The BBC iPlayer catch-up service may be at the pinnacle of streaming services, but it could be even better, according to the BBC. The service could provide a superior streaming service using targeted rolling content said John Tate, BBC director of policy and strategy. Speaking at a recent Westminster Media Forum,  he said, “The service [...]

A new BBC-commissioned report has found that UK networks are believed to by ‘negatively stereotyping’ selected groups of people, after ‘young people’ and ‘older women’ both stated their strong beliefs that their respective demographic is being ‘misrepresented’ on TV. A survey (conducted by NatCen Social) that formed part of a report entitled Serving All Ages (organised by the BBC’s ‘Creative Diversity [...]

The BBC have announced a landmark partnership deal with Sky that will bring the BBC’s VoD service iPlayer into the homes of five million Sky customers this year. Later this year BBC’s iPlayer will become accessible to Sky customers on their home TV sets. Using BBC’s iPlayer, viewers can catch-up on BBC programmes in the [...]

It seems as though TV executives at ABC could be running out of ideas at the moment, as they look across the Atlantic for the inspiration behind their latest planned sitcom, a proposal to re-make of UK classic comedy, Only Fools and Horses. It is thought that the network have commissioned Brian Bradley and Steven Cragg (writers of Scrubs) [...]

This year’s version of one of the most popular multi-national annual TV broadcasts got a step closer last night, as event organisers unveiled a number of key details relating to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, which is being staged in Baku (Azerbaijan). The singing competition is open to entries from all eligible member nations of the European Broadcasting [...]

The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up TV service has enjoyed it’s biggest ever audience figures in December (up 29% from 2010), with the huge jump in requests from not from computers, but connected devices such as connected TV sets, tablets and smartphones. The BBC have revealed that for the month of December, they received 187 million views [...]