An upcoming partnership between BBC and MySpace is said to be officially confirmed on Thursday, after the popular social networking website said on Wednesday that this will be the first agreement with a major broadcaster.

At the same time, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) already accomplished a successful collaboration with YouTube, the most popular website owned by Google. And BBC is decided to continue this trend of appealing to young consumers through the most visited websites.

“This partnership continues our strategy of putting BBC content right at the heart of where audiences spent their time and watch video online,” Simon Danker, BBC Worldwide digital media director, said in a statement. MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, will share the advertising revenue with BBC.

The programming strategy is as follows: 150 clips will become available under the motto “the best of British TV”, divided into channels for comedy, drama, sci-fi, documentary and other. MySpace users are regarded as high consumers of video material, and the collaboration between BBC and MySpace will prove to be a lucrative deal for both parts.

The website will feature programs like “Robin Hood,” “Torchwood,” “The Catherine Tate Show,” “Red Dwarf” and “The Mighty Boosh,” but most of all, the most popular BBC product on YouTube, the series “Top Gear,” that managed to win Americans’ hearts. “With the global nature of the deal, this is a great opportunity to put the best shows from BBC in front of new audiences,” Danker also added in his statement.

MySpace TV was launched in June 2007 as a service similar to Google’s YouTube. MySpace already has 13 language versions of MySpace TV, and the new partnership will reach all 23 regional sites of MySpace around the world. Besides the video channels, the viewers will be given the opportunity to discuss the videos on a special BBC forum MySpace will put on display.