A BBC service that let people buy and “keep” BBC shows is to close less than two years on from its 2015 launch. A spokesman for BBC Store said demand had not been as strong as had been hoped and that it did not “make sense” to invest in the service further. BBC Store was intended as an extension of the BBC iPlayer, where content expires 30 days after broadcast. A message on its website said the BBC would “continue…
This week’s episode of BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who will have a section of dialogue removed as a mark of respect to victims of Monday night’s terrorist attack in Manchester, RadioTimes.com understands. The excerpt in question from upcoming story The Pyramid at the End of the World made passing references to terrorism as part of a more general discussion of threats to Earth, but the BBC has decided that as a matter of sensitivity it should be removed. The rest…
BBC Worldwide today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with leading Chinese media company, Shanghai Media Group Pictures (SMG Pictures) that will see expansion of the Doctor Who brand in China. The MOU was inked yesterday evening at a signing ceremony at BBC Worldwide’s Television Centre in London, with Mr Chen Sijie, GM of SMG Pictures and Jaclyn-Lee Joe, Chief Marketing Officer, BBC Worldwide. Madam Wang Jianjun, Director General President of Shanghai Media Group, Tim Davie, Chief Executive of BBC…
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Comedy Peter Kay’s Car Share and returning dramas Doctor Who and Line Of Duty captivated BBC iPlayer viewers in April, with the three series making up the entirety of the top ten most-requested episodes. New data shows requests were up by 23 per cent on this time last year, reaching 274 million in April. Four-part comedy series Peter Kay’s Car Share was the month’s most popular programme, with all four episodes in the top five rankings and all episodes achieving…
Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension: Doctor Who fans are deep into the 10th season of the beloved BBC series, but they’re going to want to take a break to check out Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension, a crossover event featuring four Doctors from Titan Comics. The Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors will need to come together to face a threat that no one Doctor could face alone. The event kicks off in the Alpha issue being released on Titan’s…
Official figures released by the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board or BARB, give Doctor Who – Oxygen an official rating of 5.27 million viewers. The rating includes all those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. Doctor Who is the 26th most watched programme for the week, and 11th most watched on BBC One The final rating is the lowest the series has achieved since Survival aired in 1989. The chart position though, is higher than that of…
If ever there was a man who could make astutely rib-tickling political observations, it’s Armando Iannucci. The man who gave us The Thick of It (and Peter Capaldi’s fabulously foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker) knows how to put a brilliantly satirical spin on politics, so it’s little wonder he’s already rolling out the humdingers ahead of election day on 8th June. Iannucci was a guest on the first episode of the new series of The Last Leg on Friday night, and while…
Doctor Who – Extremis had an Audience Appreciation or AI figure of 82 The Appreciation Index in an indication of how much viewers enjoyed the episode. It is based to the reactions of a selected panel of viewers, who rate the episode shortly after transmission. 82 is considered a good score, roughly similar to the scores achieved by the last series of the show, The highest score for the evening on the two main channels was for Casualty, which scored…
He may have travelled to the furthest reaches of the universe, but Geordies won’t be surprised to learn that The Doctor loves the Toon. Appearing at Newcastle’s Film and Comic Con this weekend, Sylvester McCoy, the actor who played the seventh incarnation of the time-travelling hero in the BBC TV series Doctor Who, spoke about his love for the city. He told us he was visiting to “celebrate science fiction and fantasy” at the annual festival, but he was happy…