BBC Sells Dotcom to Black Adult Entertainment Studio To Fund Trump Lawsuit
BBC rebrands to Beeb.uk after selling its domain to a Black-owned adult studio. The new owners say they’ve “always loved the BBC.”
LONDON — The British Broadcasting Corporation confirmed Saturday that it has officially sold BBC.com to a Black-owned entertainment studio specializing in “high-energy, intensity-driven adult content with strong narrative thrust.”
The deal, reportedly struck to help cover mounting legal costs from President Trump’s defamation lawsuit, will see the iconic domain migrate from public-service journalism to what insiders are describing as “a very different kind of highly engaged audience experience.”
A BBC spokesperson praised the buyer as “a dynamic, fast-growing content company with an audience that is… intensely loyal, extremely passionate, and famously willing to watch long-form material to the very end.”
“They have a bigger vision for the domain,” said Deputy Director Allan Worthing. “Much bigger. Honestly, we couldn’t compete.”
The redirect went live early Sunday, prompting thousands of UK viewers attempting to stream Gardeners’ World or Countryfile to instead be greeted with material featuring highly athletic individuals in content described by one user as “visually assertive, and definitely not broadcast at the usual time of day.”
Calls flooded into BBC customer support, with one elderly viewer reportedly asking if the new programming was “part of some post-Brexit cultural outreach initiative.”
The Home Office released a statement confirming that “no official British broadcasting content is currently being distributed via bbc.com,” and discouraged viewers from “visiting the site from work devices or shared tablets.”
Despite the confusion, some younger viewers applauded the change, saying it marked the first time in years that “BBC.com was actually delivering content people were excited about.”
Back in Broadcasting House, staff have been instructed to immediately stop directing people to BBC.com and instead use the new address Beeb.uk, a shift that has not gone smoothly.
“I spent twenty years telling people to ‘visit us at bbc dot com,’” said one veteran presenter. “Now compliance is in my earpiece screaming, ‘IT’S BEEB DOT U-K, BEEB DOT U-K, DO NOT SEND THEM TO THE OTHER ONE.’ I’m going to slip. It’s only a matter of time.”
Ofcom officials, meanwhile, reportedly arranged an emergency meeting after thousands of complaints from viewers who attempted to follow a news link, misremembered the URL, and found themselves “exposed to extremely unexpected current affairs.”
Despite the chaos, the BBC maintains that its new domain, Beeb.uk, represents a fresh digital era.
“Beeb is modern, friendly, and unmistakably ours,” said interim Director-General Alex McIntyre. “We believe Beeb.uk captures the warmth and trust historically associated with the BBC brand… unlike whatever is happening right now on the dot-com domain.”
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