Broadband Content Bits: Focus UK

Bunch of broadband content-related news coming out of UK:

BBC TV Plus – The Apprentice Comes To Broadband: “The Apprentice” TV show has been a smash hit in the UK, much the same as it was in the US. The BBC now plan to use it as the “first extensive broadband experience,” as part of the BBC TV Plus project…All of this is accessible via the heavily reworked BBC Two Web site.

C4 puts IT Crowd online a week before TV broadcast: Fans of Channel 4 comedy series the “IT Crowd” will be able to watch full-length episodes online in the week before they are broadcast on TV, following a deal with FremantleMedia.

Blinkx to create online video player for ITN: News broadcaster ITN is aiming to generate new advertising revenue via the web after appointing search engine Blinkx to create and power the ITN online video player.

Gervais podcast in the record books: The Ricky Gervais Show will be included in the 2007 edition of the Guinness World Records’ book – as long as no other podcast tops it before it is published in the autumn.

Broadband boost to BT revenues: Broadband revenues grew by 40 per cent to

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