Thanks for having enough class to actually answer my questiion
But no one watched the (EXPENSIVE) battlefield earth and Sky still bought that, if they can buy that then they can surely fork out money on some ordinary indie flick. A name like Spike lee should be enough to attract Film4 or Sky regarless. And Little black book has some noticable names in that, to my knowledge it wasn't a flop so maybe some other factors are at play.