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The BBC iPlayer is a streaming television and radio service made available by the BBC. In addition to programming from the BBC, the platform also offers programs from broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5.
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Sign in (34%)
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Buffering (28%)
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Playback Issues (21%)
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Crashing (17%)
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| Chatham |
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iPlayer Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Andrew Evans
(@snavEwerdnA) reported
As a reminder for those binning their #TVLicence, from someone who's not had one in 8 years, without one you cannot: * Watch iPlayer * Watch OR record anything that classes as a television programme ("of sufficient quality") as it is being broadcast/streamed, only afterwards
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Victor Magister In The West Midlands
(@vicmagister) reported
Why does the @BBC need 10 TV Channels! When 80% of the daily content is repeats or trash TV. 1 TV channel called BBCTV is only needed. All new content only, everything else on iPlayer. Only make quality programs. Licence fee reduced to £6 a month. @Iromg @TalkTV
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Ping
(@pingbarglefarp) reported
@CarolineLucas @acgrayling I’ve read that the 6th episode wasn’t ever going to be broadcast but was for streaming on iPlayer. My stance is that it’s too important NOT to be broadcast with the others and they should rethink. Either way, it not being aired on main tv is a terrible decision.
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OldishBird
(@oldishbird1) reported
@AvrilJonesPhoto @andreajenkyns @tvlicensing I didn’t mention iplayer. I quoted what the site said, you challenged me to screenshot it, I did and you said it was an error then screenshot a section on iplayer. If you use a streaming service other than iplayer and don’t watch live TV you don’t need a licence. Many don’t now.
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Nord-Sud Recordings
(@nordsudrecs) reported
I love iPlayer, BBC sounds and will check BBC website at various points throughout my day. It kept me going through the worst of Covid. Even at my most fervent period of supporting Scottish Independence and their issues around that. I found it hard to imagine a post Indy..
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zapaz
(@zapaz66) reported
@1909Truhaven @sen_j59 If you watch BBC iplayer you have to hav an account, you can make up a false one with a throw away email, i dont know if they go into the trouble of checking ip? Better still just get an IPTV sub, there are plenty of good reliable ones about.
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Gareth Nickless
(@NicklessG) reported
@Roger_Organ (Non-kids) films I watched from around age 12-13: Tremors Aliens Highlander Lost Boys (might be on iPlayer) Robocop T2 Star on Disney Plus is good for 90's actioners The Rock Con Air Broken Arrow
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Catie Latus
(@Catie_xxx) reported
@travis_mcmurry @YouTube I think seqson 1 and 2 are on BBC iplayer x if not, I'll eventually get fhe dvds x might get the seqson 1 dvd for Tyler to sign in May xxx
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Billbium Von Bilbo
(@VonBilbo) reported
@TycjanC @LizaChami It seems to me, that it's still part of the narrative that Edwin points out. Why does the difficult watch episode go staright to iPlayer and the easy nicey nicey episodes get put on prime time BBC1? Whether the BBC always intended to this or not is not really the problem.
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(@sallywilts) reported
@mikeonthemarne You can watch on iplayer. Would be amazing if he didn’t know as it was in the news all week. But he looked offended when Yasmin said he’d broken his wife’s nose. Seemed like chummy old boys club stuff to me. I can see them together over a pint.
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Professional dawdler Isla
(@RandomDawdler) reported
@TreeHouseBkshop @TimSmith2021 I read about that. It seems the last episode is on iPlayer & was never meant to be broadcast. I wrongly assumed they weren't going to broadcast the series. The episode can be watched online-its a separate show from the rest of the series made with help from charities apparently
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monkey
(@monkeygoing2) reported
@AlbieZim I watched it on iPlayer and it was terrible. Looked like the production team halfarsed it and I'm sure I could find better coverage on YouTube. I very much doubt the BBC will want to do that every week (as, despite everything, they usually value output quality).
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Craig Melson
(@craigmelson) reported
@tiff_colin @GarstonOrn Ratings don’t work like that - if you watch it live they only count the people participating in BARB (which is scaled up). If you watch it on iPlayer than yes it will make an impact
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ailsa
(@ailsa_xx) reported
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Renfrew, Scotland
@NudgeAndNurdle Imagine putting an Attenborough doc on iPlayer for fear of being too one-sided on environmentalism being the third worst thing they did in the last two days?
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Xenomorph
(@codemon18429317) reported
@MrMichaelSpicer I think it's improved the programme. Usually fast forward through the boring pundit crap when watching on iPlayer. And the Beeb saves £2m on Lineker's salary for his one day work week.
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Jackie@mrs squirrel. 💚💜🤍 🐿️
(@jackmrss1) reported
@MarchersMedia Fortunately or not we can't even listen to it on the radio, as it's blocked behind a sign in or if you download radio behind a contract. If you sign in they can check against iPlayer to see if you have a licence. We don't cheat so *** em.
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Rose Campbell 🌱
(@RoseLucy56) reported
@guardian @FrasierHarry Reading the article, I can’t see how Attenborough has been ‘cancelled’. Seems like the 6th episode was commissioned as an afterthought by WWF and RSPB. What’s the problem? I’ll watch them all on iplayer.
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Tim Stillman
(@Stillmanator) reported
@Zonal_Marking It massively worked then cos the timezone made a lot of games difficult to watch live. But if I can’t see MOTD on a Saturday and I watch on Sunday, I generally just fast forward most of it. I think an MOTD lite iPlayer show would work very well.
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DanceMatters
(@DanceMatters) reported
@edagoodman Agreed on the Linekar issue. To be fair regarding the Attenborough prog, the episode wasn't made by the team who makes the rest of to the series. BBC bought the rights to the episode especially for iPlayer. It was never going to get terrestrial airtime.
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Shirley Humphreys
(@singhdasa) reported
@m_griffiths92 #askwxm sorry Mark, the Attenborough issue isn't accurate. They made a series of 5 episodes for TV and a separate 6th programme which was only to be shown on iplayer . Otherwise, spot on analysis. #Solidarity #BringBackGary
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Daz Dazo
(@dazo_daz) reported
@BBCMOTD Match of The Day without the egos is actually watchable live now. I can work out what's happening, who's on the ball, when it's a corner, free kick or pen & what the score is because I am watching it. I mostly watch on Iplayer so I can fast forward the post match nonsense anyway.
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Judith Gardiner
(@Jagbooks) reported
@debbiesimone123 @BBC This is tripe. His last couple of series have had exactly the same format of several episodes looking at the wildlife and completed with an essay type type episode looking at the issues, often in a pointed way. They never hived the final one out to the obscurity of iPlayer before
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Steve Keeller
(@KeellerInstinct) reported
@horton_official @JamesCleverly @PippaCrerar Maybe you didnt proof read and understand your own article? If the doc was commissioned on the back of appearing on iPlayer, and has a view, i can understand why this is a problem. The mistake is to fund through private concerns at all.
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Natalya Dell
(@natalyadell) reported
@jeffmcw I haven't had a TV licence since they screwed up the subtitles on the 2010 election debates on iPlayer and refused to fix them before they were taken down. I complained and they didn't GAF, so I cancelled the TV licence. I don't miss it.
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Will Cooling
(@willcooling) reported
@Zonal_Marking Not the worst idea even for the Premier League - throw it up on the red button/iplayer as soon as they can from a rights standpoint
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TimBRS
(@slownews) reported
@jimrossignol Well there's not. There was another show created for rspb and wwt, not part of the series, that the BBC are showing on iplayer. It wasn't a dropped episode. There are so many issues with the BBC and the government we don't need to make up ones.
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Harmonica 🏴🇪🇺
(@NigelBenar) reported
It seems the story about the BBC refusing to screen 'the final' programme about environmental issues in the Attenborough series because of upsetting the right, is untrue. It was only ever planned to be an iplayer episode. Apologies BBC. I have un-retweeted these stories.
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Happy Me
(@HappyMe79697577) reported
@KlCKASSCANTONA @UtdSukeve @BBCCasualty I only saw the last half as couldn’t get the iplayer to work at my mate’s house so had to watch live but missed the beginning. What was Jacob’s problem? Why was he being like that?
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Andy Waghorn💙
(@WFC1963A) reported
@Finesizz We're on around 60 down here. Internet & BT boxes work fine. We don't game & only use Iplayer.
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masksbehindmasks
(@masksbehindmas1) reported
@Marina61Mb @AfMediation He wasn't. The series he did was always a 5 episode commissioned project. The 2 charities that co funded it wanted some reference to bio diversity problems challenges in the UK, that was put into another episode & is available for ppl to watch on iPlayer.