TalkTalk Scores NBCU Titles for Bespoke On-Demand Offer

LONDON: The British TV provider TalkTalk has secured a deal with NBCUniversal to bring a range of U.S. box sets, featuring series such as Suits, Grimm and 30 Rock, to customers.

The new package, TVBox, offers on-demand box sets of a number of U.S. series from the NBCU catalogue. The TVBox Boost is a bespoke package tailored to TalkTalk's 1.1 million TV customers.

Olivia Streatfeild, the commercial director at TalkTalk, said, “This is a really exciting step forward for our TV service. We want to give our customers access to even more great TV at a great price, and this partnership with NBCUniversal does just that. As our service grows, so do our ambitions; we're innovating with on demand content and this is another example of how TV from TalkTalk just keeps getting better.”

Jay McNamara, the executive VP of strategy development and analysis at NBCUniversal International Television, said, “We are thrilled to expand upon our dynamic partnership with TalkTalk and introduce this latest development in our branded on-demand business to their customers. Through this service, subscribers will now have access to the best NBCUniversal TV series in an exciting box set format.”