Microsoft is to launch an online TV player in the UK next week, initially featuring 350 hours of BBC and ITV television programmes.
The ad-supported service, called MSN Video Player, is designed to complement TV channels’ existing online video services by offering older programmes no longer available on the BBC’s iPlayer or Channel 4’s 4oD, Microsoft said on Thursday.
Content will include BBC programmes including Hustle, The League of Gentlemen, Mock the Week, Hotel Babylon, Dead Ringers, That Mitchell and Webb Look and Jack Dee Live at the Apollo, as well as content from All3Media, the producer of How to Look Good Naked, 10 Years Younger, Peep Show and Midsomer Murders, Microsoft said.
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