I wrote this awhile ago, but never posted. As I'm looking for distractions from the present day world, I thought I'd post it now, especially since there are updates. Love to hear your comments.
Written: January 8:
Well, I had the British Mystery series Grace, based on Peter James' award-winning crime fiction, featuring detective Roy Grace, Season 5, on my list to watch Thursday night, January 8. I sat down all ready to watch Season 5, episode 1, on Britbox through Prime Video. I was dismayed and angry to learn that it was not yet available So I began searching as to why it was not available on my streaming vehicle. What I found, after a rather long search through various British Mystery sites and Reddit, was that Grace, Series 5, will start on Prime Video Britbox on February 5. Why?? Well, Episode 1 did air January 8 on Britbox Premier. No explanation. I thought I would have to change things up and order Britbox directly (I get Britbox through Prime). But oh no! Britbox now has two tiers. Premier and 'regular'.. And guess what? Premier costs more. $149.99/yr as opposed to $89.99 year. Premier Tier is only available for Direct Subscribe. This gives you early access. I really do like Britbox. Many of my favorite shows are on it. But -- this is putting me off big time. Grumble, grumble. I know there are so many more important issues in the world, but just thought I'd let you know what I think.
However, you might want to know when it will air, in case you, too, were expecting it, on February 5. Britbox though Prime, and probably on the regular Britbox tier directly. We'll see. There are only 4 episodes, and I imagine they'll drop one a week.
And, the good news is that Season 6 is already filming.
3 comments:
Thank you for this info! A friend alerted me that Grace Season 5 had dropped but I couldn’t access it through Prime. I’ll look for it next month.
When I first subscribed to Britbox it was affordable. Britbox had/has some great series and is/was a good streaming channel to add to British programming. The increased pricing made it more difficult for me to subscribe. I"d wait for a sale and jump right back on. Just one of many, Shetland always drew me in until Shetland became a Premier offering and as you stated " And guess what? Premier costs more. $149.99/yr as opposed to $89.99 year. Premier Tier is only available for Direct Subscribe.
Britbox is not the only subscription starting programming such as this. Frankly I find it a real injustice to their subscribers and am reluctant to even support their basic subscription price.
All I knew was that is was supposed to be available and I could not see it. I meant to go looking as to what the damn problem was and forgot. Thank you for the info. Everything is too damn complicated now.
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