Jeremy Paxman

:WATCH: The Best University Challenge Moments

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education

After Manchester University were crowned University Challenge champions for the fourth time, bringing them onto a par with Magdalen College, Oxford, w...

Manchester Wins University Challenge For Fourth Time

PA | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education

The University Of Manchester have become champions of BBC contest University Challenge for a fourth time, to equal the record set by Magdalen College,...

Broadcasters At War Over Savile Report

The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 22.02.2013 | UK

The former editor of Newsnight boasted of the BBC's "higher standards" compared to rival ITV in the midst of the Jimmy Savile furore, emails reveal. ...

Jeremy Paxman Brands Senior BBC Staff 'Bloody People' In Pollard Inquiry Transcript

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Stephen Hull | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK

Jeremy Paxman’s lack of knowledge about departments central to the BBC’s editorial output has been revealed in the transcript of his interview as ...

Beating the Bully: How to School Paxman on University Challenge

Will White | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Will White

If you go on a quiz show - and especially if that show is University Challenge - you had better get some questions right. And you had better not get too many questions wrong. And if you do get some questions wrong, you should try not to get them too wrong.

Paxman 'Savages' Student On University Challenge

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.02.2013 | UK Universities & Education

Famous for piling the pressure on politicians, Jeremy Paxman has now turned his attention to shy students, reducing one to a quivering wreck after a "...

This Is England 2013: We've Become a Nation of Concentrics

Jason Holmes | Posted 22.03.2013 | Home
Jason Holmes

This week, snow lies across the country, suppressing mirth and stilling the air. The land is quieted, as is our national spirit, for it occurs to me that something is amiss in these isles. What became of English rumbustiousness, what Jacobson has called an 'obdurate independence'?

Talking to Paxman About Boobs

Jodie Butt | Posted 19.03.2013 | UK Entertainment
Jodie Butt

There I am, on Newsnight, live on the bloody BBC talking about Lefty, my imaginary cancer character C-Monkey and boob-shaped cookies. Oh dear God. This was not another morphine moment. I wasn't hallucinating. I was sitting in a studio, in front of the legend that is Jeremy Paxman.

'We're Making A Problem For Ourselves'

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 19.12.2012 | UK

Jeremy Paxman gave his own boss a taste of his hard-hitting interview style when he warned him over a blog defending the decision to leave an investig...

LOOK: It's The BBC Christmas Panto!

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.12.2012 | UK Comedy

Poster designed for The Huffington Post UK by @cohendave and @DavidLBeresford. More TOPICALOLs: 20 Amazing Royal Baby Facts The Pope's ...

BBC Deny Reports Paxman To Leave Newsnight

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.11.2012 | UK

The BBC has denied reports Jeremy Paxman is to leave Newsnight after the BBC's flagship current affairs show mistakenly implicated a senior Tory in a ...

RESULTS: Who Should Be The Next DG Of The BBC?

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.11.2012 | UK

This is it - the results of the most hotly anticipated poll that has absolutely no chance of affecting any major BBC decisions are in. The Huff Po...

Felicity A Morse

Abu Qatada Or Mitt Romney For The BBC's Next DG?

HuffingtonPost.com | Felicity A Morse | Posted 15.11.2012 | UK

Following George Entwistle's resignation from the BBC speculation has been rife over who will take up the top job. Media commentators have weighed...

Life Imitates Art: Mel Brooks' UK Template - More Money From a Flop than a Hit

Dan Ehrlich | Posted 12.11.2012 | UK
Dan Ehrlich

When newspapers, decent newspapers, make terrible errors they will print retractions, pay libel damages and move on to the next defamation. But, the BBC, like some religions, thinks of itself as being infallible.

Conrad Black Spars With Paxman On Newsnight (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 23.10.2012 | UK Politics

Fallen media mogul and, more recently, convicted fraudster Conrad Black engaged in a bitter, cynical and candid interview with Jeremy Paxman on Monday...

WATCH: Taiwan Animation Shows Jimmy Savile As Childcatcher

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 17.10.2012 | UK

Never ones to miss an opportunity to turn a national scandal into a low-budget animation, Tawianese agency NMA TV have turned their talents to the Jim...

Jeremy Paxman's Description Of Bible's Genesis As 'Hogwash' Ruled Offensive

PA | Posted 31.07.2012 | UK Entertainment

Comments by Jeremy Paxman in which he called the Bible's book of Genesis "hogwash" during an edition of Newsnight have been ruled offensive by the BBC...

Jeremy Clarkson Drives Off With £3m Booty

The Huffington Post UK | Caroline Frost | Posted 15.09.2012 | UK Entertainment

Jeremy Clarkson has overtaken Graham Norton to become the BBC's highest presenter, the Guardian estimated today. He's rolling in it The prese...

Don't LET the Messenger Be Shot

David Prescott | Posted 29.08.2012 | UK Politics
David Prescott

There's been a lot of debate about THAT Newsnight interview. If I'm honest, the programme's appeal has diminished for me over recent years.

Twitter Jokes Of The Week

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK Comedy

Like the Olympic torch on its relay, the title of The Most Unpopular Man In Britain passed this week from Jimmy Carr to Ashley Cole... and then to Dav...

Ned Simons

WATCH: 'Do You Think You're Incompetent?' Chloe Smith Savaged By Paxman

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 27.06.2012 | UK Politics

It is the latest in a long line of U-turns from the government that has led to George Osborne's 2012 Budget to be known as an "omnishambles". On Tu...

LIVE: Paxman And Marr Give Evidence At Leveson Inquiry

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.07.2012 | UK

BBC presenter Andrew Marr has given evidence at the Leveson inquiry into press standards. He said that the country had looked "agog" at some of the...

Jeremy Paxman Tells Inquiry Piers Morgan Told Him How To Hack Phones

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.07.2012 | UK

Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has told the Leveson inquiry into press standards that Piers Morgan told him how to hack phones at a dinner in 2002....

Paxman Goes To Leveson: Here Are His Finest Moments So Far

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK

The Leveson inquiry has already had its fair share of tough interviewees, from Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks to Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre. But ...

Leveson To Hear From Hunt's Ex-Adviser And News Corp Lobbyist

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 18.05.2012 | UK Politics

Adam Smith, Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser who was forced to quit after admitting he had inappropriate contact with News International, will giv...