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Dan Barrett

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The appointment of Matt Brittin as BBC director-general was always likely to lead to a pretty major shift in thinking at the BBC about its purpose and how best to deliver that in an age of platform-focused delivery.

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Today we lost Dolly Parton. But gained a new Robocop.

Each day I try to curate a list of the biggest news stories of the day. And today the list got a little too extensive. I’m going to keep things pretty tight.

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Netflix’s not-so-secret weapon to become the everything app

The oft-quoted line was that Netflix needed to become HBO before Netflix became Netflix. But for its next act, it is already well-behind the competitor it needs to emulate.

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The ‘Take a movie. Leave a movie.’ revolution

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    Dan Barrett is a TV industry commentator & critic. Former: SBS, Mediaweek, Radio National. He is interested in all the ways that we watch and talk about TV.

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