BBC director general George Entwistle has asked a senior executive at the corporation to examine the circumstances around the decision to drop a planned Newsnight investigation into abuse allegations ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brown vividly recalls her visceral reaction to Steve Coogan. The BAFTA-winning actor was fresh from shooting a scene when he walked across a Cheshire graveyard in her direction. With ...

A home that once belonged to the late Jimmy Savile, the disgraced former BBC host and royal confidante, has been damaged in a fire. Police Scotland also told BBC: "Emergency services attended and the ...

The BBC‘s controversial Jimmy Savile drama The Reckoning will be handed its long-awaited premiere in the autumn, while it has unveiled more cast and a first-look image. Joining Coogan are BAFTA-winner ...

New Queen Elizabeth cruise liner.Sir Jimmy Saville watches as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II names Cunard's newest cruise ship, the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton. Picture date: Monday October 11, 2010.

Now, in The Reckoning, they’ve focused their energies on Jimmy Savile. It arrives on BBC One and iPlayer on Monday (9 October) with Steve Coogan in the leading role. The series was first announced by ...

Steve Coogan stars as the child predator and "Top of the Pops" host in the upcoming series. Despite backlash after the announcement of Coogan’s casting in BBC drama series “The Reckoning,” a true ...

The Deputy Director of BBC News has quit after the publication of a damning report into the axing of a Newsnight programme on Jimmy Savile. At a news conference to address the highly critical findings ...

Director general George Entwistle tells the committee that "a problem of culture" allowed the former "Top of the Pops" host's behavior and that a dropped report on Savile should have aired. By Stuart ...

Pigs flying, hell freezing over, extracting blood from a stone: all are satisfying, idiomatic expressions of the impossibility of certain tasks. You might be inclined, then, to add to that list ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Wilkes/Getty Jimmy Savile in 1973. A home that once belonged to the late Jimmy Savile, the disgraced former BBC host and ...