BBC (in-universe)


 * This article is about the Earth television network as featured in various Doctor Who franchise episodes. For the real-world network, see British Broadcasting Corporation.

The BBC (short for British Broadcasting Corporation) was an Earth television network. It was based in the United Kingdom and was founded in the 20th century.

History
On 14 July 1930, the BBC broadcast a television adaptation of The Man With the Flower in His Mouth by Luigi Pirandello. This was the first television drama to be produced in the United Kingdom. Provided that the broadcast was successful, the BBC considered producing an adaptation of Black Orchid by George Cranleigh. (PROSE: The Wheel of Ice)

On 2 June 1953, the BBC broadcast live coverage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II from Alexandra Palace. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)

The science fiction television series Nightshade, starring Edmund Trevithick as the title character, ran on the BBC from 1953 to 1958. It was rebroadcast on BBC2 in December 1968. (PROSE: Nightshade)

A BBC News bulletin on 15 October 1957 reports on the recent launch of Sputnik, Earth's first artificial satellite, by the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

Ace watched BBC for a short time while at Mike Smith's house in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

In 1966, BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall reported on the War Machine crisis and announced when the first machine had been destroyed. (TV: The War Machines)

Circa the 1970s, BBC3 broadcast live, on the public affairs programme The Passing Parade, the opening of the Devil's Hump. (TV: The Dæmons)

In 1976, UNIT, members of the band Plasticine, the Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield and Ace broke into the BBC in an attempt to stop a Vardan invasion. (PROSE: No Future)

In 1996, the Blue Peter garden was destroyed by a member (or members) of Faction Paradox, the effect of which was a far more intense psychological reaction than any direct assault on the people's psyche. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two)

While in 2001, Fitz Kreiner noted to himself that even the BBC logo had changed since the 1960s into a blocky square style. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)

In 2005, the BBC correspondents Francis Currie and Scott Christie were among the newscasters reporting on alien attacks and civil unrest in London. (AUDIO: The Coup, AUDIO: The Longest Night)

In 2006, the BBC did a news report on the alien crash in the Thames. (TV: Aliens of London) On Christmas of that year, the BBC broadcast Prime Minister Harriet Jones's address to Great Britain rather than the traditional greeting by the monarch (in this case, Elizabeth II). (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

In 2007, the BBC broadcast a news story to warn people of the Cyber-threat. (TV: Army of Ghosts) The Cybermen took control of all the TV channels, including the BBC, to broadcast their message of world domination around the globe. (TV: Doomsday)

In 2007, a BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

In 2008, broadcast his message about contact with alien life through the BBC. (TV: The Sound of Drums) The channel also reported on two highly destructive cataclysms. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, The Lost Boy)

In 2009, the BBC covered multiple emergencies such as the ATMOS disaster, (TV: The Poison Sky) the Earth's abduction, (TV: The Stolen Earth) the Zodiac brainwashing, (TV: Secrets of the Stars) and the 456 crisis. (TV: Children of Earth)

By the 2060s, the BBC had turned into the British Film and Television Corporation; following the Myloki war, its London headquarters were used as a covert base for SILHOET. (PROSE: The Indestructible Man)

Parallel universes
Beep the Meep travelled to a parallel universe, in which the Doctor's universe existed only as part of a BBC science fiction television series called Doctor Who, on 12 October 1979 and took control of the BBC Television Centre. The Eighth Doctor and his companion Izzy Sinclair defeated Beep with the help of the actor Tom Baker, who infuriated him with his endless rambling. Strangely, Baker both physically resembled the Fourth Doctor and played him on the television series. The Doctor learned the truth when he discovered the first issue of Doctor Who Weekly. (COMIC: TV Action!)

Behind the scenes
The Cybus Industries website, which tied into TV: Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel featured an interview with the creator of the Cybermen of Pete's World, John Lumic. When asked the "best" and "worst" things about the BBC, Lumic simply responded that he abolished the BBC after Cybusnet became the sole global information provider.