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CH
Chewy
Apparently the video on Youtube of part one of the final episode has been blocked by Channel 5
ST
steddenm
I noticed that as well. Seems a bit odd..
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
The conspiracy theories will be rife!
DA
David
Chewy posted:
Apparently the video on Youtube of part one of the final episode has been blocked by Channel 5


The Bill was made by talkback THAMES which is part of FremantleMedia which is part of RTL which owned five up until a few weeks ago. I'd guess either someone at RTL, an outsourced company or an automated process is still searching YouTube looking for content owned by RTL and has blocked it under the wrong brand name (Channel 5) which they don't actually own anymore.
CH
Chewy
David posted:
Chewy posted:
Apparently the video on Youtube of part one of the final episode has been blocked by Channel 5


The Bill was made by talkback THAMES which is part of FremantleMedia which is part of RTL which owned five up until a few weeks ago. I'd guess either someone at RTL, an outsourced company or an automated process is still searching YouTube looking for content owned by RTL and has blocked it under the wrong brand name (Channel 5) which they don't actually own anymore.


Ah, I thought it'd be something like that
CH
Chewy
Just found this pic of the disused Sun Hill Sad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrs_daisy/4949135750/
MW
Mike W
Chewy posted:
Just found this pic of the disused Sun Hill Sad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrs_daisy/4949135750/


The new leaseholder's going to have a job disposing of all the metropolitan police signage, are they not? I hope it's not bulldozed, because that makes it so much more final.
JO
Johnny83
Chewy posted:
Just found this pic of the disused Sun Hill Sad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrs_daisy/4949135750/


The new leaseholder's going to have a job disposing of all the metropolitan police signage, are they not? I hope it's not bulldozed, because that makes it so much more final.


Same here, surely the building can be put to further use rather than be bulldozed because it's from the 60's, which is the current attitude with developers these days.

I take it now that the boarded up tower block in the last episode is due to be pulled down any day now, if it hasn't already been pulled down.
CC
Cross Channel
Such a shame...gutted the programme is over. Sad to see that, reminds me of Lock Keepers Cottages being disused after countless house of great television being made there.
DJ
DJGM

Sad to see that, reminds me of Lock Keepers Cottages being disused
after countless house of great television being made there.


Lock Keepers Cottages aren't really a disused property. The (former) Big Breakfast House is now privately owned,
initially used as a residential property even during the repair and renovation work needed since the fire, but
the owners do occasionally hire it out to indie production companies to make TV shows there.

As for Sun Hill ... maybe the Metropolitan Police could buy it. I doubt it would take much work to convert it from
being a fake police station used as the main set in a long running TV show, into a real police station for actual
police work, or failing that, perhaps as a mock up police station used for training purposes
MW
Mike W
DJGM posted:

Sad to see that, reminds me of Lock Keepers Cottages being disused
after countless house of great television being made there.


Lock Keepers Cottages aren't really a disused property. The former Big Breakfast House is now privately owned,
initially used as a residential property even during the repair and renovation work needed since the fire, but
the owners do occasionally hire it out to indie production companies to make TV shows there.

As for Sun Hill ... maybe the Metropolitan Police could buy it. I doubt it would take much work to convert it from
being a fake police station used as the main set in a long running TV show, into a real police station for actual
police work, or failing that, perhaps as a mock up police station used for training purposes


Well they have 2 mock stations, one at Hendon the other at Gravesend. A real station would be out of the question due to the spending cuts and there being 2 stations within a mile of the set.
KE
kernow
DJGM posted:
As for Sun Hill ... maybe the Metropolitan Police could buy it. I doubt it would take much work to convert it from
being a fake police station used as the main set in a long running TV show, into a real police station for actual
police work, or failing that, perhaps as a mock up police station used for training purposes

Well they have 2 mock stations, one at Hendon the other at Gravesend. A real station would be out of the question due to the spending cuts and there being 2 stations within a mile of the set.

Sun Hill has actually been used by the Metropolitan Police for actual police training, although don't know when it was last used for this.

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