BBC America

I mean, the, the meetings are something that agents love to set up, and God bless them, but 80% of the time they're worthless.

Or sometimes they'll give you a script that they haven't been able to sell for 10 years and go, "Hey, what do you think about this?" So, uh, we're having one of those meetings at BBC America, uh, with a guy named Matt Lowes, and it's...

You know, w- we both know him pretty well.

He knows us.

He knows our work.

It's, it's very convivial.

And I think literally we were walking out the door almost when he said, "You know what? There's this book that I love, that they're never gonna make at BBC America.

It's just not their kinda thing.

It's still, uh, still upon BBC studios or BBC in general, or some, some wing of the BBC, uh, uh, that'll still need to be responsible for distribution.

And as I think I've said here before, um, when the Disney deal went out and everything, everything was cut off space, BBC America, you know, stuff, stuff in, um, channel, whatever in Australia, um, like all the, all this, um, all, all the, all the, I'm not gonna say the bridges were burned.

Right.

But they're made of kindling and there's a small smoke starting to emanate from at that point.

Because I don't know.

I don't know how keen.

BBC America for example might be or HBO Max or I don't know you need somebody but who's it who's it gonna be because if they The show is reliant upon international sales to make back their money and then some.

And if those international channels have dried up or if they have to do a fire sale just because nobody wants to buy it, then that's just going to really, really not work well.

so i have a feeling that cmt will do

like bbc america 13 times

i mean that's american culture to the brits i guess it's the karate kid um i have a feeling this played on cmt twice thing is they they're they're getting the rights for like a movie for like a family movie night that they like swap out every week and they play like a matinee then they play it like a prime time and then next week it's something else I'm guessing that's what this is.

I just like to think they're all high on painkillers over there, so they're just picking random babies.

And, you know, I love The Graham Norton Show, but I always forget to watch it.

But it's back for its season 34 premiere tonight on BBC America.

Hopefully I'll remember it this time.

And then have you seen Florence Pugh is starring in that new limited seven episode series East of Eden? Yeah, I'm excited for that.

Yes, yes.

And then I went over to America, to New York, and I met people there from BBC America.

And then I wrote for BBC America, I wrote for different magazines, and I ended up just, just went with the flow.

I hadn't planned any of it.

I would never have thought that would have been something I would have done.

And did you then get a brief of what they wanted and you just had to somehow pick it up and...

Yeah, at first, yeah, at first it started off just, oh, tell them about the storylines, tell them what's happening, tell them what the programme's about.

This is for BBC America.

And I remember very well when the BBC started broadcasting in the U.S.

There was BBC America.

I don't know if it still exists.

But they ran a program once about young people in post-war Beirut.

And it was just like, it was always just around me.

I was watching BBC America growing up.

Like I kind of culturally am more British than I am American.

even though I was raised here so I just feel like it's my home away from home it's my dream to like live in the UK so I was just like you know it's now or never I've got this career it's supporting me if I don't go now then like when am I gonna go and that just opened up like a whole whole different space for me and like I yeah I've just tried to make a point to come back as much as like I can see that's great yeah I love it.

I like that.

I also liked the BBC America, or BBC, I should say, but we got it on BBC America, the Fleming series.

I thought it was fun.

With the guy who plays the new Q in the Daniel Craig movies.

Oh, where did you watch it, real quick?

So I ended up watching it on Discovery's app that my mom has through her vestigial cable thing, because it was... like, streaming, available for streaming on BBC America, it did, like, kind of edit some of the cuss words, and then it would, like, fade to black where a commercial break would be, but then just bring it up right away.

There weren't any actual commercial breaks.

That's funny.