Pictured: Dirty John, Queen of the South, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
In case you’re not familiar, Netflix offers a selection of different tiers when signing up for the service. The newest of these tiers is the advertising tier that offers Netflix, still at 1080p, for a significantly lower price with the caveat that you have advertising before and sometimes during a TV show or movie.
Another caveat of the ad tiers is that some titles are locked out from being watched on the service. That’s because Netflix doesn’t have the rights to show advertising on these titles and is, therefore, blocked.
Example of House of Cards currently blocked on Netflix’s advertising tier.
If you follow us, this list is significantly shorter than that of the United States or even some other regions. This is because Netflix likely faces fewer roadblocks in negotiating rights to these shows and movies in this region. Netflix in the US, for example, is unable to show ads on some Universal movies and some Sony movies, but they can in the UK.
How much of the Netflix UK library is frozen out, then? Not much at all. In total, 55 titles are unavailable to watch in the Netflix UK library out of the impressive 8,262 strong library. That represents 0.7% of the library frozen out. Compared to the US, that’s quite favorable where 2.5% of the library is locked out.
Now, it’s important to note that this list will fluctuate throughout the year (for example, Homeland is leaving Netflix UK pretty soon) and is subject to change.
Movies/Specials Blocked on Netflix UK’s Advertising Tier
- Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama (2020) – Netflix Original
- Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas (2020) – Netflix Original
- Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon (2020) – Netflix Original
- Dragons: Rescue Riders: Huttsgalor Holiday (2020) – Netflix Original
- Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing (2020) – Netflix Original
- Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure (2022) – Netflix Original
- Playing with Fire (2019) – Netflix Original
- Spirit Riding Free: Ride Along Adventure (2020) – Netflix Original
- The Boss Baby: Christmas Bonus (2022) – Netflix Original
- The Boss Baby: Get That Baby! (2020) – Netflix Original
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space (2020) – Netflix Original
- The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween (2019) – Netflix Original
TV Series Blocked on Netflix UK’s Advertising Tier
- 3Below: Tales of Arcadia (2018) – Netflix Original
- Archibald’s Next Big Thing (2020) – Netflix Original
- Ash vs. Evil Dead (2018)
- Champions (2018) – Netflix Original
- Dare Me (2019) – Netflix Original
- Dawn of the Croods (2017) – Netflix Original
- Diary of a Gigolo (2022) – Netflix Original
- Dinotrux (2017) – Netflix Original
- Dinotrux Supercharged (2018) – Netflix Original
- Dirty John (2020) – Netflix Original
- Dragons: Race to the Edge (2018) – Netflix Original
- El marginal (2022) – Netflix Original
- Fast & Furious Spy Racers (2021) – Netflix Original
- Great News (2017) – Netflix Original
- Happy! (2019) – Netflix Original
- Harvey Girls Forever! (2019) – Netflix Original
- Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (2017) – Netflix Original
- Homeland (2019)
- House of Cards (2018) – Netflix Original
- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2023)
- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020) – Netflix Original
- Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (2023) – Netflix Original
- Marlon (2018) – Netflix Original
- One of Us Is Lying (2022) – Netflix Original
- Queen of the South (2021)
- Rhyme Time Town (2020) – Netflix Original
- Rhyme Time Town Singalongs (2020) – Netflix Original
- Spirit Riding Free: Pony Tales (2019) – Netflix Original
- Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy (2020) – Netflix Original
- Spirit Riding Free: Spirit of Christmas (2019) – Netflix Original
- Spy Kids: Mission Critical (2018) – Netflix Original
- Stateless (2020) – Netflix Original
- Team Zenko Go (2022) – Netflix Original
- The Adventures of Puss in Boots (2018) – Netflix Original
- The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib (2023) – Netflix Original
- The Inmate (2018) – Netflix Original
- The Secret of the Greco Family (2022)
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017) – Netflix Original
- Unsolved (2017) – Netflix Original
- Voltron: Legendary Defender (2018) – Netflix Original
- Wanted (2018) – Netflix Original
- Wizards: Tales of Arcadia (2020) – Netflix Original
- You Cannot Hide (2020)
Are there any big titles that would prevent you from getting the Netflix UK ad tier? Let us know in the comments down below.