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Here's a classic problem with the merged UK and World
#BBCNewsChannel
. BBC is covering Israel, Sky is covering the West Midlands vote as it happens
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Some people are missing the point of
#LineofDuty
with that ending
@jed_mercurio
is saying corruption in the UK is endemic, governance is being weakened and people aren't held to account.
Hence there is no happy ending, or a big twist because it is all brushed under the carpet.
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@francis_scarr
Russian TV:
"However much we would hate to admit this, virtually the entire world is against us"
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@JonniePeacock
@PennyMordaunt
You appear to be using clips from BBC video - have you asked the BBC for the right to do so?
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People shouldn't be blaming the BBC for today's announced cuts. They are totally the result of Nadine Dorries recent decision to freeze the TV licence fee again. This government has cut BBC funding by 40% over 10 years.
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David Attenborough: “mother and cubs are safe...”
my brain:
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
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David Attenborough: “...for now”
#Dynasties
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CNN's
@ErinBurnett
could only find one place left open to eat in
#Ukraine
's Lviv - a Cat Cafe 🐈
When she asked why they hadn't left, the owners said "If we go, who will feed the cats?"
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Standing ovation at
#BAFTAs
for Peter Kosminsky's impassioned defence of BBC &Channel4 from Govt attacks
#BacktheBBC
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Let's put aside
#pigeongate
and wish Larry the cat a very happy 10 year anniversary 🎂
#Larryversary
🐦😻
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Let's check in on Icelandic TV's live version of
#onlyconnect
and how their
@VictoriaCoren
is getting along😮
This literally gettu betur with every watch
#gettubetur
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Nadine Dorries' Downing Street tell-all book sells just 5,500 copies in first week
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BBC and the FT are the most trusted news organisations in the UK
BBC is ranked as "Very trustworthy" more than any other news organisation
Source:YouGov via FT
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BBC News presenter Martine Croxall 'confirms return date' of May 22nd and was in work yesterday
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#KitHarington
is playing his actual ancestor Robert Catesby, the main plotter of the
#Gunpowder
plot 💣
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David Attenborough: “mother and cubs are safe...”
my brain:
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
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David Attenborough: “...for now”
#Dynasties
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Tactics used by
@PostOffice
to stop journalists covering the story
"Their tactic was to call up the editors of the reporters covering the story."
"Without the journalism...there would be no ITV drama" Ian Hislop
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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If you could all help cut and paste the BBC complaints link into threads to spread the word it might help
#SaveGaryLinekar
#IStandWithGary
#MoTD
Thank you
Complaints here👇 (mention Match of the Day)
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#hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy
It's the 42nd anniversary of the very first BBC radio broadcast of Douglas Adams’s space-comedy which went from cult phenomenon to one of the most enduringly popular shows, and book series, of all time
#42
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Don't worry we have "springy concrete"
The Minister visits a school
#TheThickOfIt
#GillianKeegan
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At the conclusion of
#LineofDuty
, there is no more relevant message that
@jed_mercurio
can deliver than too many police and institutional crimes go unpunished. That's just my take on what I think was the overarching theme of the whole series. I could be wrong of course.
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Kit Harington and Freddie Fox star in
@Markgatiss
's adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s
#GhostStoryforChristmas
: Lot No.249.
1881. Old College, Oxford
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"She's in Huddersfield"
... but a big clue tells me it might actually be Cambridge?
#GBNewsFails
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@CaslerNoel
@MSmithBubbles
@Realtexastodd
What you are saying about Trump and young girls is consistent with an investigation by
@BBCNews
Kudos to you for speaking out
"It was like a predator in action."
Tonight's programme is about
@realDonaldTrump
's alleged behaviour towards women in the 80s and 90s.
Watch Trump: Is the President a Sex Pest? On
@BBCOne
at 8:30pm.
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#BAFTAtv
#BAFTAs
results:
@BBC
=14,
@Channel4
=7, ITV=2, Amazon=1,
@SkyUK
=1
So
@JWhittingdale
what problem are you trying to fix?
#BacktheBBC
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It's
#Song9
#unitedkingdom
so it's time to raise a glass 🍷 to Sir Terry Wogan, THE voice of
#Eurovision
#BBCeurovision
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Steve Wright died on Sunday, which was also the last ever day
@bbcradio2
broadcast from Wogan House
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#HappyNewYear
! London fireworks and drone display were commissioned by Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer and produced by
@bbcstudios
for BBC One. The Creative Director was Claire Popplewell and the Directors were Julia Knowles and Bridget Caldwell.
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@bbcpress
BBC’s Russian language News site has tripled it's visitors with 10.7m people in the last week (compared to 3.1m normally).
In English, visitors in Russia were up 252% to 423,000 last week.
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Amanda Holden:Did u bring a piece of the moon back home?
Tim Peake:I was on a space station
AH:So you never got off?
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Testimony given by then BBC reporter in Sarajevo
@BowenBBC
was part of the prosecution case that helped to convict Ratko Mladić today
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It's
#SongNine
, so it's time to open the wine and raise a glass🍷for the late, great Sir
@terry_wogan
The voice of
#BBCEurovision
#Eurovision
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#FiveThingsILoveAboutTheBBC
- Nigel Farage hates the BBC
- Dominic Cummings hates the BBC & wants to destroy it
- The far left hate the BBC:
"it's a government mouthpiece"
- The far right hate the BBC:
"its full of liberal lefties"
- Trump hates the BBC
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#GardenersWorld
audience are all googling "Gardening Smock" right now to see if it is actually a thing
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Has anyone asked about the Chancellor laughing during the Queen's funeral on any BBC or other broadcaster yet? Genuinely interested how this scandal hasn't been picked up it seems
#Newsnight
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#Herothehedgehog
was designed by 9 year old Elinor from West Midlands, beating 4,000 entrants in a
@BBC
#BluePeter
competition
#London2017
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The elderly woman who was racially abused on a Ryanair flight has told ITV News: "I've just lost my husband and now I have to go through this."
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Viewers of
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
may be interested in the upcoming BBC drama
#Grenfell
based on the
#CladdingScandal
which killed 72 people, and impacted the lives of thousands more.
The drama is based on 5 years of research - public sources, inquiry hearings and interviews
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Racersnakes: "We were the meanest animals of
#Planetearth2
"🐍
Giant Trevallies fish🐟: "Hold my beer" 🍺
#BluePlanet2
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This is the funniest thing you will see this week, maybe this year , wait until the end
#Russiatoday
#nigelfarage
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Actors Roger Moore, actresses Caroline Munro and Barbara Bach on the set of
#TheSpyWhoLovedMe
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Enjoyed
#LineofDuty
? The Government is cutting
@BBC
by another 20%, that's the entire budget for
@BBCTwo
#BacktheBBC
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One problem with the new smaller BBC weather map is the place names now obscure the map and the weather
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@BBCPolitics
@Number10cat
.
@Number10cat
Larry voted out ... now immediately wants to be let back in
#brexit
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"This is London calling"
BBC is 100 years old today🎂
It was formed on the 18th October 1922 by a group of wireless manufacturers including Marconi
Daily broadcasting began in Marconi's London studio, 2LO, in The Strand on Nov14 1922
John Reith was appointed that year
#BBC100
🎙️
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.
@JohnCleese
said about this episode "Everybody thinks that was a joke about the Germans, but they missed it.
It was a joke about British attitudes to the war and the fact that some people were still hanging on to that rubbish"
#FawltyTowers
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Well BBC News didn't cover it AFAIK... but
#HIGNFY
most certainly did !
@CliveMyrieBBC
Out of interest, has the BBC probed this House of Lords appointment story at all?
#CharlotteOwen
#R4today
#BBCBreakfast
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Rebecca Vardy just now:
"We're just normal women. We're just innocent women"
#wagathachristie
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I just hope Nadine Dorries isn't watching this because she'll privatise the BBC 😢
#Panorama
#Partygate
#WineTimeFridays
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💯 years of the BBC
Born on October 18th 1922, 100 years old today 🎂🎉
BBC is the world's longest running national broadcaster and also the world's largest broadcaster
It is colloquially known as The Beeb, Auntie, or a combination of both (Auntie Beeb)
#BBC100
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My seat was just to the left and behind this tree
I paid £20.12
#London2012
#openingceremony
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If you're watching
#BlacKkKlansman
on C4... it's a true story.
Ron Stallworth was the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, and he managed to infiltrate the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s
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82% of St Marie island 🏝️ is now covered in prison cells to lock up all the murderers from
#DeathinParadise
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@Dominic2306
You'll have to remind me of all those great things he achieved because I'm struggling..
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"We had a little more written, but it wasn't to be"
#WildBlueYonder
#RTD
#DoctorWho
#BernardCribbins
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@Markgatiss
#TheHoundoftheBaskervilles
BBC Four
Mark Gatiss as Sherlock Holmes with Sanjeev Bhaskar as Dr Watson in this reading of Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery recorded on the stage of London’s Barbican
Accompanied by a new musical score by Neil Brand, played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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This is an extraordinary claim on
#Newsnight
by
@ZoeJardiniere
about asylum claim processing 😮
“They’re doing that to create a theatre, a crisis…so that they can then say at the next election they can offer the solution”
Zoe Gardner, migration policy expert, reveals why the Government is pursuing its migrant policy
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#Newsnight
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@Dominic2306
The permanent long-term economic hit to the UK economy from the Brexit deal that "genius" Lord Frost negotiated is 4% of GDP - which is £80bn. About half what it costs to run the NHS. Put that on the side of a bus next time.
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Appropriately
#SongNine
is
#UnitedKingdom
Raise a glass🍷for Sir
@terry_wogan
#Eurovision
The voice of
#BBCEurovision
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Pls RT
A must watch:
#PeterCapaldi
says BBC "is seriously under threat from the government"
>
http://t.co/lFEgokBrMI
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@BBCNewsPR
@BBCNewsnight
To the viewers that relatively subtle differentiation in guilt between Facebook's role and Vote Leave's wasn't made clear in
@KirstyWark
's
#newsnight
interventions, or to
@chrisinsilico
I think the programme owes
@chrisinsilico
an apology for being so unclear
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Extraordinary find here. BBC actually first aired a version of
#TheTraitors
in 2004. And it's brilliant
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Retweet if you want a simultaneous international release for
#killingeveS2
🙏
Not Spring in America and Autumn in Britain as we got this year 😾
#KillingEve
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This guy... always around when someone is murdered in Sweden🇸🇪🔪
Coincidence🤔? I think not
#Modus
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This audio is very rare if you you enjoyed the pandemonium industrial sequence.
This is what the working men and women in that scene heard in their earpieces as the rings closed
Well worth a close listen 🎧
#London2012
#openingceremony
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@lewis_goodall
Then call out who is doing it.
@afneil
has been saying the BBC isn't British enough, doesn't support Britain, doesn't speak for Britain for weeks
#GBNews
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@toadmeister
@Nigel_Farage
Yes Toby, I’m sure lots of other Coutts customers do Cameo videos for £40
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#KeepingFaith
season 2 is currently in production.
Meanwhile the anoraks from the series are available in good stores now
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Before we settle
#Eurovision2021
...
Can we all agree that
#Iceland
were the deserved winners of
#Eurovision
2020 ? 🏆
#ISL
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Please sign and RT to tell
@LoveProdHouse
we don't want 15 mins of adverts on
#GBBO
and the show reduced to 45 mins
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@BBCBreaking
I hope
@BBC
is putting as much effort into reviewing how the Governments Coronavirus response and its contracts have been handled, as it has into reviewing a 25 year old TV interview with someone who seemed to me to know exactly what she was doing and why
#MartinBashir
#Panorama
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Here's a photo of Ronnie Stallworth, the real police officer who joined the Ku Klux Klan
#BlacKkKlansman
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Allowing the Prime Minister 5 minutes of unchallenged primetime TV, 4 days before a by-election, without a response from the leader of the opposition raises some ethical questions I'd have thought.
#DowningStreetBriefing
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What
@afneil
doesn't seem to appreciate is putting
@bbcthisweek
on at 11:45pm gives the production team more time to polish the show🤔
#bbctw
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For the record
#TheThickOfIt
did have a scene pretty close to what
@GillianKeegan
said today to
@itn
And the same episode featured a scene about concrete.. see part 2 below
#GillianKeegan
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