Hooray, BritBox is coming to the UK.
Shows like Love Island, Gavin & Stacey, Gentleman Jack and Broadchurch will be on ITV and the BBC's streaming service BritBox when it launches this year.
The broadcasters are joining forces to set up the subscription service in the UK as a rival to the likes of Netflix.
It will cost £5.99 per month in HD, launching between October and the end of December.
New programmes will also be made specially for BritBox, with the first arriving next year.
Not the same thing technically, but here’s another idea. How about a GaryBox for the BBC? This would be a simple inexpensive box of tricks sitting between the aerial or satellite dish and the TV. On a particular well-publicised date BBC terrestrial and satellite transmissions would be scrambled but the GaryBox would unscramble them for viewers who have paid a fee.
To make the GaryBox work, BBC viewers without an internet connection would buy time-limited cards which slot into the GaryBox, allowing them to watch all BBC output, including of course Gary Lineker on Match of the Day. For those with an internet connection the GaryBox would be updated via an internet account and Direct Debit. That would be the majority of viewers, making the GaryBox easy to operate.
The GaryBox would do away with the TV licence and allow people who don’t watch the BBC to watch TV without worrying about TV licence bullying. I know from personal experience that there are people who don’t watch BBC but pay for a licence to avoid any possibility of licence bullying but that’s the Beeb for you. Gary must be paid.
2 comments:
I normally think that we are getting soft in this country, but just imagine the fortitude and grit possessed by anyone who could sit through that Britbox rubbish. It's far more impressive than ultra-marathons and sea bathing on New Year's Day.
Sam - but are they awake? I bet the BBC can't tell if its viewing figures include folk who are fast asleep. Or even dead.
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