BBC Studios Kids & Family and CBeebies have announced a dual commission for the hit preschool property Hey Duggee. There will be a fifth season of the multi award-winning series as well as a brand-new spin-off called Hey Duggee’s Squirrel Club. Both series are created by Grant Orchard, Senior Director at Studio AKA. Hey Duggee […]

New Hey Duggee episode, The Music Video Badge, is set to air on CBeebies on September 22nd and will be available on BBC iPlayer from September 18th. The musical episode features a number of pastiches and tributes to some of the most iconic music videos ever made, including Beyonce’s Single Ladies, Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball, […]

BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC, has announced the appointment of Nat Poulter, former Co-CEO of global social publisher Jungle Creations, as Vice President of Digital – Commercial, effective immediately. Based in London, Poulter will be responsible for building a cross-platform digital consumer proposition across a portfolio of new and expanding brands with […]

BBC Studios Kids & Family has announced that new Season 4 episodes of the hit animation Hey Duggee will drop on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer from September 4th. There will be 20 new episodes of the show made by Studio AKA with BBC Studios Kids & Family and CBeebies. This final batch of new Season […]

BBC Studios Kids & Family and BBC Studios Social have announced that Felix Martin from the British electronic pop band Hot Chip has teamed up with the hit preschool brand Hey Duggee to create the ‘Hey Duggee: Summer Fun Mix’. Martin has flexed his DJ skills to curate an electro-pop remix of a collection of […]

Prime Video and BBC Studios have announced the launch of BBC Player and BBC Kids on Prime Video Channels in India. The subscription-based service will provide Indian viewers a curated line-up of British content spanning from original British dramas, comedy, documentaries, factual shows, entertainment to lifestyle programming and children’s shows – all on a single destination, for the first time in […]

BAFTA has announced the winners of this year’s BAFTA Children & Young People Awards. Hosted by TV and radio presenter Lindsey Russell, the awards ceremony is a celebration of UK and international content for children and young people spanning film, games and television. The BAFTA winners are: The Snail and the Whale won the BAFTA […]

BBC Children’s has unveiled a host of new programming for all generations enjoy watching together across CBeebies, CBBC and BBC iPlayer. With these new shows, produced across Britain, BBC Children’s says it continues to reflect the lives of children in the UK, with every age able to see something of themselves in the BBC’s new […]

To launch Sir David Attenborough’s new series, The Green Planet, BBC Creative has transformed Green Park Tube station in London into an otherworldly experience for commuters that welcomes them into the world of plants. BBC Creative, the BBC’s in-house creative agency, has rebranded part of the station ‘Green Planet’, creating an immersive experience for passengers […]

The BBC has seen record-breaking year-on-year growth of BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds over the Christmas holidays, as more people consumed its content digitally. On iPlayer, new dramas The Serpent and Black Narcissus, the Christmas antics in EastEnders and Call The Midwife – together with the Spider-Man: Homecoming movie helped smash records for viewing, with […]