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BBC runs £36m over budget in spending on its websites (Entertainment, 6 articles)
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The site had a budget of $74.2 million but spent $110 million at a time when commercial rivals are already complaining about the impact that the public broadcaster is having on their businesses. The budget overspill, uncovered by the BBC Trust, the corporation&rsquos regulator, was described by that body as ldquoa serious breach&rdquo that stems from ldquoa lack of financial accountability&rdquo in the way that BBC websites are run. BBC-owned websites are the most popular British-owned destinations on the internet - uk is the third-most-visited site in Britain, after Google and Microsoft-owned sites, attracting 16.6 million Britons monthly, according to figures from Nielsen Research. The BBC has axed BBC Two newspaper review show What the Papers Say - the second longest running programme on British TV. There should be tighter controls on the management of the BBC's website - in part to prevent it stifling commercial rivals, the BBC Trust has said. After reviewing uk, the trust said it was "an excellent service" but that its content had to be different from that on rival websites. The report is the first of a number of reviews of the BBC's services as part of its new charter and agreement.
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Harvey Korman of ‘Carol Burnett Show’ dies (Entertainment, 6 articles)
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Brooks tapped Mr. Korman's kinetic comic chops often, including roles in "High Anxiety" The History of the World Part I and " Dracula: Dead and Loving It. In this Sept. 18, 1978 photo, comic actors Harvey Korman, left, and Tim Conway show off three Emmy Awards for the ' Carol Burnett Show. A natural second banana, Korman gained attention on The Danny Kaye Show, appearing in skits with the star.
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Tribute to Ian Fleming: James Bond, the Last Englishman (Entertainment, 6 articles)
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It was 1939 and Ian Fleming, then a British intelligence officer, faced a gaggle of German spies in a Lisbon casino. The James Bond franchise includes 12 novels, nine short stories, 21 movies, $4.5 billion at the box office and now the glitzy launch of another Bond novel, " Devil May Care. The book, which hit stores Wednesday, was written more than 40 years after Fleming's death by best-selling English author Sebastian Faulks, commissioned by the Fleming family.
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Studios in a Tentative Deal With TV Actors in One Union, but Uncertainty Remains (Entertainment, 6 articles)
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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood took another step toward labor peace on Wednesday morning, as a union representing television actors reached a tentative three-year deal with production companies after talks had stalled over the re-use of performers' images on the Internet. The agreement between the producers and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists builds pressure on another, bigger actors union, the Screen Actors Guild, to devise a similar solution. Alan Rosenberg said in a statement Wednesday that the union would carefully analyze the deal's provisions.
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Dunkin' Donuts pulls online ad featuring Rachael Ray (Entertainment, 5 articles)
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BOSTON Dunkin ' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism. The coffee and baked-goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the weekend because " the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee. In a statement released Wednesday, Dunkin ' Brands Inc. said the scarf had a paisley design and was selected by a stylist for the commercial.
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Al Gore, Rock Star (Entertainment, 4 articles)
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(Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) La Scala, Milan's renowned opera house, will stage an opera version of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in its 2011 season. La Scala officials told the Associated Press that Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli, currently artistic director of the Arena in Verona, has been commissioned to produce the opera. Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth: the Planetary Emergence of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, came out in conjunction with the feature film documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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