{"id":455748,"date":"2026-03-03T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:50:15","slug":"netflix-keen-to-host-bbc-channels-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455748\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix keen to host BBC channels | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"537599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1473764_537599_494300.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Netflix is \u201ceager\u201d to strike a deal to host BBC and other PSBs\u2019 content, according to co-chief executive Greg Peters.<\/p>\n<p>Peters argued that allowing viewers to access BBC channels and content through Netflix, effectively bypassing iPlayer, would help it reach a larger audience.<\/p>\n<p>French commercial broadcaster TF1 has already struck a similar arrangement with Netflix, with further details expected to be announced in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Peters made the comments in an interview with The Telegraph, published today. He said Netflix could help \u201cmake sure that content gets to as big an audience as possible\u201d if the BBC agreed a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greg Peters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1473754_gregpeters_404250.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"4088\" height=\"6132\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job is to think about this from not only the BBC\u2019s perspective, but a lot of broadcasters,\u201d he said. \u201cHow can we help them actually connect with audiences that they\u2019re not really connecting with? We\u2019re eager to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to Netflix\u2019s user-friendly interface, adding that interacting with its audience as streamers as well as linear broadcasters is \u201ca very deep strategic question for [PSBs] to go figure out, among many\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come weeks after the BBC announced it had signed a deal with YouTube to commission content specifically for the video-sharing platform, with the internal BBC ambition understood to be to launch around 50 public service channels on YouTube in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>But Peters is dubious that YouTube is a service suited to platforming high-quality television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think about what a BBC production or a Netflix production costs, it\u2019s not really supported by the YouTube model,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing about YouTube is that their model does not sustain the type of content investment that we\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netflix was crowned Broadcaster of the Year at the recent Broadcast Awards, in large part because of its investment in British stories, and in the interview Peters pointed to Warp Films\u2019 recent smash hit Adolescence and Sister\u2019s spy drama Black Doves as examples of British-made and set shows commissioned by the streamer.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adolesence_ep101_uhd_r709_10_40_38_12_61212-b6af26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1473755_adolesence_ep101_uhd_r709_10_40_38_12_61212b6af26_761450.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"3840\" height=\"1917\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is \u201ceager\u201d to strike a deal to host BBC and other PSBs\u2019 content, according to co-chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}