What should I do if BBC is down for me?

Try a different title before assuming the service is down. A single video that will not start is usually a rights or encoding problem with that title, not an outage. Test the browser and the TV app separately. Living-room apps ship on their own release schedule and break independently of the website. Restart the streaming device rather than the app. Set-top boxes and smart TVs hold stale DNS and tokens for far longer than a phone does. Turn off any VPN. Streaming services actively block known VPN exit nodes, and the resulting error looks identical to an outage.

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Is BBC down right now?

No, it’s up.

BBC appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-08 10:42 UTC

responded in 19ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, BBC has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~29 ms. No outages have been recorded in the last 90 days.

The BBC's site carries news, sport and radio alongside iPlayer. News and iPlayer run on different systems, so one being down says little about the other.

Is BBC down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching BBC normally right now, and it answered our last one in 19ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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BBC response time (last 24h)

Last 24h

peak 129 ms

BBC incident history (last 90 days)

JulAugSep

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No incidents in the last 90 days, from our checks or BBC’s own status page.

BBC uptime

100.00%
7 days: 100.00%
30 days: 100.00%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-21. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 19 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days BBC reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if BBC is down for just you

Try a different title before assuming the service is down. A single video that will not start is usually a rights or encoding problem with that title, not an outage.
Test the browser and the TV app separately. Living-room apps ship on their own release schedule and break independently of the website.
Restart the streaming device rather than the app. Set-top boxes and smart TVs hold stale DNS and tokens for far longer than a phone does.
Turn off any VPN. Streaming services actively block known VPN exit nodes, and the resulting error looks identical to an outage.

Frequently asked questions

BBC appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-08 10:42 UTC.

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