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[HowardKennitby]

Hello

Given the nature of Dave's programming several people must be earning a $&(@~# fortune in repeat fees. Nice work, if you can get it.

[sandyRoe]

The actors in New Tricks, on Alibi, must be millionaires. The programme seems to be never off the screen there

[starone]

They have put it on so many times that I could practically say the words with them. I have tired of it and no longer watch. You can have too much of a good thing.

[sandyRoe]

And then to top it all there it was on BBC1 tonight. :-(

[Buenchico]

Well at least (through the advertising revenue generated from showing those repeats) it's helping to keep our licence fee down.
(Dave and Alibi are both part of UKTV, which is half-owned by the BBC)

[craft1948]

I love Dave when it's a night of HIGNFY or Gavin & Stacey..............

[Buenchico]

I can enjoy a night of QI on Dave, or of Last of the Summer Wine on Yesterday, Craft. (Incidentally, Yesterday is also half-owned - through UKTV - by the BBC)

[Jonathan-Joe]

What size audience do these repeats attract? There can't be many still desperate to watch "Fools and Horses" again.

[HowardKennitby]

Jon-Jo

I don't think the audience size affects the fees.

[SpikeyBush]

Just look at some of the excrement shown as new stuff and it becomes plain why such golden oldies such as Dad's Army and Steptoe & Son pull in the audiences.

[puternut]

I believe that when channels like Dave & Alibi buy the programs from BBC or whoever there is a clause where the actors involved do NOT get a repeat fee

[Meg888]

I don't watch that many shows from these channels. If I'm honest, I think it kills great sitcoms. Only Fools etc have been shown so much, they just aren't funny anymore, and they seem to repeat the same 'repeats' all the time. Why not bring some of them on which haven't been aired in ages?

[knowabit]

Alibi show the same things all the time... there are hundreds of murder mystery and detective programmes that have been made, yet all they seem to show is Diagnosis Murder and Murder she Wrote!

[tonymclark]

I know that when G.O.L.D was called UK Gold (and I think Dave and Alibi are off-shoots of UK Gold) that actors did get repeat fees, but they weren't as high as a terrestrial broadcast (i.e. not as high a fee as when broadcast on BBC).

A friend of mine was in a series that was never shown on BBC at the time it was made, but was shown first on UK Gold. He got "repeat" fees before the show received its first broadcast on BBC (for which he had already been paid).
It wasn't until it was repeated on the BBC that he received a repeat fee for terrestrial broadcast.

[puternut]

Thanks tonymclark. Seems my info was wrong 8-(