BBC Dramas on Netflix and Prime

[dowie]

I don't always bother with a TV license in my London flat, but I'm not there at the mo so decided I'd take a look at some stuff on iplayer - few BBC dramas I figured I might like to catch up on...

I'd heard good things about McMafia...

Oh no...

Bodyguard is also decent:

Oh no...

Never mind - it seems the BBC can't offer these BBC dramas to licence payers but Netflix has them available....

Along similar lines of decent BBC shows.

Netflix also seems to have the BBC detective mini series Collateral (stars Carey Mulligan - well worth watching!).

Amazon Prime has all the seasons of Line of Duty (fortunately the BBC did recently re-release those onto iplayer)

BBC's The Night Manager - I remember watching that on Amazon Prime - sure enough, still on Amazon, not on iplayer.

So how about a thread for good BBC dramas - especially those available on Netflix/Amazon Prime...

 

[dowie]

Wolf Hall on now ? >> bodyguard,Mcmafia,collateral,line of duty .... Night Managers the only good one in the list
...so much of the bbc stuff, like (returning) Eve too, is made/commisioned for the global netflix demographic.

Wolf Hall is a rather different genre! Bit of a bold claim to dismiss all those and state Night Manager is the only good one too... AFAIK Line of Duty is pretty well received generally (despite some slightly ridiculous/OTT moments). I've only just started watching McMafia so will reserve judgement on that one but it seems OK so far.

 

[dowie]

OP didn’t make claims about digital rights management...

The thread is about good BBC content on Netflix, Amazon.

 

[dowie]

But you kinda did.

It's more about licensing and distribution deals, DRM is anti-piracy but whatever

Not in the way that poster claimed - I'm well aware the BBC doesn't produce all it's content, the thread wasn't intended as a discussion of intellectual property rights but a tongue in cheek thread to suggest good BBC dramas now available on Netflix/Amazon. Yes I'm aware DRM is an acronym used to describe anti piracy measures too, the other poster referred to digital rights management... we know what he meant by that though.

The BBC continue to drop the ball with iPlayer, it seems they can't afford to buy bigger servers to store their content on lol. So it all disappears after a while and they instead ink deals with other platforms (such as Netflix) to distribute their shows. It makes perfect business sense, why have have McMafia sitting on your servers forever and ever - actually costing you money to serve viewers - whereas you could flog it to Netflix and make a small additional profit instead. That's my simplistic way of understanding it. It's a shame though.

And in not paying your licence fee you're just exacerbating the problem by not giving the BBC the 'profit' they deserve for these shows. Any wonder people keep wondering if they'd ditch the licence fee and instead leverage an 'iPlayer fee'.

Yup, agree they have dropped the ball continuously with iplayer. Its clearly not always about not having the rights(not having paid enough to have the rights) to show this stuff later either, server costs etc.. too as you mention. Lets face it they could do with some slicker software and make iplayer more like Netflix, Amazon etc... They've got a bunch of good content themselves and could have been quicker off the ball launching some Netflix type service, commercially, to the rest of the world.

I'm not really exacerbating the problem, I'm simply a consumer reacting to it, I'm not pirating anything - the BBC and/or third party production company still get paid by Netflix/Amazon - it was their business decision to do so. It was the BBC's business decision to take the path it took with 3rd party companies and with it's in house produced content, only pay for rights for initial broadcast + 30 days iplayer etc...

It's not BBC content, that's the point. It's content that was shown ON the BBC, not content the BBC made.

You're arguing against a claim no one made in the first place. Take a look at the branding - look at those screen grabs from Netflix... note the BBC logo - when people refer to a "BBC drama" they're generally referring to stuff that was commissioned by and/or originally shown by the BBC whether it was produced 100% in house or as a joint production or by a third party.

 

[dowie]

So what's your complaint? The fact that you can't access this stuff on iplayer or that netflix are misselling saying it's BBC or just making noise for the sake of it?

See the post literally just above your one. I'm not really sure what your gripe is here - you seem to be deliberately ignoring what has actually been posted and then making up arguments against things that haven't been.

the thread wasn't intended as a discussion of intellectual property rights but a tongue in cheek thread to suggest good BBC dramas now available on Netflix/Amazon.

But if you want my views on iplayer/BBC then I've commented on them in that post too...

 

[dowie]

Back on topic - Netflix also has Poldark available now: