Mark Thompson, the BBC’s Director General, has revealed more details of the international version of the BBC iPlayer – the corporation’s streaming video on demand service – at this year’s FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference in London.
Topic: Doctor Who
BBC to restructure online offerings, axe 360 jobs and 200 sites
The BBC, one of the most recognisable names online, has announced that it will restructure how it offers content online.
Its budget being cut by 25 percent, 200 sites being shut down and at least 360 jobs being cut from the public broadcaster over two years.
Doctor Who to debut on iView before TV
Doctor Who fans will be able to watch the first episode of the new series, starring the Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith, on ABC’s iView service when the clock strikes at midnight on April 16 before it makes its debut two days later on ABC1 – and all this within two weeks of the BBC’s debut of the new series.
BBC looking into global iPlayer catchup service
The BBC is said to be looking into offering a global service to its iPlayer service, currently available to the UK market only, with the help of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. However, unlike the iPlayer in the UK, you are likely going to be charged to watch one single episode.
Geek Out: MAME console in a TARDIS
It’s not bigger on the inside, but it has a kick-arse MAME controller.
While there are things that we certainly think that are weird, we don’t think this is – unless you are not a game freak or a Doctor Who fan. You really have to be a nerd to actually design this system, and even build a MAME controller in a design just like the console of the TARDIS – well not the one in the modern series.
Doctor Who : Time Crash
Children in Need in the UK has just finished. It also had a special episode from Doctor Who, my favourite sci-fi show. Scouring over the net, I managed to find it…
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