Barb, the audience measurement specialist, has published a first-time report entitled What People Watched in 2025. The report explores how people in the UK watched their favourite television show last year. It covers live and on-demand, linear and streaming viewing for broadcasters, streamers and video-sharing platforms. The findings include: Live viewing remains a substantial part […]
BBC Chief Content Officer Kate Phillips has introduced changes to the division’s senior leadership team: Fiona Campbell has been appointed Director of Factual and Ed Havard has been appointed Director of Entertainment. BBC’s Chief Content Officer, Kate Phillips, commented: “In Fiona Campbell and Ed Havard we have two inspirational leaders who will ensure that Entertainment […]
The latest season of BBC One’s The Traitors is the most popular yet, generating more readership interest than any prior edition except for 2025’s celebrity spin-off, data from Taboola shows. Taboola’s readership data, taken from its network of UK publishers, shows that articles about The Traitors season 4 generated 3.6 million pageviews in the two […]
Taboola, a specialist in powering recommendations for the open web, has revealed the most popular news stories of 2025 across its UK publisher network. Former-prince Andrew, Wimbledon and Netflix’s Adolescence series were amongst the most popular stories. Taboola’s Newsroom data provides a picture of what UK audiences care about most, by analysing which topics are […]
The debut season of Celebrity Traitors may have caught the nation’s attention, but legacy favourite Strictly Come Dancing remains the UK’s most read-about reality TV programme, according to data from Taboola. Over the past three months, articles about Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One), now in its 23rd season, have generated over 55 million page views – […]
Mantis, a provider of contextual advertising solutions with built-in brand safety and suitability, has revealed data highlighting that 64 per cent of articles covering The Celebrity Traitors (published and analysed across the Mantis network, between October 8th – 27th ) are being flagged as unsafe for advertising by these outdated tools. This is due to […]
The first episode of The Celebrity Traitors has already been watched by over 11.7 million viewers to date [October 16th] and continues to grow reports the BBC – with 2.2 million 16-34 year olds tuning in, breaking its own record for most viewed episode of the programme. This makes the series debut of The Celebrity […]
Production company Studio Lambert has promoted three members of its senior team as the company continues its growth in large scale unscripted shows and drama series. Tim Harcourt, who has been creative director since 2014, becomes chief creative officer. Harcourt has led the company’s unscripted programming for nearly a decade and been responsible for many […]
The BBC has announced that The Traitors will be back on UK screens this summer, and this time the action takes place in Australia. The Traitors Australia has been acquired by the BBC and is another series of the reality game show that will this time see a group of contestants arrive at a historic […]
All3Media is reportedly exploring sale options that include cashing out on their joint venture in a deal that could be worth more than £1 billion (€0.93 billion). Liberty Global and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) are considering selling their stakes in the UK-based TV producer, which is home to over 50 production companies, to a third […]