BBC Studios (BBCS) has upped its borrowing capacity to £600 million (€700m) this year as it looks to increase investment in UK and international programming. It comes quickly after BBCS acquired ITV Studios’ stake in streaming service Britbox for £255 million. The company’s borrowing facility had stood at just £350 million in 2022 but will […]

Hit theatre show Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show will visit Europe following sell-out shows across Australia, the UK, Ireland and North America. Bluey’s Big Play, a new theatrical adaptation of the BAFTA & Emmy® award-winning children’s television series produced by Ludo Studio, will hit the stage across Spain (under the name of El show […]

Incoming BBC Chair Samir Shah has warned that the Corporation must confront hard choices and tough decisions in what he describes as a “tough financial situation”. In  a note to all BBC Staff at the start of his tenure as Chair of the BBC Board, Shah said that along with the Board, he was “here […]

The Global Media & Entertainment Talent Manifesto, alongside its founding members Deluxe and Vizrt, has launched its initiative to build a global agreement and approach to address the skills crisis facing the media technology industry. The Global Media & Entertainment Talent Manifesto is a new membership organisation that aims to create an agreed international infrastructure […]

ITV has sold its entire 50 per cent interest in digital subscription streaming service BritBox International to its joint venture partner BBC Studios for a cash consideration of £255 million (€297.7m). The sale comes as ITV focuses its strategy on its own streaming service, ITVX, and its Studios division. The Board intends to return the […]

Tubi, Fox’s US ad-supported streaming service, is rolling out a new brand identity. In January, Tubi reports that it increased its share of total TV viewing to 1.5 per cent according to Nielsen’s The Gauge report, and continues to see traction among younger, multicultural audiences. “During a time of seismic change in entertainment, Tubi continues […]

Figures from the UK children’s content industry, regulators, academics, policy makers and advocates for young people’s wellbeing came together today at the Children’s Media Summit 2024 on February 28th to try to find answers to the major issues faced by the children’s audience and the industry in these rapidly changing times. Organised by the Children’s […]

In the build-up to the Paris Olympics this summer, BBC Sport is offering live coverage from the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow, as global track and field talent descend on Scotland. Viewers can follow all the action live on BBC Two and iPlayer. Gabby Logan leads the BBC’s coverage of the World Indoor Athletics […]

Over three quarters (76 per cent) of pensioners say the TV licence payment does not provide good value for money ahead of the April 1st price hike, according to a survey conducted by Broadband Genie. This spring the UK government will increase the TV licence fee by 6.7 per cent — in line with inflation — […]

BBC Studios has secured a raft of sales for documentary series Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution and Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, demonstrating the appetite for the pop culture genre with international buyers.  Specialist Factual Productions has put the cultural legacies of Disco and Hip-Hop under the spotlight in two multi-part series. […]