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TBI Factual Hot Picks: Julius Caesar: Rise Of The Roman Empire (w/t)
Producer: BBC Studios The Documentary Unit & PBS | Distributor: BBC Studios | Broadcaster(s): BBC2…
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Tern re-teams with Darren McGarvey for BBC factual series ‘Mind The Gap’
BBC Scotland and BBC Factual have co-commissioned Darren McGarvey – Mind The Gap (working title),…
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BBC picks up ‘Colin From Accounts’ S2 after recent renewal
UK pubcaster the BBC has acquired the recently announced second season of Australian comedy Colin…
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US series ‘The Bold Type’ & Oz drama ‘Bad Behaviour’ come to UK’s BBC Three
UK pubcaster the BBC has acquired all five seasons of US comedy-drama series The Bold…
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BBC & Channel 4 seek ‘noise’ & ‘mischief’ for digital teen audiences
UK broadcasters the BBC and Channel 4 have shared their digital content strategies for teen…
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BBC & CBC partner with Idris & Sabrina Elba & Supercollider for docuseries co-commission
UK and Canadian pubcasters, the BBC and CBC, have co-commissioned Paid In Full: The Battle…
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Netflix, Prime Video & Disney+ to face Ofcom scrutiny as UK gov’t reveals media reforms
The UK government has outlined plans to bring global services including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video…
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BBC acquires Australian comedy ‘Colin From Accounts’ for UK
UK pubcaster the BBC has acquired Australian scripted comedy series Colin From Accounts for BBC…
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BBC investigates true crime gold heist doc from Bohemia Films
UK pubcaster the BBC has commissioned one-off true crime documentary The Gold: The Inside Story….
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Exclusive: ‘Blue Lights’ creators on taking BBC police drama from script to screen
Mark Layton delves into the creative process with screenwriting partners Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson…
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Sales round-up: China goes Beyond for kids & factual; BBC takes ABC’s ‘Born To Spy’; ‘The Water Guardians’ land in Canada & Europe
China goes Beyond for kids & factual Chinese broadcasters and platforms have acquired a range…
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UK subscribers embrace SVOD in face of cost-of-living crisis
Overall SVOD subscription numbers are increasing in the UK, despite the country’s current cost-of-living crisis,…
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News round-up: BBC calls ‘Gossip Girl’; ‘The Mole’ pops up in Italy; Lat Am lands Eccho’s ‘Legacy’
BBC calls Gossip Girl The BBC in the UK has picked up rights to the…
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Kids roundup: WarnerMedia APAC hires Disney alum Melissa Lim; Moonbug shows comes to BBC iPlayer; Ferly & Toonz partner for ‘Kingdom Of None’
WarnerMedia APAC hires Disney alum Melissa Lim WarnerMedia has appointed Melissa Lim as the new head…
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BBC iPlayer picks up Curious Films & Picture Zero co-pro climate doc
UK-based Curious Films and Picture Zero are co-producing a new documentary about the work of…
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BBC iPlayer orders ‘Once Were Lions’, rugby league feature doc
BBC iPlayer, the UK pubcaster’s VOD service, has ordered a feature-length documentary about the Great…
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BBC’s scripted acquisition spree continues with return of ‘The Bridge’
The BBC in the UK has struck a new deal for hit Nordic drama The…
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BBC Three revs up more ‘Drag Race UK’
BBC Three has renewed its hit local adaptation of RuPaul’s Drag Race for a second…
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BBC readies fourth revamp of iPlayer in 12 years
The BBC is working on a total overhaul of its iPlayer streaming service, the broadcaster…
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UK producers express concern at BBC’s rights plan for iPlayer
British producers have expressed concern about BBC plans to make programmes available for longer on…
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ITV boss defends “different and distinctive” BritBox UK plans
ITV boss Carolyn McCall has defended the broadcaster’s SVOD tie-up with the BBC, BritBox UK,…
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BBC iPlayer stats led by ‘Luther’ in January
Detective drama Luther was the best-performing programme on the BBC iPlayer in January, in a…
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BBC reports ‘best year ever’ for streaming service iPlayer
UK pubcaster the BBC has said the iPlayer recorded its “best year ever in 2017”…
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TBI Weekly: Sub success for SVOD players
A range of stories from this week highlight that a push in original content is…
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Christmas cheer for record-breaking BBC iPlayer
The BBC’s on-demand service in the UK, BBC iPlayer, enjoyed a record week over Christmas,…
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Vevo president and CEO Erik Huggers steps down
Erik Huggers has stepped down as the president and CEO of major label-backed music video…
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Blue Planet II is BBC iPlayer’s top series of 2017
Big-ticket natural history series Blue Planet II is the most requested show on the iPlayer…
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Doctor Foster drives BBC iPlayer
The BBC logged 239 million requests for TV programmes on the iPlayer in September, up…
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BBC iPlayer content head exits
Victoria Jaye, BBC iPlayer’s head of TV content, has decided to leave the UK’s pubcaster….
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BBC iPlayer unlocks programming vault
The BBC has added a section to its iPlayer catch-up service that will include a…