BBC launches online BBC Store

The BBC has launched BBC Store today, its new online shop for buying digital copies of shows to keep.

The portal, which is only available to UK users, is a sister site to BBC iPlayer, which has become the most … Read More

From streaming news to kids’ iPlayer: BBC expands online plans as cuts loom

The BBC is expanding its online plans for an open, more distinctive BBC, as the organisation acknowledges it will have to face tough choices.

Speaking today in the face of looming cuts and ahead of next year’s Royal Charter renewal, … Read More

Armando Iannucci defends BBC in rousing Edinburgh speech

Armando Iannucci delivered a passionate defence of the BBC in his speech to the Edinburgh TV Festival last night,

The 40th annual James MacTaggart Lecture, which has previously been delivered by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey and the former BBC director … Read More

Over 60m global viewers watching BBC iPlayer for free

Over 50 million people around the world are watching BBC iPlayer for free, according to new research.

BBC iPlayer is a service for UK users, funded by the licence fee, but a study by GlobalWebIndex, which interviewed around 47,000 people … Read More

iPlayer loophole to close as BBC landed with over-75s licence fee bill

The BBC will be given full responsibility for subsidising free TV licences for over-75s, the government has announced.

The deal, which is set to be confirmed in today’s 2015 Budget by Chancellor George Osborne, will see the broadcaster footed … Read More

The rise of online TV – and its cost for the BBC

The way that people are watching TV is changing, as young viewers increasingly turn to the web for their video fix, rather than the living room telly. But that shift comes at a cost, as BBC employees have discovered this … Read More

BBC Trust approves plans to move BBC Three online

The BBC Trust has approved plans to move BBC Three online next year.

The proposed reinvention of the channel as an online-only service has been controversial ever since it was first suggested, but the Trust identified “clear long-term potential” in … Read More

BBC develops way to control TV with your mind

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like for Professor Charles Xavier to watch TV, the BBC might have the answer.

Working with This Place, the broadcaster has developed a way to decide what you watch on your television with a … Read More

YouTube review: Kermode and Mayo’s Film Thing

When is a radio show not a radio show? Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s weekly film review programme on BBC Radio 5 Live has consistently asked that question, like two bickering uncles wondering who ate the last Twix (the answer, … Read More

Daniel Radcliffe GTA drama leads new BBC Two line-up

Nigella Lawson speaking at the BBC Two 2015 launch in London Photo: BBC

Daniel Radcliffe will star in a new Grand Theft Auto-based drama on BBC Two.

The feature-length drama, which co-stars Bill Paxton, will follow the controversy surrounding the … Read More