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It may be made available to Sky viewers who have the “Whatever you do, Don’t Call it iPlayer” BBC catch up service. Not that that’s a help to people who don’t subscribe to Sky, mind.

It would be far from the only BBC programme this applies to by the way, but it’s very conspicuous by how high profile it is. It was on Netflix for years but pulled at the same time it was in the U.K. and hasn’t been made available on any ROI streaming service since. I don’t want to overemphasise this point - there’s a huge amount of U.K. TV still available here and easy enough access to ITV stuff through VMTV - but the BBC has taken a largely linear or nothing attitude to ROI and as a result their non-news and sport programmes are dropping off the viewers eyes - out of sight out of mind - as the streaming revolution gathers pace and it’s US programmes, not U.K., that are at the forefront in this market.