from the BBC web-site:-

The BBC has confirmed the "global" version of its iPlayer on-demand service will close next month.
The corporation had charged users subscription fees to watch programmes via the app in Western Europe, Australia and Canada.

However, it never got to the US.

Reports suggest American pay-TV operators had threatened to drop the BBC America channel if the app had launched locally because they believed it would cost them viewers.
Both BBC America and the international edition of iPlayer screen some of the corporation's best known programmes, including Doctor Who, Top Gear, Sherlock and David Attenborough's natural history documentaries.

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