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27th April 2007, 1:54pm
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#1 | | Registered User
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| BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
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Originally Posted by BBC News Long-running Australian soap Neighbours could be dropped by the BBC following protracted negotiations over broadcasting rights.
The BBC said that if agreement was not reached in the "very, very near future" the money would be allocated elsewhere.
It has refused to reveal how much it is offering for the drama, which has been screened twice a day since 1986.
ITV and Five have been connected with bids for the show. Its distributor, Fremantle Media, declined to comment.
No programme is indispensable
BBC spokesman
The BBC's director of acquisitions, George McGhee, told Broadcast magazine: "If a deal is not reached in the very, very near future, we will withdraw the money and move it elsewhere.
"We've made a good offer which is about to be withdrawn."
A BBC spokesman added: "We hope that Neighbours will remain on the BBC but no programme is indispensable and it has to come at the right price."
A spokesman for Fremantle said negotiations over a new contract were ongoing.
Neighbours is the second most popular programme on terrestrial daytime television after the BBC One lunchtime news. | Gutted.
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27th April 2007, 2:02pm
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#2 | | Vibrouk2003
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
I know some females that will feel the rage when they read this. | |
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27th April 2007, 2:02pm
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#3 | | tired and emotional Editor
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
It'll be bought by another channel. No biggie.
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27th April 2007, 2:19pm
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#4 | | Registered User
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
it'll have bloody adverts through it though 
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27th April 2007, 2:45pm
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#5 | | tear you apart
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
If it gets pulled I will personally go to the BBC headquarters and punch everyone there in the face - this includes cleaning staff and dinnerladies.
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27th April 2007, 3:32pm
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#6 | | Harvey Kartel
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
I was gonna come in and post "Bet the QMU will be devastated", until I noticed that this was infact posted in the QMU forum. Russell Grant ain't got shit on me.
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27th April 2007, 4:03pm
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#7 | | triggerhappy's hubby
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
haha. i was sure when your name came up in my usercp on this thread that it would be some comment about the qm, dec.
off-topic, i haven't seen you for ages. you should go to rev more often. it makes me smile. or maybe i will go out on a monday night sometime....
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27th April 2007, 4:33pm
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#8 | | ...has left.
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
ITV will buy it and there'll be more breaks for you to go take a piss.
What's the big deal about bbc dumping it?
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27th April 2007, 4:52pm
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#9 | | I'm Not Crying Wolf
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
i will refuse to pay my crap licencing fee if they get rid of neighbours.
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27th April 2007, 5:04pm
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#10 | | Keep Never Changing
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
It's only on for about 20 minutes, they better not fuck it up with adverts, bastards.
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27th April 2007, 9:01pm
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#11 | | Ach Nicht In Meine Augen!
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
Gah! the one thing in my life that is stable and relaible... gutted
I am so melodramatic this eve | |
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27th April 2007, 9:05pm
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#12 | | Athiest Otter
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
It's pish, utter rubbish. Shows like that are partly the reason I cancelled my TV liscence and gave my TV away.
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27th April 2007, 9:12pm
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#13 | | I'm a boss
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
I know. If I'm working close enough to home I always try to catch the lunchtime one, dinner when neighbours is on at night, nap right afterwards, up at 7.
Its totally going to fuck with my life and schedule. | |
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28th April 2007, 10:22pm
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#14 | | Pato
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
I heard channel 5 were interested.
Plus points are that if someone else buys it, we'll probably get an omnibus. | |
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29th April 2007, 12:19pm
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#15 | | I'm a boss
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| Re: BBC Threaten to Pull Neighbours
I've often thought that. The should have a neighbours omnibus. | |
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