It seems a bit odd that the new season was recently premiered on BBC Two when they already knew that it would be going to ITV2 a few months later. Why didn't they just keep the new episodes on BBC Three as they always had done for years before?
They were trialling a strand aimed at the BBC Three audience. It seems there was an unannounced policy of only showing repeats and first party commissions for the last 18 months or so, perhaps so the drop to online only didn't seem so steep.
It seems a bit odd that the new season was recently premiered on BBC Two when they already knew that it would be going to ITV2 a few months later. Why didn't they just keep the new episodes on BBC Three as they always had done for years before?
Because the channel hadn't been officially killed at that point so they didn't want to put anything on it people might watch.
Can't remember whether I wrote in this thread or the other one as Bordertown didn't have HD tags on the EPG, but they've been added now. Classic Family Guy is still tagged as HD though, but may be an ITV2 thing to tag everything as HD regardless of source...
Oops, ITV2's ecp doesn't work so well with 4:3 programming. Half of the text from the next programmes info was cut off, and the squashed credits were also partly cut off.
Wonder why channels can't or don't amend their ecps for 4:3 programmes.
The new Family Guy episodes & classic episodes are going up on ITV Hub, don't believe they ever went on BBC iPlayer so another rights change there.
Cool! Can still have Family Guy without ads! Frickin' Sweet!
No, BBC Three never had online rights in any which way, shape or form.
(edit) The new episode at 9pm tonight has 30 days on it on the ITV Hub on Sky. The classic episode at 10pm only has a 14 day availability window on it.
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I wonder if they have to pay a bit per day for availability on the hub so they will be willing to pay more for newer episodes to stay on longer, but old episodes which fewer people will watch they pay less for?
Not sure how this sort of thing works so I could be talking a load of rubbish
A rights window will be negotiated as part of the deal - older episodes are available elsewhere (certainly DVD, not sure if on demand) so the rights are probably more restrictive to protect those sales.
I don't believe Family Guy has ever been On Demand from a UK broadcaster. Certainly FX/Fox don't have any on Demand showings that I'm aware of, and as was well documented iPlayer never had any either so the ITV deal is the first on demand deal for the show.
Of course the DVDs are available, albeit in their slightly botched fashion as far as FG is concerned, it's not like its totally unavailable.
