New ‘Sherlock’ trailer sets the mood for the upcoming special

While we know that the new Christmas special of BBC’s Sherlock is set in the 19^th century. We don’t know too many details about this Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat creation. Aside from seeing them in their Victorian garb (and John Watson’s moustache comeback), we sense the somewhat darker mood of the show. There is a mystery to be solved as we can see but aside from that, there isn’t much we can say. But, of course, it isn’t Sherlock without a few jokes and potshots at the leads’ expense, like Holmes’ famous hat.

Source: Slate

BBC and Yahoo partnership will bring 200 news video clips monthly to US and Canada

Yahoo is teaming up with BBC to distribute about 200 of BBC's News video clips monthly to users in Canada and the United States. Our users in North America can now engage with the BBC’s short-form video content on international news, science, tech, and business reporting.

The new collaboration with Yahoo will focus on short-form video content with a particular focus on the BBC’s international news, science, tech and business reporting drawn from the BBC’s global site BBC.com. Around 200 BBC News videos will be syndicated to Yahoo on a monthly basis and will start appearing on their sites this month.

BBC now uses Instagram to disseminate news

BBC is turning to Instagram to disseminate 10-second news clips and they are hoping to get follower feedback from the new project they dubbed as #Instafax. There are so far two Instafax clips mixed in with over 200 posts from the news service’s account.

BBC is following in the footsteps of startup NowThis News and other tech sites who use Instagram videos to help present information in a different way and reach out to people.