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Fremantle optioned the rights for Bullseye which is owned by a small company with no production arm attached. This meant they could use it for Epic but could also try and sell it as its own series (which they did try to do). Option rights only last a few years so they may have expired by now if they didn't want to renew if there wasn't any interest in the show. A similar example is Catchphrase which is optioned by STV. 

Name That Tune was optioned by Banijay at the time (not sure who owns it) but they couldn't sell it in the UK. They essentially allowed it to be 'borrowed' by Fremantle for Epic as a sort of broadcast pilot. If there was interest in Name That Tune after appearing on Epic then it was Banijay's to sell as a series so it was in their interest, not that it worked out in the end!

Otherwise everything was owned outright by Fremantle. It's not cheap to license specific shows for a series like this, the above two are special cases, so that's why they couldn't  expand much further beyond the Fremantle catalogue for Epic and how they ended up having to bring back Child's Play of all shows!

That’s really interesting. I think by Child’s Play they were definitely running thin on options. Do you know if they ever tried to take any of the shows made as part of Epic Gameshow into a series of their own right? I remember when Epic first started thinking they were using it as a series of pilots, possibly as vehicles for Alan Carr, but then none of them ended up moving forwards. Wonder if they intended on eventually taking one (or more) of them forwards, but ended up not doing so. 

With the amount of shows being revived at the moment it seems surprising there’s no interest in any of those formats.