Well Viacom can only improve the channel. Under its recent ownership of Richard Desmond (a man who made his money in pornography), it has made barely any original programming with the notable exception of Big Brother which it bought rights to once Channel 4 had decided it was no longer for them.
Channel 5's saving grace has been the deals a previous ownership did in securing life-of-series rights to popular imports including the CSI brand. It also makes quite popular children's programming - second only to the BBC I suspect. Viacom already has plenty of localised versions of its big brands in the UK pay-TV market, so it'll be interesting to see how much they move their assets around. The other thing that Viacom could get involved in - should it want to - is sport. Like everywhere else, it's big business in the UK, but as a free-to-air channel, it would be able to bid for some rights that pay-TV channels aren't allowed to buy. Personally, I'd love to see The Daily Show and remaining episodes of The Colbert Report get promoted onto the channel. But TDS only gets midnight airings on Comedy Central Extra (a sister channel to the main Comedy Central channel, and not a channel that airs in HD). And nobody broadcasts Colbert. (Nor does anyone broadcast Dave. CNBC does air edited versions of the The Tonight Show just before a live simulcast of the NBC Nightly News.) On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > For £450mil, per > THR<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/viacom-acquire-uks-channel-5-696195>(link)... > expect a handful of Nick shows to show up there eventually... > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
