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  • BBC announces new experimental Scottish comedy season

    BBC announces new experimental Scottish comedy season

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    Airing under the ‘Funny Firsts’ strand, the four week season launches on 23 November with The Comedy Underground, a stand-up show, bringing together the best, brightest and most exciting comedians gigging in Scotland right now including Susan Riddell, Stuart McPherson, Christopher KC, Donald Alexander and Ray Bradshaw.

  • BBC iPlayer to offer Sir David Attenborough’s Dynasties in Ultra HD

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    Each episode of the series, which follows individual animals including lions, chimpanzees, and emperor penguins, at the most critical period in their lives, will be to stream following their broadcast on BBC One.

  • BBC iPlayer adds new coming of age drama The A List

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    Filmed in remote locations in Scotland to imbue the show with “a stunningly beautiful world in contrast to the psychological tension of the drama”, The A List was made by Kindle Entertainment for the BBC.

  • Spencer Jones and Shaun Williamson cast in new BBC One sitcom

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    The pressure is on Leslie to find, and keep a job, pay for the honeymoon and keep his father-in-law (Williamson) happy, his mum (Harriet Thorpe) and her new boyfriend (Oliver Maltman) happy and hang on to Jemma long enough to walk up the aisle together.

  • BBC Earth to launch in Slovakia and Czech Republic

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    Billed as “seeking to inspire audiences by sharing the incredible wonders of our universe,” BBC Earth will host the Pay TV premiere of Sir David Attenborough’s latest landmark natural history, Dynasties.

  • Luther – BBC makes every episode of series 1-4 available on iPlayer

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    Written and created by Emmy-nominated Neil Cross and starring Idris Elba as DCI John Luther, a role for which he’s received a Golden Globe and SAG Award, the series follows Luther as he’s drawn into terrifyingly complex cases in a dark and dangerous London.