TV in Film

BBC -

• BBC films is a film making sidearm to the main corporation, which has produced/co produced a range of successful British hits including Jane Eyre, Billy Elliot and Nativity
• It has co produced approximately 8 films a year, working with a variety of UK distributers
• Since 2007, it has become a main department of the BBC, rather than an independent 
• The company itself has been going pre 1990s
• BBC vision is now know as "Television" from the beginning of 2013

Sky - 

• Sky Movies is a prescription channel opened by Sky Television in 1989, which currently has around 5 million subscribers through cable, internet and satellite TV
• In 2005 it launched a mobile service through Vodaphone and is said to be one of the world's largest movie services
• In the late 1980s, Sky Movies released it's first film: Dirty Dancing and had signed deals with the likes of Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures
• From 1991, it started to broadcast 24 hours a day
• When Sky Movies collaborated with British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB), it's first film to be shown was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• The launch of Sky Digital in the late 1990s saw the new release of Sky Premiere and Sky Movies Gold
• More recently, in early 2013, Sky Movies Disney was released, which replaced the former Disney Cinemagic 
• It's original production set up was similar to BBC's and Film 4's via film funding