One Foot In The Grave (reply in this one!)

Hi
Does anyone know why one foot in the grave hasn't been repeated on BBC1?

They always repeat Only fools and horses but I like One Foot In The Grave!

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Thanks,
LoveTV!!

I've often wondered about that for a lot of old BBC comedies. Why do some get repeated quite a lot (such as Only Fools... and Dad's Army) while others never do. I suppose the reason is because the repeat rights have been sold to someone else, such as UK Gold.

Certinally not true. The BBC can't lose the repeat rights to their own programme!

They can if they sell it to UKgold

But they wouldn't. I don't think the BBC have ever sold on exclusive rights to their own programmes. The only programmes they could possibly loose the rights to are those made by independents.

But they don't "sell" them to UK Gold (as such), they just give UK Gold rights to repeat the episodes.

So if the BBC gave UK GOLD the rights to repeat them then will BBC ONE ever repeat One Foot In The Grave??

LoveTV!!

It wouldn't be repeated if BBC carried on giving UKgold the rights to show it.

I thought the BBC owned so much of UKTV anyway?

I don't think the 'sell' them at all to UK Gold. UKtv have access to BBC's libraries.

Look at all the BBC shows that are shown on UKTV- AND repeated on BBC! UK Gold is CERTINALLY not the reason that One Foot In THe Grave is not being repeated on BBC1. I'm not sure where this UK Gold idea came from.

The BBC does sell programmes to UKTV. Imagine the fuss that would have been made if it gave archive free to UKTV, but then charged other companies for programmes. UKTV buys the rights to show them (for a limited period), and versions them for their channels - the BBC doesn't pay any money at all.

That said, UKTV does get first refusal on programmes - they got offered them and if they don't want them other UK channels can buy them.

The BBC makes a lot of money from library sales to UKTV - it props up the BBC digital channels quite nicely