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

Trailer: The A List returns for Season 2 on Netflix

The A List is returning for Season 2, but this time on Netflix.

The coming-of-age drama explores the lives, loves and pasts of a group of teens. Landing on BBC iPlayer as a complete box set in October 2018, the … Read More

Eurovision 2021: 16 best songs from the semi-finals

Tonight sees Eurovision back on our screens, after a year of no contest due to the coronavirus pandemic – and it’s never been more welcome, as countries from across the continent (and Australia) compete in the Grand Final of the … 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 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