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Lee Mack’s Not Going Out returns to BBC One next month
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Now the BBC’s longest running sitcom on air, the multi award-winning show also stars Sally Bretton, Bobby Ball, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Geoffrey Whitehead and Deborah Grant.
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ITV and BBC’s BritBox SVOD service launches in Canada
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The service offers much-loved British dramas and comedies, including Classic Doctor Who, Torchwood, Keeping Up Appearances and Poirot, which can be watched online, on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku.
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Alison Steadman and John Cleese discuss new BBC One sitcom Hold the Sunset
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Alison Steadman and John Cleese discuss their new BBC One sitcom Hold the Sunset which arrives on screen soon. Steadman plays Edith, a widow for some years now for who life is pretty good.
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Four BBC channels launch on Myanmar’s CANAL+
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BBC Worldwide Asia has announced a deal with CANAL+ Myanmar FG Ltd that sees four of its channels – BBC World News, BBC Earth, CBeebies and BBC Lifestyle – launch on new payTV platform, CANAL+.
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How should the BBC distribute its content? Auntie wants your views
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A draft policy published today covers issues such as the prominence of BBC content, conditions about the attribution of content and requiring platform owners to provide the BBC with data about the usage of its services.
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BBC iPlayer enjoyed best ever year in 2017 with 3bn streaming requests
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The BBC’s iPlayer enjoyed its busiest year ever in 2017, with TV fans streaming more than 3.3 billion programmes, including 4.8 million requests for the first episode of the acclaimed natural history series Blue Planet II.