A show generally well-known for receiving complaints, either for the programme itself or its personnel, Top Gear‘s latest wave of angry letters has reportedly come from India, where a Christmas special was recently filmed. The show is said to have been taken the wrong way by a selection of Indian diplomats, who alongside the High Commission of India [...]

The BBC are reportedly planning to bring in a newly-structured licence fee system, as part of a project to give access to the broadcaster’s vast archive to those that pay for it. The archive, which would be run on a subscription-only segment of the network’s free online catch-up service BBC iPlayer, could face issuing a ‘second licence fee’ [...]

The BBC have confirmed that even they are not immune to TV’s ’endless repeat syndrome’, recently admitting that over half of their schedule contains repeated programming, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. Flagship channel BBC One alone screened 2,736 shows as ’rerun’ between April 2010 and March 2011, at a rate said to be 1.7% higher than [...]

LoveFilm are gearing up for a big year in the UK streaming market, by securing content deals with the big two TV networks. They have secured a deal with both ITV and BBC Worldwide to show classic British programming, with streaming shows that include Doctor Who, Cold Feet, Spooks, Planet Earth, Prime Suspect and Inspector [...]

England’s Premier League in football is one of the country’s biggest domestic sporting competitions, and serves as the hub of some of the biggest-money transactions for any club football competition in the world. Much of this money arrives via the sale of broadcasting rights, and while UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports has been the primary [...]

BBC Worldwide yesterday revealed that a global release of their BBC iPlayer app is set to roll out on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch by the end of this week, with the public service broadcaster following on from the release of a subscription-based tablet version in July. That release, called ‘Global iPlayer’, offered subscription-based BBC content originally to users in [...]