Filming has begun on Outrageous (6×60’), a six-part series about the Mitford sisters, with a cast including Bessie Carter, Joanna Vanderham, Anna Chancellor and James Purefoy, which will air in 2025. The brand-new drama, created and written by Sarah Williams (Small Island, Flesh and Blood, The Long Song), and based on Mary Lovell’s definitive biography […]
Diana Pessin has been named Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for BritBox International, the streaming service that brings the best of British television and culture to viewers around the world. Pessin, who originally joined BritBox as SVP, Global Marketing in 2023, will now oversee all marketing, including brand marketing and creative, title campaigns, partner and growth […]
The BBC, BritBox International and Red Planet Pictures have announced that Beyond Paradise has been recommissioned for a 2024 Christmas special episode and third season, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Beyond Paradise has become one of the UK’s most popular dramas since its debut in 2023, with episode one of season two being […]
BBC Studios has appointed Robert Schildhouse to the expanded role of President of BritBox North America, and General Manager of BritBox International based in New York, effective April 1st. Kerry Ball will continue in her role as Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer based in London. Schildhouse and Ball will now both report to Rebecca Glashow, […]
ITV has sold its entire 50 per cent interest in digital subscription streaming service BritBox International to its joint venture partner BBC Studios for a cash consideration of £255 million (€297.7m). The sale comes as ITV focuses its strategy on its own streaming service, ITVX, and its Studios division. The Board intends to return the […]
BritBox, the ad-free subscription streaming service created by the BBC and ITV, has started a distribution partnership with Elisa Viihde offering BritBox’s ad-free subscription streaming service on platform, becoming the third platform in Finland to offer the service. BritBox offers Finnish customers thousands of hours of premium British content, including BritBox Originals such as Irvine […]
BritBox, the International SVoD service for British content, has expanded its deal with BAFTA to continue its broadcast of the EE BAFTA Film Awards while also expanding its agreement to – for the first time – include coverage of the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises,. The deal covers exclusive simulcast streaming for both awards […]
Banijay Rights has announced BritBox UK, available as part of ITVX Premium, has acquired Fat Friends, the renowned Kay Mellor comedy-drama that first aired on British TV screens 23 years ago. Produced by Mellor’s Rollem Productions in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, a Banijay UK company, and Yorkshire Television, Fat Friends debuted on ITV1 in […]
Filming has commenced for the first Christmas special and second season of the hugely successful crime drama Beyond Paradise. Co-commissioned with BritBox International and coming to BBC One and iPlayer, fans will be eager to see what’s next for Humphrey and Martha following their make-or-break trip to Saint Marie at the end of the last […]
Short film KAUR, is set for release exclusively on BritBox UK – available via ITVX Premium – from July 18th. KAUR explores identity, faith, racism and female empowerment and was created, written, produced by and stars filmmaker and full time NHS doctor Parvinder Shergill from Pinder Productions, and co-produced and co-written by Juggy Sohal from […]