Streaming service Acorn stays non-exclusive, does just fine

How America's first Black billionaire turns the long tail of Australian projects into addictive drama (we hope) and provides a useful local streaming service.
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Gorgeous but comforting? Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Image: Acorn.

We think of streaming services as juggernauts pouring rivers of content, in debt for billions, smashing their armoured bodies against each other in a gargantuan fight to the death. That’s what you think when you read the financial press, anyway.

Here is a new streaming service which is just the opposite. It is amiable, calm, decent and sensible. The service is called Acorn TV.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.