If you want news about the BBC, you'd think their press office would be a good place to start looking. And, in fact, that was true until a few years ago. But things got much worse with the launch of a new-look press office, now re-named as BBC Media Centre. The new resource is only a shadow of its former self. Many pre-2011 archived pages have been removed completely, and the keyword archive search engine no longer works.

So much for the BBC Trust promise, in 2010, to set new standards of openness and transparency.

The report below was from Broadcast on 16th January 2015 -

Wizards vs Aliens on hold

The BBC has put Wizards vs Aliens on hold after three series due to cost issues regarding the children’s sci-fi drama.

Russell T Davies, who created the show with Phil Ford, said the BBC had “paused but not axed” the CBBC show after three series, because “there was not enough money” as yet to fund further episodes.

He also expressed his concern that protracted talks could result in cast members accepting offers to appear in other shows.

The BBC Wales/FremantleMedia Enterprises series originally received a two-series order totalling 26 episodes. Last year, it returned for a ten-part run under Ford’s sole stewardship.