Re: [NEWS] Classic Doctor Who Removed From Britbox UK and ITVX Premium

On 2025-01-09 21:33:06 +0000, Blueshirt said:

The True Doctor wrote:

On 09/01/2025 20:41, Blueshirt wrote:

The True Doctor wrote:

 Why would Britbox and ITV want to throw their money down
the toilet? You'd think the BBC would want all episodes on
as many platforms as exist. Now for Disney to join them
and put an end to The Adventures of the Timeless Child
Monster.

 Maybe - and it is only a random maybe - Disney want all of
Doctor Who from the beginning of time on their own streaming
platform, for international distribution outside of the
UK... So the BBC (for a price) were happy to oblige and not
re-licence 'classic era' Doctor Who to Britbox and ITVX?

 Disney only streams Doctor Who outside of the UK. The BBC has
the UK streaming rights and selling them to Britbox and ITV
would make them more money. Clearly RTD and his bunch of sick
degenerate perverts have totally destroyed the entire brand
for Britbox and ITV not to want it.

 This was always likely to happen. Everyone (well, everyone that
paid attention to that sort of thing) knew that the Britbox
streaming rights for classic era Doctor Who in the USA expired
in 2025. It was talked about back when the deal with Disney was
done for the RTD 2.0 era of the show. As some people wondered if
the classic era of the show would be available on Disney+... it
wasn't, because Britbox had those rights. They don't now!
 I'd say it was more a case of the licence expired and the BBC
have chosen to go elsewhere than Britbox not wanting it.
 Stay tuned...

Possibly. It makes sense for BBC shows to stay on iPlayer so the BBC can claim to have X number of viewers and continue to get funding. It also really makes no sense for someone in the UK who already gets iPlayer for free to waste money paying Britbox (or whoever) to watch BBC shows ... but then people are incredibly stupid, especially when it comes to some new tech fad.  ;-\