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From midnight today you can set up an account allowing you to buy BBC Store programmes via bbcstore.com. The programmes you buy appear on BBC iPlayer under the new My Programmes area and will be available to play back at your leisure. You have them for ever. There is no subscription to BBC Store. You pay only for the programmes you want.
BBC Store launches with 7,000 hours of archive content from across all genres – from Sherlock to Only Fools and Horses. But new output will also become available soon after it has aired – at 1am a full day after the date on which it is first broadcast. You can buy individual episodes, or sign up to a series deal that means shows will be automatical...
The cost varies – prices for a single episode start at £1.89 and the average for a six-part series is £7.99. The BBC says it will be flexible about pricing and will be keeping an eye on the market price points of other content suppliers like Amazon and Netflix.
To date, only 10% of the millions of hours of BBC TV content produced over the decades has been made commercially available through DVD sales. The BBC knows it is sitting on a treasure trove of great programmes and – with a punitive licence fee settlement round the corner – that it needs to find new sources of revenue. The Corporation's commercial ...
The BBC says it has plenty of drama, comedy and entertainment shows but admits that the genres least represented are current affairs, sports and children’s programmes. Current affairs and sports are relatively restricted because of historic rights agreements and children’s content because the BBC has reduced the amount of programming it makes over ...
Yes. There will be real humans curating the available content and making suggestions as well as algorithm-based recommendations for future purchases based on what you've bought in the past. And there will be ideas from well-known BBC faces too. The BBC Store site will host Louis Theroux’s “collection” in the first week, while Sherlock and Doctor Wh...
According to Arthur, this is only “the start of a huge journey”. The BBC reckons 55 to 70 hours of content will be added each week as new shows go out on BBC channels. And with older archive content being uploaded all the time it hopes that by the end of the year 10,000 hours of content will be available. This can only grow. The Corporation estimat...
Yes, one of the early available shows will be Top Gear: The Races in which Friends star Matt LeBlanc guides viewers through some of the highlights from the show’s racing archive. Episodes of several Dennis Potter dramas and The Frost Interview from 1974 will also be made commercially available for the very first time. The Frost interviews contain c...
This is a UK-only service and there are no plans to roll it out worldwide. If you are travelling you can download content to your computer to watch abroad or on long journeys. In the lead up to Christmas, the BBC will release the apps that allow you to download your bought content to your tablets and smartphones.
The BBC won’t go into details but assure everyone that it has taken the appropriate precautions. It also promises it won’t be selling your data to third parties.
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Sep 23, 2020 · Published: 23 September 2020. The new Archive Search website allows those with a BBC commission or in paid development to search for content from across our online libraries and catalogues via...
Jul 18, 2022 · This is the largest release of digital archive content in BBC history, categorised by the nations and regions of the UK and containing many emotional and powerful stories, many of which have...
From January 2022, the entire digitised BBC broadcast archive is being made available to teachers, schools and students in formal education in the UK. Here we explain what the archive holds and...
The British Film Institute (BFI) provides public, on-request access to the BBC Television Archive. It provides research and viewing services but does not supply copies of BBC Television content.
BBC Archive from around the UK. Explore thousands of BBC archive films. This unique collection shows life and events across the UK since the 1940s.
