The first episode of the third season of Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley has been watched by 11.3 million people so far, as revealed by 30 Days All Screens data. Happy Valley has also been the biggest on-demand title across all platforms in the UK so far this year. The third and final season of the […]

BBC iPlayer has seen its best year ever, breaking 7 billion streams for the first time ever. 2022 grew 9 per cent on 2021, and ended the year with both the best month and best quarter iPlayer has ever seen, with 700 million streams for December and 2 billion streams between October and December. The […]

The BBC has acquired North Sea Connection, with the Irish crime drama set to air on BBC Four and iPlayer in February. Written by Mark Greig (Marcella, Bulletproof), and directed by Hannah Quinn and Paul Murphy, the six-part series is a story of complex family dynamics set against a dramatic Irish landscape. Ciara Kenny fishes […]

The BBC has announced that it will broadcast a number of live NBA basketball games during the remainder of the 2022-23 season. The first fixture to be shown will be the NBA Paris Game between Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons tonight [January 19th], available on BBC Three and iPlayer. Per the deal, four regular season […]

The BBC has acquired Anthony Horowitz’s mystery series Magpie Murders, and will air its follow up, the forthcoming Moonflower Murders, which will be made by Eleventh Hour Films in association with Salt Films for PBS Masterpiece and the BBC. Based on the books of the same names, both series are adapted for television by Horowitz […]

The Olympic Games will remain on the BBC up to and including 2032, ensuring the events remain free-to-air for another decade. In a new joint partnership with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), the BBC will bring coverage of the Olympic Games and all the major moments on TV, radio, online […]

Following the success of mystery game show The Traitors on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, the BBC has acquired the rights to The Traitors US from All3 Media International produced by Studio Lambert for NBC Universal. The series will land as a boxset on BBC iPlayer from January 13th, and then be shown on both […]

Viewers and listeners flocked to BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds in record numbers over the festive period with millions also watching on BBC TV and listening on BBC Radio. On BBC iPlayer, every day across the ‘festive fortnight’ – December 20th to January 2nd – programmes were streamed more times on iPlayer this year than […]

The World Cup Final match on December 18th brought in a peak TV audience of 14.9 million on BBC One, with a TV audience share of 58 per cent. Argentina’s dramatic victory over France was also streamed 7.1 million times on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online. Audiences flocked to the BBC throughout the World […]

The France vs Morocco World Cup semi-final match pulled in a peak TV audience of 10 million on BBC One on December 14th. The match was also streamed 3.8 million times on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online, making it one of the BBC’s five most-streamed games so far this tournament. France won the game […]