BBC commissions original dramas specifically for digital platform iPlayer
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Your support makes all the difference.BBC bosses have commissioned their first original dramas specifically for catch-up service iPlayer.
Six short films will be made for the service to be screened over the next two years by "up and coming talent" as a BBC3 strand.
Although the BBC has screened some comedy pilots and spin-offs from other shows - such as a Doctor Who mini-series Pond Life - it has not created fresh dramas for the iPlayer until now.
Victoria Jaye, BBC's head of TV online content, said it would help to explore "storytelling outside of a scheduled TV slot or duration".
BBC3 controller Zai Bennett said: "This new drama strand is exactly the kind of venture BBC3 is all about."
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