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Originally Posted by wwe
the bill has been so brill the last couple of months car't belive its the end of it this month has any 1 heard yet if any 1 is planning on picking it up
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Unlikely. In my entire life, I can only think of a few occasions where a show has moved from channel to channel. In fact the only examples I can think of in the last 20 years are Parkinson and Men Behaving Badly (1 series on ITV, the rest on BBC). There may have been a few others, but the point is that one channel tends not to pick up another channel's programmes generally.
I think the BBC picked up Men Behaving Badly because it was a new show and it needed a little development. ITV were not willing to put in the resources required for development, so axed it after 1 or 2 series. The BBC saw potential, so bought the rights and developed it. They were proved right.
The Bill will probably be a different story. It's an old show. It's had more resources thrown at it than most shows can even dream of (certainly more than any other commercial channel can afford to throw at it, and probably enough that even the BBC would not be able to justify buying it), but it is still losing viewers.
I am not knocking The Bill. In it's time, it was probably my favourite drama, but I think maybe it's time has passed.
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