BBC Studios flexes its global muscles

BBC Studios is now poised to take on the might of the SVoDs while firmly focusing on British IP according to its Chief Executive Tim Davie, who addressed IBC delegates during Thursday morning’s opening keynote.

With its distribution arm now merged with its production arm and seventeen production companies to its name, Davie described the broadcaster’s content unit as a “big small” global player.

“You can feel very big in your own pond but the game has completely changed,” said Davie, who stressed that BBCS is “driven by British creativity.”

BBCS’s focus on British IP means that it will not be…