After shifting online in 2016, the channel returns to your EPG on February 1st. After March’s plan and September’s confirmation, BBC Three’s wilderness years are finally over. The BBC’s youth-skewed channel resumes its linear broadcast position next month. Shifted online as part of a cost-cutting exercise, the channel will return to its place timesharing with … >
The UK based streamer is branching out into Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Denmark in 2022. Following a new distribution deal, BritBox International is preparing to double its roster of countries. They currently stream archive British shows to the UK, the US, Australia and South Africa; from early 2022 the streamer’s reach will encompass Scandinavia too. … >
Writer Steven Knight indicates that it’s a matter of when, not if. Almost two years ago, CultBox happily reported that scripts for the second run of Taboo were almost complete. With writer Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) teasing the show’s future potentially running to a third season, there was optimistic talk of a late-2019 or 2020 … >
Sally Wainwright’s BAFTA award winning drama stars Sarah Lancashire as Sergeant Catherine Cawood. The BBC have announced that there will be a third series of Happy Valley, their hard hitting police drama, to be comprised of six episodes. As well as Sarah Lancashire, both James Norton and Siobhan Finneran are confirmed as reprising their roles; … >
The upcoming Steven Moffat penned drama also stars Stanley Tucci and Lydia West. The BBC and Netflix have released the first images of the impressive cast they’ve gathered for their new mini-series Inside Man (no relation to the 2006 Spike Lee movie which starred Denzel Washingtion). The story, told across four hour-long parts, will follow … >
Fleabag’s Sian Cifford and Sherlock’s Jonathan Aris board the BBC/HBO fantasy epic As production continues on the third run of His Dark Materials, a couple of familiar British television faces are joining the cast according to Deadline. Based on Phillip Pullman’s concluding novel in the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, Sian Clifford and Jonathan Aris will … >
Asked if he had a plan for the future of Doctor Who after 2022, BBC Drama Controller Piers Wenger stated at the Edinburgh TV Festival on 25 August 2021, “No, I don’t. As with any change of Doctor and showrunner, it will be ambitious and radical. We will have to look at the TV landscape … >
BBC complacency is the summary of a slamming report on the publicly funded broadcaster If you’ve yet to work you way through the various reports noted on the UK Parliament website, you may not picked up on the report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), slamming the BBC complacency. The full list of points noted is damning; … >
According to a report published by the Department for Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS), it seems the BBC licence fee is here to stay for a good few years Most obviously relevant only to our UK readers, this has huge bearing on the future of the BBC and the way it make programs including a … >
Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director General has outlined the BBC blueprint for transformation over the next seven years The new blueprint (which you can download and study) is a thirteen page document focused on tangible outcomes the BBC wishes to achieve. We’ve been covering the forces at play in the BBC, and some of its … >