AceAceBaby wrote:
Well, it's interesting that ITV can show Pushing Daisies on their internet service, but BBC can't show Heroes.
To be fair, at least the BBC are actually showing all the episodes of Heroes on actual telly, unlike ITV with Pushing Daisies. And despite the fact that it's on at around 11pm, ITV1 still show the edited non-sweary versions of Dexter.
ITV's handling of their web video is really infuriating. For example, they've quite magnificently put all the surviving footage of Michael Palin's television debut online -
http://www.itvlocal.com/wales/50/?playe ... oid=144806 - only they've not really bothered telling anyone who didn't watch an overly long documentary series about ITV in Wales ("Your
Channel", in case you're wondering) about it. And they've put it online in an annoying streaming video format that most browsers won't play, while any two-bit chancer is able to post ILLEGAL PIRATE LIVE STREAMING of
ACTUAL LIVE TELEVISION on the web that just about any browser more recent than Netscape 2.0 will play.
I know there's the tiresome issue of 'rights' to worry about, but when you're hosting a load of genuinely interesting content that isn't substantial enough to have any real commercial value, there's a pretty good PR boost right there. And if there's one thing ITV could do with right now, it's some decent PR. For flips sake, they hold the right to arguably the three most internationally popular television programmes the UK has ever produced (The Avengers, The Muppet Show and The World At War), and what's on ITV3 all day? The Wonder Years, Ironside, Due South, and Clocking Off (which was a BBC show). Hell, I'd sooner tune in for repeats of Granada Reports that that lot.