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As we predicted last week, you can now buy and download BBC shows like Torchwood, Life On Mars, Little Britain, Spooks, and Robin Hood through the iTunes Store.

Available as of today, the selection of BBC TV programmes will cost £1.89 per episode. The shows can be viewed on a Mac or PC, a video-equipped Apple iPod, iPhone or an Apple TV. The BBC is the first UK broadcaster to offer its TV content on iTunes.

“We want to give audiences a wide variety of options on how and where to view their favourite BBC shows,” said Simon Danker, director of digital media at BBC Worldwide.

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When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a major update to Apple TV in January, he seemingly left out a major feature - the ability to stream music to the device from any Mac or PC running iTunes. Apple doesn’t even mention it on its Apple TV home page.

The update is welcome because it finally gives the Apple TV the AirTunes functionality already found in the AirPort Express wireless router. Previously you had to copy music from your iTunes on your computer to the Apple’s TV hard disk to hear any music at all - streaming was conspicuous by its absence, says Wired. You have to install the Apple TV Take 2 software upgrade, of couse, for this new function to work.

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It should come as no surprise to the millions of iPod owners all around the world, but iTunes has now overtaken RealPlayer to become the world’s second most-popular online media player.

iTunes finally shot past RealPlayer last April and had 35,664,000 unique users compared to RealPlayer’s 27,565,000 in December 2007. Year on year, iTunes usage rose 26.8 per cent, while RealPlayer slumped by 17.5 per cent, according to Website Optimisation. Apple’s QuickTime - on which iTunes is based - also fell 8.6 per cent.

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