United Kingdom

The UK region of BBC Worldwide is overseen by Marcus Arthur, President of UK, Eire, ANZ and Global Advertising.

Our UK business identifies and secures commercial opportunities for BBC brands and programmes following their transmission on the BBC, to further audiences’ enjoyment of their favourite shows.

The UK business is also responsible for BBC Store, a download-to-own service launched in November 2015. To date, the service offers UK fans the opportunity to buy and keep up to 9000 hours of BBC programming from recent hits such as Doctor Foster and War and Peace, to classic shows like Dad’s Army, Only Fools and Horses and David Attenborough’s Zoo Quest.

The team also oversees a number of licensing partnerships for our CBeebies titles from Hey Duggee and Go Jetters to fan favourite Doctor Who, which now includes LEGO Doctor Who sets.

Commercial broadcaster UKTV is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Inc., and features a suite of paid and free-to-air TV channels including Dave, Drama, Gold and W. It’s programme offering includes a wealth of BBC programmes, licensed to UKTV for broadcast on its network, such as Doctor Who, Gavin and Stacey and EastEnders.

In addition, the TV Sales team licenses BBC programmes to other linear and digital broadcasters and platforms in the UK, fulfilling demand for second window availability.

In addition, the UK’s Live Entertainment business creates immersive experiences for fans from CBeebies Land at Alton Towers to fan conventions such as the Doctor Who Festival. Future events include Countryfile Live with SME events, to be hosted at Blenheim Palace in August 2016.

The Radio & Music business also sits within the UK business and exploits rights to the music owned by the BBC’s Public Service Radio stations, while the wholly-owned Demon Record Group acquires artist’s catalogues for commercial exploitation in various consumer and business markets.

We also have responsibility for BBC Motion Gallery, a joint venture with Getty Images, which licenses the use of video clips of BBC programmes, and BBC Worldwide Learning, which creates English Language teaching materials from BBC content for use outside the UK, including for CBeebies learning centres in Beijing.

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BBC Store is a UK-only service where you can buy digital copies of the BBC programmes you love.

As well as the very latest shows, available the day after they’ve been on TV, we are opening up the BBC archive on an unprecedented scale. From classics to hidden gems, we are making more content available to you than ever before.

Rather than a DVD, you buy a digital copy of a programme, which means you can watch it by streaming or downloading it to your chosen device. And as well as being able to buy single episodes or entire series of your favourite BBC shows, there are also bundles and box sets.

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