The BBC has confirmed that its Maida Vale recording studios have now been sold to a partnership between Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner – Co-Chairmen of Working Title, Hans Zimmer and Steven Kofsky. The deal is valued at around £10 million (€11.6m) but the BBC did not disclose the purchase price. Maida Vale Studios has […]

The BBC has announced ‘under the hood’ updates to its iPlayer service. There are two key improvements: Rapid availability – The BBC has introduced a bit technology they’re calling pseudo VoD – which ensures programmes are now available to watch on demand on iPlayer much more quickly than they were before. Previously, if viewers missed […]

Millions turned to the BBC this summer to follow the Ashes via Test Match Special (TMS), daily television highlights on Today at the Test, social clips and dedicated pages across the BBC Sport website and app. There were 27.3 million listening requests from audiences tuning into TMS on BBC Sounds or the BBC Sport site, […]

New shorts by two emerging creators have landed on Pinterest as a result of a collaboration between BBC Studios and the visual inspiration platform.  The partnership saw creators Emma Downer and Seun Ogunsola commissioned to make original video content. Funded by Pinterest, the creators received commissions for a shortform series (6 x 2 minutes each) […]

The BBC has reported that 5.2 million watched its coverage of England’s Round of 16 fixture against Nigeria at the Women’s World Cup on BBC One August 7th. There were also 2.6 million streams across BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online, as England triumphed in a penalty shootout following a nil-nil draw. The match coverage, […]

Latin American marketplace Mercado Livre has launched a streaming aggregator service for its 77 million customers in Brazil. Mercado Play results from a partnership with the Disney+, Star+, HBO Max, and Paramount+ streaming platforms. It provides free access to around 1,600 titles, with 6,000 hours of content, including movies, TV series, documentaries, and reality shows. […]

The BBC will broadcast England’s last-16 match against Nigeria, at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, live on BBC One on August 7th at 8.30am. Fans can also listen to the Lionesses’ knockout game across BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds Audiences can also watch four other Round of 16 fixtures on BBC TV and […]

From August 19th to 27th, the BBC is providing live coverage of every event from the World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest across TV, radio and online. A top line-up of athletes will be sharing expert insight and analysis, as well as their thoughts on medal hopefuls Dina Asher Smith, Daryll Neita, Keely Hodgkinson and […]

Classic BBC series Oppenheimer, which stars Sam Waterston as atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer, is now available to watch on iPlayer. With Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster epic of the same name proving a hit in cinemas at the moment, viewers can watch the BBC’s take on this brilliant, conflicted physicist. The seven-part series originally aired […]