Nintendo have approved the BBC's plans to provide a dedicated iPlayer Channel for the UK market.

According to the BBC, the plan is to release a fully functional channel around Q2 2009, and with the increasing traffic to the iPlayer website there has been even more incentive to getting out a dedicated plugin.

The next version of iPlayer is set to launch on April 7th 2009 with HD streaming and downloads capped at 2GB, however, the Wii version will be using more mobile, regular quality streams due to limitations in hardware but improvements are penned in with iPlayer 3.0.