The BBC are going to town with their live Olympic coverage which will be fed through 24 new HD channels accessed via the BBC red button service and it will also be available on Sky and Freesat as well as live streaming on the BBC website. Now you can watch any sport’s event throughout the [...]
LoveFilm the Online vod and rental service have added TV shows from the BBC to its German vod portal. Although the BBC content deal was announced in January, UK viewers already have access to BBC content via iPlayer. But LoveFilm are not just UK based, they have a streaming service in other European Countries such [...]
Netflix are said to be one of several international buyers of the rights to BBC’s English direct-to-TV film United, a feature starring David Tennant based on the true story of the tragic 1958 Munich air disaster that killed many of the Manchester United football team of that season. The crash, which saw 21 people (including 8 players) lose their lives [...]
BBC1 gameshow Total Wipeout is set to be dropped after the completion of its next series, claiming that the assault course format has ‘served its purpose’, and is being cancelled mainly to save money and to use the timeslot for other programming. The series, hosted in a studio by Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond and on-site in Argentina by Amanda [...]
While the weekend’s near head-to-head launch and relaunch of BBC1′s The Voice UK and ITV1′s Britain’s Got Talent (respectively), was billed as a decisive ‘ratings battle of the year’ between the two channels and shows, the results have proven to be inconclusive, as while it was the new format that was edged out on TV ratings on Saturday night, Simon [...]
BBC Three ‘supernatural comedy’ Being Human has been renewed to carry on for a fifth series, with the move formally announced a day after the fourth had ended. The final episode (the show’s 31st episode overall) of a fourth season which averaged 950,000 viewers seemed to give the channel’s executives confidence in extending the show, though it will [...]
