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Virgin Media O2 online tool maps iconic TV locations

Virgin Media O2 is launching an interactive online map revealing the iconic locations featured in many of the UK’s most popular TV shows. The new online tool, TV Mapper, allows users to search by show, genre or region; plan the ultimate fan route; and follow in the footsteps of their favourite characters, virtually or in […]

July 29, 2021

Promising Young Woman to premiere on Sky Cinema

The Promising Young Woman movie, nominated for 6 BAFTAs and 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, will join the Sky Original film line-up in a partnering with Focus Features and Universal Pictures International. The film will be available to UK audiences exclusively on Sky Cinema and Now from April 16th. The debut feature from writer/director/producer […]

March 25, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Paramount+ launches in LatAm

ViacomCBS has launched the new Paramount+ streaming service in Latin America with more than 5,000 hours of content. Paramount+ will be the Latin American home of SHOWTIME, Paramount+ Original Series premieres, CBS Television Studios, and select movies from Paramount Pictures. The service will also feature a variety of content and local productions from iconic ViacomCBS’ […]

March 4, 2021

HBO Max, BBC to co-produce The Girl Before

HBO Max and BBC One will co-produce the psychological thriller The Girl Before, a four-episode limited series based on the global bestselling book of the same name by. J.P. Delaney. Emmy nominated Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve) will direct. The Girl Before tells the story of Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who gets the chance to move into […]

March 3, 2021

iPlayer: Record-breaking start to 2021

The start of 2021 has seen viewing surge on BBC iPlayer, with the first full week (January 4th– 10th) breaking records as viewers streamed 162 million programmes – as they flocked to watch programmes such as The Serpent, A Perfect Planet, Traces and EastEnders on iPlayer. That week also saw a record 4.1 million people […]

January 19, 2021

BBC iPlayer exceeds 5bn annual requests

This year there have been 5.3 billion requests to stream content on the BBC iPlayer service across January to November, 33 per cent ahead of the same period last year, and already 850 million requests higher than the whole of 2019. Killing Eve has once again been a huge hit, with nearly 40 million requests […]

December 8, 2020

Ofcom: Lockdown doubles SVoD screen time

A surge in screen time during lockdown saw UK adults spend 40 per cent of their waking day watching TV and online video services, broadcast regulator Ofcom has found in its annual study of the nation’s media habits. People spend

August 5, 2020

iPlayer requests up 47%

A record-breaking number of viewers turned to BBC iPlayer in the first half of 2020, with 3.1 billion requests to stream programmes, up by 47 per cent on the previous year. April-June also marks a new best-ever quarter for iPlayer with 1.6 billion requests, an increase of more than half (59 per cent) on the […]

August 5, 2020

Research: Lockdown boosts family TV viewing

Research conducted by Freeview shows that family TV time is back, with British broods now watching 18 hours of TV together every week – four hours more than before the lockdown. In fact, more than half (57 per cent) of Brits said watching TV as a family during lockdown had been a bonding experience, bringing […]

July 14, 2020

iPlayer sets record month with 570m requests

Viewers flocked to BBC iPlayer in record numbers in May, which has now become iPlayer’s biggest month ever. There were 570 million requests to stream programmes on iPlayer in May, up from 564 million programme requests in April, which was the previous best month on record, and growing an extraordinary 72 per cent on the […]

June 30, 2020