New York, NY – Today, BBC AMERICA announced the full list of writers and directors for the all-new season of Doctor Who, premiering this fall on BBC AMERICA. Showrunner Chris Chibnall, said: “We have a team of writers who’ve been working quietly and secretly for a long time now, crafting characters, worlds and stories to excite and move…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA’s breakout drama Killing Eve has matched critical acclaim and buzz with consistent viewership gains not seen by any scripted series on television in more than a decade. Leading into Sunday’s season one finale, the show has posted an unbroken streak of ratings growth in the key adults 25-54 and adults…
Read MoreSan Francisco, CA – Social video service Twitch today announced it is joining forces with BBC Studios for the first-ever digital broadcasting event of the Classic Doctor Who series. Over 500 episodes from 26 seasons dating from the show’s inception in 1963 until the 1980s will air worldwide over a seven-week period. Starting May 29,…
Read MoreMiami, FL – BBC Studios and Sony Crackle announced today an agreement that will bring the new series of the iconic Doctor Who to the Sony Pictures Television Networks SVOD platform. Thanks to this deal, Crackle subscribers in the region will have exclusive access to the new series which will feature Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch) as…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Dreams, a TV app designed for your phone, launched publicly today with ten new mobile TV channels spanning live news and entertainment. The app’s made-for-mobile TV channels were built in collaboration with media partners including Discovery and Bloomberg Media Distribution, and include content licensed from BBC Studios. Dreams also announced it has…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA announced today that it had renewed the critically acclaimed series Killing Eve for a second season, days before its April 8th world premiere. Produced by Sid Gentle Films Ltd, the suspenseful cat-and-mouse drama stars Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy, Sideways) and Jodie Comer (The White Princess, Thirteen) and comes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag). Killing…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BritBox, the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, today announces a quarter million (250,000) subscribers, just under a year after launching BritBox in the U.S., and days following its expansion into Canada. The service, home to…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC AMERICA today announced that world-renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough will present Dynasty (w/t), a brand new five-part landmark series from the multi-award-winning BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, co-produced with BBC AMERICA and France Télévisions. Each episode of Dynasty (w/t) follows individual animals – lions, hunting dogs, chimpanzees, tigers, and emperor penguins – at…
Read MoreToronto, Canada – BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, announced today the launch of BritBox in Canada. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service will bring Canadians the very finest and largest collection of British TV available in the market today. Five by Five, produced by and…
Read MoreMiami, FL – BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, announced today the company’s first format deal in Uruguay with Canal 10, the country’s largest free-to-air broadcaster, for El Gran Uruguayo, a series based on the UK format Great Britons. In this one-time event series, the public nominates, and ultimately selects, a person who will be…
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