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'Netflix Effect' Poses Challenge to British TV

posted by mrpg on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-dont-adapt-anime dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime now have more subscribers than traditional pay TV services in the UK, new data from Ofcom has revealed.

The media regulator says British TV will have to change the way it operates if it wants to compete with the internet giants.

Sharon White, Ofcom's chief executive, says: "We'd love to see broadcasters such as the BBC work collaboratively with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 so that they have got that scale to compete globally, making shows together, co-producing great shows that all of us can watch.

"I think it would be great to see a British Netflix."

BrexitFlix?

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by c0lo on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:38AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:38AM (#709279) Journal

    Really? I thought that, in the context, 'traditional' was referring the times of Charles Ilnd, after Cromwell banned Christmas. You know? The Merry Monarch, putting up a reality show on the expense of his subjects.

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:56AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday July 19 2018, @08:56AM (#709285) Journal

    Blimey, as a Greek, I know that there must be an English tune that goes with this: https://youtu.be/Dvp4fZyhZZ8 [youtu.be]

    "It's my only line!"

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday July 19 2018, @12:29PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday July 19 2018, @12:29PM (#709339) Homepage
    Well, given the lack of female actors back in Shakespeare's day, traditional pay TVs would be the male actors that had to play Desdemona and Ophelia!
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