Ofcom approves change after corporation says it is struggling to compete with Netflix The BBC will be allowed to keep programmes on its iPlayer service for up to a year after they are first broadcast rather than the current 30 days, in...
Katharine Murphy talks to Caroline Fisher, project leader of the Digital News Report Australia 2019, a recent survey on Australia’s engagement with the media. Why do Australians avoid the news? Who is most vulnerable to fake news, and...
Broadcaster confirms majority of staff will take redundancy rather than leave London No senior Channel 4 executives will move to Leeds as part of its relocation, the broadcaster has said while confirming that it expects the majority of...
England’s victory over Scotland attracted average audience of 4.6 million, compared with 550,000 for men’s cricket Women’s football is now more popular than cricket – at least when it comes to TV ratings. England’s victory over Scotland...
Tory leadership candidate left squirming after presenter does not say whether they got on Prospective Conservative leadership candidates might expect to get a hard time from the Today programme or Newsnight, but for Esther McVey, it was...
Generous redundancy payments pushing cost of moving HQ from London above £50m Channel 4’s move out of London will cost at least £50m, with the number of staff seeking redundancy payments in preference to leaving the capital running at...
From the serious to the faintly ridiculous, here’s my attempt to explain three puzzling issues Journalists learn from their first day in the trade that their articles should include the five Ws: who, what, where, when and why. The first...
Basil Brush | Stressed dogs | Sharon White | Automated tills | Shared birthdays Basil Brush was a “children’s television favourite of the 80s” ( Edinburgh fringe to host Basil Brush chatshow , 6 June)? His eponymous TV series ended in...
Russian version will revolve around role of a CIA agent before the nuclear accident Russian state TV is set to air its own drama about the deadly 1986 Chernobyl disaster – but unlike the HBO series, which has transfixed viewers around...
Conservative news show anchor praises the Democratic 2020 election candidate for promoting ‘economic patriotism’ Conservative news show anchor Tucker Carlson has praised Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren ’s economic...
Searches of an editor’s home and at the ABC’s offices spark talk of a ‘slippery slope’ for press freedom Annika Smethurst, the political editor of Australia’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper, was preparing to leave her Canberra home shortly...
Mindy Kaling stirs up the stale, male writing team behind Emma Thompson’s talk show in this warm and witty comedy ‘I wish I was a woman of colour so I could get a job with zero qualification!” The authentic voice of establishment...
Contestants should be given more advice on dealing with social media after leaving the villa, as well as career support As a doctor working in a busy hospital A&E in south-east London, I thought spending the summer of 2018 in the sun...
He wanted to be an astronaut but became a squatter, grouse-beater and Lib Dem councillor. As the Up series hits 63, the man whose story gripped a nation explains why he won’t be watching When Seven Up first aired in May 1964, it featured...
Study by Mental Health Foundation finds 24% say shows cause body image issues Reality TV is fuelling young people’s anxiety about their bodies, which can lead to suicidal thoughts, according to a survey released ahead of the new series...
As a new season of TV’s paranoid satire Black Mirror is unveiled, its creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones talk ‘disrespectful’ chemistry, being grownup and why the show is not about tech ‘Why all the happy endings?’ Charlie and...
The game is shrinking in its homeland, but it still thrills hundreds of thousands Once in a while sport throws up some feat of truly astonishing athleticism. Professional sportspeople operate all the time at a level which most of us...
Jonathan Munro says those now complaining left BBC News ‘male, pale and stale’ A BBC boss has hit out at criticism of the corporation’s news output by former executives, branding them “armchair generals” who allowed BBC News to be...
She was fired by Emmerdale, injected some much-needed grit into Coronation Street and struck gold with Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley. Now Sally Wainwright is going international • Read the text version here Continue reading...
Streaming firm says increases will let it spend more on shows as it looks to see off Disney+ Netflix is to raise prices for UK subscribers by up to 20% as it looks to invest more in programmes ahead of the arrival of deep-pocketed rival...
2019-05-24T00:00:00 BBFC releases Annual Report 2018 Over the past year, the BBFC has received a 65% rise in content for distribution online. Video on demand (VoD) continues to receive more BBFC age ratings than any other format Ratings...
The Age-verification Regulator under the UK's Digital Economy Act, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), has advised age-verification providers that they will not be certified under the Age-verification Certificate (AVC)...
2019-04-17T00:00:00 Age-verification for online pornography to begin in July Porn sites must check age of users or risk facing sanctions New approach is the first of its kind in the world, and puts in place the same protections that...
Today the BBFC has launched an innovative new industry collaboration with Netflix to move towards classifying all content on the service using BBFC age ratings. 2019-03-14T00:00:00 Netflix will produce BBFC age ratings for content using...
Today, Safer Internet Day 2019 is being celebrated globally with the slogan: ‘Together for a better Internet. 2019-02-05T00:00:00 Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations...
Today, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) publishes new Classification Guidelines, and in response to public demand is calling for greater consistency for age ratings across different platforms. 2019-01-16T00:00:00 The...
2018-12-03T00:00:00 We would like to let you know that BBFC fees will increase from 1 January 2019. In line with our commitment to setting fees at RPI -1% based on the September RPI figure from the Office for National Statistics, given...
BBFC web services will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and certain services will not be accessible to customers on specified weekends. 2018-10-04T00:00:00 To ensure we are providing the best possible service to our customers we will...
From 1 October organisations can submit applications for the BBFC donations program. The closing date for applications for this years BBFC charitable donations program is on the 30th November 2018. 2018-09-28T00:00:00 The...
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) today launches primary school PSHE education teaching resources in a bid to help equip pupils with the tools to make the best choices about what to watch, when and where....