I saw something the other day in passing that looked like it had on it the font the BBC are using for their Christmas presentation. Damned if I can remember where it was and also a pity I didn't have time to stop and check it more closely. I thought it was a custom font, it may be, but I'm pretty sure I seen it or at least something that looked almost identical.
Emmerdale and Corrie aren't really losing out. There are extra episodes of Corrie on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th (1 hour) so by losing an episode each on Friday, Wednesday and the following Friday they are breaking even in terms of the total number of episodes. Emmerdale actually gain an episode. The soaps are on far too much all year around anyway so im glad there aren't extra episodes over Christmas
Genome states that E.T. was a "world television premiere". How did it take eight whole years for the film to end up on television? ISTR Sky eventually get the rights for a year or two before it gets released for other broadcasters to pick them up.
That's definitely one of the more extreme cases, but the same (in the UK at least) was the case with
The Empire Strikes Back
- Christmas Day 1988 was its first showing, eight and a half years after first hitting UK cinemas.
Return of the Jedi was Boxing Day 1989, so "only" six and a half years wait for that.
Genome states that E.T. was a "world television premiere". How did it take eight whole years for the film to end up on television? ISTR Sky eventually get the rights for a year or two before it gets released for other broadcasters to pick them up.
That's definitely one of the more extreme cases, but the same (in the UK at least) was the case with
The Empire Strikes Back
- Christmas Day 1988 was its first showing, eight and a half years after first hitting UK cinemas.
Return of the Jedi was Boxing Day 1989, so "only" six and a half years wait for that.
The Bond Film Dr No, took 13 years to reach TV in the UK. Made in 1962, ITV finally screened it in 1975
The gap between cinema release and TV debuts used to be very high prior to the rise of home media, as stated many years in some cases.
Then along comes home video, then Sky Movies, then DVDs, then fast internet and the likes of Netflix and the gap soon drops to less than a year. Jungle Book 2016 has been in the Sky Store for the last couple of months and the film came out in January.
I suspect its also to do with the rise/risk/ease of piracy these days that has bought the gap down considerably, and studios wised up to this a while ago. Also cinema attendances may be generally down across the board and if you can't get bums on seats at the box office, push your films out on Netflix and Sky and then to rental and home DVD, then onto TV.