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BBC and ITV set to launch UK version of Britbox as a Netflix rival

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BBC and ITV set to launch Netflix rival
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The BBC, home to crime drama Luther, and ITV, maker of Love Island and I'm A Celebrity, are in the "concluding phase of talks" to create a rival to Netflix.

The BBC's director general Tony Hall said the aim was to launch the "BritBox" rival to Netflix in the UK the second half of 2019.

The announcement came as ITV reported 2018 profits of £567m, up 13%.

ITV's chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said it was an "uncertain economic and political environment".

She said the "BritBox" rival to Netflix will be the home for the "best of British creativity".

Neither organisation would say how the services would be priced, but Lord Hall said it would be "competitive".

There are reports it could cost £5 a month.

The two organisations already have a BritBox streaming service in North America which Lord Hall said was "ahead of expectations". It has 500,000 subscribers.

"Research with the British public shows that there is a real appetite for a new British streaming service - in addition to their current subscriptions," he said.

Dame Carolyn told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that 43% of all homes which use the Internet are interested in a subscription. For homes which already subscribe to Netflix, she said that increased to half of all homes.

"There is a window of opportunity here," she said.

ITV will spend £25m on the venture this year and £40m in 2020.

The new venture is not intended to replace the BBC's iPlayer or the ITV Hub and is expected to have box sets from the BBC and ITV archives with some new commissions.

There will be "one permanent, comprehensive home where anyone in Britain can get all of our library content - both the ITV and BBC library - in one place and they can watch it anytime, anywhere," she told Today.

Dame Carolyn told the BBC that existing licensing agreements with Netflix will be honoured. For instance, last year, Netflix acquired the rights to the BBC show Bodyguard - from ITV Studios which owns the production company which made the drama.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47383559

Possible new home for Big Brother?

https://www.britbox.co.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...-rival-britbox

[Backlash as BBC and ITV to launch Netflix rival BritBox: 'What about our license fee?']

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebri...tflix-14059655

Yes it is no match to Netlflix , though.
Britbox is doing OK in the USA
https://www.britbox.com/about
$6:99 a month

[There are reports it could cost £5 a month.]
thats the problem, most have Amazon Prime or Netflix

If Big Brother was put up by the ITV side
for that much money a month
I would expect 24/7 Live feed,

All series of I’m a celeb and I’m in

[Meanwhile, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are also said to be in "constructive discussions" to join the venture in the future.]

All for this, providing they drop the license fee.

Erm I'll keep the iPlayer thanks. :umm2:

So yet another fee to pay, there are only so many of these platforms that people will pay for, and yes as I pay the licence fee the IPlayer will do tyvm :nono:

BBC need to do something, Tommy Robinson has shown everyone how to cancel your TV licence, in his latest documentary. Those big BBC salaries need to be paid somehow.

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Originally Posted by smudgie (Post 10459851)

All for this, providing they drop the license fee.

No it has nothing to do with that.

Its a Additional Pay Service
but no way is it anything like Netflix
it needs Ch4 and Ch5 with it
to make it better.

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Originally Posted by Alf (Post 10459898)

BBC need to do something, Tommy Robinson has shown everyone how to cancel your TV licence, in his latest documentary. Those big BBC salaries need to be paid somehow.

Thats not legal

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 10459904)

Thats not legal

I don't know if it is or not. He seems to think it's fine. I suppose time will tell. Until then, I shall keep paying mine.

Imagine if C4 came in and put BB on it though...

It needs C4 on board to be worth it to be honest. They've gone downhill now but there was a 10+ year span where they were making the majority of the decent original British television.

5 can stay away... although... I'd love it if MTV trash was on there and I guess that would come with 5.

Been confirmed today that the license fee will not be used to fund the service.

But in conjunction with it, they will be making improvements to iPlayer.

I’m here for this. Hopefully they get Ch4 and Ch5 on board

Price confirmed at £5.99 in HD a month. Today.

No news on new exclusive shows , yet

https://e3.365dm.com/19/07/768x432/s...20190719095125

https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-and-i...tflix-11766269

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Originally Posted by Gstar (Post 10462545)

I’m here for this. Hopefully they get Ch4 and Ch5 on board

No they are not
shame

Ch5 Big Brother would have been good.

Now that Apprentice finished, Bake off moved, and x factor and bgt got stale - I watch nothing from either of those channels

Its also Launching in USA
at $7:50 BritBoxHD a month

Ref: BloombergHD

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Originally Posted by Withano (Post 10632370)

Now that Apprentice finished, Bake off moved, and x factor and bgt got stale - I watch nothing from either of those channels

Bake off moving from BBC was the worst thing ever!!! The only show BBC actually care about is strictly

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Originally Posted by Withano (Post 10632370)

Now that Apprentice finished, Bake off moved, and x factor and bgt got stale - I watch nothing from either of those channels

Apprentice hasn't finished :skull:

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Originally Posted by Hayden (Post 10636369)

Apprentice hasn't finished :skull:

Best news ever

This has been up and running with a beta version for a few days

Viacom are also involved now so their CH5 programming will be on there

With most of the programmes that are on their it is clear they are taking all their shows from Netflix but also added some others like Clocking Off and Doc Martin,

I want them to add Footballers Wives

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BritBox: UK broadcasters enter the streaming wars as new service launches
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BritBox, a streaming service offering shows from ITV, the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5, has launched in the UK.

Downton Abbey, Gavin & Stacey, Wolf Hall, Love Island and Broadchurch are among the shows available.

C4 and C5 have come on board after ITV and the BBC announced BritBox as a way to get into the paid streaming market.

The service will cost £5.99 per month and will mostly feature classic series, but will also include new shows, beginning with Lambs of God.

The drama stars The Handmaid's Tale's Ann Dowd, The End of the ********** World's Jessica Barden and Essie Davis from The White Princess as nuns living on a remote island. It was originally shown on Australian TV in July.

Reemah Sakaan, ITV's group director for streaming, said there was a "whole slate of original programmes" in development for BritBox.

While the service will be a second or third subscription for many viewers, it will be able to rival the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV+, she said.

"It's got the widest range of UK box sets of any service," she said. "Ostensibly the other streamers are US-focused so they make dramas for the US market, whereas BritBox is the faces, people and places that you know."

Some archive programmes that have been on services like Netflix will now move to BritBox, she said.

"For some time we've been bringing our shows back home and now that we've got a destination in BritBox, that's something we'll be doing more actively. We'll still be working in partnership with Netflix and Amazon and all of the other streamers."

How does the price compare with other services?

BritBox - £5.99 per month for HD and multi-screen viewing
Netflix - £5.99 for basic package rising to £8.99 for a standard plan, including HD on two screens
Amazon Prime - £5.99 on up to three screens simultaneously
Now TV - £8.99 for entertainment pass, with optional extras - Cinema Pass (£11.99), Sports (£33.99), Kids (£3.99)
YouTube Premium - £11.99
Dramas on the service at launch include Cracker, Prime Suspect, Brideshead Revisited and Ashes to Ashes; while comedies include Absolutely Fabulous, Extras, Blackadder and Fawlty Towers.

More than 600 classic episodes of Doctor Who - broadcast between 1963 and 1989 - will be available to stream for the first time by Christmas.

Shows and movies from Channel 4 and Film4's back catalogue will be available in 2020, and original shows from Comedy Central UK will also feature.

Sakaan said having a big catalogue of classic shows "shouldn't be underestimated" by those assessing BritBox's chances of success.

"The new battleground, quite often in streaming, are shows like Friends, which are 20 years old and are the top performers," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Some of ITV and the BBC's biggest hits of recent years, such as Killing Eve, Peaky Blinders and Bodyguard, will not be on it at first.

This is either because existing deals are in place with other streaming services, or because they are still on the broadcasters' own catch-up platforms.

Shows are not expected to appear on BritBox until they have dropped off the BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub and All 4, which do not require paid subscriptions. The BBC was recently given permission to keep programmes on iPlayer for one year.

TV critic Scott Bryan said the idea of rival channels teaming up to try to compete with the likes of Netflix was "quite big news".

"The issue is whether people are willing to pay towards them," he continued. "And it will be interesting to see which shows end up being on which service.

"Some shows might be a co-production between the BBC and Netflix for example, and that might end up on Netflix.

"So for many of us there's going to be a lot of confusion trying to work out which show is going to be on which platform."

BritBox launched in the US two years ago and has a different catalogue of content, with 650,000 subscribers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50320731

List of everything on the service here - https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/britbox

They are saying no ads on Ch4 playback/

Still not enough New Stuff on BritBox

"How does the price compare with other services?"

But Netflix is Miles above this UK only
BritBox.

You can not compare them.....................

Only ITV is investing in BritBox
BBC is not putting any Cash into it.

The Lady in charge (BritboxTV Director - Reemah Sakaan)
was on SkyNewsHD 1:30PM - 2PM Business Report

She was also on ITV1HD news 1:30PM
and said BritBox USA has been going for a few years
and doing well.............

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Originally Posted by WickedSkengMan (Post 10697693)

With most of the programmes that are on their it is clear they are taking all their shows from Netflix but also added some others like Clocking Off and Doc Martin,

I want them to add Footballers Wives

Not Yet on a list.

[BritBox: 'inappropriate' classic UK TV shows to be kept off service
‘Best of British’ streaming venture will exclude series such as Till Death Us Do Part]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...-rival-netflix

It's mission impossible! Why BritBox will never rival Netflix