BBC is making agreements with media organizations in some European countries regarding broadcast licensing and budget issues for some new shows like A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. I am thinking whether they could also make agreements with some European countries for Doctor Who, and make a broadcast deal with a bigger digital platform like Netflix for the other countries? Because they are doing this with A Good Girl's Guide to Murder too. Of course, unlike the Disney agreement, by making a 10-15 year agreement, not a 26 vs. episode one.
In the olden days, that’s how TV worked on a local scale for the ITV regions. It’s how it worked everywhere.
Thames makes a program, sells it to Meridian et al, recoups some of the production cost.
The BBC, made programs, and then would sell them internationally and recoup some of the production costs.
We boughtAmerican Imports to fill our schedules for cheaper than the cost of making a program — Star Trek was filling in for Who when it was off air in 69.
ATC would make stuff with an eye on selling it in America (which is why Fred Freiberger managed to shoot Star Trek and Space 1999 both… and I don’t mean shoot as in on film.)
The streaming model breaks that. Because the ‘channel’ is now multinational.
There’s precious little ‘market’ left.
Thats before you get into things like the money made by program x is actually paying to make programs y an z and not going back to the show that makes the money, as was the way at the BBC for ages.
Or the ‘independent’ model forced on the Beeb in the late eighties/nineties, and the hiving off of things like BBC Studios.
