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BBC reveals the top 10 iPlayer episodes of 2017

It was a very big year for the BBC’s iPlayer service, with the BBC announcing that on average 272 million programmes were streamed a month in 2017. Figures were up 11% on 2016, with 3.3 billion requests for programmes in total across the 12 months. Which is rather a lot. Furthermore, the BBC has also … >

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The 27 boxsets heading to BBC iPlayer for Christmas

The BBC has announced that’ll be unleashing a raft of ‘boxsets’ onto its service over the festive season, with full season packs of lots of popular shows being made available again via the service. These range from up to the minute shows, such as Ryan Murphy’s new drama, Feud. Right back to early Line Of … >

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BBC looking at paid-for iPlayer for back catalogue shows

A month or two back, the BBC put a good chunk of archive television material on its iPlayer service, that you can find under ‘From The Archive’ tab on the service. But it looks as though that might be the start of the expansion of the service, with BBC Director General Tony Hall revealing that … >

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Peter Kay’s ‘Car Share’ has broken even more BBC iPlayer records

The new season of Car Share amassed over two and a half million requests in its first three days on BBC iPlayer. All four episodes of the second run of Peter Kay’s comedy premiered on iPlayer earlier this month and occupied the top four slots of requested programmes – the first time this has ever happened. The first episode also … >

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