BBC Shows on iTunes This Week?

After promises about moving BBC content to the Mac platform in 2008, TheRegister.co.uk is reporting that the BBC will start distributing shows over iTunes this week.

According to their sources, BBC will detail their plans on Tuesday and has already contacted third party production partners of the new distribution channel.

The BBC had been under some criticism that their iPlayer download service has been unavailable for platforms other than Windows. Last week, they explained that this had to do with Digital Rights Management issues. The introduction of a rental model on iTunes may have paved the way for BBC to work with Apple to provide time-limited content (as required by their content providers).