TV Shows that Moved Channel

[Alx321]

Not really a channel move and probably not relevant but any way, yesterday I noticed the Sky One comedies have made there way over to Sky Comedy as per the up coming changes

[Steven O]

The Kenny Everett Video Show/Cassette (ITV) > The Kenny Everett Television Show (BBC1).

[Amber Avenger]

Although it hasn't moved and are just repeats - Channel 5 is showing Series 3 of Michael McIntyre's Big Show.

https://www.my5.tv/michael-mcintyre-s-big-show

Series 5 is on iPlayer still

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b...s-big-show

Minor correction, it's actually being repeated on 5Star not 5. Still slightly odd but I imagine they can get away with a digital channel repeat - McIntire's stuff is usually repeated on Comedy Central so it could well be part of that deal.

On shows that have changed their name when moving channel - two recent ones - The Russell Howard Hour is basically Russell Howard's Good News and The Mash Report will be Late Night Mash on Dave

[XIII]

As Big Show is made by Hungry Bear Media, it's not too surprising that old episodes are appearing elsewhere.

[Robertclark125]

Disney Time was shown every bank holiday on BBC1. Michaela Strachan hosted a few. Later, before it ended, the last ones were shown on ITV.

[sjames]

Disney Time was shown every bank holiday on BBC1. Michaela Strachan hosted a few. Later, before it ended, the last ones were shown on ITV.

I don't remember that, are you sure? It was around 1998 it ended on the BBC.

[Ben]

IIRC it went from BBC to ITV then back to the BBC for the last year or two.

[Robertclark125]

Up Pompeii moved channel. Made in two series, in 1969 and 1970, for BBC1, they were later joined by a 1971 feature film, then an Easter Monday special, Further up Pompeii, in 1975. In 1991, LWT made a one off edition, also called Further up Pompeii. The plan was for it to be made as semi regular one offs, like Mr Bean. Sadly Frankie Howard died in 1992, and there were no further episodes.

In fact, the move was mentioned in probably the most memorable bit of the episode, as the show wasn't well received. Howard said "We are no BC, we are not BBC".

[Steve Williams]

Up Pompeii moved channel. Made in two series, in 1969 and 1970, for BBC1, they were later joined by a 1971 feature film, then an Easter Monday special, Further up Pompeii, in 1975. In 1991, LWT made a one off edition, also called Further up Pompeii. The plan was for it to be made as semi regular one offs, like Mr Bean. Sadly Frankie Howard died in 1992, and there were no further episodes.

In fact, the move was mentioned in probably the most memorable bit of the episode, as the show wasn't well received. Howard said "We are no BC, we are not BBC".

Frankie Howerd had a very strange career, it was a regular series of comebacks where he was either hugely popular or a completely washed-up old hasbeen. Happily it was the former when he died, and that was in part thanks to a repeat run of Up Pompeii on the Beeb earlier in 1991, the first one for a while and certainly the first time I'd ever seen it. And seemingly that was enough to convince LWT to do a revival, even though they'd never had anything to do with it before that, and Howerd aside it had a completely different cast, writers and production team. Seemed such a pointless endeavour.

I don't remember that, are you sure? It was around 1998 it ended on the BBC.

Well, it's true that Disney Time was a familiar fixture on the Beeb for many years - there were four shows a year, at Christmas, Easter and the May and August Bank Holidays - and as you can see on Genome the last one of its continuous run was in May 1998, when it was presented by Rio Ferdinand of all people. I always found it a bit odd on the Beeb because pretty much all other Disney was on ITV*, including the Disney Club of course, but it carried on for many years. On Christmas Day 1998, there was a Disney Time on ITV, but that was the only time I remember ITV ever doing it, and given it was just some clips of Disney films strung together, it was hardly much of a format.

* Back in the eighties and nineties, ITV had Disney and imperial phase Warner Bros, while the Beeb had MGM so the likes of Tom and Jerry, while they also had pre-1950 Warner Bros cartoons which were owned by a different company. Of course, these days it's the Beeb who have the stronger links with Disney.

[Col87]

Robot wars I think holds a record for UK show on most channels.

BBC Two - BBC Choice - Channel 5 - Jetex - Sky one - Sky Two - Challenge - UK Horizons - Dave then revived for two series again on BBC Two before once again been axed.

If we count children’s shows and all versions of it then the teenage mutant hero/ninja turtles has been about a bit from memory and what I know but am sure people can add to it.

BBC one - BBC Two (as part of the CBBC block ) - CBBC - Sky one - Nickelodeon- Nick toons - CITV


Sport wise the Football league ( counting both live and highlights) has also been about various channels.

BBC one ( 1960s - 1980s then 2009 - 2015)
ITV ( shared with BBC till late 80s then exclusive coverage till about 1995. Highlights only from 1995 - 2009)
ITV Sport channel (2001- 2002)
Sky sports ( 1995 - 2001 - 2002 - present)
Channel 5 ( 2015 - 2018 )
Quest ( 2018 - present)

[JAS84]

Turtles was recently on Channel 5, as well as Nickelodeon. And it'll probably never appear anywhere else again, as Viacom, which owns those channels, owns the TMNT franchise now. The versions that aired on the BBC and CITV are different ones. The 2003 series aired on ITV (GMTV to be exact, in the Toonattik block), the 1987 series on the BBC, and the two more recent versions on Channel 5. So it didn't so much move channels, as just find a new home when it was rebooted!

[Col87]

Have I got news for you is another program that with repeat rights as been about all over various BBC and UKTV channels.

BBC Two - BBC One - BBC Four ( some one off episode have aired on there ) - UK Gold - UKG2 - Dave - UKTV People -UKTV Documentary- Yesterday

Same with Top of the pops 2 it ended up on various channels. BBC Two - BBC one - BBC Four - UK G2 - Dave - Yesterday

Never mind the buzzcocks ( including the new series starting soon ). BBC Two - VH1 - UKG2 - Dave - Sky Comedy - Sky Showcase.

Room 101 ( both versions)

BBC Two - BBC one - BBC Four - Challenge- UK Gold - Dave.

Spooks ( including repeat rights)

BBC One - BBC Three - Hallmark Channel -Alibi - Sony Channel/ Sony crime channel- Watch/W - Drama.

Doctor Who which again must have some sort of record.

BBC one - BBC Two - BBC Three - BBC Four - watch/W - UK Gold - UK Drama - Horror channel- Drama.

[Neil Jones]

Didn't we say up above that repeats don't really count for the purposes of this thread because they can and will appear anywhere and everywhere? By that argument everything that's been on the PSB channels will count as a "moved channel" thing.

If you stopped at (for HIGNFY) BBC Two to BBC One, that's fine. But unless all those episodes on Gold/G2/Dave/whatever were new, its not a TV show that moved channel in terms of a new series. Same with everything else you've listed, the only main exception being Robot Wars (as it went to Channel 5 from BBC Two) and Buzzcocks (BBC Two to Sky)

I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread but the most obvious example of a show that went all round the networks was Through The Keyhole - about five different stations all with new episodes.

[Col87]

Didn't we say up above that repeats don't really count for the purposes of this thread because they can and will appear anywhere and everywhere? By that argument everything that's been on the PSB channels will count as a "moved channel" thing.

If you stopped at (for HIGNFY) BBC Two to BBC One, that's fine. But unless all those episodes on Gold/G2/Dave/whatever were new, its not a TV show that moved channel in terms of a new series. Same with everything else you've listed, the only main exception being Robot Wars (as it went to Channel 5 from BBC Two) and Buzzcocks (BBC Two to Sky)

I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread but the most obvious example of a show that went all round the networks was Through The Keyhole - about five different stations all with new episodes.

I think it does count as although they are repeats they have been edits removing parts or new voiceovers done for them so technically different if only slightly from the original airings.

[Neil Jones]

I think it does count as although they are repeats they have been edits removing parts or new voiceovers done for them so technically different if only slightly from the original airings.

The point is they are not "new" episodes. Adding a new voiceover or trimming bits out is revisionism at best. That happens all the time in the world of repeat TV (Challenge was quite good at this), and of course when Doctor Who was sold around the world in the 1960s the local censors were constantly hacking away at it. Indeed some of those retained censor clips (and as it turned out the sold copies they hacked) came in useful a few decades later.