What will News Corp do with Spooks

[Tea Lady]

Yes it was me, I posted it in the Kudos projects thread. It was an article in the Times Newspaper in the week. My post was:

"Wasn't sure where a good home for this was but it says in the Times today, that Kudos which is part of the Shine Group is being taken over by News Corporation (Murdoch) for £415 million. The deal will go through in April. Not sure whether this is a good thing or bad thing for Kudos."

Thinking about it, I can't see this having much of an impact. I can't see the BBC being spiteful towards Kudos just because the owner of their parent group has changed hands. Why would they do that when Spooks still makes them money? Also, Kudos still makes a lot of other programmes for the BBC.

Also, we have no idea what contracts the BBC has in place with Kudos and whether they own certain rights re Spooks. (I'm just guessing, I have no idea how these things work.) I think the only plus about this is if the BBC decides to stop funding Spooks, then SKY may may provide the funding for the series to carry on.