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BritBox, the streaming service run by BBC Studios and ITV, is to launch in Australia. It is the latest international launch for the platform, which is available in the U.S., Canada and UK. It is expected to launch later in 2020 and will include a slew of British content. BritBox Australia will be run as a 50/50 joint…

EXCLUSIVE: BritBox, the U.S. streamer backed by the BBC and ITV, has hit 1M subscribers. The service has doubled its take-up since January 2019. The platform, which launched in March 2017, attributed its success to tapping into an "underserved" audience of women 45 years and older with a slew of British series. It…

Spitting Image is returning after BritBox handed the puppet comedy reboot a two season order – its first original commission in the UK. The SVOD service ordered the series from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver producer Avalon. It will air in the autumn with the second season to follow in 2021. Development of the…

U.S. streaming service BritBox is to co-produce ITV crime drama The Pembrokeshire Murders starring Murder Mystery?and?The Alienist?star?Luke Evans. The SVOD service, which is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV, will take U.S. and Canadian rights to the three-part series, produced by Bodyguard?producer?World Produc…

EXCLUSIVE: The latest season of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's oddball dark comedy Inside No. 9 is coming to U.S. streamer BritBox. The digital platform, which is backed by BBC Studios and ITV, is to exclusively launch the fifth season of the show on March 17. This comes after the show launched on BBC Two in…

This year's TV Drama Vision event (January 29-30) at the Goteborg Film Festival, which in 2020 will present 40 new series, has finalised its line-up. The sold-out showcase, which has grown in international prominence in recent years, will host attendees from CAA, Curtis Brown, Gersh, WIIP and the local Salomonsson…

The BBC and ITV’s streaming service BritBox has named Will Harrison, the Ingenious Media managing director and former Warner Bros executive, as its UK MD. Harrison will begin work at BritBox later this month, overseeing its strategy and commercial performance in the UK. He will report to Reemah Sakaan, the chief brand…

ITV and BritBox's long-running detective drama Vera is returning for an 11th season. The announcement was made by star Brenda Blethyn at the Winter TCA Press Tour. The show stars Blethyn as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, a middle-aged employee of the Northumberland & City Police, who plods along in a…

Rob Lowe's ITV drama Wild Bill, cop drama McDonald and Dodds (starring The Crown's Jason Watkins), Martin Freeman's A Confession and Sticks and Stones (starring Killing Eve's Ken Nwosu) are the latest British titles to be snapped up by streamer BritBox. This comes after the ITV and BBC joint venture unveiled its…

BritBox North America, the streaming service operated by the BBC and ITV, has commissioned a drama based on a character that first appeared in the hit British daytime show Father Brown. The Sister Boniface Mysteries will star Lorna Watson (Watson & Oliver) after she featured as sleuthing nun Sister Boniface in the…

If you needed reminding why Britain’s biggest broadcasters are stacking their eggs in a BritBox-shaped basket, then look no further than ITV’s third-quarter earnings this week. Tucked away in a table was a figure not mentioned elsewhere in the press release: the revelation that ITV’s total viewing hours fell by 700M…

ITV is forecasting that revenue at its production arm, ITV Studios, will grow at least 5% in 2019 thanks to a bumper year in the U.S. where it has delivered shows including Love Island for CBS. In a third-quarter trading update on Tuesday, ITV said that ITV Studios’ total sales should increase to around ￡1.8BN…