BBC Studios and ITV have revealed that their SVoD joint venture BritBox is to launch in South Africa in the second half of 2021. The service will expand into its fifth worldwide territory, following successful launches in the US & Canada, the UK and, most recently, Australia. In 2020, BritBox announced a global roll out […]
The BBC has reported large audience numbers for the return of iconic character Tracy Beaker. On iPlayer, My Mum Tracy Beaker was streamed 2.1 million times in its first three days of availability (February 12th to 14th), making it CBBC’s most successful programme launch ever on the streaming platform. On the CBBC channel, the premiere […]
Crime thriller The Serpent has become iPlayer’s most popular new BBC programme since Normal People, with 31 million streams across the series so far. The eight-part drama – starring Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle and Ellie Bamber – launched on January 1st and concluded its BBC One run on February 14th. The first episode […]
Director of BBC News Fran Unsworth has announced a restructure of the BBC News Board to deliver more value for audiences and better reflect the way BBC News will work in future. These changes are part of an ongoing restructure. Five posts will be closed, and there will be three new roles: Jonathan Munro will […]
UK public service broadcasters the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 plan to integrate Digital UK – the joint venture which facilitates the provision of Freeview TV services and Freesat – which offers access to the UK’s subscription-free satellite television service. They say the integration of Digital UK and Freesat will help ensure viewers continue to […]
The BBC has acquired season one of The Terror from AMC Studios International. The series is inspired by true events and is a fictionalised account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic. It follows the Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced […]
The UK Government has confirmed that from April 1st 2021, the cost of the annual television licence fee will increase from £157.50 (€178.90) to £159.00. The Government, which is responsible for setting the level of the licence fee, announced in 2016 it would rise in line with inflation for five years from April 1st 2017. […]
ITV is using DIMPACT, a web app that helps the digital media industry map and manage its carbon impacts, to embed sustainability into the technological design process. Following a 12-month pilot phase, where ITV’s technology team worked closely with computer science researchers from the University of Bristol, alongside other leading media companies, the DIMPACT web […]
Sky News will become one of the founding members of the newly launched albert news consortium, a group which has been set up to support the broadcast and production community specifically engaged in news television. The news consortium will work alongside the BAFTA albert consortium – now in its 10th year – and the albert […]
Building on the Christmas 2020 success of Zog and the Flying Doctors, Magic Light Pictures, the multi-Oscar nominated production company, is bringing Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s celebrated story Superworm to BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The voice cast for the adaptation will be headlined by Olivia Colman as narrator and alongside Matt Smith playing […]