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

We see ourselves as the best route to market for British TV outside of the UK.

Things have gotten a bit simpler in the best possible way, he added.

And opportunities are ripe given the target market and BritBoxs USP, he added.

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We haveGavin & Stacey[on BritBox] and that is the role we can look to play.

Series to have performed well of late includeBlue LightsandAfter the Flood, along with stalwarts likeVeraandDeath in Paradise.

BritBox will continue to co-commission as well as buy but will be selective, Schildhouse said.

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We are not in the singular hit business we are in the portfolio business, said Schildhouse.

But he remained coy on details over BritBoxs involvement with future adaptations of the British novel-writing doyens work.

We would love to work with the best source material, he added.

We considered South Africa very carefully, said Schildhouse.