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television
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programme covering technology news and recent developments in the world of technology and the Internet, presented by
Spencer Kelly
Spencer Kelly is the presenter of the BBC's technology programme ''Click (TV programme), Click'', broadcast on the BBC World News and the BBC News Channel in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Kelly, then known as Spencer Bignell, grew up in Bishop ...
and
Lara Lewington
Lara Lewington (born 10 May 1979) is a British television presenter, journalist and former weather presenter. She co-presents the BBC's technology programme '' Click''.
Early life
Lewington attended Surbiton High School, an independent school i ...
. It was created by then BBC presenter
Stephen Cole.
Since its debut in April 2000, it has broadcast a new episode every week, marking its 1,000th episode on 6 July 2019.
Format
Each episode is introduced by the hosts, Spencer Kelly and Lara Lewington, and features reports about technology developments all over the world by a group of BBC contributors. Reports cover a variety of 'tech' subjects, including consumer technologies and issues, social impact of emerging technologies, video games, and innovations in mobile technology.
The show currently features a "Week in Tech" segment, compiling the week's biggest news in the technology area.
The programme previously included ''Webscape'', a closing segment hosted by
Kate Russell recommending new and useful websites. This segment was dropped but Russell continued doing general reporting for the show.
There are different editions of the programme, two 30-minute programmes: (shown on
BBC News
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), a global edition (
BBC World News
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), and a 15-minute version (
BBC One
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and
BBC News
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during ''
BBC Breakfast
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''). A four-minute version also appears on BBC World News at varying times of the week.
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ...
broadcasts a weekly sister radio show, ''
Digital Planet
''Digital Planet'' (previously known as ''Click'' and originally ''Go Digital'') is a radio programme broadcast on the BBC World Service presented by Gareth Mitchell. Alternating as contributors are Bill Thompson, Ghislaine Boddington and Angel ...
'', which, for a time, shared the same name. It is presented by
Gareth Mitchell
Gareth Mitchell is a Welsh technology journalist, lecturer and former broadcast engineer.
Early life
Mitchell was born Gareth James Mitchell in Eastleigh, England to a Welsh father, Colin Mitchell. He spent his childhood in Montgomeryshire, ...
and contributors
Bill Thompson,
Ghislaine Boddington
Ghislaine Boddington (born 11 October 1962) is a British artist, curator, presenter and director specialising in body responsive technologies, immersive experiences and collective embodiment, pioneering it as 'hyper-enhancement of the senses' an ...
and Angelica Mari.
Local versions
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
-speakers can also watch ''BBC Persian Click'' online and on
BBC Persian
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TV presented by Nima Akbarpour. Further local versions are due to launch from Autumn 2018, including Click Tamil in October 2018, with the aim of having the show broadcast in up to 20 languages.
History
The show started as ''Click Online'' in April 2000, hosted by
Stephen Cole, and featured reports focused on the rise of the Internet and related technologies.
Thursday, 29 December 2005 marked the last edition of ''Click Online'', as the show was previously known, coinciding with the departure of Stephen Cole after 295 shows. The programme was thereafter renamed ''Click'', with new music and titles, and with
Spencer Kelly
Spencer Kelly is the presenter of the BBC's technology programme ''Click (TV programme), Click'', broadcast on the BBC World News and the BBC News Channel in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Kelly, then known as Spencer Bignell, grew up in Bishop ...
, an existing reporter and producer on the show who also compiled reports for ''
The Gadget Show
''The Gadget Show'' (currently known as ''The Gadget Show: Better Tech, Better Life'') is a British television series which focuses on consumer technology. The show, which is broadcast on Channel 5, is currently presented by Ortis Deley, Geor ...
'' on
Channel 5, as the new host. Since then it has expanded its "online" focus, now featuring reports on technology developments from all over the world. Since April 2020, existing reporter
Lara Lewington
Lara Lewington (born 10 May 1979) is a British television presenter, journalist and former weather presenter. She co-presents the BBC's technology programme '' Click''.
Early life
Lewington attended Surbiton High School, an independent school i ...
has become co-host.
Episode 774 was the world's first programme to be shot and edited entirely on mobile devices.
The 12 March 2016 programme (#827) was broadcast in 360 degrees, and is the first entire episode of a TV programme to be broadcast as such.
On 6 July 2019 the show's 1000th episode was broadcast. It consisted of an interactive episode where viewers could decide what to watch next.
In March 2021, the BBC announced that the technology department, including Click, would be relocating to Pacific Quay in Glasgow. The show stopped producing new episodes during April 2022 to facilitate the move, with repeats shown, and aired the first episode produced on Glasgow on 7 May 2022.
Botnet controversy
In 2009 the show and the BBC created some controversy when it aired a special episode highlighting the dangers of botnets and how easy it was to get caught in one. The show bought control of a
botnet
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of some 22,000 infected computers (for "a few thousand dollars") from a Russian hacker, and used it to send spam to an email address set up for the experiment and to perform a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a website set up by Prev-X (an internet security company that provided technical support for the show).
After the programme was made the computers on the botnet were sent a piece of software to remove the malware and a warning was sent to them telling the users what had happened and that they were vulnerable.
The response was mixed with the show receiving many emails both for and against the programme along with some negative press. The BBC was criticized by some legal consulting organisations as well as computer security companies. Computer security expert and senior technology consultant at Sophos, Graham Cluley, asked in his blog whether the BBC was breaking the Computer Misuse Act - which makes it an offence in the UK to access or modify a third-party computer without the owner's consent. However internet security commentator
Melih Abdulhayoğlu
Melih Abdulhayoğlu (born March 10, 1968) is the CEO of MAVeCap, an incubator Venture Capital firm funded by his family office. MAVeCap focusses on building tomorrow's technology platform companies. His first company was Comodo Cybersecurity, Como ...
, founder of international computer security company
Comodo Group
Xcitium, formerly known as Comodo Security Solutions, Inc., is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bloomfield, New Jersey in the United States.
History
The company was founded in 1998 in the United Kingdom by Melih Abdulhayoğlu. The compa ...
, made a video in support of the BBC. Click rebutted criticisms by stating in its Twitter posts that:
Presenters and reporters
In addition to presenters Kelly and Lewington, reporters include Dan Simmons, Omar Mehtab, LJ Rich, Paul Carter, Jen Copestake, Marc Cieslak, Nick Kwek, Chris Fox, Shiona McCallum, Alasdair Keane and Kitty Knowles.
Previous presenters of the show have included
Stephen Cole who left the BBC to work for
Al Jazeera International
Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is own ...
.
Kate Russell left in August 2020 after 14 years being part of the ''Click'' team.
Other BBC journalists occasionally present segments of the programme.
References
External links
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Click Online - Episode 1 ''first broadcast 6 April 2000.''
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BBC television news shows
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Documentary television series about technology
2000 British television series debuts
2010s British television series
2020s British television series