BBC's 'The Repair Shop' Heading To Discovery+

Four major reality shows dominate the ratings in the U.K. BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, which here in the U.S. we call Dancing With The Stars, is king. The Great British Baking Show over on Channel 4 is next. ITV's Love Island is the undisputed dating show champ. The latest is The Repair Shop, which mixes GBBO niceness with Talented Crafters meets Antiques Roadshow style and has become the BBC's newest mega-hit.

The series may be familiar to Netflix viewers who once escaped into the streaming service's variety of BBC Two fare, which initially served as the basis for its Home, Garden, and Food programming. But with Netflix getting deeper into the original series game, including making its own home and food television shows and competitions, it's pushed the British imports less, and they've started to disappear from its offerings.

Meanwhile, The Repair Shop has pulled a GBBO and moved house up the channel pecking order from BBC Two to BBC One and going from 15 or 16 half-hour installments a season to 30-40 episodes per season that run between 45 minutes to an hour. (It also started doing Christmas specials as well.) And now it's moving house from Netflix to a streaming service that is more its style, Discovery+.