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Old 19-12-2007, 08:15 PM
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Anyone know how much tv companies pay for the rights to show a film on tv?- is it a auction? , tender, negotiated deals? or a RRP price list, bundled deals?
(Obviously a major movie will cost more tahn an obscure one)
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From what I gather they buy a package. As well as a blockbuster there will be a number of good, average and tvfilm material included. If you email the Beeb they will give you a brief outline of commissioning.
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From what I gather they buy a package. As well as a blockbuster there will be a number of good, average and tvfilm material included. If you email the Beeb they will give you a brief outline of commissioning.
That's why they sometimes show really terrible films on TV. They bought it as part of a package and may as well show it even though they know that it had really bad reviews

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If I remember rightly, films were bought with the rights to be shown a maximum of three times. And as mentioned above, they were usually bought in 'batches' from the various distributors/owners. Mind you, all of this was many years ago, and it's probably changed a lot since.
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I recall BBC paying £4m for E.T. but that must be years ago now.
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The main problem is that the film distributors have all the power - tv stations can only buy what is offered to them, and cannot target specific rare film titles

Also, as the number of repeat screenings differs wildly between channels (compare Film Four and BBC2.....) the contractual arrangements must be diifferent....
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Sometimes channels show films that they have part-financed. This quite common for British films now as most require funds from several different sources including BBC, Channel 4, ITV and (not often enough) Sky. Tonight ITV showed The Queen, 'A Granada films production'.

By putting in only part of the production cost a broadcaster can 'premiere' a film soon after release (or even at the same time as a cinema release).
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Although not strictly films, UK GOLD must be the worst at re-showing repeats, some of the comedies are shown again and again and taints them.D
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Although not strictly films, UK GOLD must be the worst at re-showing repeats, some of the comedies are shown again and again and taints them.D
They buy the rights to re-show an old TV series over a fixed period of time. Those rights probably don't limit the number of times they can be shown so UK Gold are just getting their money's worth from what they bought

And that is usually the whole point of a "Gold" channel (c.f. various radio stations with "Gold" in the title). They re-play old recordings.

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Although not strictly films, UK GOLD must be the worst at re-showing repeats, some of the comedies are shown again and again and taints them.D
Have you seen how many times sci-fi channel have shown Dr Phibes Rises/Abomniable? -it was on a 25hrs/8days a week recently
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The way it works in North America is you buy the right to X number of Cinima Blockbusters X Mid range and XX really horrible ones that generally show up on late night tv The price of the package varies with content and desirability Things like ET and Stars Wars are exceptions as Networks can easily recoup their outlay and maximize profit in short order (despite being stuck with some real dogs)
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The way it works in North America is you buy the right to X number of Cinima Blockbusters X Mid range and XX really horrible ones that generally show up on late night tv The price of the package varies with content and desirability Things like ET and Stars Wars are exceptions as Networks can easily recoup their outlay and maximize profit in short order (despite being stuck with some real dogs)
Hello Chugly, welcome to the forum.
Do they have to show everything in the package? Even the really terrible ones?
When they buy the rights, are there usually any limits to the number of times they can be screened within a certain period?

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The main films will be limited in screenings but the chaff (as our old B&Ws are no doubt considered by TV execs) can normally be shown as many times as you wish. The rule used to be 5 years after a cinema screening before a film could be sold to television, but there were exceptions such as GONE WITH THE WIND which was still filling re-run cinemas in America in the early 70s. Hence such films took an awfully long time to hit the small screen...

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