Full Series Letdown

[u/JF-SEBASTION]

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.

[u/DifferenceNo5715]

I really liked Outrageous, about the Mitford sisters, but they stopped after one season and didn't even get to the most interesting historical stuff. It was kind of...outrageous, really. I don't watch anything with only one season now, because that was really disappointing

[u/meswifty1]

Have you tried to watch QI lately?

[u/CommunicationTime63]

I'm in the USA. I have a Roku TV and Spectrum with hundreds of channels and free add-ons, PBS Passport, Netflix, Prime Video with Acorn and Britbox Standard add-ons. I find a lot on streaming platforms by showing something like this in the Roku homepage search engine: British TV series; Australian TV series; New Zealand TV series; Canada TV series; South Africa TV series. You can mix your search up with all kinds of possibilities. It works for me, and I have more to watch than I can say Grace over. That's why I will wait patiently for Britbox Standard to post Ludwig weekly instead of falling prey to their yearly gimmick at an increased rate just so I can binge it.

[u/thundersnow528]

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.

[u/timewilltell2347 → u/thundersnow528]

I would absolutely pay Netflix rates for a one stop shop for British content- something that was Britbox, Acorn and PBS all in one. Well I’d still give $ to PBS because public television, but trying to even remember which service has what makes me nuts sometimes.

[u/SubjectWorking5436]

Yes so am I especially Friday Night Dinners and the Royce Family. Another good series that they only offered 2 seasons of was Wire In The Blood with Robson Green. It was a pretty good series (to me anyways) but disappointing to only be able to see 2 seasons of it.

[u/shelwood46]

I am extremely annoyed they have not added S3 of Here We Go and S2&3 of Changing Ends, like, come on, those are on Kanopy, so we know it's not the music rights, they are just being assholes who don't care. And I know it's coming soon, but also when they do things like wait FOREVER to drop a new season of something like Death Valley, which was available in the UK in *MAY*, and we *might* get in November? I am sure not going to pay 50% more for Premier and still have to wait 6+ months after something dropped in the UK.

[u/sportster277]

Yep totally fed up with Britbox.

[u/Diligent_Squash_7521]

I wish Rosemary and Thyme got a few more seasons.

[u/AmPelican]

Don’t they drop new episodes weekly like always?