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BBC Three
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BBC Three, October link for doc with Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson
BBC Three has commissioned October Films for a doc fronted by Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson. …
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BBC Three shows return to linear fold
The BBC is to create a dedicated slot devoted to the best of BBC Three…
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BBC Three orders surgery debate format from Gobstopper TV
BBC Three has commissioned Surgery on Show (WT) from Gobstopper Television, a debate format that…
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BBC hands commissions to Bandicoot, Naked Entertainment
BBC Scotland has commissioned two seasons of eight-part quiz show format Test Drive from Argonon-backed…
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BBC Three controller boards Endemol’s Tiger Aspect
BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh is to join Peaky Blinders producer Tiger Aspect in the new…
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Amazon to adapt BBC Three’s People Just Do Nothing
Amazon is adapting BBC Three comedy People Just Do Nothing. The global SVOD has ordered…
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BBC Three’s Stupid Man Smart Phone lands in Singapore
Kalel Productions’ BBC Three fact ent format Stupid Man, Smart Phone is heading to Singapore. …
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Parable moves to TV with first VR original for C4
Channel 4 has commissioned its first virtual reality original from VR studio Parable, named Grenfell:…
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Online net BBC Three lands £10m content investment
British online channel BBC Three has bagged an additional £10 million (US$13.9 million) for new…
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BBC picks up Phoebe Waller-Bridge thriller Killing Eve
BBC has acquired Killing Eve, a new thriller by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to premiere on…
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BBC Three orders comedy from People Just Do Nothing star
BBC Three has commissioned a new comedy by People Just Do Nothing star Lily Brazier,…
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Time Inc’s UK prodco secures first commission
Time Inc. UK’s recently launched TV production arm, TI Productions UK, has secured its first…
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BBC wants ‘demonstrably broader’ channel
UK pubcaster the BBC wants its flagship network, BBC One, to have a “demonstrably broader…
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Kirkham: no topic ‘taboo’ for BBC Factual
BBC factual controller Alison Kirkham has pledged that “no subject should be taboo” for the…
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Endemol Shine creates Successville comedy label
Endemol Shine Group has created a production company with the team behind BBC Three comedy…
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Netflix copro among raft of BBC drama commissions
The BBC has announced a raft of new drama series including Duty/Shame, a copro with…
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BBC celebrates Gay Britannia
UK pubcaster the BBC is to run a season of programmes celebrating gay culture in…
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Idris Elba to take over BBC Three
Idris Elba is to oversee a “unique and ground-breaking” season of content for the BBC’s…
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Passion releasing The Boy Who Tried to Kill Trump
Passion Distribution has snagged The Boy Who Tried to Kill Trump, the doc special about…
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BBC looks to Valentine’s Day laughs
The BBC has commissioned a Valentine’s Day special from an emerging British comedian. Luisa Omielan’s…
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Bennett to lead Sky UK and Ireland after rejig
Sky Atlantic director Zai Bennett will lead the wider Sky Entertainment business in the UK…
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Professor Green making weed, child poverty docs
UK rapper Professor Green is making a pair of docs about social issues for the…
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BBC Studios debuts Auntie Productions
The BBC’s programme-making arm, BBC Studios, has unveiled new division Auntie Productions, which launches with…
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BBC parodies Making a Murderer with spoof
The BBC has commissioned Sexy Murder, a six-part comedy that spoofs true crime hits such…
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Laughing matters at the Edinburgh Int’l TV Festival
Shane Smith and his plan to take over the media world dominated delegate chatter at…
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BBC Three behind most-watched show on iPlayer
The BBC’s youth skewing, online-only network, BBC Three, has produced the most requested show of…
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Rival channels ‘up after BBC Three online move’
Commercial TV viewing on television sets was up in the in the UK in the…
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BBC doc boss takes BBC Two post
The BBC has appointed its head of documentaries, Patrick Holland, as channel editor of BBC…
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BBC Three investigates LGBT hate crimes
Online UK broadcaster BBC Three is lining up a 3x50mins doc series investigating hate crimes…
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Cleverman exec nabs ABC scripted post
Australian pubcaster the ABC has appointed its head of indigenous to the new post of…