Chris

For all sorts of reasons, partly because cinema offers an immersive experience you can't easily match at home, and partly because the distribution model allows studios to recoup the enormous investment required to make a blockbuster film.

This is a salutary tale for the nascent VOD industry - broadcast distribution allows easy access to a larger audience and simultaneous viewing that can, if the product is good, promote further growth in viewing figures. The Night Manager increased its reach as the series went on, for this reason. The very model of VOD delivery makes this impossible to achieve.

TV execs call it "water cooler TV" - something you talk about the next day.