The return of Idris Elba’s popular detective drama Luther gave BBC iPlayer a dramatic start to the year for BBC iPlayer, generating 3.7 million requests for the first episode and 11 million requests for all four episodes of the new series.
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BBC could make shows available to watch on iPlayer for at least a year in major new shake-up
Published today for public consultation, the plans also include proposals to make selected series box sets available and boosting the amount of content from the BBC archive that can be streamed.
Doctor Foster’s return dominates September’s BBC iPlayer ‘most watched’ list
Also making a strong showing was detective series Strike, which adapts JK Rowling’s two novels about detective Cormoran Strike, The Cuckoo’s Calling and Silkworm, with three episodes in the top 20 most popular programmes in September.
BBC Player launches in Malaysia after BBC and HyppTV strike deal
The service, which is available exclusively to HyppTV subscribers, will let viewers watch selected shows from BBC Worldwide’s global brands BBC First, BBC Brit, BBC Earth, BBC Lifestyle, CBeebies, as well as BBC World News.
BBC 4K services ‘to use iPlayer’
The BBC’s 4K (Ultra HD) service is likely to launch on the broadcaster’s iPlayer service rather than any broadcast platform according to head of technology, Andy King.
BBC to introduce mandatory login for iPlayer in bid to deliver a “more personalised” service
As well as iPlayer, logging will become mandatory on BBC iPlayer Radio and many of the broadcaster’s mobile apps.