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The television license fee in the U.K. will remain at £159 until 2024, before rising in line with inflation for four years.

The BBC is on track to meet its current savings targets but will likely need to make further expenditure cuts in the coming years as it faces falling audience shares and fewer people paying a license fee, according to the U.K.'s National Audit Office (NAO).

Sally Wood is set to return to the BBC to take on the newly created role of commissioning editor of pop music TV.

The BBC and Sky have renewed and expanded their long-term strategic partnership, which sees the BBC’s brands and services showcased on Sky’s TV products.

The BBC and the All England Club have signed a three-year extension to their broadcast partnership, covering domestic rights for Wimbledon through 2027.

The BBC has appointed Jon Petrie, a Channel 4 alum, as director of comedy.

BBC Studios is on track to meet its five-year target of £1.2 billion in returns to the BBC by 2021/22, despite the challenges of the last year amid the pandemic.

Netflix has become the largest single commissioner of new scripted projects in Europe, according to data from Ampere Analysis.

The BBC is set to deliver £880 million ($1.21 billion) of annual savings this year, beating the target of £800 million ($1.1 billion) a year ahead of schedule.

A new report by the U.K.'s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) has concluded that the BBC will have to continue to rely on the TV license fee, in part because the government has "failed to put in place the necessary broadband infrastructure that would facilitate other funding mechanisms."