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Disney+ UK Launch Date Confirmed

A lot of the smaller studios like eOne and Studiocanal often sell the distribution rights to their films because they either don't have the resources to distribute to every country and also it helps recoup the production costs. The only disadvantage is that they don't get a share of the profits and this is what sunk New Line Cinema back in 2008 when The Golden Compass as it poorly in the US but decently overseas but because New Line sold the overseas distributors to local distributors, they didn't see a penny of that overseas money.
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Five is a brand


However the factual output in peak seems to be working for them, I've lost count of the amount of railway and royal docs that have been commissioned.

Drama is working really well for them at the moment, they know what their audience likes and they can get numbers close to if not beating their rivals at times.
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Five is a brand

It would make no sense to rebrand Channel 5 as CBS, the 5 brand is much stronger now anyway.
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Saturday Night Takeaway 2021

Maybe what they could do is re-edit the takeaway shows to have Ant V Dec, the serial, the End of the Show Show and some of the other live segments like Win the Ads. Would be good for 30-45 minutes on Saturday teatime. They did something like this for Basil’s Swap Shop which they used to air on CBBC, and they did it with the Australian Sunday Night Takeaway (it was called Sunday Night Takeaway: Reheated).


Er...no!
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The Chase | Beat the Chasers

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No, I think the third series was filmed separately to the second series, with the celeb shows filmed alongside series 3. Paul Sinha is apparently absent from the whole of series 3 as well as the celeb shows, suggesting they were filmed at the same time and separately from series 2.

I believe filming took place at the beginning of this month.

They must have had a fair numbers of number of people shortlisted for contestants to be able to film series 3 without doing another contestant call out.
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The Chase | Beat the Chasers

I wouldn't be surprised if the celebrity Beat The Chasers specials were filmed recently but the upcoming series of regular BTC was filmed alongside the second series.
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Metropol

Has the thanks/like button always been there on Metropol or has it been added recently?
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Piers Morgan to leave GMB

I wonder if This Morning and Lorraine might get guests who aren't the regulars in the studio?
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Simon McCoy

I've always thought it was a bit daft to have your employee name on your social media handle although sometimes it can't be helped.
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One more time...

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Its amazing how many are still around... dead... or in jail... on that list.

A reflection of life; like people you went to school with - some are still around, some are in prison and some sadly are dead.


I half wonder how many that's the case of the people who I went to school with, but I've not seen or talked to anyone I went to school with for 15-20 years... but by the laws of average some of them must be (I know a couple who went to prison because it was in the local papers, but that's it).

Facebook was quite useful if you wanted to have a nosey about what people you knew were getting up to.
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Disney+ UK Launch Date Confirmed

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I'm surprised Gnomeo and Juliet is on Disney+ as it was distributed by eOne in the UK.


Yeah that's a curious one -from what I can find EOne acquired the UK and Canadian rights from Pathe who were selling international rights on it. It's also gone to Disney Plus in Canada.

Still appears to be streaming on Amazon Prime in the UK and in Canada via EOne but given it's been a decade since it's original release it's possible Eone's 'term length' when they acquired it may have ended/lapsed enabling Disney to pick up some rights for those two territories.

The BFG is another one where the rights are complicated, made by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Disney in some territories but local distributors in others like eOne who released it in the UK. I assume it’s available on Disney Plus in the US, Canada and Australia but not in other territories.
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Saturday Night Takeaway 2021

Isn’t all telly fake to a degree? It’s like those people on Eat Well for Less being surprised by Gregg and Chris is clearly not a surprise