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The BBC screwed up horrendously at Glasto and MPs have every right to be angry, but take a breath and read these quotes. It's starting to look an awful lot like a minister telling the BBC what to do. That doesn't feel like a desirable precedent for anyone - including Lisa Nandy.

I started the day with this thought rattling round my head: Tim Davie famously steadied the BBC ship during the Jimmy Savile scandal of 2012. His words then were that the BBC needs to "get a grip." Does he have a grip on the endless Gaza scandals plaguing the broadcaster?.

Very serious attack on BBC chief Tim Davie from culture secretary Lisa Nandy: “When you have one editorial failure, it’s something that must be gripped. When you have several, it becomes a problem of leadership."

Exclusive: Bob Vylan dropped by agent UTA after scandal-hit Glastonbury set.

Update: BBC Breakfast editor has "decided to extend the period of leave he was taking" while internal review is ongoing, per an internal email. No word on when he will return.

Exclusive: The BBC has drafted in a PwC consultant to help steer an internal review of bullying and misconduct allegations on Breakfast.

Strictly and The Traitors boss Kate Phillips will be named as the BBC's new content chief, per sources and a Broadcast report. Deadline has reported since early May that she was the candidate to beat. She becomes the most powerful creative exec in UK telly, audio, and streaming.

Two stories in two days, The Sun has turned on BBC Breakfast boss Richard Frediani. The first big test for the BBC since the “line in the sand" of its workplace culture review? Here’s the Deadline story that started it all:

New: A handful of seasoned BBC News journalists have complained that they are the victims of ageism as they face being fired under plans to merge the corporation’s Home and Foreign newsdesks.

New: Channel 4 once described itself as the “sponsor and defender of free speech,” but a cache of documents seen by Deadline reveals it is restricting what aggrieved former staffers can say about the company.

My voyage into the underbelly of AI movie trailers on YouTube made it all the way to American network news — as did the consequences of the greatest week in my Spurs supporting life.

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This is big - and proper sign of the times stuff. ITV is cutting 220 jobs (half of its daytime teams) and dramatically reducing output. The money will be reinvested in more streaming-friendly output, like drama and sport.

Stunt performing is a glamour job — until someone gets hurt. Stuntwoman Casey Michaels reveals to me how she won a huge £7m payout from HBO after a career-ending injury on Game of Thrones. She says her story exposes the dark underbelly of stunting.

RT @RosamundUrwin: Times obituary of Andrew Norfolk - the brilliant investigative journalist who exposed the grooming gangs in 2011. "I d….

Calling awards aficionados: can anyone recall an actor/actress winning an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Bafta for one role in a single awards season? . I asked ChatGPT and it told me Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I) and Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce), but it was wrong — neither won a Bafta.

Yeah, if this sticks (big if), it would be devastating for UK production. The Hollywood strikes revealed how reliant we are on American's housing shoots here. Last year alone, US studios made £1.4b worth of movies in the UK, 64% of all our film production.

New: As the BBC prepares to publish its workplace culture review on Monday, we can reveal that employees are keeping their jobs after sexually harassing colleagues.

New: BBC to publish workplace culture review next Monday, per internal email from chair Samir Shah. Four recent reviews relating to Huw Edwards, Strictly Come Dancing, Russell Brand, and Tim Westwood all found problems with BBC processes.