British company BBC cancels all movie and TV series licenses for Russia
August 22, 2022
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According to the source, a number of projects are still available on platforms like “Kinopoisk”. These are, for example, the TV series “Doctor Who” and “Merlin”, as well
According to the source, a number of projects are still available on platforms like “Kinopoisk”. These are, for example, the TV series “Doctor Who” and “Merlin”, as well as “The Tudors”, “The Hollow Crown”, “Killing Eve” and others. However, many have long since disappeared for the invaders.
what is known
The following series are currently unavailable:
“Dealers Street”,
“Miss Marple”
“War and peace”,
“Pride and Prejudice” and others.
Apologizing for the loss of content, “Kinopoisk” wrote to its users that “the subscription catalog is never static – content is added and dropped.” The company had previously stated that expanding rights to foreign content now takes more time and some work has been removed. They note that in order to reduce the possible dissatisfaction of customers, other foreign innovations are also published in the service.
It is currently unclear what will happen to the remaining content. Presumably, the company will wait for the contracts for each product to expire and no longer renew them. Thus, Russian streaming services will gradually lose everything else.
According to the source, “Yandex”, which today owns Kinopoisk, signed a long-term contract with BBC Studios in 2019. It included the rights to broadcast over 100 hours of new artistic content produced by the BBC. These are TV series, movies and more than 150 children’s programs and cartoons.
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