The BBC has announced that its long-running medical drama, Casualty, will be the next title to be put out to competitive tender. The BBC will retain all rights for the programme and it will continue to be shown on its services, but the tendering process will decide which producer makes it. BBC Commissioning will invite […]
The BBC has announced a new documentary, P Diddy: The Rise and Fall, for BBC Three and iPlayer. Fronted by broadcaster Yinka Bokinni, the documentary explores the world that propelled Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stardom – and the system that may have protected him for years. For decades, Diddy shaped music. The three times Grammy […]
Sunset+Vine’s Scotland and London teams will cross paths in Sheffield as they produce elite snooker for two British broadcasters, BBC Sport and Channel 5. Sunset+Vine Scotland will be first to the table with 19 days of coverage of the Snooker World Championships led by Executive Producer and Head of Sunset+Vine Scotland Grant Philips. “The Worlds […]
The BBC has announced that season 2 of Return to Paradise, Australia’s highly successful spin-off of the global smash-hit Death in Paradise, will be coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Filming is now underway in Australia. Produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia and Red Planet Pictures for the ABC in Australia, the intriguing and entertaining […]
Everyone TV – the organisation leading the evolution of free TV in the UK – has confirmed that a collection of streamed channels are coming to Freely, the live and on demand streaming platform backed by the PSBs BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and 5. As audiences increasingly choose to stream live TV, Freely says that […]
BBC Studios has announced that it will rebrand its premium drama channel BBC First in the Netherlands to BBC NL on May 15th. The BBC NL channel will continue to provide Dutch audiences with dramas and crime series handpicked by the local team in Amsterdam and fully localised with subtitles for Dutch audiences, in a […]
BBC Studios Global Digital Brands together with BBC Studios Kids & Family and Ludo Studio have announced that Bluey Book Reads is back for a second season. The next instalment of the digital-exclusive series is available now on the Official Bluey YouTube and Bluey.tv and will see even more Bluey storybooks brought to life by […]
Ofcom has published the provisional conclusions of its assessments of the BBC’s plans to launch four new DAB+ stations and extend the hours of Radio 5 Sports Extra. In November 2024, the BBC published proposals to launch four new DAB+ stations: Radio 1 Dance, Radio 1 Anthems, a Radio 2 extension, and Radio 3 Unwind. […]
BBC Studios and Viaplay Group have announced the launch of advertising in Sweden for BBC Studios’ multi-genre linear channel, BBC Nordic. This extends their existing advertising partnership in Norway. BBC Nordic is widely available in Sweden and Norway through all major operators. Advertising for the channel will be sold locally through Viaplay Group for both […]
The BBC has acquired German four-part series The Black Forest Murders from StudioCanal. Written by Robert Hummel and Martina Mouchot, and based on the non-fiction Walter Roth book SOKO Erle, the series follows a 2016 police investigation into the mysterious murders of two young women in the south of Germany. The Black Forest Murders (4 […]