USTV Fall 2007 Acquisitions

SoSueMe

I thought since the Irish and UK buyers will be announcing thier pick-ups this week that it would be informative to compile who is showing what within the next year.

Sky One:
Prison Break - season 3 (FOX)
Journeyman (NBC)

SoSueMe

Sky One:
Prison Break - season 3 (FOX)
Journeyman (NBC)

Channel 4:
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
Reaper (The CW)

ITV:
Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Swingtown (CBS)
Cane (CBS)

Virgin 1:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX)

BBC:
Damages (FX)
Heroes - season 2 (NBC)

kevmy

Any of them any good?

ixoy

kevmy wrote:

Any of them any good?

None have aired yet in the US so we don't know and bar 'Prison Break' they're all brand new shows.

purplegeko

I didn't think anyone would pick up "Pushing Daisies", my kind of show. I thought maybe livingtv or sci-fi would have picked it up.

Jesus Wept

my god, they are going to continue to flog prison break

Season 2 was horrendous

qwertplaywert

tbh these are only the shows people are expecting might be hits, other shows will be acquired if there successfuly[or not in some cases]

StarryBud

The-Rigger wrote:

my god, they are going to continue to flog prison break

Season 2 was horrendous

Season 1 was horrendous. I have no clue why anyone watches this show.

Mossy Monk

The-Rigger wrote:

my god, they are going to continue to flog prison break

Season 2 was horrendous

Don't watch it then. Problem solved :rolleyes:.

Dodge

Yep, thats what I did. Watched about 5/6 epidisodes of second series and gave up. Mrs Dodge still watched it and enjoyed it. No big deal.

You can catch most of the British stations' acquisitions on the digitalspy Up front page

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/completecoverage/upfronts2007/

PS Never heard of Virgin 1 before

SoSueMe

Dodge wrote:

Yep, thats what I did. Watched about 5/6 epidisodes of second series and gave up. Mrs Dodge still watched it and enjoyed it. No big deal.

You can catch most of the British stations' acquisitions on the digitalspy Up front page

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/completecoverage/upfronts2007/

PS Never heard of Virgin 1 before

*Updaed with BBC acquisitions.
Virgin 1 is a new entertainment channel from Virgin Media. They are trying to compete with Sky One. It should start in September and has a budget of
£40million. They have already acquired the rights to every Star Trek episode ever made as well as having an exclusive first look deal with Warner Bros. which is similar to Channel 4's agreement with ABC televison studios (Ugly Betty, Brothers & Sisters, Desperate housewives, Dirty sexy Money).

Dodge

Yeah just checked it out.

I think you should mark that Heroes on BBC is exclusive now as they had the "terrestial" rights to Season 1 (with Sci Fi having the satallite/cable rights) but Sci Fi have no rights to Season 2. I think BBC are looking at shoing it on BBC2 and BBC 3

kevmy

ixoy wrote:

None have aired yet in the US so we don't know and bar 'Prison Break' they're all brand new shows.

Yeah but has anyone seen pilots or heard good buzz or even got vague plot descriptions

sweetie

There was a thread in the last month (by Basquille or SoSueMe, I think) with detailed synopsis of all the new shows coming out. Not sure of a link though..

qwertplaywert

EXCELLant about heroes being exclusive to bbc next year,no ad breaks thank cillian murphy!

although i hope it starts soon after the us but it being the bbc i would guess around march/april at earliest

SoSueMe

ITV is believed to be in talks to acquire the rights to teen drama Gossip Girl from US network Warner Bros.

The show, from The OC creator Josh Schwartz, is based on a series of novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, about a group of wealthy teenagers who go to school in New York's affluent Upper East Side. The show is narrated by 'Gossip Girl', with the lead played on screen by Veronica Mars actress Kristen Bell.

Elsewhere, ITV2 has extended its deal with HBO for the exclusive UK rights to Entourage for its four series, which will keep the show with ITV until at least 2011.

The broadcaster is also thought to be discussing acquisition of the rights to the NBC version of Bionic Woman, starring former EastEnder Michelle Ryan.

SoSueMe

Channel 4 has purchased the UK rights to a Kelsey Grammer comedy in which the Frasier star plays a TV newsreader on a local US station.
In Back to You, Grammer appears as a Pittburgh newsreader who works alongside his ex-girlfriend, played by Everybody Loves Raymond actress Patricia Heaton.

The action follows the pair's attempts to return their newscast to the top of the TV ratings.

The series, which is likely to be shown on Channel 4 next year, has been created, written and executive produced by Steven Levitan, who worked on Frasier, and Christopher Lloyd, whose credits include Frasier and The Golden Girls.

Channel 4's purchase of Back to You was unveiled today by Jeff Ford, the broadcaster's director of acquisitions, and Steve Cornish, the senior vice-president and managing director of Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.

Earlier this month Channel 4 bought Warner Bros' comedy Big Bang Theory, a series about two "science geeks" who move in together and find themselves living next door to a sexy female neighbour. Big Bang Theory, in which the neighbour helps the two men with their hapless love lives, will make its Channel 4 debut next year.

In other recent deals, ITV purchased CBS series Swingtown, which features This Life actor Jack Davenport; and Cane, starring The West Wing's Jimmy Smits, which is expected to air on digital channel ITV3.

ITV is also thought to be closing in on deals to buy Gossip Girl, a new US drama from The OC creator Josh Schwartz, and NBC's remake of The Bionic Woman, which stars former EastEnder Michelle Ryan.

Channel Five was the first UK broadcaster to make a purchase from the latest crop of US shows unveiled at the recent LA Screenings.

Five snapped up the terrestrial and digital rights to Californication, the dark comedy in which X-Files star David Duchovny plays a struggling writer dealing with a wealthy but immoral New York family.

SoSueMe

Sky One:
Prison Break - season 3 (FOX)
Journeyman (NBC)

Channel 4:
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)
Reaper (The CW)
Back to You (FOX)

ITV:
Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Swingtown (CBS)
Cane (CBS)
Gossip Girl (The CW)
Bionic Woman (NBC) *Final Negotiations

Virgin 1:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX)

BBC:
Damages (FX)
Heroes - season 2 (NBC)

Five:
Californication (Showtime)

qwertplaywert

agggh!wanted to see the sarah connor chronicles!summer gau-ness!
hope an irish station picks it up............

Mossy Monk

Isn't Virgin 1 going to be the new name for ftn?

icdg

Essentially, yes, it will be FTN rebranded. That means that those of us who currently recieve FTN **should** recieve it. However that will ultimately depend on the nature of the rights deals which Virgin do with regard their new acquisitions.

byte

Oh, I didn't realise that Virgin1 would replace Ftn. I wonder will it remain on Sky... I'd suspect viewers would be important to Virgin1, and Sky can't really boot them, unless Virgin don't pay the fees.

dulpit

Aon scéal on any tv programmes that the Irish stations will be getting?

Basq

Too soon to call i'd imagine... expect RTÉ / TV3 / Channel 6 to start picking their shows soon after the season starts in the States.

Dodge

They'll have done deals with the most promising shows but they're unlikely to announce anything for a while.

ScruffySlayer

why are ITV taking so many good sounding shows? They don't seem to have the same audience for imports and yet they've just taken some of the best ones. this does not bode well!

Dodge

ScruffySlayer wrote:

why are ITV taking so many good sounding shows? They don't seem to have the same audience for imports and yet they've just taken some of the best ones. this does not bode well!

They'll show them on ITV2 or ITV4

If you haven't acces to those channels they'll more than likely be on an Irish station too

ScruffySlayer

Oh I know they'll show them here I just think it's a pity Gossip Girl didn't go to E4 and Bionic Woman to Sky One. Seemed like better fits but whatever..

SoSueMe

ScruffySlayer wrote:

Oh I know they'll show them here I just think it's a pity Gossip Girl didn't go to E4 and Bionic Woman to Sky One. Seemed like better fits but whatever..

Gossip Girl was made for E4 and T4. It wax the natural heir to the OC but
ITV2 is more watched than SKy One now so it should have to problem having an audience.

Bionic Woman was also perfect for SKy but I guess they are waiting for other shows to be a hit or not. From my perspective they appear to be changing their brand from Sci-Fi to more mainstream entertainment. Battlestar and many of their other sci fi shows haven't performed as well as they should.
I see them buying some female centric shows. They almost got Desperate HOusewives last year but didn;t whcih shows they want to get female audience too. Big Shots, Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle, Samantha Who? seem possiblities if they are hits.

Did anyone see the new show preview in the RTE guide?

SoSueMe

ScruffySlayer wrote:

Oh I know they'll show them here I just think it's a pity Gossip Girl didn't go to E4 and Bionic Woman to Sky One. Seemed like better fits but whatever..

Gossip Girl was made for E4 and T4. It wax the natural heir to the OC but
ITV2 is more watched than SKy One now so it should have to problem having an audience.

Bionic Woman was also perfect for SKy but I guess they are waiting for other shows to be a hit or not. From my perspective they appear to be changing their brand from Sci-Fi to more mainstream entertainment. Battlestar and many of their other sci fi shows haven't performed as well as they should.
I see them buying some female centric shows. They almost got Desperate HOusewives last year but didn;t whcih shows they want to get female audience too. Big Shots, Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle, Samantha Who? seem possiblities if they are hits.

Did anyone see the new show preview in the RTE guide?

SoSueMe

Nip/Tuck moves to FX from Sky

FX has picked up the rights to long-running US drama Nip/Tuck, which previously aired on Sky One, as part of a raft of new US acquisitions.

The fifth, and reportedly final, season of Nip/Tuck, which follows the lives of two partners in an LA cosmetic surgery practice, will now air on FX, following a deal with Warner Brothers International.

Under the deal FX will also get the rights to season one to four of the drama.

The Fox-owned channel has also acquired the first television series from Hollywood directors the Farrelly Brothers, called The Rules for Starting Over, from Fox's international arm.

30 somethings

The comedy, about dating in your thirties, follows a group of newly single friends starting their love lives from scratch. The acquisition represents the first time that FX has bought first-run programming from its parent company.

The other new show on its way to FX is Breaking Bad, a drama, from Sony Pictures Television International, about a high school chemistry teacher who decides the best way to provide for his family is to become the city's number one methamphetamine producer.

FX will also air several shows from Fox, including UC Undercover is described as a high-octane drama series about a specialist deep cover unit of the Justice Department.

It has also bought se asons four to six of cult comedy Family Guy and teen drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. FX will get its hands on the latest season (7) of Family Guy in a window behind BBC 2's premiere.

Get Jack back

The Fox deal will also see the first season of 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, got to FX for the first time.

FX vice-president of broadcast and marketing Jason Thorp said: "So far this year our average viewing is up by a third year on year, with the last four weeks share up by 71%.

"These acquisitions are a signal of our intent to build on the recent success of shows like Dexter and NCIS and shore up FX's place as a serious contender in the entertainment genre".

A Sky spokesperson said Sky One had chosen not to renew their deal for the series.

He said: "Nip/Tuck has helped Sky One appeal to new audiences since its launch in 2004. However, we have chosen not to continue with the franchise going forward."

User45701

season 7 of family guy? i am so confused. thats wrong on the US side and wrong for the EU side.

The next season of family guy to be aired on us TV will be season 6
i dont know what season we are on here in ireland on DVD but season 6 us will be called season 8&9 when its on DVD here even tho it is really season 6. Man they love robbing our money here

is_that_so

kevmy wrote:

Any of them any good?

The Sarah Connor Chronicles pilot is really good and IMO it shows really excellent promise. Good casting of the main characters and looking forward to the show.

donhughberto

is_that_so wrote:

The Sarah Connor Chronicles pilot is really good and IMO it shows really excellent promise. Good casting of the main characters and looking forward to the show.

PM me if you know where i can get to see this please, looking for it. The pilot i mean!

qwertplaywert

will properbly watch alot of new show pilots, might stick with the ones i dont like but have promising sounding plots, because i didnt like the first few eps of jericho[and rightly so,they were pretty bad]but the plot had a lot of potenial,and after a while it was the best thing on tv

Dodge

RTE announces its first few acquisitions

"Among the line-up of international series on RTÉ Television are the acclaimed new US shows 'Damages', 'Dirty Filthy Money' and 'Cashmere Mafia', and the latest series of favourites 'Grey's Anatomy', 'Desperate Housewives', 'Prison Break' and 'Lost'."

I'd imagine there would be more (and hopefully more interesting stuff too...)

Dodge

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a67070/la-screenings-2007-who-got-what.html

Updates for British TV

BBC
Damages
Greek

ITV
Bionic Woman
Cane
Gossip Girl
Pushing Daisies

Channel 4/ E4
Back To You
Big Bang Theory
Dirty Sexy Money
Reaper

Five
Californication
K-Ville

Sky One
Journeyman

FX
Breaking Bad
The Rules For Starting Over

Virgin 1
The Sarah Connor Chronicles

qwertplaywert

damn five got californication..........
virgin 1 must be coming very soon........an ftn +1 was added to the sky epg