Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of U.K. broadcaster BBC, is launching ad-free streaming channel BBC Select on Amazon Prime Video Channels and the Apple TV app in early 2021.The service will offer programs from the U.K.
covering culture, politics and ideas, and many of the shows will be U.S. and Canada premieres. Pricing for the channel will be announced at launch.The “BBC Select” label is something of a nod to a previous BBC offering.
In an earlier avatar, between 1992 and 1995, BBC Select was an overnight subscription service that ran between 2am and 6am, after the BBC channels had shut down.
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