What is it with the BBC and the 1998 film 'Deep Impact?' I know the Big Brother final is tonight so they need something to play whilst Channel 4 get lots of viewers, but this is one of the films they play excessively. Is this propaganda for something the BBC aren't telling us as they are playing it again tonight?
Deep Impact is certainly the film filler of the moment for BBC1 and has been since 2nd January 2000 when it was first premiered.
So they have been playing it for five years. Is there a reason why they do this, do they have to get a licence to play films (BBC) such as Deep Impact and they haevn't been able to get a licence for any other films?
Deep Impact is certainly the film filler of the moment for BBC1 and has been since 2nd January 2000 when it was first premiered.
So they have been playing it for five years. Is there a reason why they do this, do they have to get a licence to play films (BBC) such as Deep Impact and they haevn't been able to get a licence for any other films?
Well five showed Deep Impact a few months ago - leading me to think that the BBC had lost the rights, but since then they have shown it again at least twice!
It also seems to me that terrestrial channels in general, with the possible exception of Channel 4, hardly ever show any film premieres. Perhaps the TV companies simply do not think it worth the expense of acquiring the rights to films, apart from the massively successful ones like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings? It's ashame, I think - I would like to see more films on TV - if you look at the amount of films coming out in the cinema each month, it
should
be possible to have a fairly steady stream of film premieres on TV - you would think?
