BBC iPlayer to stream Reading and Leeds Festival highlights

With the 2020 Reading and Leeds Festival not taking place this summer, due to the coronavirus pandemic, BBC Music will instead broadcast a weekend of highlights from previous festivals.

From 28th to 30th August, BBC iPlayer will launch a pop-channel … Read More

Soho Theatre launches Shedinburgh Fringe Festival

The Soho Theatre is launching its own Shedinburgh Fringe Festival, an online event that will preserve the spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe… in sheds.

The digital festival will present the very best of the Fringe stalwarts of theatre, music and … Read More

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020: Your online planner

The 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be reimagined as a digital event this summer, after the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The world’s largest arts festival typically brings in several hundred thousand people to see a wide … Read More

Curzon Home Cinema live Q&As: The full line-up

Curzon Home Cinema is hosting live Q&As with filmmakers this spring, as the UK continues to be on lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

The streaming service aims to bring the magic of communal cinema-going to people’s homes with live interviews … Read More

Royal Albert Hall streams concerts live online: The line-up

The Royal Albert Hall is just one of many venues across the UK with their doors shut during the coronavirus pandemic, but, like the National Theatre and others, it’s also turning to the web to serve up some digital culture … Read More

Laura Marling, Benjamin Grosvenor join live Proms 2020 line-up

Laura Marling, Benjamin Grosvenor and the Philharmonia Orchestra have joined the line-up of live concerts being performed for the 2020 Proms.

This year’s same-but-different classical festival is currently streaming online, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Running from 17th July to … Read More

Disney+ becomes 3rd most popular streaming service in UK

Disney+ is now the third most popular subscription streaming service in the UK, according to new data from Ofcom.

The media regulator’s latest report highlights just how much the home entertainment landscape has changed since the coronavirus lockdown. As people … Read More

BBC iPlayer racks up record six months

BBC iPlayer has racked up a record six months this year, as lockdown drove up viewing on the Beeb’s streaming service.

A record-breaking number of viewers turned to BBC iPlayer in the first half of 2020, with 3.1 billion requests … Read More

BBC iPlayer streams Scenes for Survival

Scenes for Survival, the theatre project created by the National Theatre of Scotland in response to the coronavirus pandemic, is moving to BBC iPlayer this month.

The project, which has been running online and on social media since 27th … Read More

How has the coronavirus lockdown impacted streaming?

The digital video sector has officially boomed during the coronavirus lockdown, with spending on buy-and-keep digital downloads rising 87 per cent year-on-year.

Spending reached £113 million from March to June 2020, while 1.8 million new customers either bought or rented … Read More