BBC Studios
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BBC Earth launches new mobile quiz app featuring content from Blue Planet II
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Developed by Kalypso Media in partnership with BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster’s commercial arm, the BBC Earth Quiz App includes over 4000 questions and clips drawn from Planet Earth, Planet Earth II, Life, Africa and The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II.
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BBC Worldwide takes majority stake in SS-GB and The Durrells producer
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The firm was founded by Sally Woodward Gentle in 2013 along with Lee Morris and Henrietta Colvin with a focus to develop and produce innovative, original and ambitious television drama and feature films.
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BBC Worldwide announces new Top Gear “premium” car care range
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The full range will be unveiled at the Spring Fair, NEC Birmingham, on February 3rd and will be available in stores from Autum/Winter 2018.
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BBC Worldwide increases stake in Misfits producers, Clerkenwell Films
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Formed in 1998, Clerkenwell is a multi-award winning film and television production company which works regularly with the UK’s leading broadcasters and global SVOD service Netflix, and is currently developing a raft of new shows for broadcast and digital players across the UK, US and Europe.
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Australia’s The Heart Guy is coming to UKTV’s Drama
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The drama, which aired first on Nine Network in Australia, stars Rodger Corser (Glitch, Doctor Blake Mysteries), Nicole da Silva (Wentworth Prison, Rush) and Ryan Johnson (Home and Away) and will premiere in the UK on Thursday 5 April, 9pm on Drama.
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UKTV renews Matt Forde’s political satire Unspun for extended fourth series
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The eight-part series will be recorded on the same evening of transmission, with the extended edition airing later that week. The series starts Sunday 28th January at 10pm.