UK Terrestrial broadcast Film rights

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I know that the BBC have an ongoing deal with Buena Vista (Disney) and also DreamWorks for the premiere screening of their movies on free to air tv in the UK.

ITV have a deal with Universal & Warner Bros

Channel 4 screen Paramount, 20th Century Fox Films & New Line Cinema.

Five have a deal with Sony.

Recently it would seem that the BBC have been showing premieres of Warner Bros distributed movies such as Firewall and 16 Blocks, both hardly big hits but never the less WB movies.

With ITV1 screening Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Sunday that deal does seem ongoing.

Does anyone know if there is some way that the BBC can also buy WB movies without affecting ITV's deal with the studio. Might there be some sort of deal to buy B grade movies that are not offered with the A grade package...

I'd be interested to know....
 
I'm not sure if its ongoing but at one time BBC and FIVE shared a deal for Warner films.

Unlike the heyday of movies on tv in the 70's and 80's where channels had exclusive deals with studios I believe channels will now buy certain films at inflated prices rather than do what they used to which was buy a package of movies just to get a few key titles.

There seems to be no exclusivity these days.

BBC bought the first Harry Potter and ITV have the rest.

In previous years ITV have also paid more to cut Sky out and give certain films their premiere on ITV

To be honest - I've not watched films on regular tv for over 20 years and I cant understand why people still put up with films interrupted by aRAB
 
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