Last Sat nite's UFO ep on ITV4

Hi all,

Did anyone see which episode was screened last Saturday nite? Was it
edited?

I set up to record it on timer as I was away and all I've got is an
hour of some radio channel (no picture) sounding like a flipping Indian
restaurant; the cable box decided to "do it's own thing" obviously :-D

If anyone could answer my questions, I'd be grateful, thanks.

Sarah (UK)

hi sarah just to let you know last saturdays episode of ufo was kill
straker,sound like you've got a problem with your box. PS a merry christmas to
shado members. cheers phil.


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--- In [hidden email], adshead01@a... wrote:

> hi sarah just to let you know last saturdays episode of ufo was kill
straker, sound like you've got a problem with your box. PS a merry
christmas to shado members. cheers phil.


Damn! Thanks for replying :-)

The cable box is always having "problems" - freezing; crashing;
changing channels all by itself (usually overnight). Absolutely
useless :-D

Mind you, I understand Sky boxes aren't much better...........

Sorry to be OT

Merry Chrimbo everyone :-)

Sarah

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Rob wrote:
 
> Both NTL and Sky use Alien technology IMO - in other
> words, they blow-up after being in the Earth's atmosphere
> for a few days!  

Just as well you have to hire them - wouldn't buy one under any
circumstances :-)


>Now that both the BBC and ITV are free-to-air via satellite you can
>get (reliable!) 3rd-party satellite boxes (some with hard disk
>and/or DVD writers) although you can't get Sky pay channels on them
>(will never happen) or Channel 4 or Five just yet.

Quite.  


> If you can get freeview in your area, you can also get
> similar devices (freeview PVRs) very cheaply (~£100)
> or PC freeview cards so you can record directly to
> hard disk. UK TV has definitely entered the 21st century
> at last!

I'm using an HDD, recording from the cable box. Freeview round this
area is not good for some reason, all those people I know who had it
have gone over to Sky or cable.

Do you know if cable (as opposed to Sky) are planning on transmitting
HD any time in the future?

Back on topic; I see ITV4 have dropped UFO this coming Saturday in
favour of - um - (consults Radio Times here) - a film
entitled "Battle of Midway" :-( I see that Space:1999 is still
scheduled for its regular slot on Christmas day though.

Wonder if this means they are cancelling the run?

Sarah (UK)

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> Back on topic; I see ITV4 have dropped UFO this coming Saturday in
> favour of - um - (consults Radio Times here) - a film
> entitled "Battle of Midway" :-( I see that Space:1999 is still
> scheduled for its regular slot on Christmas day though.
>
> Wonder if this means they are cancelling the run?

UFO is back on the following Saturday.

Never be surprised at the ways of schedulers.

Regards
John

> UFO is back on the following Saturday.

Oh good - glad to know this, thanks John :-)
 

> Never be surprised at the ways of schedulers.

Can't see why they've taken UFO off for some film. I was really
looking forward to seeing UFO on Christmas eve!

I think I'll watch "Kill Straker" and listen to the audio commentary
instead as a treat.

In fact almost all the series I'm currently watching have disappeared
over the Chrimbo season :-(

Sorry if this message appears twice. My cat climbed onto the laptop
in the previous one and the message I was composing disappeared,
don't know if it got sent or not ;-)

Sarah

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:25:11 -0000
"moonbasegirl" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Can't see why they've taken UFO off for some film. I was really
> looking forward to seeing UFO on Christmas eve!
>

I'm puzzled about something. Why is it that people who own DVDs of
a particular TV programme seem to prefer watching it as a TV
broadcast, even though it may be edited and peppered with adverts?

Is it the sense of community, of knowing that people in a few
thousand other households are watching at the same time? Or does
the mere fact that it's being shown on a national TV station
provide a sense of occasion?

I must say that the sense of a communal experience has largely gone
out of TV in the UK; very few TV programmes these days attract a
huge audience in the way that used to be the case when I was
growing up in the late '60s and '70s. At Christmas especially, when
we'd all sit back and watch the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special
on BBC1, there was a sense that you were part of a huge audience
that just doesn't happen when you watch a DVD. These days, TV
programmes have to compete with the playstation, the Internet, the
DVD player, 40 other digital TV channels and their own repeat on
BBC3 a few days later. Something has been lost.

James

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--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@j...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:25:11 -0000

> I'm puzzled about something. Why is it that people who own DVDs of
> a particular TV programme seem to prefer watching it as a TV
> broadcast, even though it may be edited and peppered with adverts?
>
I'm glad I'm not the only one that's been puzzled! Apart from a few
minutes here and there when I've just strayed onto ITV4 and there's
an ITC show on I've hardly caught any of the broadcasts (apart from
the little seen "The Adventurer"). Old transfers, cut for timing, on
screen logos, commercial breaks in the wrong places, squashed end
credits and voice-overs - I mean what is the point? Surely everyone
here has the DVDs?

As you say James, it must simply be a case of the community spirit of
watching a TV broadcast - albeit a vastly inferior one. OK, rant over.

May I wish everyone a very happy Christmas and all
the best for 2006!

--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@j...> wrote:

> I'm puzzled about something. Why is it that people who own DVDs of
> a particular TV programme seem to prefer watching it as a TV
> broadcast, even though it may be edited and peppered with adverts?

I don't prefer it. I record it as I do for any broadcast in order to
FF through the commercial breaks, so I'm not sharing any sense
of "commnity spirit", although I do like to think that there may be
viewers out there new to the series that are enjoying the ITV 4
broadcasts, maybe seeing Ed, Mike, George, Gabrielle, Dolores, Wanda
et al, for the very first time in the best sci-fi series ever
made :-)

I've posted about each episode because I thought other list members
might be interested to know what was shown; what edits were made and
what the picture quality was like. Obviously wrong about that :-(

I don't watch much television and most of what I do tends to be
treated in UFO fashion on terrestrial channels. Perhaps there's an
element to "watching" UFO because it costs so much money to subscribe
to cable, in order to watch the handful of current series I do want
to see and it helps me to think I'm getting my "moneys worth" ;-)

I'm going to listen to Mike and Alan's commentary now........

Happy holidays to everyone on the list

Sarah




 

 

> I've posted about each episode because I thought other list members
> might be interested to know what was shown; what edits were made and
> what the picture quality was like. Obviously wrong about that :-(

Well, *I'm* interested... and I'm not even in the UK! :-)

Marc

groovier69 <[hidden email]> wrote: --- In [hidden email], James Gibbon wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:25:11 -0000

> I'm puzzled about something. Why is it that people who own DVDs of
> a particular TV programme seem to prefer watching it as a TV
> broadcast, even though it may be edited and peppered with adverts?

I have to admit, it's more on cable in the States, but I've watched my share of things I own on tape or DVD over the years. I think there's also a sense that the broadcasters are sharing in the appreciation of the show/movie. It's nice to have the individual's judgement about an entertainment validated by tptb? and sometimes it's just easier to turn it on and have it run on the tv than to make the effort to make a choice and slide in a disk ... don't feel so guilty about walking out of the room or doing two things at once either. (so, there are those of us who are a little strange in the brain on this list ...)

<<<<>
I'm glad I'm not the only one that's been puzzled! Apart from a few
minutes here and there when I've just strayed onto ITV4 and there's
an ITC show on I've hardly caught any of the broadcasts (apart from
the little seen "The Adventurer"). Old transfers, cut for timing, on
screen logos, commercial breaks in the wrong places, squashed end
credits and voice-overs - I mean what is the point? Surely everyone
here has the DVDs? >>>>

and some of us haven't been able to afford the DVDs ... While the current price is a good one for what you receive, $80 is a lot of money and there are other things i need more than i need UFO DVDs .. (I know, sacrilige! <strikes long suffering pose and spoils it by giggling>)

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and has a wonderful 2006 (good heavens, is it that late already???)

laters

dragon



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