were reported to have been killed alongside him.Dr Marwan al-Sultan, a renowned and highly experienced cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip, is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the last 50 days, according to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), a Palestinian medical organisation. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Caution has turned to cowardice – the BBC is failing viewers with its Gaza coverage | Karishma Patel

The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s warTonight, audiences can finally watch Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on Channel 4 and Zeteo. This timely film was originally produced for the BBC by award-winning production company Basement Films. The BBC has been delaying it since February, arguing it couldn’t go out before a review into an entirely different film, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, had culminated. That was a poor editorial decision with no precedent. But poorer still: after months of leaving the film in limbo, last week the BBC announced it wouldn’t air it – leaving it for Channel 4 to pick up.Why? The BBC said it might create “the perception of partiality”. You’d be forgiven for thinking this was lifted from a dystopian novel. Perception, after all, has nothing to do with impartiality – at least in an ideal world. The BBC seems to have said the quiet part out loud. Impartiality, as far as ...

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26 h. ago Gaza: Doctors Under Attack: documentary dropped by BBC to finally be broadcast on Channel 4

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is set to be broadcast on Channel 4 📺

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35 h. ago Spice Girls 'turn down' huge Louis Theroux BBC girl band documentary

Following the success of Louis Theroux's series called Boybands Forever, the journalist is planning a girl group version, but one iconic group has reportedly shunned his approach

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36 h. ago Iconic nineties girl group 'turn down appearance in Louis Theroux's new BBC documentary about girlbands' ahead of their 30th anniversary

This puts Theroux in a tricky spot, as the band are widely seen as the ultimate girl group and were expected to feature in the film.

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37 h. ago To Catch a Stalker review – a charity tells one woman to abandon her toddler and flee

Calling the interviewees in this documentary survivors suggests their ordeals are over – but due to paltry laws and police reluctance, that is appallingly far from the caseHello and welcome to part 86,747,398,464 of the continuing cataloguing via television documentary of the apparently infinite series Ways in Which Largely Men Terrorise Largely Women and Prevent Countless Millions of Them from Living Their Lives in Freedom and Contentment. This one comprises two episodes and is entitled To Catch a Stalker.It comes from the corporation’s most youth-oriented arm, BBC Three, which mandates a telegenic presenter better versed in sympathy with the programme’s interviewees than interrogation of wider issues, and who has usually come up through the ranks of reality TV rather than journalism. Here, it’s Zara McDermott (Love Island, Made in Chelsea, The X Factor: Celebrity), who previously fronted entries in the infinite series on “revenge porn”, rape culture and eating disorders. Continue ...

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47 h. ago Zara McDermott in tears over harrowing stalking cases in new BBC Three documentary

Love Island alum Zara McDermott could be seen choking back her tears on her new BBC docuseries as she told a stalking victim she 'did not deserve' to be treated that way

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48 h. ago 'Heartbroken' Zara McDermott fights back tears hearing harrowing account of woman's stalking at hands of her ex in new BBC documentary

The first episode of the former Love Island star's latest project, To Catch A Stalker, airs on BBC Three on Tuesday evening at 9pm.

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3 d. ago BBC staff in 'open revolt' over axed Gaza documentary and claim bosses 'out of touch'

It’s been claimed that staff at the BBC are in an 'open revolt' after the broadcaster scrapped a documentary about Gaza which will now be shown on Channel 4

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4 d. ago BBC staff are in 'open revolt' after Channel 4 said it would screen axed Gaza doctors documentary, insiders say

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC paused production of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack in April following the launch of an investigation into another show, which starred the son of a leader of Hamas .

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7 d. ago BBC viewers reduced to tears as University Challenge host Amol Rajan sobs over bereavement 'too painful to think about' in emotional new documentary

Amol Rajan Goes To The Ganges (pictured), released on BBC One last night, followed the journalist and broadcaster, 41, on a life-changing trip to his birth country of India.

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7 d. ago Doctors and moms say these babies in Gaza may die without more formula. They blame Israel's blockade

The Gaza Health Ministry says hundreds of premature babies are at risk of death from starvation across the war-battered Gaza Strip

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8 d. ago TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: A gritty BBC documentary tells the astonishing story of the Kim Kardashian diamond heist

Through first-hand reports and testimonies from investigators, a BBC Three documentary rakes over the astonishing crime of when Insta-icon Kim was robbed at gunpoint

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8 d. ago Why a DPD driver was REALLY hacked to death with a machete: Inside Sikh gang war fuelled by immigration that BBC didn't show in documentary

When DPD driver Aurman Singh was hacked to death in a 'cartel-style' execution in Shrewsbury, it was the culmination of months of bad blood between Skih gangs.

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9 d. ago Liam Byrne: Scottish man who starred in BBC documentary The Boy Who Can Fly dies during jump in Swiss Alps

A Scottish wingsuit flyer has died during a jump in Switzerland

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9 d. ago British wingsuit champion featured in BBC documentary is killed during a jump in the Swiss Alps

Liam Byrne, 24, was critically injured on the Gitschen mountain in Switzerland on Saturday.

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1 week ago BBC scraps plans to show documentary about medics in Gaza after new bias concerns

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was commissioned by the BBC more than a year ago from an independent production but it has now been scrapped due to 'partiality' reasons.

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