YouTube challenges BBC with educational shows for UK viewers
by Jim Waterson from Technology | The Guardian on (#4P6N6)
Company commissions series on science, philosophy and history in part to refresh image
YouTube has stepped on the BBC's toes by commissioning a series of educational programmes aimed at British audiences, partly in an attempt to improve the site's image following a run of negative press.
YouTube Originals has ordered programmes on the fall of the Berlin Wall, a science series fronted by the former T4 presenter Rick Edwards and a philosophy series from a business founded by Alain de Botton, as the company increasingly blurs the lines between an online platform and a traditional broadcaster.
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