Remember SeeSaw, the online TV service with oodles of excellent archive content that was resurrected from the corpse of Project Kangaroo? You don’t? We don’t blame you. Despite TV ads promoting the service and stocking its virtual vaults with more than 3,000 hours of shows, the service was on the cusp of closure.
SeeSaw’s owner Arquiva had announced that it would close last month but curiously it stayed open. Now Criterion, the private equity firm that also gobbled up broken social network Bebo, has stepped in to buy 75% of the company.
Reading our SeeSaw first impressions shows how impressed we were with the service’s potential when it arrived back in February 2010. But with BBC, Channel and ITV hard at work on a universal catch up service with YouView, it’s hard to see how the Bebo bunch can save SeeSaw.
Out now | £free | SeeSaw
