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BBC confirms the removal of sketches on iPlayer due to censorship The Bafta-winning comedy series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb have had almost a dozen of their sketches redacted from iPlayer after deciding the sketches are too offensive for the 2020s, the BBC confirms. That Mitchell and Webb Look ran for four seasons between […]

1 month ago

It’s going up again The BBC licence fee is increasing again in April, it has been announced. Currently, the fee costs £174.50 per year, after it was raised by £5 in 2025, and £10 in 2024. However, the government has confirmed that it is rising once more, and by even more this time. The licence […]

9 months ago

Here’s how it will happen The BBC is planning to use iPlayer to find out which households haven’t paid for a TV licence, Sky Money has reported. For the first time, in order to help find licence fee evaders, online BBC accounts could be linked with home addresses. This means that any household that watches […]

9 months ago

Considering the show ran for much of the 90’s and had a big cultural impact, you’d expect the figure to be much more. Charlie Higson, who co-wrote and acted in the classic BBC sketch show The Fast Show, has posted one of his royalty cheques to social media, and people can’t believe how little he […]

2 years ago

The show has returned to streaming platforms but the scenes deemed ‘offensive’ have been cut Noughties TV hit Little Britain has returned to BBC iPlayer and BritBox after having been removed from Netflix and various other platforms back in June of 2020 – however it has had numerous controversial scenes removed. The show came under […]

4 years ago

“I remember getting excited seeing a brown person on a game show” Hitting BBC iPlayer this week is Muzlamic, a new sketch show billed as “exploring life from the perspective of two Muslim comedians, or rather, two comedians who happen to be Muslim”. Muzlamic stars social media comic Ali Shahalom (better known as Ali Official) and […]

7 years ago