US content is much deeper than UK, most likely due to (a) operating for longer in that market and (b) better economics for going hunting for licencing rights fo

US content is much deeper than UK, most likely due to (a) operating for longer in that market and (b) better economics for going hunting for licencing rights for not-even-that-long long-tail content. In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's an eye-opening post from someone at the British Film Institite, explaining the rediculous lengths they had to go to just to do a screening of Kathryn Bigelow's "Point Break" https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/point-break-not-coming-cinema-near-you https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/com... (and the follow up when they eventually managed to get rights to show the movie) https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/point-break-quest-rights-kathryn-bigelow https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/fea...