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Originally Posted by Horizon
...just coming back on your comments about actors and their repeat fees which is why a lot of the old BBC stuff isn't on iplayer, did you see the story about Lionsgate buying a talent agency:
I find that interesting because if other media companies do the same thing, it will ultimately solve the problems you highlighted in your earlier post as the media companies will be on both sides of any deal involving actors, producers etc
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It may have a further effect on future productions, but I think the practice of 30-day catch-up and occasional free box set releases is an established standard now. What it won’t have any affect on is the contracts that prevailed during the classic Who era, which were negotiated at a time when Equity, the actors union, was an immensely powerful closed shop. It costs real money to repeat any classic BBC TV show, which is why they generally only get repeated on commercial stations such as those in the UKTV network, and are very unlikely ever to appear as a free box set on the iPlayer.