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Matt 02-01-2014 08:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam <3 (Post 6580547)
They have a contract for the house know?
The lease on the house doesn't have any effect on the contract for the show - Endemol renewed the lease on the house in 2010 before they'd signed the new deal with 5.

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Originally Posted by Sawyer (Post 6580671)
So no, Big Brother would not be in trouble. The only negative being it wouldn't be attached to Desmond's media empire for promotion.
You're forgetting that Big Brother is funded from a completely separate cash pot to the main Channel 5 programming budget. It's easily C5's most expensive show and if a new owner isn't as willing to dish out the money as Desmond is then the show's instantly in trouble.

Sawyer 02-01-2014 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt (Post 6580783)
The lease on the house doesn't have any effect on the contract for the show - Endemol renewed the lease on the house in 2010 before they'd signed the new deal with 5.



You're forgetting that Big Brother is funded from a completely separate cash pot to the main Channel 5 programming budget. It's easily C5's most expensive show and if a new owner isn't as willing to dish out the money as Desmond is then the show's instantly in trouble.
I didn't know that fact. Fair point.

arista 07-01-2014 10:41 AM
[BSkyB and BT rivalry could provide
a cash bonanza for Richard Desmond
The Channel 5 owner will be hoping
the pay TV giants get into a bidding war
if he wants to get near his £700m price-tag]


http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...mond-channel-5


he can hope
but lets see what happens?

Headie 09-01-2014 04:56 PM
ITV interested in buying Channel 5...
 
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"Richard Desmond has asked advisers to work on a possible sale of Channel 5, the British free-to-air TV broadcaster, that would seek to raise more than £700m for the media entrepreneur."
ITV is mentioned as a potential buyer alongside US networks. A sale is not definite.

Source: Financial Times. Full article (registration needed)http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b7a2a7f2-7...#axzz2pACWR5rx

I wonder what this will mean for Big Brother? Obviously they'll keep it as it's their biggest show, but will they expand on it or make any changes to it?

Samm 09-01-2014 04:59 PM
So would C5 have a name change to like ITV5 are something :laugh:

Headie 09-01-2014 05:01 PM
I want them to buy it so that Big Brother can get advertised during ad breaks of X Factor, BGT etc.

T* 09-01-2014 05:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam <3 (Post 6601803)
So would C5 have a name change to like ITV5 are something :laugh:
No, not at all. It'd be that itv just own it and nothing else.
It's like when that German (I think) broadcaster RTL owned it, they didn't call it RTL5, it was just all the same.

Jemal 09-01-2014 05:04 PM
I would love big brother on ITV.
No doubt it would go back to attracting 4-5m daily.
Unless its not developed well.

arista 23-02-2014 11:19 AM
http://www.theguardian.com/media/gre...ichard-desmond

Discovery and BSkyB may make joint bid for Richard Desmond's Channel 5


They are thinking of a Bid
Early Days

T* 23-02-2014 11:28 AM
As long as they change the branding from the crap it is now, I'm fine with it.


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