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Panorama (TV series)

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Panorama is a long-running current affairs documentary series on BBC television, launched on 11 November 1953 and focusing on investigative journalism. Max Robertson was the original presenter. Richard Dimbleby took over in 1955 and presented it during the 1950s and 1960s. His son, David Dimbleby, went on to present the programme in later years. It is currently broadcast on BBC One, normally after the 10 O'clock News.

In July 2006, the BBC announced that it will be returning to a peak-time slot on BBC One in January 2007. <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/5191004.stm</ref>

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The programme was responsible for the famous Spaghetti trees hoax, broadcast on April Fool's Day, 1957.

In 1987, the programme "Scientology: The Road to Total Freedom?" for the first time exposed on broadcast television the secret upper-level doctrines of the Church of Scientology. Copies of the portion of the programme featuring an animated retelling of the Xenu mythology <ref>http://www.xenutv.com/int/ot3.htm</ref> widely circulated on the Internet from the mid-1990s onward.

But probably the most famous Panorama programme of all time was the 1995 interview of Diana, Princess of Wales by Martin Bashir, which occurred after her divorce and in which she admitted that many of the rumours about her private life were true.

One of the most controversial broadcasts of recent time was the "Who bombed Omagh?" programme, which named those suspected of involvement in the Omagh bombing. It is believed that the Real IRA attack on BBC Television Centre was a revenge attack for the broadcast.

[edit] Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets

This section documents a current event.
Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.
Main article: 2006 allegations of corruption in English football

On 19 September, 2006 Panorama showed a documentary called "Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets", which alleged illegal payments in English football, involving:

  • That Bolton Wanderers F.C. manager Sam Allardyce, and his agent son Craig were implicated for taking "bungs" (backhanders) from agents for signing certain players. Two agents, Teni Yerima and Peter Harrison, were secretly filmed, each separately claiming that they had paid Allardyce through his son. Allardyce denies ever taking, or asking for, a bung.<ref>"Agents claim manager was bribed", BBC News, 2006-09-19. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.</ref> The programme was aired on the same night that Bolton beat Walsall 3-1 in the Carling Cup, so Allardyce missed the original showing.
  • Then Portsmouth F.C. first-team coach Kevin Bond, now first team coach of Newcastle United F.C., is secretly recorded admitting he would consider discussing receiving payments from a proposed new agency involving agent Peter Harrison.
  • Chelsea F.C. director of youth football Frank Arnesen is secretly filmed making an illegal approach or "tapping up" Middlesbrough F.C.'s England youth star 15-year-old Nathan Porritt. Arnesen offers a fee of £150,000 spread over three years as an incentive to move. Both of these allegations are illegal under FA rules.
  • Agent Peter Harrison told the undercover reporter that, to secure transfer deals with Bolton, he bribed Sam Allardyce by offering to pay his son Craig. Harrison is a Fifa-listed agent, who is based in the north-east of England.
  • That three different Bolton transfer signings involved secret payments from agents to Craig Allardyce, some when he was contractually banned from doing any Bolton deals. Panorama alleged Bolton's transfer signings of defender Tal Ben Haim, midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata and goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi involved secret payments from agents to Craig Allardyce. Allardyce's son quit the agency business in summer 2006, and has admitted in newspaper interviews that his working as an agent might have cost his father the chance of becoming England manager.

The Football Association has asked for any evidence as it tries to rid such action from football, which also included alleged tapping up of players involving Chelsea's Frank Arnesen and Harry Redknapp of Portsmouth.

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