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Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV Buys Up HBO Catalogue For £150 Million

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Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV Buys Up HBO Catalogue For £150 Million

Damn it.

HBO has had a number of television shows broadcasting in the UK on a variety of stations with a variety of pay deals. Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Ricky Gervais Show and Hung play on Channel 4, Entourage on ITV2, The Wire and Flight Of The Conchords on BBC2, The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Little Britain USA on BBC1, that kind of thing.

Well, Rupert Murdoch has grabbed the lot for Sky One, a pay TV channel distributed by SKy's satellite company BSkyB and competitive cable companies such as Virgin, but not available on digital or terrestrial free-to-air TV.

The deal that covered HBO's current work and back catalogue, is believed to have cost £150 million, or around $225 million over five years and follows Sky TV's failure to create hit UK content outside of news and sport.

Recently HBO launched an HBO TV site to gather their various strands of programming across the UK. Looks like they needn't have bothered.

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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