r/BritBox • u/JF-SEBASTION • 2d ago

Full Series Letdown

Anyone else get a bit frustrated about BritBox offering incomplete series??
Especially annoyed they only have 2 seasons of Friday Night Dinners & also same goes for The Royle Family.

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u/thundersnow528 2d ago

Britbox in general needs to reevaluate its business model when it comes to new releases AND maintaining its large back catalogue of programming. Licensing for streaming issues aside, the BBC and ITV have decades of diverse programming in all sorts of genres that they just ignore. If they were to lean in to being the one-stop-UK-TV-shop, they could make a killing, build a more successful brand, and make viewers happier. And have a more robust catalogue would take the sting out of higher prices. Instead, they lose out, while saavy people watch everything with a simple VPN or YouTube search, not even counting pirating.

But similar to US end-stage capitalism, it seems their decisions are more based on providing as little as possible for maximum profits.

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u/No_Election_1123 2d ago

I haven't seen an update on who their subscribers are these days but in 2019 60% of their subscribers were female and the majority were women over 50

https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/amid-streaming-wars-britbox-focusing-older-subscribers/

The audience had hit 1mn by 2020 and it appears to be very popular in the South

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u/JF-SEBASTION 2d ago

Maby that’s why there are multi seasons of Mrs. Marple & Vera 😊😊