EastEnders dominates BBC iPlayer activity

EastEnders dominated BBC iPlayer activity in May 2014, making up 15 of the 20 most popular programmes.

Usage of the BBC’s on-demand service continues to climb, with iPlayer racking up a total of 273 million requests (downloads and streams) last … Read More

BBC and Channel 4 competing for young viewers?

The BBC and Channel 4 have both lost more young viewers than other broadcasts, according to stats from Broadcasts’ Audience Research Board.

The figures, published in The I Newspaper, show that the Beeb and Channel 4 have both lost 12 … Read More

BBC launches new iPlayer

The BBC have launched a new iPlayer, especially designed “for a multiscreen world”, with the aim of making the service more accessible to all devices and users.

The responsive design of the new web version – which is rolling out … Read More

BBC confirms plans to turn BBC Three into online channel

“It’s not the end of BBC Three, it is the beginning of a new BBC Three.”

Those are the words of Director General Tony Hall as he confirmed that BBC Three will be moved exclusively to iPlayer in autumn next … Read More

BBC Trust approves proposals for paid on-demand service BBC Store

The BBC Trust has approved proposals to launch BBC Store, a new online commercial service for audiences to buy and keep BBC programmes.

BBC Store will allow users to buy new programmes and a selection of content from the BBC … Read More

Coming soon: Dixi, CBBC’s first online show

Watch out, Netflix, there’s a new kid on the Internet TV block: CBBC, who are launching its first ever online TV show, Dixi, in February.

Tackling issues of intrigue and deception in a fictitious social network, Dixi will be available … Read More

VOD TV review: The Musketeers (BBC) – Episode 1

Photo: BBC/Dusan Martincek

There’s no getting round it. BBC’s new sword-slashing drama The Musketeers is rather pants. In fact, pants feature rather heavily; there’s barely a scene where our heroic quartet aren’t slipping in or out of their trousers after … Read More

Time And Relative Downloads In Space – why Doctor Who’s missing episodes on iTunes are important

Think it’s hard waiting a day for the final episode of Breaking Bad to reach Netflix UK? Here’s something that Doctor Who fans have been waiting nearly five decades for: a huge haul of nine missing, presumed destroyed episodes from … Read More