Eurovision 2021: How, when and where to watch

The BBC has unveiled its plans for Eurovision 2021, as the continental song contest returns to our screens following last year’s cancelled competition.

The Netherlands will play host to the competition following the country’s victory in 2019 in Israel with … Read More

BBC iPlayer has record start to 2021

BBC iPlayer has seen its best quarter on record at the start of 2021, with more than 1.7 billion streams in the first three months of the year.

The BBC’s streaming service has grown 22 per cent on the same … Read More

BBC Three to return as linear broadcast channel in January 2022

BBC Three will officially return to linear TV in 2022.

The channel, which first launched back in 2003, went online-only 2016, as part of wider budget cuts across the organisation. Since then, it has released content straight to BBC iPlayer, … Read More

BBC iPlayer and the TV Licence: Your questions answered

As of 1st September 2016, you now need a TV Licence to use BBC iPlayer to watch BBC programmes live, after broadcast or download them to stream offline.

Here’s what you need to know:

Why do I need a TV … Read More

TV Licence rises to £159 this April

The government has confirmed that from 1st April 2021 the cost of the annual television licence fee will increase from £157.50 to £159.

The government, not the BBC, is responsible for setting the level of the licence fee and announced … Read More

BBC renews The Split for third and final season

The Split will return to BBC One for a third and final season.

From BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning writer Abi Morgan (River, Suffragette, The Hour) and executive producers Jane Featherstone (Chernobyl, Giri-Haji, Utopia), Lucy Dyke (The Split, Black Mirror, Ripper … Read More

BBC iPlayer checks in to Bates Motel

BBC iPlayer has bagged the rights to all five seasons of Bates Motel.

The deal, with NBCUniversal Global Distribution, will give BBC iPlayer the full box set of the show, which aired in the US between 2013 and 2017 and … Read More

Can’t Get You Out of My Head: BBC iPlayer to stream new Adam Curtis series

Adam Curtis is returning to BBC iPlayer with a new series of six films titled Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World.

The journalist and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker has struck a chord with … Read More

BBC iPlayer racks up record-breaking start to 2021

BBC iPlayer has racked up a record-breaking start to 2021, with its biggest week on record.

Viewing surged on BBC iPlayer in the first full week of January (4th January to 10th January), as viewers streamed 162 million programmes – … Read More

Peaky Blinders to end with Season 6

Peaky Blinders will return for a sixth and final season.

The hit crime family saga, written and created by Steven Knight, has become a cult phenomenon since launching in 2013. It stars Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby, a crime boss … Read More