UEFA Champions League highlights will be available for the first time on BBC platforms from 2024-25 for three years. The BBC will become home to Wednesday night highlights from 2024 onwards, showcasing all of the action from the European club football across its linear, digital and social channels, delivering all of the goals and key […]
Vincent Grivet (representing Eutelsat) will remain Chair of the HbbTV Association. The members of the industry association’s newly assembled Steering Group (SG) re-elected Grivet for another two-year term at their recent meeting. Jon Piesing (TP Vision) was re-elected the HbbTV Association’s Vice-Chair; Xavier Redon (Cellnex Telecom) will continue to serve as Treasurer.The new SG was […]
As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to hold the global centre stage, the BBC is marking 30 years of serving its Ukrainian-speaking audience. On June 1st 1992, the BBC started short- and medium-wave radio broadcasts for then newly independent Ukraine. Today, BBC News Ukraine – BBC News Україна – is serving its audience via the […]
The Lionsgate Television Group has signed a first-look deal Le Train Train prodco headed by Rashida Jones (pictured) and Will McCormack. Under the terms of the agreement, Jones and McCormack will produce scripted television programming for a range of platforms. Already in development is Lovesick, based on the UK romcom series of the same name. This […]
This Christmas, Charlie Mackesy’s internationally bestselling illustrated book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse will be coming to BBC One and iPlayer in a new, animated short film. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse will take audiences on a poignant journey, as the deeply resonating story follows the unlikely […]
The BBC has revealed record breaking figures for its coverage of Glastonbury 2022 across its digital platforms – with content streamed a record 34.1 million times on iPlayer and played 2.3 million times on BBC Sounds. On BBC iPlayer 23 million streams were live – the highest on record for a BBC programme brand. Popular […]
Red Planet Pictures, the production company behind the international hit drama, Death in Paradise, is to expand the show’s universe with a brand-new series, Beyond Paradise, for BBC and BritBox international, which reveals what happened to DI Humphrey Goodman after he left the sunny shores of Saint Marie. Beloved by millions of fans worldwide and […]
As the mid-point in the BBC’s current Charter period approaches, broadcast regulator Ofcom has been reviewing the BBC’s performance and its future regulation of the Corporation. As part of this, Ofcom has tracked audiences’ experiences and interactions with the BBC, and their feelings towards it. One in nine people have had a reason to complain […]
Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund has invested in the Glasgow-based independent production company Freedom Scripted. Founded in 2018 by former BBC, STV and World Productions development producer Mike Ellen, Freedom Scripted focuses on high end contemporary drama and has a range of projects currently in development working with some of the most exciting and diverse […]
In reaction to a busy summer of sport on BBC One, EastEnders will once again premiere each week’s episodes on the BBC iPlayer, with all four episodes dropping every Monday from June 27th and continuing over the summer until mid-August. The move allows audiences to watch the programme whenever it suits them on BBC iPlayer, […]