The new streaming service may offer the best
British dramas in TV history – but it seems hamstrung from the start. We dig into its offering to spare you the bother ... and another subscriptionBritBox:
UK networks’ plan to tackle
Netflix,
Amazon and
Apple TV+ One of the best offerings on BritBox – the new archive streaming site officially launched by ITV and the
BBC today – is arguably the greatest single-series British TV drama ever made: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the 1979 BBC adaptation of John le Carré’s espionage novel.
But the opening of another digital bank of programming will confront even the most assiduous viewer with a new parody of the children’s counting song – Netflix, Amazon, Apple, BritBox,
Disney, Why?