BritBox is a U.S. subscription video on-demand service owned by BBC Worldwide and ITV plc. It is focuses primarily on British television series, featuring current and past series supplied from the BBC and ITV. Some series, such as Coronation Street, have new episodes available the next day after their British premiere. AMC Networks, who are the BBC's partner on their domestic cable channel BBC America, has a non-voting minority stake in the service. Its launch was officially announced in March 2017.
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Programming
The service will also offer the complete series of Sharpe -- the Napoleonic Sean Bean extravaganza -- and will serve as the US premieres for the BBC's fresh crime drama New Blood, and ITV's Tutankhamun. In addition, new programming, such as
- EastEnders
- Emmerdale
- Holby City
- Casualty
In its debut year of 2017, the service also focused on much of the classic catalog of British television such as:
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Are You Being Served?
- As Time Goes By
- Blackadder
- Bleak House
- Brideshead Revisited
- Cold Feet
- Cracker
- Dalziel & Pascoe
- Desperate Romantics
- 1963-1989 Doctor Who
- Fawlty Towers
- Gavin & Stacey
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Miss Marple
- The Moonstone
- New Blood
- Inspector Morse
- The Office
- Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Early Cases (seasons 1-6)
- Prime Suspect
- Rosemary & Thyme
- Scott & Bailey
- Sherlock Holmes (starring Jeremy Brett)
- Silent Witness
- Upstairs Downstairs
NW (adapted from Zadie Smith's international best-selling novel), will arrive spring 2018.
More than 2,000 of hours of programming were available at launch, with new shows are "added daily." The programming is offered without commercial interruption.
Doctor Who
While serving as a streaming source for the surviving classic episodes of Doctor Who, Britbox released a reconstruction of the Second Doctor story The Wheel in Space using the surviving episodes and telesnap reconstruction in September 2017.
Maps BritBox
See also
- Acorn TV
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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