BritBox has also closed a deal to stream the first two seasons in the U.S and Canada from early next year It was always going to be either BritBox or Netflix that was going to get it for North America.
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How Working on Payback and Out of Darkness Provided Dramatically Different Experiences
Bleeding Cool: What was it like working on the first season of Payback and the final three episodes of the season?
Cummings: It was great I finished 'Out of Darkness' and was looking I want to work on good stuff, whether it's[...]
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The Christmas Episode of EastEnders will air on BBC One at 945pm and will end up on Britbox overseas after that How many people stream the latest episodes of EastEnders in the US, we wonder? It used to be on PBS in the US, but no longer before the current years of[...]
Hopefully, it'll be streaming in the US on Britbox Christmas is a big deal for television in the U.K., guys And for the one ghost story on TV per year.
Every Christmas in the U.K is a time for ghost stories, especially on the BBC, and often adapted by Literature and genre fanboy Mark Gatiss,[...]
David Tennent and Michael Sheen are back for a third series of Staged along with their partners and family members, and writer Simon Evans for the last time, pinky-swear… if you can believe them.
"Staged" Season 3 key art: Britbox UK
The first series of Staged, which came during the darkest moments of Lockdown, was lightning in[...]
The new series of Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, launched on the Britbox streaming service this week in the UK, and I've been watching it with the good lady wife She was especially pleased to see Neil Gaiman in episode one, as she got to meet him earlier this year for the launch[...]
Yesterday, the third series of Staged dropped on the BritBox streaming app – but only in the UK It will be released in the US and other territories later and, indeed, will be available on the BBC at some point – but not quite yet, as people on social media are really rather keen to[...]
Which may be why Staged Series 3 is now exclusive to BritBox in the UK for its third season.
Staged series 3, BritBox
There's no letup on the guests this year either, but because this is Bleeding Cool, we have one we'd like to focus on A certain Neil Gaiman, who wrote and served as showrunner of[...]
Staged, the hit sitcom featuring comically awful and insecure versions of David Tennant and Michael Sheen as they went crazy during Lockdown, will be returning for a third season, and shockingly soon – the new series will be dropping exclusively on Britbox UK on November 24th Hopefully it will also be on Britbox in the[...]
9 is streaming on the BBC iPlayer in the UK and Britbox in the US.
Inside No 9, the wild and twisted Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton anthology series has been renewed for two more seasons The seventh season just ended its current run on the BBC this week Each series has 6 episodes, so there[...]
Streaming service Britbox has released a New Year's special that may inadvertently turn out to be a very real harbinger of doom.
"Staged New Year's Eve Special", Britbox, BBC
Just when you thought it was all over, they come back for one more That was what we all thought when the 2nd series of Staged suddenly came[...]
The 6-part series will be available as a box set exclusively on streaming service BritBox Scott will play Detective Inspector Ray Lennox, Joanna Vanderham will play DS Amanda Drummond, Angela Griffin plays Trudi Lowe, Ken Stott will play Chief Superintendent Bob Toal and Jamie Sives will play Detective Inspector Dougie Gillman.
"Crime" still courtesy of Britbox
Crime looks like Welsh's stab at Tartan[...]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that hardly anyone watches Spitting Image when it's on the subscription service BritBox and everyone watches it when they put it on the free-to-air network broadcast ITV And that's what they are doing for Halloween, just after it airs on BritBox.
Spitting Image Returns To ITV For Halloween
Series two has[...]
Spitting Image returns on September 11th to BritBox in the UK, with new puppets for Olivia Colman, Sajid Javid, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Tom Cruise, Tom Daley, Jess Phillips, Ariana Grande, Gary Lineker, Bill Gates, Ellen DeGeneres, and Raheem Sterling This adds to the existing cast of hundreds including Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Prince Andrew,[...]
He singlehandedly destroyed public confidence in the UK government's messaging about the lockdown and isolating to control the pandemic.
The Dominic Cummings puppet in "Spitting Image", Britbox
As a result, you can probably lay the surge in infection rates across the UK ever since at his feet Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe also died from COVID on Friday[...]
Otherwise, it's only available on streaming service Britbox Those grotesque puppets are at it again, and Spitting Image is recreating their antics! It has what you would expect, a couple of sketches of Trump and the very grey Pence explaining how to steal the vote Jared is still a literal stiff whose head falls off[...]
And it's on YouTube! Yes, that's right… YouTube!
"Spitting Image" key art, Britbox
Available only on the Britbox streaming service, the new episodes are now available a few days after the broadcast to stream on the official Spitting Image YouTube Channel As of this writing, all four episodes to date are available The 4th episode feels like[...]
It was announced today that the revived satirical puppet show Spitting Image will have two specials to cover all the key moments and circus around the 2020 US Election. Streaming exclusively on BritBox first thing on Saturday the 31st October, non-subscribers will have a one-off chance to watch the first, bonus episode of the special on ITV on[...]
Lots of folk who signed up for the free seven day trial of Britbox for the first episode os Spitting Image have had a look around the streaming TV service and, if they live in the UK, discovered most of the stuff they can already get on the BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All4, Netflix and[...]
The new Spitting Image series has just landed on the Britbox streaming service (free 7 day trial, so if you sign up now you should be able to get two episodes before it starts costing you) As ever, it's a mixed bag when it comes to writing bit – as ever – the torrent of[...]
Spitting Image is returning to screen next month, courtesy of streaming site Britbox The popular satirical puppet show of the eighties and nineties was a scabrous, silly, saucy and downright salacious piece of polemic, in the spirit of Hogarth, Gilray, Scarfe and Bell And as modern day politics outstrip the extremes of the eighties, it[...]
The classic satirical puppet show Spitting Image will return to British screen from Saturday, the 3rd of October, running weekly for ten weeks, on new streaming service Britbox.
It was announced earlier this year that celebrated Spitting Image co-creator Roger Law returned to head up the show's creative team, while Jeff Westbrook (The Simpsons, Futurama) is the[...]
David Walliams and Matt Lucas' Little Britain and Come Fly With Me have been removed from Netflix, Britbox, and the BBC iPlayer.
On Saturday, Walliams and Lucas issued an apology on Twitter: "Matt & I have both spoken publicly in recent years of our regret that we played characters of other races Once again we want[...]
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Little Britain Pulled By Netflix, BritBox, BBC iPlayer Over Blackface
Little Britain Tops Amazon Charts After BBC Bans Streaming
Netflix Pulls League Of Gentleman, Mighty Boosh, Still on BBC Player
In light of the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers and resulting protests across the country and around the world, a big, bright, and necessary[...]
During a time of global protest against the killing of George Floyd and to raise awareness of police brutality against the Black community, streamers Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and BritBox have removed BBC comedy series Little Britain from their services over the use of blackface in several sketches Netflix also dropped the follow-up series, airport mockumentary[...]
Once Doctor Who Series 12 brought the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) back to
Naturally, this generated a renewed interest in classic Doctor Who episodes, only for new fans to discover that there are more than 97 episodes for which no recordings can be found, mostly from the era of the first and second Doctors.
The BBC and Britbox have teamed up to try and bring as many Classic Who[...]