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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Should really fit into a "Not coming soon" thread and don't want to come across as a troll but it looks like the new ITV Encore channel will be strictly Sky-only like Sky Atlantic currently is. Maybe Liberty Global can bid for the channel in four years' time and make it cable-only?
"ITV plc today announced that it would be launching ITV Encore this year, a new pay channel dedicated to the very best of the broadcaster's great British drama.
ITV Encore, which will be available on Sky's platforms, will be ITV's first brand new channel launch in eight years and forms part of a wider four year partnership with Sky - ITV's biggest ever with a platform operator.
The new channel will be home to some of ITV's most successful drama series of recent years. From 2015, it will also screen original commissions with the ITV hallmark of high quality production values, big name lead actors and compelling narratives penned by some of the UK's best writers."
http://www.itvplc.com/investors/anno...nch-itv-encore |
If itvs recent quality is anything to go by then it's no big loss.
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
Sky really are the nastiest company ever with how they withhold channels. How the government allows sky to do this is incredible- i know the answer though...money.
In a way i want bt sports just to kick them right where it hurts and give them a taste of their own medicine and withdraw bt sports from the sky platform. Seeing murdoch on tv crying about how unfair it is would be priceless. But BT sport being the dominant football provider would mean...more michael owen. So perhaps i'm being too rash
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Virgin had their own channels and sold them. Sky have treated Living shows like Supernatural, nikita etc like crap quite frankly. VM only have themselves to blame.