BBC Studios has announced an expansion of its content offering for audiences in the Netherlands with the launch of a multi-genre VOD and streaming service, BBC NL+.
The new service will launch with KPN later this year and will complement BBC Studios’ recently rebranded linear channel BBC NL. It will offer a library of drama, comedy, factual entertainment, soaps, entertainment, lifestyle and natural history, all fully localised with Dutch subtitles.
Viewers will also be able to livestream the newly rebranded BBC NL channel as well as enjoy selected dramas ahead of their linear TX. The service will also offer access to FAST channels BBC Drama and Top Gear.
Bram Husken, SVP & General Manager Benelux & Nordics at BBC Studios said: “The BBC brand has a longstanding history in the Netherlands and we are extremely proud to be expanding our offering for local audiences. This new video on demand and streaming platform is highly sought-after with our viewers and broadening our content mix with the introduction of BBC NL+ on KPN TV+ later this year will mean subscribers can enjoy even more powerful, entertaining and inspiring storytelling from the BBC and beyond, all with Dutch subtitles. We are grateful to be building on our longstanding relationship, launching BBC NL+ on KPN.”
“We are very pleased with the launch of BBC NL+ for all our KPN TV+ customers,” says Jochem de Jong, VP Partnerships, TV and Entertainment via KPN. “This is an important step in the further expansion of our entertainment offering. The high-quality programming from BBC Studios is a perfect complement to the best TV offering in the Netherlands, available via KPN. Through this collaboration, KPN customers will soon be able to enjoy the best entertainment with the launch of BBC NL+.”
With up to 1000 hours in the first year of curated content from the BBC Studios catalogue and beyond available to watch on demand at launch. KPN TV+ subscribers will be able to watch on BBC NL+ include the original new drama Outrageous starring Bessie Carter and Anna Chancellor, which tells the real-life story of the Mitford sisters, six aristocratic siblings who’s often-scandalous lives made headlines around the world.
BBC NL+ will also feature a rich selection of fan-favourite dramas Vienna Blood, Call The Midwife, Death In Paradise, Father Brown and Blue Lights. Bringing the laughs will be shows like award-winning classic comedy Absolutely Fabulous, a sitcom set in the world of fashion and PR featuring the legendary duo Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders.
In the factual space, BBC NL+ will offer awe-inspiring science documentary from the BBC Studios Science Unit The Planets. Hosted by multi-award-winning Professor Brian Cox, the series shares the spectacle and drama of 4.5 billion years of planetary history in stunning detail. Intriguing and thought-provoking documentaries hosted by the award-winning Louis Theroux will be available for fans including Louis Theroux: Forbidden America.
Available on demand for nature and wildlife lovers, will be world-renowned natural history programmes like A Perfect Planet narrated by the legendary Sir David Attenborough as well as Eden: Untamed Planet narrated by Helena Bonham Carter. On BBC NL+ fans can also watch Attenborough and the Jurassic Seamonster, which will be available first time for audiences in the Netherlands.
Alternatively, viewers can travel to exotic places around the globe through shows like Where the Wild Men Are with Ben Fogle and Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World.
Viewers on BBC NL+ can also binge a wide range of light entertainment content, including boxsets of easy-viewing series’ like George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations or the latest series of Amazing Hotels. There is something for everyone.
Iconic lifestyle series’ The Great British Bake Off series 13 also joins the line-up. Alongside this, BBC NL+ viewers can also look forward to popular entertainment gameshow series’ including The Weakest Link Celebrity Specials hosted by award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan as well as motorhead fan-favourite episodes of classic Top Gear will also be available from launch.
