BBC picks up Australian comedy Bump

The BBC has acquired the Australian comedy drama Bump.

The 10-part series follows an ambitious teenage girl who has a surprise baby and the complications that arise for two familiee.

Overachieving Year 11 student Olympia Chalmers-Davis (Nathalie Morris), who knows … Read More

15 Storeys High: Sean Lock sitcom returns to BBC iPlayer

15 Storeys High, the sitcom by the late Sean Lock, has been added to BBC iPlayer, in the wake of the comedian’s tragic passing.

Lock, who won the British Comedy Award back in 2000, has been a household name for … Read More

Black Ops: BBC orders comedy thriller from Gbemisola Ikumelo

Famalam’s Gbemisola Ikumelo is reteaming with the BBC for new comedy thriller Black Ops.

Produced by BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe, the six-part series is created by Ikumelo (Famalam, Brain In Gear) and actor and producer Akemnji Ndifornyen … Read More

The Beaker Girls return for new BBC series

Riding high on the success of My Mum Tracy Beaker earlier this year, The Beaker Girls are getting back together for a new BBC series.

My Mum Tracy Beaker set a new record as CBBC’s most successful launch ever, when … Read More

Gossip Girl: BBC iPlayer sets August release date for new and old series

Gossip Girl will officially be coming to UK TV screens this August, BBC iPlayer has confirmed.

The pop culture classic, based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s book series of the same name and starring Leighton Meester amd Ed Westwick, originally ran … Read More

UK adults spent third of 2020 watching TV and video

UK adults sought solace in screens and streaming in 2020, spending a third of their waking hours watching TV and online video content, according to Ofcom’s annual study of the nation’s media habits.

With people across the UK under some … Read More

Line of Duty, Time, EastEnders and Euro 2020 help iPlayer score record six months

Drama and sport fans helped BBC iPlayer to score a record-breaking first half of the year in 2021. Programmes were streamed over 3.3 billion times between January and June this year, up 8% on the same period last year, and … Read More

BBC iPlayer trials Watch with Friends feature for Glastonbury 2021

Music fans may not be able to gather at Worthy Farm this year, but they can still get together on BBC iPlayer, with a new Watch with Friends feature being trialled throughout the weekend, starting tonight and running until Sunday … Read More

Wimbledon 2021: BBC announces tennis tournament plans

Wimbledon will once again be opening its doors this year and the BBC will be there to broadcast the tennis tournament into living rooms across the country.

Running from Monday 28th June to Sunday 11th July, the event will be … Read More

A Change of Sex: BBC iPlayer brings back landmark transgender documentary

BBC iPlayer has brought back a landmark transgender documentary A Change of Sex for Pride Month.

The five-part series, which was broadcast between 1979 and 1999, followed the late transgender activist Julia Grant, who died in 2019, before, during and … Read More