From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Williams
>One great example of this from the past came in the eighties where Thames >poached Dallas from the BBC, after offering the distributors a huge amount of >money. This was a huge controversy because it breached the gentleman's >agreement that the networks didn't get involved in bidding wars for each >other's programmes, to stop costs spiralling out of control, and even the rest >of the ITV network, who weren't consulted about it, said Thames had behaved in >a shoddy and underhand manner. In the end Thames had to humiliatingly give >them back, and the CEO of Thames resigned. To tie two loose threads together: Linda Gray (Sue Ellen) will soon be dropping in to Channel 4’s Chester-based soap “Hollyoaks” for a week’s visit with her on-screen daughter. http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/hollyoaks/news/a805000/dallas-legend-linda-gray-joins-hollyoaks-cast/ _ _ |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- -- 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 tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
