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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: [NEWS] Classic Doctor Who Removed From Britbox UK and ITVX
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:22:41 +1100
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Blueshirt wrote on 12/01/2025 7:25 am:
> Daniel70 wrote:
> 
>> Blueshirt wrote on 11/01/2025 2:13 am:
>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> Your Name wrote on 10/1/25 8:35 am:
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically if you live in the UK, you have to use iPlayer,
>>>>
>>>> (I know I might be splitting hairs, but .....)
>>>>
>>>> "... you have to use iPlayer" .... or, if you already
>>>> subscribe to Disney+ (for all the other stuff they host),
>>>> can you also use your Disney+ for 'Doctor Who' in the
>>>> U.K.??
>>>
>>> No. "Doctor Who" is not available on Disney+ within the UK &
>>> Ireland. To watch the new episodes [legally] you have to
>>> watch them on BBC1 or use the BBC iPlayer. The partnership
>>> with Disney was for the international streaming rights.
>>
>> That's weird!!
> 
> I don't know about weird, but I couldn't see the BBC giving up
> the domestic rights to it's own television shows when they have
> their own [very popular] streaming service, the iPlayer. It's
> the overseas distribution of their shows that the BBC need to do
> deals for.
> 
> AGA would be the man for this but I'll do it anyway... minus all
> the woke garbage and sexual grooming stuff:
> 
> Imagine the complaints from the British TV licence fee payers if
> "Doctor Who" was only available on Disney+ in the UK... a BBC
> show that you needed to pay extra for to watch! And if "Doctor
> Who" was simultaneously available on the BBC iPlayer as well as
> Disney+, then who would bother watching it on a service that you
> needed a paid subscription to?
> 
> So it kind of makes sense...
> 
Oh!! I agree .... it kind of makes sense .... just like 'it kind of 
makes sense' that you, Blueshirt, get if for FREE too, even though you 
are NOT part of Britain.

And I wasn't suggesting that 'Doctor Who' was ONLY available in Britain 
via Disney+ .... but that it might *ALSO* be available in Britain via 
Disney+ .... so, if I lived in Manchester, for example, AND had a 
Disney+ subscription, I should be able to watch 'Doctor Who' on Disney+ 
IF I SO CHOOSE!!
-- 
Daniel