British TV In The 2020s: A Look Ahead
Predicting the future is a fool's errand, but when years with nice round numbers turn up, people do it anyway. It's hard to know what the next decade will bring in the world of television. If someone had told me in 2009 that the biggest shows of the decade would both premiere in 2010 and be a little show about a house set in the 1910s and a baking competition with the hosts of The Supersizers Go..., I would have thought them mad. But then Downton Abbey and The Great British Baking Show happened, and look at us now.
The entire landscape of TV is shifting under our feet as we speak. By this time next year, two more major players will have entered the streaming game, HBO Max and Peacock, changing the way British TV makes its way into our homes. Local PBS stations have just been made available via YouTube TV, just in time for the new decade. So what is there for us to look forward to? Here are a few guesses.
