Warning:
Do not stay up until 1am to watch Les Dennis's Heroes of Home Videos tonight. It is the same show as Les Dennis's Home Video Heroes which has previously been shown on Challenge, Bravo, Trouble, Virgin One and Channel One.
Good to see some schedule changes, including Bob Monkhouse's Wipeout which hasn't been seen in at least a couple of years from the end of the month.
Good to see You Bet moves to 1pm at weekends. However it seems they won't move Takeshi's Castle, The Crystal Maze Catchphrase or Family Fortunes while the main changes are during breakfast.
I imagine most of the stuff TVS made (which wasn't inherited by Meridian) is. Disney simply are not interested in it - I suppose maybe they don't want to be associated with it? In which case you'd have thought they'd sell it en masse for a peppercorn?
There might be hope yet. Disney obtained the TVS archive by buying Fox Family in 2001. At the same time, they also acquired Power Rangers, as Fox Family owned Saban Entertainment, it's production company. Last year, the Power Rangers franchise got sold back to Haim Saban and his new Saban Brands holding company (the show is due on Nickelodeon/Nicktoons soon, according to Sky magazine). So who knows, maybe Disney will realise that PR wasn't the only decent thing they got from buying Fox Family, and will start selling off some of the TVS content too.
There might be hope yet. Disney obtained the TVS archive by buying Fox Family in 2001. At the same time, they also acquired Power Rangers, as Fox Family owned Saban Entertainment, it's production company. Last year, the Power Rangers franchise got sold back to Haim Saban and his new Saban Brands holding company (the show is due on Nickelodeon/Nicktoons soon, according to Sky magazine). So who knows, maybe Disney will realise that PR wasn't the only decent thing they got from buying Fox Family, and will start selling off some of the TVS content too.
Read the posts a few pages back, the problem is not that they aren't interested in selling the programmes it's that they can't
I imagine most of the stuff TVS made (which wasn't inherited by Meridian) is. Disney simply are not interested in it - I suppose maybe they don't want to be associated with it? In which case you'd have thought they'd sell it en masse for a peppercorn?
There might be hope yet. Disney obtained the TVS archive by buying Fox Family in 2001. At the same time, they also acquired Power Rangers, as Fox Family owned Saban Entertainment, it's production company. Last year, the Power Rangers franchise got sold back to Haim Saban and his new Saban Brands holding company (the show is due on Nickelodeon/Nicktoons soon, according to Sky magazine). So who knows, maybe Disney will realise that PR wasn't the only decent thing they got from buying Fox Family, and will start selling off some of the TVS content too.
Doesn't matter who buys the TVS archive, nothings going to change. Whoever owns the archive isn't going to change the fact most of the material is effectively inaccessible. This has been discussed previously because there is no paperwork for all the tapes. Unless somebody has access to a time machine and can go back in time to find out what happened to the paperwork (or bring it back to 2011), this situation will run indefinitely.
Coming back on topic... I notice Challenge are now chopping out portions of Bullseye on the return from the break. Instead of the zoom in from the cartoon Bully board, it's simply a really bad jump from "Part Two" to Jim Bowen. A simple fade across would have looked better than this botch job. The edits to Family Fortunes are noticeable if you saw the original broadcasts/repeats, but they're handled in a far neater way than I thought they would have been.
I notice they still have Carlton International Media Ltd endcaps on everything so the prints have been under the company for a long while. Do they not have T&Cs under which the material was licensed that basically boils down to "don't change the programme", and chopping bits out changes the programme from its original format does it not? Sure I read something like that on one distributor website.
ITV still gives out programming with the old 'Cte' and Carlton International caps appended to them, some of them (Stingray springs to mind) actually appear over the top of where ATV's logo would have appeared!!
When ITV4 was showing UFO and Space:1999, it was pot luck whether you'd get ITC Distribution, Carlton International or nothing etched on to the end.
It has been like that for as long as I can remember, I believe it is due to a competition being used during the original airings, thus all references must be removed.