B5 on FX cable channel in the UK
Jan
>If anyone can receive the British cable channel 'FX', they might be >interested
>to know that (at last ) Babylon 5 is being broadcast, starting >with the pilot,
>"The Gathering", on Monday 9th November (5pm UK time) and >following that with
>the episodes of series 1 on successive weekdays (at 6pm) -> repeating each
>week's episodes on the following Sunday.
Nice to see B5 will be back on TV again.
Jan
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Dan B.
>
> Nice to see B5 will be back on TV again.
>
> Jan
Hopefully it has great ratings and becomes a sign of things to come.
Dan
Andrew Swallow
It is not a children's program and men may or may not have got home
from work.
Andrew Swallow
Vince M Hudd
> I am not certain that we have the right audience for Babylon 5 at 6 pm. It
> is not a children's program and men may or may not have got home from
> work.
Nothing new there - IIRC, when C4 first broadcast it they chose some
similarly poor times.
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Doug Freyburger
> Just found this over on the B5TV site and repost with permission:
>
>>If anyone can receive the British cable channel 'FX', they might be >interested
>>to know that (at last ) Babylon 5 is being broadcast, starting >with the pilot,
>>"The Gathering", on Monday 9th November (5pm UK time) and >following that with
>>the episodes of series 1 on successive weekdays (at 6pm) -> repeating each
>>week's episodes on the following Sunday.
>
> Nice to see B5 will be back on TV again.
And how. I went straight to the web page for the US version of the FX
channel in the hope they might also broadcast it. No luck. Yet.
Jan
>
>Andrew Swallow <am.sw...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>> I am not certain that we have the right audience for Babylon 5 at 6 pm. It
>> is not a children's program and men may or may not have got home from
>> work.
>
>Nothing new there - IIRC, when C4 first broadcast it they chose some
>similarly poor times.
>
Even if I were to stipulate Andrew's generalizations (I don't), isn't that what
DVDs and DVRs are for? Hopefully they'll at least run some promos during prime
time.
Alex
> Nice to see B5 will be back on TV again.
Too bad it is on a channel that nobody's watching (and probably close
to 90% of population don't receive) :-(
Amy Guskin
(in article <hcv04j$8cn$1...@news.eternal-september.org>):
Is it even the same entity? That is, the "out of the box" version of the Fox
channel? I assumed not, because the US version of FX is definitely _not_ the
kind of channel that would show something like B5.
Amy
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Joseph DeMartino
>
> I am not certain that we have the right audience for Babylon 5 at 6 pm.
> It is not a children's program and men may or may not have got home
> from work.
"Star Trek" wasn't a children's show, either. Neither was "The
Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limit". All attracted plenty of children,
many of whom went on to be adult fans (and creators) of SF, fantasy
and horror. (I was one of the former.)
"Trek" was a marginal show in primetime on network television. It
became a phenomenon and built the audience that eventually brought it
back in movies and television *precisely* when it went into
syndication and started airing in the early evening, 6 PM in most
markets. That's when kids and teenagers home from school could watch
it, then tell their friends.
Regards,
Joe
Alex
> Is it even the same entity? That is, the "out of the box" version of the Fox
> channel? I assumed not, because the US version of FX is definitely _not_ the
> kind of channel that would show something like B5.
FX UK is a channel of reruns of (mostly old) Fox shows. However the
best Fox shows (The Simpsons, 24, etc) tend to be sold to more popular
broadcasters, so they also show some programming from HBO and other
channels to fill the gaps.
Doug Freyburger
>Doug Freyburger wrote:
>> Jan wrote:
>
>>> Nice to see B5 will be back on TV again.
>
>> And how. I went straight to the web page for the US version of the FX
>> channel in the hope they might also broadcast it. No luck. Yet. <<
>
> Is it even the same entity? That is, the "out of the box" version of the Fox
> channel? I assumed not, because the US version of FX is definitely _not_ the
> kind of channel that would show something like B5.
I didn't even check if they were related. For all I knew in the US the
FX channel originally stood for special effects and they'd since lost
there way similar to some other channel with SF in its name showing
wrestling.
Joseph DeMartino
>
> I didn't even check if they were related. For all I knew in the US the
> FX channel originally stood for special effects and they'd since lost
> there way similar to some other channel with SF in its name showing
> wrestling.
Cute. <g> But in the US FX is just a handy shorthand for "Fox", a way
to distinguish the cable channel from the broadcast network. AFAIK
there is no UK "Fox" network, but if the British FX is also be owned
by NewsCorp, they probably just decided not to let a perfectly good
name go to waste and used it there as well. But the UK channel would
be programmed independently of any other FX channels, as television
markets vary so much from country to country.
Regards,
Joe