New rules to protect ‘distinctively British’ public service broadcasting’

[Andrew]

I imagine this is all just people on social media getting the wrong end of the stick, and taking things to extremes, so they can get all outraged

And them tomorrow it’ll all be forgotten about and there will be something else to rage about on social media

[XIII]

I can't imagine Death in Paradise would be affected by this proposal anyway given the majority of the cast and crew are British and it's made by Red Planet Pictures for the BBC.

[Neil Jones]

To read the spiel seems to suggest everybody on British TV and film should behave like Hyacinth Bucket (without the delusion of being posh, painfully overbearing and telling people off who want a number 42 and a double portion of 25).

[Andrew]

Where does it say that these proposals would effect 100% of content?

[London Lite]

I can't imagine Death in Paradise would be affected by this proposal anyway given the majority of the cast and crew are British and it's made by Red Planet Pictures for the BBC.

I thought Death in Paradise was a co-commission by the BBC and France Télévisions?

[XIII]

I thought Death in Paradise was a co-commission by the BBC and France Télévisions?

I think originally it was but I haven't see France Televisions credited for a couple of series.

[tellyblues]

Aside from what is "distinctively British" and what is not, "iconic not generic" is another grey area. What programmes are there you can't say "oh, that's like..." about?

[The_IT_Technician]

But that's mainly for archive. I mean integrating iPlayer, ITV Hub, All4, whatever 5's is called. Rather than browsing across 5 different apps and services.

Britbox could have been a paid add-on for that platform.

From my understanding 10 to 15 year ago the UK terrestrial broadcasters tried to do something similar via project kangaroo, the competition commission blocked the proposal, on competition grounds and no doubts pressure from sky etc...

If it had gone through then we wouldn't be talking about this now; rather than being a Netflix button on your remote there would be one for kangaroo and the broadcasters would have been in much of a better position. There may not have been talk of privatising channel 4 and also comparing the BBC to Netflix etc. But that is just speculation and we will leave that there due to forum rules. We are where we are due to past decisions made, whether for good or for bad ..

[Steve in Pudsey]

I imagine this is all just people on social media getting the wrong end of the stick, and taking things to extremes, so they can get all outraged

And them tomorrow it’ll all be forgotten about and there will be something else to rage about on social media

Without going political, I think there's a fair argument that the way in which the press release frames it has an element of playing to a certain crowd. I can imagine GB News and certain newspapers lapping this stuff up uncritically.

[XIII]

I wonder if part of this initiative might be to extend the film tax credits programme which is usually reserve for high end drama and high budget films to lower cost drama.

[technologist]

From my understanding 10 to 15 year ago the UK terrestrial broadcasters tried to do something similar via project kangaroo, the competition commission blocked the proposal, on competition grounds and no doubts pressure from sky etc...

If it had gone through then we wouldn't be talking about this now; rather than being a Netflix button on your remote there would be one for kangaroo and the broadcasters would have been in much of a better position. There may not have been talk of privatising channel 4 and also comparing the BBC to Netflix etc. But that is just speculation and we will leave that there due to forum rules. We are where we are due to past decisions made, whether for good or for bad ..

It was a very wide ranging and strange decision and it could be argued that Britbox is in breach of the ruling…..
The broadcasters tried very hard to shape the offer to what the CC wanted …but the CC was determined that in the British part of an international market they would have too much market power …..
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk.../05-09.pdf

[dvboy]

Just like the whole imperial measurements thing that has come out over the last few days, this is just another way to try to attract or retain voters who really don't have a clue how things actually work because there isn't really a problem to be solved and nothing will change.

[Brekkie]

The trouble is when things do change as a result of people who don't understand how things actually work in order to solve a non-existent problem it usually causes far more problems.