{"id":406641,"date":"2017-09-25T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/25\/bbc-iplayer-from-the-archive-classic-TV\/21|23221831"},"modified":"2017-09-25T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:48:00","slug":"bbc-is-putting-hundreds-of-classic-tv-programmes-on-iplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/bbc-is-putting-hundreds-of-classic-tv-programmes-on-iplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC is putting hundreds of classic TV programmes on iPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old-but-new additions includes the Louis Theroux <em>UFOs<\/em> episode from his <em>Weird Weekend<\/em> series in 1998, the gripping 2010 documentary <em>Leaving the Cult<\/em> and <em>Killing for Love<\/em>, a six-part murder-mystery series that aired earlier this year. Documentary episodes from science and philosophy series <em>Horizon<\/em>, international showcase <em>Storyville<\/em> and arts programme <em>Imagine<\/em> will be available too. The BBC is also promising content that &#8220;hasn&#8217;t been shown since first broadcast,&#8221; including the <em>Great War Interviews<\/em>, a series of conversations filmed in the 1960s with World War One veterans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tmFbMmP30Sk\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The launch follows the closure of the BBC&#8217;s own digital store. When it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/05\/bbc-store-launch\/\">launched in November 2015<\/a>, the broadcaster put a heavy emphasis on classics such as <em>Dad&#8217;s Army<\/em> and <em>Morecambe &amp; Wise<\/em>. Clearly, the move didn&#8217;t pay off. Two years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/25\/bbc-store-closing-november\/\">when BBC Store closed<\/a>, a spokesperson admitted there was a larger demand for its shows &#8220;on SVOD and other third party platforms.&#8221; While it&#8217;s still possible to buy BBC programming through iTunes, Google Play and physical media retailers, it&#8217;s clear the BBC is putting more focus on iPlayer. With growing competition from Netflix and Amazon, it needs a strong library to keep Brits from streaming elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old-but-new additions includes the Louis Theroux UFOs episode from his Weird Weekend series in 1998, the gripping 2010 documentary Leaving the Cult and Killing for Love, a six-part murder-mystery series that aired earlier this year. Documentary episodes from science and philosophy series Horizon, international showcase Storyville and arts programme Imagine will be available too. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-406641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}