Mere days after the BBC and ITV confirmed plans for a joint streaming service called BritBox to be brought to the UK, the Beeb's boss has revealed what kind of content viewers can expect.

In a piece in The Mirror, Lord Tony Hall boasted that BritBox will leave users spoilt for choice with "the biggest collection of UK content available on any service".

(As if choosing what to watch on Netflix wasn't enough of a struggle.)

Name-checking some of the BBC's most popular series, Lord Hall confirmed that dramas such as McMafia, Last Tango in Halifax, Les Misérables, and the beloved comedy Gavin & Stacey will all be available for streaming.

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Joining BritBox from ITV are shows such as Broadchurch and Vera, so that's our inner-detective satisfied already.

As well as existing series – and those all-important Good Morning Britain daily updates – BritBox will also commission brand new shows, according to Lord Hall.

Promising "fantastic" value, the Beeb's general director also reassured licence fee-payers that their money won't be going to the new venture BritBox.

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"You will always see BBC programmes on the BBC first and our ambition is that BBC programmes will all be free on iPlayer for at least a year," he explained. "We are also transforming iPlayer into an even better service.



"Everybody wins."

Somehow we're not sure Netflix will agree with that one, Tony.

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