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That's right - a bit like when half the Human League left and all they had left was Phil Oakey and the name. One for the teenagers, there (a bit like Danny Baker tweeting last night that Bake Off was Brian Poole and the Beeb were the Tremeloes). In the Top Gear scenario, the Beeb had decided to "rest" the show as a regular weekly thing so everyone involved decided to take it to another broadcaster. It would be a bit like if when Top of the Pops ended the entire production team all then went to do a similar show on another channel.
The Thames Dallas affair was mentioned earlier, I'm not sure if everyone knows that story. That was when Thames decided to poach Dallas and offer the distributors an obscene amount of money, to a massive furore because the gentlemen's agreement was that broadcasters didn't get involved in bidding wars because it meant prices would spiral to unrealistic amounts, and the other ITV regions, most notably Yorkshire, said they wouldn't show it because they thought it had been conducted in a shabby and underhand manner. In the end Thames had to give it back.
Someone I follow on Twitter suggested yesterday they would put a tenner on the next series of Bake Off being on BBC1. That was before it was announced it was moving to C4, but I think the odds might have shortened a bit since.
I guess at least with the Top/Fifth Gear scenario it was the case of the BBC axing it and the show getting a new home, unlike Saturday Kitchen/Cooks which was a GBBO scenario of a current and popular show being poached while still in production.
That's right - a bit like when half the Human League left and all they had left was Phil Oakey and the name. One for the teenagers, there (a bit like Danny Baker tweeting last night that Bake Off was Brian Poole and the Beeb were the Tremeloes). In the Top Gear scenario, the Beeb had decided to "rest" the show as a regular weekly thing so everyone involved decided to take it to another broadcaster. It would be a bit like if when Top of the Pops ended the entire production team all then went to do a similar show on another channel.
The Thames Dallas affair was mentioned earlier, I'm not sure if everyone knows that story. That was when Thames decided to poach Dallas and offer the distributors an obscene amount of money, to a massive furore because the gentlemen's agreement was that broadcasters didn't get involved in bidding wars because it meant prices would spiral to unrealistic amounts, and the other ITV regions, most notably Yorkshire, said they wouldn't show it because they thought it had been conducted in a shabby and underhand manner. In the end Thames had to give it back.
Someone I follow on Twitter suggested yesterday they would put a tenner on the next series of Bake Off being on BBC1. That was before it was announced it was moving to C4, but I think the odds might have shortened a bit since.