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from BBC One after twenty-one years on the channel, when its producers increased the price they wanted the BBC to pay for it in a bidding war. Fincham commented that: "We'd love to have kept it but not at any price."
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678:"Bringing a comic touch to BBC 1"
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192:Cambridge Footlights
142:Peter Arthur Fincham
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979:"25. Peter Fincham"
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367:BBC One (2005–2007)
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