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BritBox International Boss Speaks For First Time Since $330M BBC Studios-ITV Deal; Says Best-Of-British Streamer Feels No “Creative Pressure” From Its New Majority Owner
BritBox boss Robert Schildhouse has talked BBC-ITV Deal, Agatha Christie shows, Gavin & Stacey' & the exit from South Africa.
Schildhouse wouldn’t be drawn on what has gone so wrong for some of America’s biggest legacy media companies and their streaming operations but said BritBox’s quiet growth comes from being “laser focused on delivering the best of British TV.” The former Hulu exec talked up the strength of BritBox’s Agatha Christie library, which contains numerous older adaptations, recent David Jonsson-starrer Murder is Easy and, soon, Towards Zero, starring Anjelica Huston and co-produced with the BBC. In fact, just a few weeks after the BBC Studios-ITV deal, BritBox revealed it would be pulling out of South Africa less than three years after launch there, citing a focus on “more established markets and the areas of the business that will have the highest opportunities for growth.”
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