As part of the split, the BBC planned to tender its programmes, so that independent producers and BBC Studios could bid for the rights to produce its non-news programming, outside of top shows (such as Doctor Who) assigned to BBC Studios. The proposal attracted criticism from independent studios, who felt that it would result in the formation of a 'super-indie' that would unduly benefit from 'guaranteed' programme commissions from the BBC. The proposal was described by The Guardian as being 'one of the biggest changes to the BBC in its 93-year history'. As a for-profit company, BBC Studios would be allowed to pay higher wages to its executives and talent, and no longer face scrutiny over them as it did as a public entity. This proposal would allow the BBC's units to produce programmes for other broadcasters and digital outlets (which could be done in conjunction with its international distribution arm BBC Worldwide) in addition to the BBC's publicly funded properties. In September 2015, the BBC's general director Tony Hall announced a proposal to split the BBC's in-house production units for non-news television programming into a separate BBC Studios division, which would eventually, with BBC Trust approval as part of the next revision to the BBC's charter, be spun-out as a for-profit subsidiary of the BBC. as a production company was first registered on 27 February 2015. BBC Studios has committed to growing this total by a further 30% to a new target of £1.5bn in the five years from 2022/2023. The company is on track to meet its five-year target of returning £1.2bn to the BBC by 2021/2022. īBC Studios represents formats and programmes made by hundreds of independent producers, as well as its own production teams and returned £176m to the independent sector in 2018/2019. It achieved 73 awards and 202 nominations in 2019/2020. The merger of BBC Studios and BBC Worldwide in 2018, brought the company in line with other major multinational studio conglomerates.īBC Studios Productions was the UK's most commissioned creator of new content in 2019, with 77 new commissions from the BBC and third-parties. In exchange, the BBC agreed to place production of much of its non-news programmes to tender, allowing third-party independents to compete with BBC Studios on bids to produce them. The BBC Studios production division was formed in 2016 and launched as a commercial entity in 2017, enabling it to produce programming for other broadcasters and services to generate profit to return to the BBC to supplement licence fee income. īBC News and BBC Radio remain separate internal production divisions in the BBC (although BBC Radio Comedy is part of BBC Studios), and the rest of the former BBC Television division (channels and genre commissioning, including BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer) are part of the BBC Content division. BBC Children's production is set to move into BBC Studios Productions from April 2022 to increase the potential of taking British children's content to the wider global market, along with BBC Three's in-house production team, which is joining from April 2021. īBC Studios Productions brings together the majority of BBC Television's former in-house production departments Factual, Drama, Comedy, (both combined as Scripted in the new division), Entertainment, and Music & Events. BBC Studios creates, develops, produces, distributes, broadcasts, finances and sells content around the world, returning around £200m to the BBC annually in dividends and content investment. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide. BBC Studios Factual Entertainment ProductionsīBC Studios Formats + Features ProductionsīBC Studios Intermediadora de Programadora EstangeiraīBC Studios is a British content company.

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