Mrs Brown’s Boys beat out stiff competition to win Best Comedy at the 2020 National Television Awards this week.
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BBC presenter Samira Ahmed has won an equal play claim on the basis of sex discrimination.
An employment tribunal in London ruled that the broadcaster should be paid the same wage as fellow presenter Jeremy Vine.
Ms Ahmed asked why she was paid £465 per episode of Newswatch while Mr Vine was paid up to £3,000 for each episode of Points Of View, work that she described as comparable.
In response, the BBC argued that the two presenters were not doing similar work - but a judgement released
Mrs Brown’s Boys beat out stiff competition to win Best Comedy at the 2020 National Television Awards this week.
The public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing will start on June 15.
Laurence Fox has risked sparking further controversy by criticising Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes for including a Sikh soldier in his World War I drama 1917.
BBC director-general Tony Hall will step down from running the U.K. public broadcaster this summer after seven years in the role.The news was unveiled Monday morning in London."Tony Hall is an inspirational creative leader, within the U.K.
Prince Harry, 35, has broken his silence since he and Meghan Markle, 38, have made the decision to step back from royal life. “So, I want you to hear the truth from me, as much as I can share – not as a Prince, or a Duke, but as Harry, the same person that many of you have watched grow up over the last 35 years – but with a clearer perspective,” the Duke of Sussex said while speaking at the Ivy Chelsea Club in London on Sunday, Jan.
Sunday would have been the day former Love Island contestant Mike Thalassitis celebrated his 27th birthday.
Comcast confirmed plans to launch a global news platform with Sky News at the launch of its highly anticipated streaming offering Peacock.
Samira Ahmed has been praised by Carrie Gracie and others at the BBC for having the courage to go up against the corporation in an equal pay dispute.