TALTAL is a javascript framework that simplifies TV application development. It's used by all our TV apps at the BBC and enables us to make our apps available across a wide range of different Connected TVs, IPTVs, games consoles, set top boxes and Blu-ray devices in the market.

TAL was developed internally within the BBC as a way of vastly simplifying TV application development whilst increasing the reach of BBC TV applications such as iPlayer. Today all of the BBC's HTML-based TV applications are built using TAL.

There are hundreds of different devices in the marketplace and they all use slightly different technologies to achieve the same result. The purpose of TAL is to allow you to write an application once, and be confident that it can be deployed to all HTML-based TV devices.