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Post by Robbing the Dead on Aug 10, 2004 15:56:45 GMT
Terrestrial TV here is always a couple of years behind Sky due to the buying power of Rupert Murdoch, so I'm not surprised. Living TV isn't owned by Murdoch.
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Post by mikemk on Aug 10, 2004 16:16:38 GMT
Not even a little bit?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Aug 10, 2004 16:38:16 GMT
As far as I know, he owns BSkyB. Living TV is a separate entity methinks.
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Lita
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Post by Lita on Aug 10, 2004 18:03:40 GMT
Entirely.
Living TV is wholly owned by Flextech (who also own FTN, Bravo, Challenge & Trouble; they own 50% of the UKTV channels like UKGold, UKStyle, UKFood etc.)
Flextech is in tuen owned by Telewest, the cable company. Murdoch has no stake in Telewest.
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Post by mikemk on Aug 11, 2004 8:03:41 GMT
Entirely. Living TV is wholly owned by Flextech (who also own FTN, Bravo, Challenge & Trouble; they own 50% of the UKTV channels like UKGold, UKStyle, UKFood etc.) The other 50% presumably being the BBC. I'm always amazed that Murdoch hasn't got his finger in that particular pie, although I suppose the Monopolies Commission watch him quite closely these days.
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Post by klee on Aug 13, 2004 10:47:12 GMT
Just found this on another forum
BBC buys Kath & Kim
13aug04
BRITS who missed Kath & Kim on pay TV will get a second chance now that the BBC has bought the rights to the popular Australian comedy.
Kath & Kim went to air in the UK in April, making its debut on pay-television channel LivingTV. Now the show, starring Jane Turner and Gina Riley, will get a run on the free-to-air BBC2 from September.
"I think Kath & Kim will do well because it is not like anything else we are making at the moment," said BBC head of comedy entertainment Jon Plowman.
Melbourne Herald Sun
I hope it's true. I'd really rather like to see this programme.
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Snuff
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Post by Snuff on Aug 14, 2004 18:48:38 GMT
I'd just like to see it at a decent hour. The only problem is that the australian's make TV series like we do. Around 6 episodes. Which is rubbish.
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Scruffy
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Post by Scruffy on Aug 14, 2004 21:40:16 GMT
I'd just like to see it at a decent hour. The only problem is that the australian's make TV series like we do. Around 6 episodes. Which is rubbish. 8 actually but yeah I see your point, how ace would 20 plus episodes of K&K be? That is EXCELLENT news about it being on the Beeb though, the channel that shows it her is literally Olympics only for the next 3 weeks so I may go into K&K withdrawl.
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Snuff
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Post by Snuff on Aug 14, 2004 21:54:38 GMT
The terrible twosome have become international darlings now that their show has been picked up by Channel Four in the UK and on cable in America.
From a New Zealand news wesbite
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Post by Geo on Aug 16, 2004 14:50:53 GMT
i watched this for the first time a few nights ago one of them new fangled cable stations,,,aimed at homosexuals and females tv i think it was called..anyway i laughed and laughed my hairy chin off when the slightly plump girl came in with pash rash.
We didnt get funny progs in the olden days u know...
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Post by SweatShop on Aug 16, 2004 16:50:41 GMT
'Kath and Kim' headed for BBC Two 12:28 BST, Monday 16th August 2004 -- by Neil Wilkes Cult Australian comedy series Kath and Kim is to make its UK terrestrial debut on BBC Two. The popular sitcom - already seen on LivingTV and FTN - forms part of the channel's new Autumn lineup and will take a place in the early evening schedule from September. "It is a big, broad comedy and it is different," BBC's head of comedy entertainment Jon Plowman told the Australian Associated Press. "Comedy continually has to find new jokes, find new characters and funny settings, find new things to say and I think Kath and Kim will do well because it is not like anything else we are making at the moment." Production is currently underway down under on a third series, which LivingTV plans to show next April. This is from www.digitalspy.co.uk/
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Scruffy
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Post by Scruffy on Aug 17, 2004 20:43:51 GMT
I would have presumed that C4 would have gone for this but having thought about it they are quite shit about promotion non UK stuff, BBC2 could really treat it right but I'd say the length of it might be a stickler for them...
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Post by nickinoo on Aug 19, 2004 2:06:04 GMT
All the best comedies start on BBC2...Ab Fab, The Office, The Royale Family (except the recent good ones that have started on the new BBC Three). I'm proud of them, the money must be pouring in!
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