BRITBOX IS FALLING APART!

After a few years on the market, is BRITBOX nearing the end...? We explore the state of the streaming platform, both here in the UK and on the international front as well. Will Britbox see out the 2020s? What efforts will the BBC & ITV go to to ensure its survival? Or perhaps its evolution into something else entirely...

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[Princess_Aurora]

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.

[jamessmithson-brrm]

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.

[Mr_Fahrenheit]

It should be free with the Tv licence in the uk and Let the rest of the world pay a subscription to watch it.

[howiieb]

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.

[LordWalsallian]

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…

[msvoyeur]

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.

[WeeShooey]

I joined for Spitting Image. If you remember this was a major push at the time. I cancelled after two weeks.

[kdkseven]

I'm in the US, and i watch it every week-- it's how i get my classic Doctor Who fix!

[TylerHealy-ur]

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.

[gwheregwhizz]

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.

[henrywilloughby]

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 YouTube (Mock The Week, Big Fat Quiz of the Year) or PBS (both comedies and mystery series).

[AlistairKiwi]

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...

[cakehole]

I thought this was extremely interesting and informative. Thank you.

[richardmattocks]

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)

[emmas]

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.

[Nostalgics-ndqb]

I’m assuming when BritBox ends, its programmes will move to BBC Iplayer and ITVX. You always make my day better Adam.🙂🙂

[hannahk]

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.

[BeefyWaltoon]

I forgot that service was even a thing.

[blueskies]

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.

[htmc]

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”.