What's Going On?

Pola said:

From Bid on Twitter this morning:

@bidtv: Happy Thursday! Looking forward for the #EasterWeekend? Make sure you join us for our #Easter Eggstravaganza launching tonight at 10pm


Happy Thursday, Bid!

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mr tom said:

I didnt get mine .... so someone got mine :-(

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Docswife said:

Can you imagine Mike on Strictly!!!!! 'Now then guys, up next is xxx an' xxx. They are going to present to you tonight the passay doh-blaay, yea, I'll tell you guys, I could watch them dance this six days a week and twice on Sundays, they are brilliant! Now although xxx is a fat bird, she is very light on her feet, well she was today when she had the runs! *purses lips and waves hand in front of face. Tess Daley throws hands over face and makes groaning sound* now guys, I know great dancing, I really do, an' wat you are gonna see now is great dancing! Me 'n the goddess love to dance out in the country where I live, but she has problems wiv her plates so we can't do it as much as we'd like. Jive was a particular favourite of mine but all that moving around, well, didn't help wiv her...eh, well, let's just say, it got a little bit 'windy' I'll just leave it there guys.....you know what I mean! *Tess faints*

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£1 MEGADROP said:

I thought a brief history was in order but the only thing I couldn't find was the short lived dibbing.com

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Paul_s said:

Now that the seal has been broken on the Sit-up containment field and the phantom mason, Jaxx, Simon, Russell and Schlock have been released into the wild - for gods sake they should NEVER appear on television again. Back to the cruise ships for you lot.

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boredshopper said:

In all seriousness (kind of) I think it's sad that the loss of Bid will deprive us of some uniquely bizarre televisual moments. Think about it: Gollum's, um, unique presenting style, Sally screaming and yelling directly into the camera lens, Peter Sherlock purring in ecstasy while he slathers snake serum into his face. Say what you will about Bid, there'll never be such weird presenting styles on TV ever again.

And last but not least, who could forget the most disturbingly weird and unfathomable presentation ever: any of Peter Simon's worry angel sales. Where could those heights of evangelical oddness ever be repeated? "May the worry angels guide and protect you. May they help you win that fight..." All for six tacky glass ornaments made in a Chinese sweatshop.

Delicious.

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Paul_s said:

I'm not in the least bit surprised.

£64m was a hell of a debt to start with... Professor Green was dreaming if he ever thought he could rescue the Sit-up network - he should have done some research on here before hand to see what a shi1te investment he was buying into - it was over pretty soon after the creditors agreed to let the circus go on for another month...


Thank god it's over though. RIP the true Bid.tv (upto the year 2008) :mysmilie_59:

Now that the seal has been broken on the Sit-up containment field and the phantom mason, Jaxx, Simon, Russell and Schlock have been released into the wild - for gods sake they should NEVER appear on television again. Back to the cruise ships for you lot.

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boredshopper said:

In all seriousness (kind of) I think it's sad that the loss of Bid will deprive us of some uniquely bizarre televisual moments. Think about it: Gollum's, um, unique presenting style, Sally screaming and yelling directly into the camera lens, Peter Sherlock purring in ecstasy while he slathers snake serum into his face. Say what you will about Bid, there'll never be such weird presenting styles on TV ever again.

And last but not least, who could forget the most disturbingly weird and unfathomable presentation ever: any of Peter Simon's worry angel sales. Where could those heights of evangelical oddness ever be repeated? "May the worry angels guide and protect you. May they help you win that fight..." All for six tacky glass ornaments made in a Chinese sweatshop.

Delicious.

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WifeSlashGoddess said:

I suspect this wasn't their choice. I suspect HMRC and/or the banks have pushed for administration because they want owed money. HMRC have very big powers in particular for putting companies into administration. I would hope that it wasn't a voluntary decision to go into administration - although after reading some reports online a few minutes ago stating that they've gone into administration due to "a lower than expected number of sales over the last month" does suggest that it might have been voluntary. At the moment though, I think that could be the media speculating. I doubt anyone, other than the administrators, know the exact circumstances about the situation. I really hope that there's nothing sinister in it if it was a voluntary decision. I'm not going to say much more on that for obvious reasons, but I think you can draw your own conclusions.........

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£1 MEGADROP said:

Its fair to say that I'm in mourning and I'm being deadly serious, I've watched these channels for around 10 years now and you all know how Peter Simon has gone strite through me now by some of the posts I make, I'm also gutted that Lisa Brash never got the chance to ask Peter if he wanted to spend an afternoon with me and take me on a tour of bid towers :-(. Now we may never see him again ;(

I agree with an earlier poster they were once great channels I've said it many times in the past myself and I'm glad I've got hundreds of hours of recordings from the good days to look back on sometime

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