{"id":31990,"date":"2019-11-07T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=31990"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:55:01","slug":"britbox-chill-uks-answer-to-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/britbox-chill-uks-answer-to-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"BritBox &#038; chill? UK\u2019s answer to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Service Broadcasters (PSB) have confirmed the release of \u2018BritBox\u2019, an on-demand streaming service including BBC, ITV and now Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>Over a third of all UK households now contain Netflix or Amazon Prime. With younger people watching less scheduled TV every year according to Ofcom, British PSB are struggling to remain competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Britbox launched today as the UK\u2019s answer to the increasing American dominance of the market; with Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV all providing on-demand services.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers will now be able to watch content from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, anywhere and at any time, with more programming expected to be added in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Channel 4 chief executive, Alex Mahon responded to Channel 4\u2019s confirmed inclusion in Britbox:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity to collaborate as PSBs on BritBox extends our track record of partnership and will ensure there is a compelling single destination for the very best high-quality, home-grown content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can start watching British dramas, comedies, film and documentaries right away, with an initial 30-day free trial. After the trial, BritBox will cost \u00a35.99<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britbox.co.uk\/\">Britbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words Ferris Shaw | Subbing: Niamh Hutchings<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Service Broadcasters (PSB) have confirmed the release of \u2018BritBox\u2019, an on-demand streaming service including BBC, ITV and now Channel 4. Over a third of all UK households now contain Netflix or Amazon Prime. With&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":31991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}