With the imminent release of Rose Matefeo’s new romcom Starstruck on BBC Three, this coming year marks a watershed moment with most BBC Three comedy either starring, written by or created by women. BBC Three says it will be the first UK channel to achieve this landmark in female representation with 58 per cent of […]
Streaming media platform Plex has completed a growth equity round of $50 million (€41.7) from existing investor Intercap. The financing includes approximately $15 million in new capital for Plex, with the remainder of the funds used to purchase shares and options from employees and shareholders. The new capital will further Plex’s mission of being a […]
New streaming service, BBC Select, available in the US and Canada on Amazon Prime Video and the Apple TV app, has completed a deal for a range of new documentary titles courtesy of Beyond Rights. Jon Farrar, Editor in Chief at BBC Select, commented: “BBC Select is all about culture, politics and ideas and the […]
Former culture secretary Ed Vaizey could be on the shortlist of candidates to chair communications regulator Ofcom, according to Reuters. Officials at the government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will narrow the list of applicants this week ahead of final interviews. Ofcom’s responsibilities will expand in the coming years; It will become responsible […]
More than 90 per cent of UK adults used BBC services each week, across the last 12 months – with a monthly figure of 97 per cent. There was also record use of online services, with 33 million UK adults visiting BBC Online on average per week. The figures were released in the BBC’s annual […]
Motion 24 is one of the UK’s leading companies specialising in moving camera systems. Set up in 2015, it supplies a wide range of equipment — everything from handheld rigs to tracking vehicle equipment through their partnership with Action99— to film, TV, music, and advertising clients worldwide. It develops a lot of its own specialist […]
BBC Four is to stop commissioning new shows and become ‘the home’ of archive content. Stopping just short of shutting down, the channel will continue to broadcast performances such as the BBC Proms, BBC Young Dancer and BBC Young Musician, alongside repeats and archive content. It is the stand-out move in the annual plan for […]
BBC Studios’ Brands and Marketing division has recruited Penny Brough as SVP to steer its genre and brand marketing and audience insight team. Brough will be charged with ensuring the Marketing and Audiences department delivers world class insight and ambitious genre plans that engage customers and consumers and drive revenue. Brands and Marketing leads on the brand management and […]
BBC newsreader Simon McCoy is joining GB News. The presenter, best known to BBC viewers through viral clips of him offering sardonic asides, will host an afternoon programme on the new channel. GB News is pushing ahead with the hiring of more than 100 staff across the UK ahead of its launch. Andrew Neil will […]
The BBC is reshaping its arts and music content teams and upping investements to drive bigger reach and impact across the UK. BBC Two will increase its resources for arts and music, whilst BBC Four becomes the home of arts and music performance and will bring together collections of distinctive content from the BBC’s archive. […]