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YouView announces 400,000 activations, Android app and new features
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Internet and broadcast TV service YouView says 400,000 boxes have been purchased and activated since the service went live last July. Launched last year amid widespread media scepticism, the service is a joint venture between the UK’s largest free to air broadcasters and ISPs BT and TalkTalk. At a press briefing held at the firm’s…
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BBC recommissions Gillian Anderson’s The Fall
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BBC bosses have ordered a second series of The Fall, Allan Cubitt’s crime thriller which stars Gillian Anderson as a detective seconded to Belfast from London’s Metropolitan Police to review an unsolved high-profile murder. Rather than follow the traditional “whodunit” approach, the series offers a “will-they-stop-him?” story with the culprit identified from the start. Viewers…
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BBC iPlayer to offer radio downloads
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The BBC Trust has approved plans to offer radio content for download via the iPlayer. At present, audiences can only access most BBC Radio content via the streamed online version of iPlayer for up to seven days after the original broadcast. Unlike radio content, TV shows can be downloaded to a computer or tablet…
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White House Down – Behind the scenes with Roland Emmerich
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Director Roland Emmerich talks about his new big budget action film White House Down. In the film, Channing Tatum plays Capitol Policeman John Cale, who has recently been turned down for a job in President James Sawyer’s (Jamie Foxx) Secret Service protection detail. Not wanting to disappoint his daughter with the news, he takes her…
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Virgin Media website claims “BT Sport is coming”
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Cable company Virgin Media says BT Sport “is coming” to its network this summer. The three BT channels will offer sports fans 38 Barclays Premier League matches per season, exclusive Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) coverage and 800 hours of live tennis, including the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. BT has also bought Disney’s ESPN channels,…
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BBC admits to wasting £100m on failed digital archive
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The BBC has admitted wasting almost £100m of public money on a failed technology project which has “generated little or no assets”. In 2008 the BBC Trust authorised BBC managers to proceed with the Digital Media Initiative (DMI), an ambitious project aimed at creating a digital archive of the corporation’s archive content. BBC managers promised…