ITV loses rights to show Bond films after 35 years

emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,948MI6 Agent
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You'll have to pay Mr Murdoch if you want to see 007 on your telly again...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/12/sky-movies-james-bond?CMP
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  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    I have a Sky package that does not include the films. I will not be paying any extra just to watch something I already have on DVD. I stopped watching the Bond films on ITV years ago because of the adverts. And because they quite often split the film in two inserting thirty minutes of news in the middle. Having said all that, I do sympathise with those who would like to continue to see the Bond films on tv but who will now it appears not be able to for financial or other reasons.
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Elliot Carver wins! X-(

    Then again, maybe it's for the best. I got so sick of the films repeatedly popping up, at one point they would show it on ITV1 on Sunday, then the following Saturday on ITV1 too, the same film even! Jeez. Bond became like Midsomer Murders.

    So no Bank Holiday Bond movie ever again? On ITV anyway. Again, no biggie because imo there haven't been any classic Bonds of that ilk in decades, since TLD they seem a bit fun-free and reduced on the small screen, or too violent (GE) to be family fun.
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  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    oh yay, first all the decent tv programmes, then went F1 motorsport and now goes Bond.

    thanks Mr Murdoch, you insipid degrading dirt peddler of a waste of space.
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  • zig zagzig zag EnglandPosts: 244MI6 Agent
    minigeff wrote:
    oh yay, first all the decent tv programmes, then went F1 motorsport and now goes Bond.

    thanks Mr Murdoch, you insipid degrading dirt peddler of a waste of space.

    Ha! Could not agree any more with you on that point. I was p....d off when they got hold of mad men, more money on box sets. :(
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  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,948MI6 Agent
    zig zag wrote:
    minigeff wrote:
    oh yay, first all the decent tv programmes, then went F1 motorsport and now goes Bond.

    thanks Mr Murdoch, you insipid degrading dirt peddler of a waste of space.

    Ha! Could not agree any more with you on that point. I was p....d off when they got hold of mad men, more money on box sets. :(

    It's certainly the perfect way of shifting those Blu Ray 007 Boxsets! :)
  • Mr BeechMr Beech Florida, USAPosts: 1,749MI6 Agent
    With the big 5-0 Blu-Ray set on the way, I am not going to be watching it on TV in the States on purpose. I need to whet my appetite for a fall run of all 22 films and a theatre trip for SkyFall.
    emtiem wrote:
    It's certainly the perfect way of shifting those Blu Ray 007 Boxsets! :)

    That is certainly why they dropped the Netflix rights. They wanted people to pre-order the Blu-Ray/DVD Anniversary set or pay for each viewing on streaming rental services.
  • nms75nms75 United KingdomPosts: 1,233MI6 Agent
    I have Sky but I don't subscribe to the movie channels - I just wouldn't watch them enough. As to the Bond movies, well Sky can go stick them where the sun don't shine - DVD and BluRay are at hand :v
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  • thesecretagentthesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent
    I was annoyed when formula 1 went to Sky - but guess what? It's better. More behind the scenes, more coverage plus Sky's ability to employ gorgeous women presenters... :v

    Now they have Bond. Good. They'll be remastered and shown in HD. There will be no annoying adverts, breaks for the news etc. I feel sorry for those without the relevant package, but terrestrial tv has been so bad over the past couple of years BBC, ITV and Channel 4 need to invest heavily and provide a better product or they will simply fade and die. I am fed up with ten year old repeats, cheap reality rubbish, ten week series on life in Cornwall/ The Lakes/ Yorkshire which could be done in an hour, and dancing on or off the fuc*ing ice with or without celebrities!
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Totally agree, mind you are they still called 'terrestrial' channels these days? How might one otherwise refer to the Big Five channels?

    Wish Sky would bag the rights to other films that get shown ad infinitum, ad nauseum (not to mention including the ads): School of Rock, Black Narcissus and so on.
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  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    Sky Movies is launching a new channel in October dedicated to James Bond. It will be in both standard and high definition. All the films will be shown without adverts.

    The FULL article.
    Sky Movies to launch dedicated James Bond channel
    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/news/a397804/sky-movies-to-launch-dedicated-james-bond-channel.html
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    To be honest, I quite like Bond films with adverts in a way, they make the films seem less dated or cheesy. Still, I can see the appeal of not having them.
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  • BIG TAMBIG TAM Wrexham, North Wales, UK.Posts: 773MI6 Agent
    Good. ITV have been ruining the Bonds for years, cutting them to squeeze into shorter time slots or for inappropriate content due to the transmission time.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited August 2012
    I remember seeing 'Dr No' in its first broadcast on ITV in 1975. As the trailer put it: "ITV presents, for the first time on British television..." (cut to Connery in the casino:) "Bond, James Bond." For about ten years I watched every ITV broadcast of a Bond film (except for their premiere of 'Thunderball': I was devastated because my parents arranged a coach-trip seaside outing for us on the same day as the broadcast, and we got home in time only for the end titles). In fact, I was fortunate enough to have seen already all but three of the Bond movies in the cinema by the time ITV secured the rights to broadcast them (three of the sixties movies, including Thunderball, in big-screen double bills), but my first ever (no less exciting) viewings of FRWL, YOLT and OHMSS were on ITV. The Bank Holiday ritual of Bond on ITV became a national institution - part of the 'periodic reactivation' of Bond during the 70s and 80s which Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott discuss in their academic study, 'Bond and Beyond'. A number of the films are structured simply as a series of set pieces, so in most cases even the ad breaks didn't seem too intrusive. Latterly, as has been said, ITV didn't respect the movies sufficiently well, what with their pre-watershed cuts and extended interruptions for the Ten O'Clock news. Sky might manage the films better now, and their promise of no ad breaks at all is encouraging. In the UK, the pre-VHS days of having a choice between only three channels ended during the 80s, so it's been a long time since massive TV audiences simultaneously watched Bond together as 'an event'; the transfer of broadcasting rights from ITV, as one of the original free-to-view channels, to a subscription channel, Sky, represents a belated but, in a sense, sad acknowledgement that the era of Bond on TV as 'national ritual' is, indeed, long-since past.
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Yes, an interesting nostalgic post Shady... we just adore your tract... :D

    But ITV1 have made it worse than necessary. Films like CR never got a great showing, buried away on ITV3; I don't remember it or QoS getting a great Xmas Day or Boxing Day premiere, or anyone making the smart move of showing both back to back.

    I remember the fruity voice of the male announcer telling you the Bond film was up next.
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  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    Yes, the days when there were only three TV channels. The days when Bond films on ITV were an event. Live And Let Die drew a record audience of approx 23 million on it's debut in 1980. It's very rare to get that high an audience for anything these days. Sky's audience will be nearer 230,000.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited August 2012
    For many of us, Bond after the Queen's Speech as the key part of ITV's schedule for Christmas Day afternoons is a glowing, collective memory (although the films' premiere TV broadcasts were usually scheduled in evening slots). As far as Daniel Craig's era is concerned, it was the BBC rather than ITV which was able to create nostalgia for Bond on TV as "national ritual". I refer, of course, to Bond's Olympics Opening Ceremony sketch with the Queen, a significant tribute to Bond even though it was merely a surprise 'pre-credits sequence' for the ceremony. It's a shame that Brosnan's Bond, who was closer to a Francis Drake figure as the millenial "White Knight" (his TND code name), never got an opportunity like this to do a sketch with the Queen. But the incumbent Craig convinces as a businesslike escort/bodyguard: he reflects, perhaps, Her Majesty's own toughness.
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  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    Sky has released a new video promoting the launch of it's new dedicated James Bond HD Movie channel. The video features all six Bond actors in one car chase sequence.

    Sky Movies 007 HD Launch
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2FAWb5Lch8&feature=player_embedded
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    That's a brilliant video. -{ Very well done. B-)
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  • StrangewaysStrangeways London, UKPosts: 1,469MI6 Agent
    edited September 2012
    OMG that video is awesome!
    Love it...I can't wait for the channel to launch!

    :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :))
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Ha ha! Connery in his rear-projection car! :))
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  • Mark HazardMark Hazard West Midlands, UKPosts: 495MI6 Agent
    Nothing on the Sky link, but I recall (I think) that Sky only has them for 12 months? Light at the end of the tunnel?

    And if so, does ITV have to bid for them back, or just take them back - and hopefully (after seeing how it should be done) show them uncut. Having said that, their current showings on ITV haven't been too bad, although I was concious of two nipple shots being cut - and at least Denise Perrier finally appeared on ITV.
  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Ha ha! Connery in his rear-projection car! :))

    His gurning was similar to mine on the throne this morning. :o
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Okay, I'm a Yank so you might have to translate that one for me! :)) If I had to guess I'd say the "throne" is the toilet, but I have no idea what "gurning" is or what that has to do with Connery driving his fake car.
    minigeff wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Ha ha! Connery in his rear-projection car! :))

    His gurning was similar to mine on the throne this morning. :o
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  • Mr BeechMr Beech Florida, USAPosts: 1,749MI6 Agent
    Moore Than wrote:
    Sky has released a new video promoting the launch of it's new dedicated James Bond HD Movie channel. The video features all six Bond actors in one car chase sequence.

    Sky Movies 007 HD Launch
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2FAWb5Lch8&feature=player_embedded

    Great video. I think it certainly captures some of the fun of loving and watching the series.
  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Okay, I'm a Yank so you might have to translate that one for me! :)) If I had to guess I'd say the "throne" is the toilet, but I have no idea what "gurning" is or what that has to do with Connery driving his fake car.
    minigeff wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Ha ha! Connery in his rear-projection car! :))

    His gurning was similar to mine on the throne this morning. :o

    Happy to help you overcome your deficiency :s Throne is indeed a term meaning toilet and 'Gurning' is the pulling of strange and comic looking expressions. Such expressions can on occasion accompany the activity associated with being " on the Throne" Gurning itself however is not limited to or always associated with toilet humour, as it can exist independently. I even believe there are competitions for the most grotesque examples, often achieved by elderly people who remove their false teeth to achieve higher forms of the craft.

    It's amazing what can pass for entertainment in these Isles. :s
  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    zaphod wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Okay, I'm a Yank so you might have to translate that one for me! :)) If I had to guess I'd say the "throne" is the toilet, but I have no idea what "gurning" is or what that has to do with Connery driving his fake car.
    minigeff wrote:

    His gurning was similar to mine on the throne this morning. :o

    Happy to help you overcome your deficiency :) Throne is indeed a term meaning toilet and 'Gurning' is the pulling of strange and comic looking expressions. Such expressions can on occasion accompany the activity associated with being " on the Throne" Gurning itself however is not limited to or always associated with toilet humour, as it can exist independently. I even believe there are competitions for the most grotesque examples, often achieved by elderly people who remove their false teeth to achieve higher forms of the craft.

    It's amazing what can pass for entertainment in these Isles. :s
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Gurning = pulling an odd, bizarre face, a bit like Jim Carrey used to do.

    The video is superb, should be on all the new DVDs as a promo.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Great video. I wish I'd had the job of editing that, it looks like it would have been a lot of fun. My favourite part is when Brosnan pulls up alongside Moore's Lotus and they exchange smiles. :)
  • StrangewaysStrangeways London, UKPosts: 1,469MI6 Agent
    That's deffo the best part when Moore and Brosnan exchange glances.

    Does anyone know if this awesome channel will be available on Virgin Media in the UK?

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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    zaphod wrote:
    It's amazing what can pass for entertainment in these Isles.

    And I'm the one that has a "deficency"? Sheesh! :)) Thanks for the explanation, though.
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