Challenge TV launched on Freeview!

The end credits would tell you basic details but not things like:
*The contractual details of the artists, writers and other rights holders (i.e. how much they need to be paid for a repeat)
*Uncredited contributors
*Music used (and the musicians who played it)
*Restricted material (some things cannot be shown again either for contractual or editorial/legal reasons)
*Copyright owners (of stills, archive footage etc) and repeat/sales rights
*How many times the programme can be shown and how many it has been
Some things could be retrospectively researched or renegotiated (i.e. phoning up an agent and discussing a fee) but some things can't and doing so would be very time consuminbg with no guarantee that all the information could be retrieved.

A game show, I'd imagine, would be a lot simpler as many of the above wouldn't apply. However it doesn't mean that they can just be repeated or sold

Game shows present their own problems when it comes to licencing.

I believe the problem with Chain Letters for example was that the earlier series were produced under a licence from the original US creators of the format that prevented repeat showings. Hence ITV are unable to sell the series to Challenge despite there being demand from viewers to see it, and the series is in limbo and is likely to remain so.

This is where the trouble started, Flextech should have brought UK TVS Archive as there were still showing a good amount of the programming. I dare say Fox would have been happy with MTM etc. Most of the License stuff ended about 2002/03?




Does that only apply to 1988 - 1990? or review run from 1995 - 1997?

Only the original run. The last series with David Spikey has been shown on Challenge recently.

That does mean there a chance Ted Robbins' and Vince Henderson ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6ZxjFC-oI&feature=related )

This seams like a good thread to put this in.

"Please welcome Mr. Catchphrase himself, Nick Owen."
or
"And now the man with all the catchphrases, Nick Owen."

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But who is 'Peter'? I feel that I am missing half the joke here.

I have to ask where did that clip come from?

Looks like a Christmas tape to me.

Must be TVS tape, never seen any pop up

Yes, it is from the 1985 TVS Christmas tape.

That makes it strange as Catchphrase never appeared until 1986

Looks like an un-broadcast TVS pilot of Catchphrase, similar to the un-broadcast Calendar Countdown from 1981 that is available on YouTube, which has the bloopers left it, albeit not as rude.