Today marks 50 years since audiences first clapped eyes on a new channel: BBC2. Since then it’s given us classic sitcoms, quiz shows, Sir David Attenborough and the gorillas and, more recently, Jeremy ...

EXCLUSIVE: BBC2 and PBS have commissioned a War of the Worlds-style hybrid drama/documentary that spotlights a near future in which extra-terrestrial life has been detected. First Contact will combine ...

BBC1 and BBC2 are too similar, while BBC4 needs to do more to raise its profile, the BBC Trust said yesterday after a review of the output of the channels. The corporation's governing body told ...

BBC2 was scheduled to begin broadcasting at 7.20pm on April 20, 1964, but its opening night was a disaster after a fire at Battersea Power Station plunged BBC Television Centre into darkness. One of ...

BBC2 is getting a makeover – a full new set of on-air dents starting on Thursday that represent its first “refresh” in twenty years. Gone are those playful little Twos that used to scurry ...

There was once an ill-conceived chat show called Wrinklies about old people who had led interesting lives. Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum co-creator Jimmy Perry was to host it but, Perry told me ...

DNA Family Secrets is back for a second series, with Stacey Dooley hosting once again. The last series saw adopted triplets find their only biological family but when will DNA Family Secrets return?

It sounds like the start of a joke: what do you get if you put seven unvaccinated cynics in a house together during a Covid wave? There’s no punchline, though – this was the premise for new BBC2 ...

All content to be available online, says controller... The controller of BBC2 has said he intends to make the channel the first mainstream TV station to broadcast via broadband. Roly Keating's ...

The Dark Knight star Maggie Gyllenhaal is to take the lead role in a BBC2 thriller set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Gyllenhaal, whose film credits also include Crazy Heart ...

It’s been a truly mammoth task... but the long dead giants of the Ice Age have been brought back to life. And they’re going to be sending a Walking With Dinosaurs-style chill down the spines of TV ...