I hope it still stays a thing, as an American whos family love watching some of the classics of British tv, it would be a sad day if Britbox bits the dust.
I think we're only losing BritBox (ironically) in the UK, worldwide I think it'll survive. We've had a soft closedown here as ITVX Premium contained the BritBox catalogue from the word go and it offered a year of cheaper subscriptions for existing BritBox subscribers or a subscription at the same price as BritBox for new subscribers. Meanwhile BBC Worldwide owning BritBox internationally would be a good way of securing alternative funding meaning it could become more independent of the licence fee.
Good. TV shows on BritBox have been paid for already by the TV license holders. The British people should not be double charged to watch legacy programmes.
There'smultiple reasons whsy they can't or won't be shown for free on iPlayer, among them legal reasons or additionall license royalties they would have to pay to the writers, for the music etc. Imo running their own streaming service commercially is a good move, because otherwise they would've just sold their archival content on DVDV and to another streaming service, by running their own streaming service they can more or less cut out those middlemen. Germany's ARD and ZDF also run multiple Amazon Channels commercially to make money off the content that they would otherwise sell directly to the streaming services.
Growing up in the US with parents who thought watching commercial TV could kill brain cells, we seldom watched it. When we were allowed to it was PBS and I fell in love with shows like Are you Being Served and Masterpiece Theatre. I'm currently a PBS sustainer and subscribed to both Britbox and Acorn. I thought Britbox and Acorn might become one but if not, they are both worth the price.
I absolutely love Britbox, and Acorn tv. I’m in the US . I watch every episode of Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Eastenders. I also watch most of the cozy crime movies and series.
Britbox, as a platform, was intended for the international audience. The UK was always an afterthought, and people felt quite bad about paying again for old content that they're already familiar with. It makes total sense to give the smaller, British side of its business to a streaming platform that's already gathering some pace with subscribers, making it a better value, while entrusting the far more successful international business to a company that was literally created to sell British content internationally. Britbox itself doesn't need to "live" or "die" here. It'll keep making a lot of money elsewhere under a company that can manage it better, while becoming a value-add here.
"people felt quite bad about paying again for old content that they're already familiar with" - bad news for UK Gold then, and it is even weirder when people pay a subscription for something and then have to endure advertisements on it!
When it first launched, they had Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, then they were never seen on BritBox again. It pretty much became Old Doctor Who and documentary series. I wanted to support it, but I could get everything I would usually watch free on TH-cam (Mock The Week, Big Fat Quiz of the Year) or PBS (both comedies and mystery series).
I’ve had BritBox for a couple of years and have loved it (I’m a big fan of all the old shows like B7, Sapphire and Steel etc) so to see it falling apart is sad. I’ve watched a lot of shows vanish (black books, Blake’s 7 etc)
Advantages of DVD/Blu-ray: 1. Buy once, keep forever without paying constantly increasing subscription prices. 2. Don't have the annoyance that what you want to watch is on another service you don't subscribe to. 3. No ads. 4. No spending ages trying to find the film or series you want to watch over umpteen subscription services and scrolling past stuff you don't want. 5. You get to see the entire series before they take it down (major problem with BritBox - every year will they renew Doctor Who?). The streamers make some great content but streaming itself has too many flaws. I have BritBox but actually miss the demise of Network DVD more.
@@Nostalgic80s-nd3qb There are rights issues. The way the writers' contracts were set up back then meant they owned the stories completely. From time to time the son of the writer of An Unearthly Child starts claiming that he now owns aspects of Doctor Who, and wants the BBC to pay him stupid amounts of money for them. When they announced that classic Doctor Who was being added to iPlayer he threatened to sue them, so they can't add it until the whole situation is resolved.
I agree with you that Britbox in the UK never made sense - when it was first advertised, I thought "Why would I pay extra for what I already have access to?". In fact, I was concerned that they might start moving older programmes off of iplayer. What I've never understood though is why the BBC don't just allow anyone outside of the UK to subscribe to iplayer - they could then have other British content on there, but geoblocked in the UK (because we have access to it elsewhere). The licence fee is essentially an annual subscription for people in the UK anyway. I think changing the finance model completely would be a *big* mistake and likely lose them customers, as it would make them the same as the streaming platforms. They could tweak it slightly or give people the choice to pay it in the form of a monthly subscription, but abolishing it completely seems nonsensical.
here in Aus.. I used to watch DR Who on my BRITBOX subscription. Prior to that, I used to be able to watch many BBC programs on the ABC here, the Australian national broadcaster that was based on and had an arrangement with the BBC. But after 50 years, the BBC abruptly ended that co-arrangement. They started with transferring all BBC drama and period content in 2014 to Murdoch's FoxTel (in Aus only) to the eventual loss of DR Who to Disney in 2022 (worldwide outside the UK and Ireland). So, now of course, if I want to watch Dr Who, I need a Disney+ subscription. That's not going to happen on my budget.
Have you seen the 70th anniversary specials? They were amazing, & the new Christmas special with Ncuti was great! I'm in the UK, but if I lived abroad I'd definitely consider Disney+ just to watch Dr Who! New episodes coming in May!
I'm American and I almost forgot Britbox existed. There are a lot of streaming services I think it's easy to lose track when there are so many. There is quite a lot of British content on our free ad supported services and PBS has an app with a lot of content as well. I think it will be interesting to see what happens.
I’m CDN and my XMAS present which I ask for subscription every year from Hubby - I love it so much! I’ve watched almost everything except the really gruesome horror mysteries. I eagerly await every edition of “coming soon” to watch the trailers! I do not want Britbox to change except to bring new & legacy series onboard more rapidly please! It killed me that VERA has only 3 new shows for latest series! Love, love British writers, especially - absolutely brilliant! Then the superb actors who interpret the roles - and of course producers who put $$$ behind risky new series & bright directors & cinematographers who keep the staging & atmosphere fresh! Please do not take Britbox away. I hate the other services like Crave AppleTV plus - even Disney - I spend more time searching for something to watch than watching anything! I’d rather watch Taggart (27 seasons.) a 4th time through or Shetland or all the Death in Paradise Series on fictional St Marie or on the Devon coast. Britain’s multitude of beautiful topography & coastlines themselves - especially, Yorkshire, Cornwall & anywhere in Scotland are my favourite “characters”.
My account renewed for the year 1st January as I forgot to cancel🙈probably works out the cheapest of the streaming services the quality is pretty poor. Loads of the content that drew me to it initially such as the films have been removed. When I do occasionally use it, it often crashes and takes ages to load. Definitely needs a revamp.
oh wow, me too! what programmes do you like? i love trumpton, chigley, camberwick green, bertha, original fireman sam, portland bill, bagpuss, rainbow and loads more! is this the same era that you’re interested in? :)
From the British side great news! It sounds like the BBC knows that licence fee is going 😀 not before time!! I'd be happy to have the iPlayer and itvx as subscription models though X needs a lot of work to make it a hell of a lot more stable; it's so slooow on my smart TV I don't bother even going in for free at the moment.
I subscribed for many years when it first came out in America. But I dropped it a year ago because they moved so much content to other subscription channels like Acorn, BBC Masterpiece Classic, BBC Documentary, BBC Masterpiece Drama. And now I see the price has gone up again to $9 a month. No thanks.
Pet peeve of mine. When did telly programmes start being called 'content'. It's all you hear now... content, content, bloody content. No, they're PROGRAMMES or SHOWS. 😁 To me, the content is the subject and theme of the show, not the show itself. Rant over. 😁
I’ve dipped in and out of Britbox since its inception here in Canada. As one of many Brits who call Canada home, it was good to have some good old British TV 😃 Trouble was, I would sign up, watch the show I signed up specifically to watch, then couldn’t find anything else that interested me, so I would cancel again. Probably done that 5 times now since I think 2018. Fill it with content, keep members, make more money. My simplistic take on it 😃
Hoping that itvx will at least move more from britbox as at moment just checked lots of my old films and shows missing, including some pilot and Christmas episodes if they don't move over then no point being on there I'll go back to dvd blu-ray only and my Google play stuff I've bought which I'm. Happier with
I hope Britbox will remain online I've been watching a lot of American viewer reactions to UK TV shows has been really interesting to watch on youtube. A lot of Americans seem to really enjoy watching our TV shows they seem to enjoy comedies like The Vicar of Dibley and other shows they also seem to enjoy Plebs. I would hate to see US viewers losing out on our tv shows.
What they should of done with Spitting Image was to have a US version and a UK version. What they did instead was to have one for both. So you had jokes that the UK didn't get or wasn't interested in or vice versa.
I have Britbox and I love it! 😍 I just wish they had more classic British comedies. I just coughed over $20 each to Prime Video and Google Play for the entire "Monty Python's Flying Circus" series! (Season one and two on Google play and three and four on Prime Video)💸
I cancelled my subscription several years ago since there was not much current content such as Question Time and relatively recent (year or two old) episodes of shows. Even the older shows were kind of spotty. A real shame for those in the U.S. who love British TV.
There's already various BBC streaming services globally. In Europe, they operate an "iPlayer"-branded Amazon Channel, in some countries in Europe and around the world they have BBC Entertainment cable channels or are present on the AMC streaming service. Similarly in the US, where there's BritBox, and then there's BBC America. For me, it would make sense to consolidate all these offerings into a unified brand. I'm not sure whether the "iPlayer" brand is the best one for this, as it's relatively unknown outside of the UK, but something like "BBC BritBox" would make a lot of sense to me to be present as a streaming offering complementary to the BBC cable channels.
As an Australian subscriber to BritBox I have become rather disappointed that a lot of the content I subscribed to the service for is now gone. Classic Dr Who being the biggest. So once my current 12 months is up with will probably endure cancelling it.
iPlayer never launched here in the US because cable tv providers threatened to drop BBC America if the Beeb moved forward with it. Britbox, as a commercial service with a cover charge before you get in the door, was more acceptable to the cable companies, so we got that instead.
As an Englishman who moved to the USA 14 years ago at the age of 44, I subscribed to BritBox after realizing that I had just paid more for the boxed DvD set of Sharpe than I would for a year's subscription to Britbox (that has the whole Sharpe series on it). But a year or so later I find myself watching very little on it. All the newer content seems to be crime/drama which I have little interest in, or unfunny sitcoms. All the older stuff is maybe good when I'm feeling nostalgic, but some of my favorite shows of all time like Lovejoy and Shoestring are mysteriously absent, and the best of the new content (like the post 2000 Dr Who) is sold off to other streaming services like Acorn. If Britbox closed down tomorrow I would barely miss it.
Can ITVX be accessed in the states? I would imagine they would hope to have ITVX being successful in the US, so their content will be on there instead of BritBox
I am in the USA and I watch britbox, but I have collected the shows that I watch the most so I unsubscribed from it. There are a couple more that I want to have on DVD like, To The Manor Born. Open all hours, first series and the latest series. I have already gotten Keeping up Appearances , Are you being serviced, and are you being served again, are being served the movie just to name a few.
As an American who loves British programming having my love for it start as a child watching Mr bean on pbs there isn’t a good selection of programming to watch in America especially if your someone who can’t really afford a paid service like Britbox on the free ad supported app is often repetitive with some shows being on multiple apps and Pluto tv’s British comedy channel could be better if they did do like mini marathons of programming as much as I like Mr bean and the it crowd I don’t need them back to back for like 3 hours straight thry could use thst time to show more variety cause bbc America has gone mostly American with its programming at its sad to see the fall of thst channel cause i found doctor who and coupling through it
Adam Martyn, can I ask.... BBC studious, you said it's the commercial side of the BBC. As I understand it it's a privately owned company, set up and owned by the director general. He sold a lot of BBC programs to BBC Studios. Effectively selling public ally owned property to him self? That's what I understand, I could've been misinformed. Can you clarify please?
Yes, you're misinformed. Formerly BBC programmes were produced by various departments. BBC Studios was established after the government decided to open up the production side of TV so independent production companies could bid to make content for ITV, the BBC etc, and as such most of the non-factual departments were rolled up into it, as was the old commercial arm BBC Worldwide (which used to handle BBC content outside the UK, where use of licence fee monies is prohibited under the terms of the charter). I suggest you read the BBC Studios wiki page for the whole story. The only connection between the current DG and BBC Studios is that he was previously the head of the latter.
@@MiseurPompadour No problems. It's easy to become confused due to the sheer volume of misinformation posted online by people who seem to be driven more by their dislike of the BBC than sticking to fact. The amount of times I've seen posts claiming that BBC Studios is 'profiting' from shows made at the expense of the licence fee payer (ignoring the fact that most of the time BBC Studios had been commissioned by the BBC to make those shows, and were paid out of the licence fee revenue to do so) is unbelievable. If BBC Studios sells those shows (or their formats) in other countries or puts them on channels supported by advertising abroad, eg, BBC America, it's to make money to supplement the licence fee, and as noted previously, they can not use licence fee income outside Britain.
@@MiseurPompadour There was always a good deal of rivalry between the various internal departments. For instance, Doctor Who was always produced by the Drama department, which got up the nose of the Children's department due to the Saturday tea-time slot the show went out in, which the Children's department thought was their province.
The day the BBC becomes subscription only rather than a stealth-tax can’t come soon enough. It’ll last 3 years max if it did that. I stopped paying my licence years ago. What they gonna do about it? Nothing. They’re powerless
@@Warp2090it’s the BBC’s own streaming and catch up service here in the UK. All of Classic doctor who used to be on Brit Box which was the main draw for UK users. Recently though it moved yo BBC iPlayer so the incentive to have BritBox dropped
I always thought it was a bit weird for the UK to have it. It's more a BBC and ITV studios thing, where they can put their shows (mostly crime dramas, fuck sake can you stop making crime dramas for export) so us in Blighty can watch (or not watch in my case.) I had the subscription for a while but, just bought DVD's and got-iPlayered things, because I don't watch a lot of stuff on there. Mum loves her crime drama so she's on there frequently. Me, not so much. Good though. But not for the UK, y'all have iPlayer and the ITV thingy.
it all smelled of desperate hubris from the beginning - and building & marketing a unique platform rather than just putting content on existing GIANT successful platforms was ridiculous.
i was happy to watch some murder mystery shows on hulu...and then they vanished to brit box...and i didn't want to subscribe to another service. so i lost track of them
Is this the same BBC who are always going on about having no money and a 300 million shortfall in their funding suddenly find 255 million quid down the back of the sofa to buy out ITV on their dead joint venture platform?
BritBox seemed doomed from the start. I remember hearing people talk about it for a week and questioning if it could survive,going up against Netflix,Disney+,Amazon Prime and Peacock. The stuff they have doesn't seem to have wide appeal besides people who really like British content. That and as a Brit myself,I couldn't care less for anything put out by BBC,ITV,Channel 4 or 5
For Australian Britbox subscribers we lost Dr Who from the streamer at the start of last year and the majority of the programmes offered are available on other streamers here first and there is not a lot of classic tv for us on Britbox. I have now unsubscribed
I go via prime amazon at moment, so that will, go, ok then I go, itvx isn't free of adverts even premium sone still are on there, so britbox will be dead Presume we still don't need a TV Licence if we just watch britbox and not anything live then no licence needed
So at moment I go britbox for old uk shows and dvd as well, I'll drop subs as don't wish to use useless itvx and still get ads on some things and there crap set up, when going via amazon prime was best way to access
And with dvd blu-ray it stays as I purchased no edits like some old shows have recently yet again, incomplete series due to licensing, mp commentary, documentary etc all I can have on dvd blu-ray
HI Adam,just subscribed, my beef is, this schould never be aloud, til 2027 when charter runs out, and then, BBC axe the licence free, and can then sell the suff , to anyone, they wish, once thats ended, and not funded by, the public, who paid, over last 40 years, to fund and help make the content, and belongs, to puplic, who paid the licence, over this, time, BBC, is sinking ship, with licence, payers, and my job, it to make public, understand, what bbc are doing, over next few years, and 2027,hope licence will end, then they can do whatever they wish, with this old, content, Paid for buy, Brishish public, they, paid "capitia £500,million to collect, non payments, of tv licence, hich now "doomed like Dads Army tv,, of tv today,and BBC IPLAYER will made subscrition, will end the licence tax, for ever, this oudated system, they have now, and the £4billion puonds, they get now, ends from British public and menoply they have on live tv, will also end, thanks Inspector "C"
I'm an American living in Texas. I subscribed to Britbox for 2 years (2018 - 2020) because of their offerings of full BBC series that I love (classic Dr. Who, Poirot, Miss Marple, Midsomer Murders, etc. I ended up dropping them to two reasons: 1. They eliminated all of the Midsomer Murders series from 1998 to almost the present. 2. They added trigger warnings to a LOT of their older content made in the 60s, 70s and 80s in case any current-day snowflakes got upset over language or portrayals that aren't up to woke standards. It's no big loss. With dedicated channels for Midsomer Murders, classic Dr. Who, etc. on PlutoTV, RokuTV and XumoTV, there's plenty of content to watch and it's all free (with advertisements). I haven't missed Britbox at all.
That's not how that works. BBC Studios has always been behind more BBC productions than the license fee. The license fee pays mostly wages, infrastructure and some broadcast licensing. What license fee funded programming there is, the vast majority of it is educational, public service related or niche regional or language programming like S4C or Alba. The majority of which can be accessed indefinitely for free on the BBC. And if you were going to make that argument, I think you should have been making it at the dawn of VHS, and not 40 years after releases. Like, your argument isn't quite correct and if it was, you're late in making it.
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It should be free with the Tv licence in the uk and Let the rest of the world pay a subscription to watch it.
I hope it still stays a thing, as an American whos family love watching some of the classics of British tv, it would be a sad day if Britbox bits the dust.
I guess it's time to sail the high seas
Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguin' is done
We'll take our leave and go
I think we're only losing BritBox (ironically) in the UK, worldwide I think it'll survive. We've had a soft closedown here as ITVX Premium contained the BritBox catalogue from the word go and it offered a year of cheaper subscriptions for existing BritBox subscribers or a subscription at the same price as BritBox for new subscribers. Meanwhile BBC Worldwide owning BritBox internationally would be a good way of securing alternative funding meaning it could become more independent of the licence fee.
@@Musydid911or at the very least buy some DVDs.
Get yourself a VPN - tonnes of bbc, itv, c4, c5 and ukplay stuff available for free...
Good. TV shows on BritBox have been paid for already by the TV license holders. The British people should not be double charged to watch legacy programmes.
Bandwidth and storage costs money.
There'smultiple reasons whsy they can't or won't be shown for free on iPlayer, among them legal reasons or additionall license royalties they would have to pay to the writers, for the music etc. Imo running their own streaming service commercially is a good move, because otherwise they would've just sold their archival content on DVDV and to another streaming service, by running their own streaming service they can more or less cut out those middlemen. Germany's ARD and ZDF also run multiple Amazon Channels commercially to make money off the content that they would otherwise sell directly to the streaming services.
Did you kick up a fuss when they released all their shows on VHS and later DVD?
its an indian-owned con ...like everything supposedly 'British' nowadays . .. !!!!
They do have shows from itv and c4 on that app
I have a friend in Tulsa, Oklahoma who loves Britbox. He’s obsessed with British culture…in fact i think he may have been English in a past life…
Growing up in the US with parents who thought watching commercial TV could kill brain cells, we seldom watched it. When we were allowed to it was PBS and I fell in love with shows like Are you Being Served and Masterpiece Theatre. I'm currently a PBS sustainer and subscribed to both Britbox and Acorn. I thought Britbox and Acorn might become one but if not, they are both worth the price.
I absolutely love Britbox, and Acorn tv. I’m in the US . I watch every episode of Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Eastenders. I also watch most of the cozy crime movies and series.
Britbox, as a platform, was intended for the international audience. The UK was always an afterthought, and people felt quite bad about paying again for old content that they're already familiar with. It makes total sense to give the smaller, British side of its business to a streaming platform that's already gathering some pace with subscribers, making it a better value, while entrusting the far more successful international business to a company that was literally created to sell British content internationally. Britbox itself doesn't need to "live" or "die" here. It'll keep making a lot of money elsewhere under a company that can manage it better, while becoming a value-add here.
"people felt quite bad about paying again for old content that they're already familiar with" - bad news for UK Gold then, and it is even weirder when people pay a subscription for something and then have to endure advertisements on it!
I'm Australian, but my parents are English and I bought them a subscription to Britbox and Acorn for Christmas the other year and they love it.
I'm in the US, and i watch it every week-- it's how i get my classic Doctor Who fix!
When it first launched, they had Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, then they were never seen on BritBox again. It pretty much became Old Doctor Who and documentary series. I wanted to support it, but I could get everything I would usually watch free on TH-cam (Mock The Week, Big Fat Quiz of the Year) or PBS (both comedies and mystery series).
I’ve had BritBox for a couple of years and have loved it (I’m a big fan of all the old shows like B7, Sapphire and Steel etc) so to see it falling apart is sad. I’ve watched a lot of shows vanish (black books, Blake’s 7 etc)
Get them on physical media whilst you still can!
I joined for Spitting Image. If you remember this was a major push at the time. I cancelled after two weeks.
Advantages of DVD/Blu-ray:
1. Buy once, keep forever without paying constantly increasing subscription prices.
2. Don't have the annoyance that what you want to watch is on another service you don't subscribe to.
3. No ads.
4. No spending ages trying to find the film or series you want to watch over umpteen subscription services and scrolling past stuff you don't want.
5. You get to see the entire series before they take it down (major problem with BritBox - every year will they renew Doctor Who?).
The streamers make some great content but streaming itself has too many flaws. I have BritBox but actually miss the demise of Network DVD more.
I've spent afternoons "acquiring" old shows and burning DVDs with how bad streaming is for them
Its even better if they include bonuses.
facts. I've been slowly increasing my DVD and Blu Ray collection 😁
Correct - physical media is so much better than streaming. Love that the price is so cheap now
You also forgot VHS and HD VHS.
As a Kiwi living in California, I depend on Britbox & Acorn for my tv viewing. I'd hate it if Britbox International were to fade away...
I thought this was extremely interesting and informative. Thank you.
I forgot that service was even a thing.
I’m assuming when BritBox ends, its programmes will move to BBC Iplayer and ITVX. You always make my day better Adam.🙂🙂
Well I don't want things stuck on iPlayer here in the U.S. we can't go iPlayer unless it de-geolocked. I want iPlayer in the U.S.
Apart from the 1st doctor who story…
@Zach90888 True. I still don’t know why An Unearthly Child is not on BBC Iplayer.
@@Nostalgic80s-nd3qb There are rights issues. The way the writers' contracts were set up back then meant they owned the stories completely. From time to time the son of the writer of An Unearthly Child starts claiming that he now owns aspects of Doctor Who, and wants the BBC to pay him stupid amounts of money for them. When they announced that classic Doctor Who was being added to iPlayer he threatened to sue them, so they can't add it until the whole situation is resolved.
@jamesoneill8920 Oh. Well, thanks for telling me.
I agree with you that Britbox in the UK never made sense - when it was first advertised, I thought "Why would I pay extra for what I already have access to?". In fact, I was concerned that they might start moving older programmes off of iplayer.
What I've never understood though is why the BBC don't just allow anyone outside of the UK to subscribe to iplayer - they could then have other British content on there, but geoblocked in the UK (because we have access to it elsewhere). The licence fee is essentially an annual subscription for people in the UK anyway. I think changing the finance model completely would be a *big* mistake and likely lose them customers, as it would make them the same as the streaming platforms. They could tweak it slightly or give people the choice to pay it in the form of a monthly subscription, but abolishing it completely seems nonsensical.
'Off of'?
here in Aus.. I used to watch DR Who on my BRITBOX subscription. Prior to that, I used to be able to watch many BBC programs on the ABC here, the Australian national broadcaster that was based on and had an arrangement with the BBC. But after 50 years, the BBC abruptly ended that co-arrangement. They started with transferring all BBC drama and period content in 2014 to Murdoch's FoxTel (in Aus only) to the eventual loss of DR Who to Disney in 2022 (worldwide outside the UK and Ireland). So, now of course, if I want to watch Dr Who, I need a Disney+ subscription. That's not going to happen on my budget.
Have you seen the 70th anniversary specials? They were amazing, & the new Christmas special with Ncuti was great! I'm in the UK, but if I lived abroad I'd definitely consider Disney+ just to watch Dr Who! New episodes coming in May!
@@Bellabambina12360th*** anniversary specials. Dr. Who isn't 70, yet! 🎉
I'm American and I almost forgot Britbox existed. There are a lot of streaming services I think it's easy to lose track when there are so many. There is quite a lot of British content on our free ad supported services and PBS has an app with a lot of content as well. I think it will be interesting to see what happens.
I’m CDN and my XMAS present which I ask for subscription every year from Hubby - I love it so much! I’ve watched almost everything except the really gruesome horror mysteries. I eagerly await every edition of “coming soon” to watch the trailers! I do not want Britbox to change except to bring new & legacy series onboard more rapidly please! It killed me that VERA has only 3 new shows for latest series! Love, love British writers, especially - absolutely brilliant! Then the superb actors who interpret the roles - and of course producers who put $$$ behind risky new series & bright directors & cinematographers who keep the staging & atmosphere fresh! Please do not take Britbox away. I hate the other services like Crave AppleTV plus - even Disney - I spend more time searching for something to watch than watching anything! I’d rather watch Taggart (27 seasons.) a 4th time through or Shetland or all the Death in Paradise Series on fictional St Marie or on the Devon coast. Britain’s multitude of beautiful topography & coastlines themselves - especially, Yorkshire, Cornwall & anywhere in Scotland are my favourite “characters”.
My account renewed for the year 1st January as I forgot to cancel🙈probably works out the cheapest of the streaming services the quality is pretty poor. Loads of the content that drew me to it initially such as the films have been removed. When I do occasionally use it, it often crashes and takes ages to load. Definitely needs a revamp.
I just cancelled Netflix after 10+ years and would not consider doing the same with my BritBox sub.
I have britbox, it’s a great service as one of my special interests is old kids tv and old comedies. I do wish, however, they had a lot more
Britbox has all shows in ITVX - but I find the shows so much harder to find content
@@Richiecandylover I agree. Britbox’s set up is very messy. I sometimes find kids shows in categories which don’t make sense
@@doodlenoodlex a lot of Britbox kids shows are in the entertainment section - it's as if they think that kids of today won't get it
oh wow, me too! what programmes do you like? i love trumpton, chigley, camberwick green, bertha, original fireman sam, portland bill, bagpuss, rainbow and loads more! is this the same era that you’re interested in? :)
Simply put...seen it,...why would I pay again
Because actors get paid for repeat broadcasts
@@charlestaylor9424 so... ?
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From the British side great news! It sounds like the BBC knows that licence fee is going 😀 not before time!! I'd be happy to have the iPlayer and itvx as subscription models though X needs a lot of work to make it a hell of a lot more stable; it's so slooow on my smart TV I don't bother even going in for free at the moment.
I subscribed for many years when it first came out in America. But I dropped it a year ago because they moved so much content to other subscription channels like Acorn, BBC Masterpiece Classic, BBC Documentary, BBC Masterpiece Drama. And now I see the price has gone up again to $9 a month. No thanks.
Pet peeve of mine. When did telly programmes start being called 'content'. It's all you hear now... content, content, bloody content. No, they're PROGRAMMES or SHOWS. 😁 To me, the content is the subject and theme of the show, not the show itself. Rant over. 😁
I’ve dipped in and out of Britbox since its inception here in Canada.
As one of many Brits who call Canada home, it was good to have some good old British TV 😃
Trouble was, I would sign up, watch the show I signed up specifically to watch, then couldn’t find anything else that interested me, so I would cancel again.
Probably done that 5 times now since I think 2018.
Fill it with content, keep members, make more money. My simplistic take on it 😃
I love BritBox! Here in 🇨🇦 I watch it daily!
Hoping that itvx will at least move more from britbox as at moment just checked lots of my old films and shows missing, including some pilot and Christmas episodes if they don't move over then no point being on there I'll go back to dvd blu-ray only and my Google play stuff I've bought which I'm. Happier with
I hope Britbox will remain online I've been watching a lot of American viewer reactions to UK TV shows has been really interesting to watch on youtube. A lot of Americans seem to really enjoy watching our TV shows they seem to enjoy comedies like The Vicar of Dibley and other shows they also seem to enjoy Plebs. I would hate to see US viewers losing out on our tv shows.
Where does the "Acorn" streaming service fit in all this rearrangement? Would it make sense to amalgamate Britbox international and Acorn?
What they should of done with Spitting Image was to have a US version and a UK version. What they did instead was to have one for both. So you had jokes that the UK didn't get or wasn't interested in or vice versa.
Yes, it’s gone down hill, but then so has (cram in as many minorities as we can) British tv.
If we pay licence fee we in UK should have access to watch all this stuff but with adverts to help pay for it
Britbox should stay
I have Britbox and I love it! 😍 I just wish they had more classic British comedies. I just coughed over $20 each to Prime Video and Google Play for the entire "Monty Python's Flying Circus" series! (Season one and two on Google play and three and four on Prime Video)💸
I cancelled my subscription several years ago since there was not much current content such as Question Time and relatively recent (year or two old) episodes of shows. Even the older shows were kind of spotty. A real shame for those in the U.S. who love British TV.
There's already various BBC streaming services globally. In Europe, they operate an "iPlayer"-branded Amazon Channel, in some countries in Europe and around the world they have BBC Entertainment cable channels or are present on the AMC streaming service. Similarly in the US, where there's BritBox, and then there's BBC America. For me, it would make sense to consolidate all these offerings into a unified brand. I'm not sure whether the "iPlayer" brand is the best one for this, as it's relatively unknown outside of the UK, but something like "BBC BritBox" would make a lot of sense to me to be present as a streaming offering complementary to the BBC cable channels.
As an Australian subscriber to BritBox I have become rather disappointed that a lot of the content I subscribed to the service for is now gone. Classic Dr Who being the biggest. So once my current 12 months is up with will probably endure cancelling it.
I don't have a TV Licence so can't watch iPlayer or live TV, but if the BBC ever assimilates all Britbox content into it, then I will be FURIOUS!
I needed your video on this thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks@@AdamMartyn
My husband and I enjoy BritBox we live in the US
I didn’t even realise Britbox was still going,
Same here, wasn't even aware it was still a thing.
iPlayer never launched here in the US because cable tv providers threatened to drop BBC America if the Beeb moved forward with it. Britbox, as a commercial service with a cover charge before you get in the door, was more acceptable to the cable companies, so we got that instead.
As an Englishman who moved to the USA 14 years ago at the age of 44, I subscribed to BritBox after realizing that I had just paid more for the boxed DvD set of Sharpe than I would for a year's subscription to Britbox (that has the whole Sharpe series on it).
But a year or so later I find myself watching very little on it. All the newer content seems to be crime/drama which I have little interest in, or unfunny sitcoms.
All the older stuff is maybe good when I'm feeling nostalgic, but some of my favorite shows of all time like Lovejoy and Shoestring are mysteriously absent, and the best of the new content (like the post 2000 Dr Who) is sold off to other streaming services like Acorn.
If Britbox closed down tomorrow I would barely miss it.
I was this close to getting a britbox (Australia) subscription for the classic doctor who series, until they removed it
I noticed one of my shows is now charging for the episodes, so I’m wondering if it’s been removed from BritBox. If so, I will have to cancel.
Your fleece game is particularly strongl
Can ITVX be accessed in the states? I would imagine they would hope to have ITVX being successful in the US, so their content will be on there instead of BritBox
Ditto
I am in the USA and I watch britbox, but I have collected the shows that I watch the most so I unsubscribed from it. There are a couple more that I want to have on DVD like, To The Manor Born. Open all hours, first series and the latest series. I have already gotten Keeping up Appearances , Are you being serviced, and are you being served again, are being served the movie just to name a few.
subscription best move for BBC
I wish BritBox was available in my country.
I am using it for Classic Doctor Who.
As an American who loves British programming having my love for it start as a child watching Mr bean on pbs there isn’t a good selection of programming to watch in America especially if your someone who can’t really afford a paid service like Britbox on the free ad supported app is often repetitive with some shows being on multiple apps and Pluto tv’s British comedy channel could be better if they did do like mini marathons of programming as much as I like Mr bean and the it crowd I don’t need them back to back for like 3 hours straight thry could use thst time to show more variety cause bbc America has gone mostly American with its programming at its sad to see the fall of thst channel cause i found doctor who and coupling through it
I watch britbox as a channel on Amazon all the time 😢
They actually took the original Spitting Image episodes they had made for Britbox off Britbox!
Adam Martyn, can I ask.... BBC studious, you said it's the commercial side of the BBC. As I understand it it's a privately owned company, set up and owned by the director general. He sold a lot of BBC programs to BBC Studios. Effectively selling public ally owned property to him self? That's what I understand, I could've been misinformed. Can you clarify please?
Yes, you're misinformed. Formerly BBC programmes were produced by various departments. BBC Studios was established after the government decided to open up the production side of TV so independent production companies could bid to make content for ITV, the BBC etc, and as such most of the non-factual departments were rolled up into it, as was the old commercial arm BBC Worldwide (which used to handle BBC content outside the UK, where use of licence fee monies is prohibited under the terms of the charter).
I suggest you read the BBC Studios wiki page for the whole story. The only connection between the current DG and BBC Studios is that he was previously the head of the latter.
As an aside, Channel 4 is owned by a 'private' company which is itself wholly owned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
@@ShanghaiRooster I stand corrected thank you for clarifying
@@MiseurPompadour No problems. It's easy to become confused due to the sheer volume of misinformation posted online by people who seem to be driven more by their dislike of the BBC than sticking to fact. The amount of times I've seen posts claiming that BBC Studios is 'profiting' from shows made at the expense of the licence fee payer (ignoring the fact that most of the time BBC Studios had been commissioned by the BBC to make those shows, and were paid out of the licence fee revenue to do so) is unbelievable. If BBC Studios sells those shows (or their formats) in other countries or puts them on channels supported by advertising abroad, eg, BBC America, it's to make money to supplement the licence fee, and as noted previously, they can not use licence fee income outside Britain.
@@MiseurPompadour There was always a good deal of rivalry between the various internal departments. For instance, Doctor Who was always produced by the Drama department, which got up the nose of the Children's department due to the Saturday tea-time slot the show went out in, which the Children's department thought was their province.
The day the BBC becomes subscription only rather than a stealth-tax can’t come soon enough. It’ll last 3 years max if it did that. I stopped paying my licence years ago. What they gonna do about it? Nothing. They’re powerless
I have BritBox, but I feel it's days are numbered since Doctor Who moved to Iplayer.
wth is Iplayer? is that some discontinued apple thingy?
@@Warp2090 BBC Iplayer.
@@Warp2090it’s the BBC’s own streaming and catch up service here in the UK. All of Classic doctor who used to be on Brit Box which was the main draw for UK users. Recently though it moved yo BBC iPlayer so the incentive to have BritBox dropped
@@Warp2090it’s a UK specific thing, basically taxpayer funded netflix.
@@Warp2090 BBC iPlayer.
I’m not a Brit box user but doesn’t the move to ITVX exclude anyone from Scotland using it?
Ok interesting video but it left me with a question. If ITV plus has more stuff than britbox will ITV plus come to the U.S.
Yes, my question as well.
HUH?! I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT BRITBOX LOL
I still wish they would bring iPlayer to the U.S.
it wasnt sold to bbc, it was sold to bbc studios
I always thought it was a bit weird for the UK to have it. It's more a BBC and ITV studios thing, where they can put their shows (mostly crime dramas, fuck sake can you stop making crime dramas for export) so us in Blighty can watch (or not watch in my case.) I had the subscription for a while but, just bought DVD's and got-iPlayered things, because I don't watch a lot of stuff on there. Mum loves her crime drama so she's on there frequently. Me, not so much. Good though. But not for the UK, y'all have iPlayer and the ITV thingy.
Lol Nordic = Norway
We say "norden" when we mean Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. That's why it's called Nordic.
Will ITVX be available 4 Canada if we lose BritBox?
I more know Britbox from TH-cam as they have clips from classic shows.
Holy Crap it’s Tim Write with an English accent
it all smelled of desperate hubris from the beginning - and building & marketing a unique platform rather than just putting content on existing GIANT successful platforms was ridiculous.
I don't want to pay for shows I've seen for free many times
i was happy to watch some murder mystery shows on hulu...and then they vanished to brit box...and i didn't want to subscribe to another service. so i lost track of them
Anything with brit in the title doesn't get airtime in my house.
Why would I pay ITV for BBC programmes? Id rather pay the BBC for it.
do they still have spitting image on there all 18 season
Isn't channel 5 owned by Viacom anymore?
BritBox needs to get more current programming. The old programming is a bit tiring other than some of the classical shows.
Oh ok😊
Is this the same BBC who are always going on about having no money and a 300 million shortfall in their funding suddenly find 255 million quid down the back of the sofa to buy out ITV on their dead joint venture platform?
BBC studios is the commercial arm of the BBC that side sells tv shows to other countries around the world.
Finland is not a Scandinavian country.
Yes It Is
@@lukemccorkell6533 It's a Nordic country but not part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
BritBox seemed doomed from the start. I remember hearing people talk about it for a week and questioning if it could survive,going up against Netflix,Disney+,Amazon Prime and Peacock. The stuff they have doesn't seem to have wide appeal besides people who really like British content. That and as a Brit myself,I couldn't care less for anything put out by BBC,ITV,Channel 4 or 5
And Others
I tell you what's gone wong we're love free to much 🤣
If you want to keep paying for shows you've already paid for britbox is for you...
WITH BRIT BOX no needa tv BBC licence far cheaper
Britbox
For Australian Britbox subscribers we lost Dr Who from the streamer at the start of last year and the majority of the programmes offered are available on other streamers here first and there is not a lot of classic tv for us on Britbox. I have now unsubscribed
Could you find out what is going on at talk tv
Closing down on Freeview/Sky/Virgin and going online only - will be interesting to see what the TALK local channels will do
wat@@Richiecandylover
ITS COMING APART
So why can I still watch britbox via prime
If asked to got to itvx I'll, stop my payments I won't go itvx
All the old shows are what I watch and have on dvd blu-ray and no cuts
I go via prime amazon at moment, so that will, go, ok then I go, itvx isn't free of adverts even premium sone still are on there, so britbox will be dead
Presume we still don't need a TV Licence if we just watch britbox and not anything live then no licence needed
So at moment I go britbox for old uk shows and dvd as well, I'll drop subs as don't wish to use useless itvx and still get ads on some things and there crap set up, when going via amazon prime was best way to access
And with dvd blu-ray it stays as I purchased no edits like some old shows have recently yet again, incomplete series due to licensing, mp commentary, documentary etc all I can have on dvd blu-ray
What is going on with all your multicoloured clothing...You borrowed Gyles Brandreth's 80's wardrobe?! 🤔😆
Who... 😂
Stopped subscription last year
Oh no…
Anyways...
HI Adam,just subscribed, my beef is, this schould never be aloud, til 2027 when charter runs out, and then, BBC axe the licence free, and can then sell the suff , to anyone, they wish,
once thats ended, and not funded by, the public, who paid, over last 40 years, to fund and help make the content, and belongs, to puplic, who paid the licence, over this, time,
BBC, is sinking ship, with licence, payers, and my job, it to make public, understand, what bbc are doing, over next few years, and 2027,hope licence will end, then they can do whatever they wish, with this old, content, Paid for buy, Brishish public,
they, paid "capitia £500,million to collect, non payments, of tv licence, hich now "doomed
like Dads Army tv,, of tv today,and BBC IPLAYER will made subscrition, will end the licence tax, for ever, this oudated system, they have now,
and the £4billion puonds, they get now, ends from British public and menoply they have on live tv, will also end,
thanks Inspector "C"
Frankly I think the BBC have little to fear from an investigation by an obvious fantasist who can't spell "allowed".
I'm an American living in Texas. I subscribed to Britbox for 2 years (2018 - 2020) because of their offerings of full BBC series that I love (classic Dr. Who, Poirot, Miss Marple, Midsomer Murders, etc. I ended up dropping them to two reasons: 1. They eliminated all of the Midsomer Murders series from 1998 to almost the present. 2. They added trigger warnings to a LOT of their older content made in the 60s, 70s and 80s in case any current-day snowflakes got upset over language or portrayals that aren't up to woke standards. It's no big loss. With dedicated channels for Midsomer Murders, classic Dr. Who, etc. on PlutoTV, RokuTV and XumoTV, there's plenty of content to watch and it's all free (with advertisements). I haven't missed Britbox at all.
I am Second
Paying a subscription to watch repeats of old BBC programme s we have already paid for with our licence fee
That's not how that works. BBC Studios has always been behind more BBC productions than the license fee. The license fee pays mostly wages, infrastructure and some broadcast licensing. What license fee funded programming there is, the vast majority of it is educational, public service related or niche regional or language programming like S4C or Alba. The majority of which can be accessed indefinitely for free on the BBC.
And if you were going to make that argument, I think you should have been making it at the dawn of VHS, and not 40 years after releases. Like, your argument isn't quite correct and if it was, you're late in making it.
Britbox has been a mess from the get go.