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Why is it, I wonder, that the BBC can show a documentary (in two parts) covering the Eagles which totals about three and a half hours and yet they can't show (or make) even a one hour documentary about the Shadows?

Yes, the Eagles ARE very popular, but are they really worthy of such an enormous slice of British television air-time? Surely the Shads would be far more worthy - especially given their chart presence and HUGE and undeniable influence on guitarists and groups all around the world. Yes, even in America!

And it's not even the real Eagles!

I didn't see the documentary about the American Eagles, but at a guess, it was American-made (perhaps with a British accent narration overdub, like many USA-made programmes on the History Channel).

The cost of licensing such a programme for broadcast in the UK is an order of magnitude lower than the cost of making it in the first place.

The programme was actually the DVD that is just out. I recorded it and saved a bomb. A pirate, moi?

mike