The BBC has received 4,680 complaints from viewers angry that last night’s episode of costume drama Little Dorrit was replaced at the last minute with a Panorama special on the Shannon Matthews trial.
Today the corporation apologised to BBC1 viewers who were annoyed at the late move of the drama, as well as factual series The [...]

From falling in love with his Spooks co-star, to collapsing in giggles on the set of his new film, Matthew Macfadyen is a man who goes with his instinct. On the eve of the BBC’s latest Dickens drama, he talks to Patrick Barkham.
Credit was already crunching when the cast pulled on their smocks and [...]