The pastel-hued, fictional town of Balamory is set to return to screens, BBC Children’s and Education has announced. Commissioned for two new seasons on CBeebies, families will be able to enjoy the home-grown storytelling about the celebrated nursery school from 2026 and will once again be filmed in Scotland, whether in original location Tobermory or […]

Everyone TV has revealed that its new streaming platform, Freely, gives viewers access to 70,000 hours of on demand content for free, which it says (backed by research from Ampere Analysis) is more than any major SVoD player in the UK. Freely, which launched in April, enables British audiences to stream live channels and seamlessly […]

The BBC has reported strong year on year growth for its iPlayer streaming service, and is outstripping all its competitors across all audiences – powered by creativity and storytelling from across the UK. The service continues to break records – with viewing up over 20 per cent in 2024 so far. BBC iPlayer’s viewing growth […]

 TMT Insights is partnering with BBC Studios on a multi-year project to help it transform its digital media supply chain. Through a combination of TMT’s Polaris operational management software platform and professional services expertise, the BBC’s commercial global content studio and media & streaming business will centralise control of its content library across worldwide regions, enhance operational continuity, […]

BBC Studios and Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, have announced the launch of the BBC Earth FAST channel in EMEA. The channel is now available in Benelux, France, Germany, Italy and the Nordics. BBC Earth will include BBC Studios’ award-winning factual content, from natural history productions to investigative and inspirational […]

Television is no longer the single main source of news for UK adults, as Ofcom research shows online sites and apps are now as popular as TV news for the first time. TV has been considered the leading source of UK news since the 1960s, when widespread set ownership saw it overtake radio and newspapers. […]

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), in partnership with the Korean Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), held Korea in View @BCWW on August 29th, hosting over 300 delegates at COEX, as part of the 3-day broadcasting content convention. The conference opened with a special welcome address by Eun Young Kang, Director of the Broadcast & Advertisement […]

BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, and Delta Air Lines have announced a partnership that brings the live, 24-7 BBC News channel to passengers on Delta’s fleet of domestic aircraft for the first time. The deal unlocks access to the BBC’s programming and deliver up-to-the-minute breaking news for Delta passengers flying in the […]

BBC Studios Kids & Family have announced that a new series of multi–award winning hit, Hey Duggee, will premiere on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer from September 9th and will include the show’s landmark 200th episode. The series will launch with nine brand–new episodes and a further 10 being released in early 2025. The new episodes […]

The BBC has acquired the UK rights to over 1,000 episodes of the English dubbed versions of the celebrated anime series One Piece. The series, produced by Toei Animation and based on Eiichiro Oda’s manga series of the same name, is the No.1 manga in the world with over 500 million copies sold and over […]