Match of Yesterday: Can the Premier League really stop people tweeting football clips on Vine?

Match of the Day turns 50 years old this weekend, celebrating five decades of selecting clips, sharing them with audiences and commenting on them. After tonight’s programme finishes, it will not be on BBC iPlayer.

Why? Because it never has … Read More

VOD film review: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

This machine-tooled young adult fantasy is a franchise non-starter.Read More

Netflix to adapt A Tale of Two Cities with Channel 4?

Netflix is reportedly planning to adapt Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities in collaboration with Channel 4.

The Internet TV company is no stranger to co-producing content with broadcasters, divvying up the rights for Norwegian thriller series Lilyhammer and … Read More

If you liked Netflix’s recommendation engine, you might like Sky’s new TV guide

If you liked Netflix’s recommendation engine, you might like Sky’s new TV guide.

Yes, the signature feature of Netflix’s intricate suggestion-based system has now been given its own Sky equivalent. From today, Sky customers will see recommendations on their … Read More

VOD film review: Calvary

Brendan Gleeson is brilliant in John Michael McDonagh’s bleak, funny and moving tale of a good man coming to terms with his mortality.Read More

Doctor Who Extra: BBC announces behind-the-scenes iPlayer series

Doctor Who Confidential is dead. Long live Doctor Who Extra.

The behind-the-scenes programme that once accompanied the BBC’s flagship sci-fi series was cancelled in 2011 to cut costs, a decision that disappointed many fans. Now, though, the Beeb has announced … Read More

VOD film review: Two Days, One Night

The Dardennes are at the top of their game with this superbly written, brilliantly acted drama.Read More

BBC releases Notting Hill Carnival documentaries exclusively on iPlayer

The BBC has released four new documentaries about Notting Hill Carnival exclusively on BBC iPlayer.

The BBC is placing an increasingly large focus on iPlayer as its digital media platform, not just revamping the VOD service earlier this year but … Read More

TG4 gets the TV App Engine treatment

One of the main problems facing the VOD industry is fragmentation. Not just of services, but devices – with so many platforms to through on your telly, developing an app that can work across all of them is a challenge. … Read More

Richard Eyre’s Olivier-winning Ghosts available to watch online in September

Richard Eyre’s Olivier award-winning production of Ibsen’s Ghosts will be available to watch online around the world on DigitalTheatre.com in September.

The production, which sold out at the Almeida before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios where it played to packed … Read More