Forget the sausage war; could the real Brexit battle be over streaming services? After all, surely even hardened Remainers will have been appalled by the European Commission’s plan to make it more difficult to stream British shows on the continent.
Will it happen? Only time will tell. But here are eight shows that are a hit on the continent and that European viewers will really miss:
Chernobyl
Sky Atlantic/Now TV
Keenly watched pretty much everywhere, Sky’s superlative disaster drama is amongst the biggest British televisual exports to the EU (another accolade to add to its various Baftas, Emmys and Golden Globes). What’s more, Chernobyl is one drama that really went out of its way to ensure cultural accuracy. Even running its scripts past a focus group of older Ukrainian residents to ensure the small details were as true-to-life as possible. Which really makes a nonsense of the Commission’s bluster about ‘imperialism’.
Dracula
Netflix
Perhaps fittingly, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s vampire legend is a complicated beast – being both spectacularly creepy and visibly in thrall to its gothic predecessor, yet also absolutely preposterous at the same time.
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