BBC Worldwide Scores TV Rights for Global Citizen Festival 2015

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has become the global distributor of the 2015 Global Citizen Festival, a musical event featuring artists from around the world that will take place in New York’s Central Park on September 26.

The specially curated six-hour live event will be streamed internationally, as well as a one-hour TV special crafted by this year’s creative director, Richard Curtis. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin serves as the festival's musical director.

Curtis said: “The Millennium Development Goals have helped save and change millions of lives. I’m thrilled to be part of a concert that’s going to launch the new Global Goals in the most entertaining and dramatic way possible—an amazing show to celebrate an amazing moment and make the goals as famous and potent as they can be—it will be full of the greatest music, extraordinary films and startling live visuals.”

“This is the pivotal year in the movement to end extreme poverty by 2030, and Global Citizen is proud to partner with BBC Worldwide to bring the 2015 Global Citizen Festival to people around the world,” said Hugh Evans, the CEO of The Global Poverty Project.

Tim Davie, the CEO of BBC Worldwide, said: “We are thrilled to be participating in one of the biggest musical events of the century. This year’s concert is going to be the largest yet—and now audiences all around the world can be part of it.”