Jake 2.0
 

What exactly is the point of Sky1 showing this programme when it has already
been cancelled in the USA?

"me" wrote in message
8.32...

What exactly is the point of Sky1 showing this programme when it has
already
been cancelled in the USA?

Rule 1 of business: Maybe because they've already paid for it!

Ian

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:34:28 GMT, me wrote:

What exactly is the point of Sky1 showing this programme when it has already
been cancelled in the USA?


It was only canceled last week by UPN. And Sky will already have paid
for it.

Up until last week, it was scheduled to be part of their February
sweeps.

Sky probably had the deal in place late last year, so there was
nothing that they could really do except show it or waste money.

X...

"me" wrote in message
8.32...
What exactly is the point of Sky1 showing this programme when it has already
been cancelled in the USA?



Every program gets cancelled at some point, either through ratings,
staff changes or just because they have run their course.
So Jake 2.0 only has 16 episodes, that is far more than most UK
productions (Soaps excluded) have in two full seasons:)

Sit back and enjoy the show, it's good fun in a non brain taxing way,
a modern spin of the Six Million Dollar Man premise. So why deny yourself
something you might like just because it doesn't last forever.


Mike C

On 23 Jan 2004 15:58:55 GMT, Brian McIlwrath
wrote:

Mike_C wrote:

: Sit back and enjoy the show, it's good fun in a non brain taxing way,
: a modern spin of the Six Million Dollar Man premise. So why deny yourself
: something you might like just because it doesn't last forever.

I see that its "star" (Christopher Gorham) is out the also-short-lived
"Odyssey 5" series.
He must be getting paranoid about either his acting ability or his luck!


He was also in "Popular" which was also canceled. Poor guy!

X...

"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message
...
Mike_C wrote:

: Sit back and enjoy the show, it's good fun in a non brain taxing way,
: a modern spin of the Six Million Dollar Man premise. So why deny yourself
: something you might like just because it doesn't last forever.

I see that its "star" (Christopher Gorham) is out the also-short-lived
"Odyssey 5" series.
He must be getting paranoid about either his acting ability or his luck!


Yeah it can be a short ride this acting business:)
Eric Close (Dark Skies, Now & Again) was another actor who seemed
to have terrible luck with cancelled shows until he got a role in Without A Trace
which CH4 are currently making a right mess of screening.

Mike C

Mike_C wrote:
"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message
...
Mike_C wrote:

Sit back and enjoy the show, it's good fun in a non brain taxing
way,
a modern spin of the Six Million Dollar Man premise. So why deny
yourself something you might like just because it doesn't last
forever.

I see that its "star" (Christopher Gorham) is out the
also-short-lived "Odyssey 5" series.
He must be getting paranoid about either his acting ability or his
luck!


Yeah it can be a short ride this acting business:)
Eric Close (Dark Skies, Now & Again) was another actor who seemed
to have terrible luck with cancelled shows until he got a role in
Without A Trace which CH4 are currently making a right mess of
screening.

I thought I recognised him...

BTW, how are C4 "making a mess of it"? Are they showing them out of
order, or something?


--
AJP

Andrew Poulter wrote:

BTW, how are C4 "making a mess of it"? Are they showing them out of
order, or something?


To answer my own question (yes they are). Do we know *why*, they're
doing that?

--
AJP

"Andrew Poulter" wrote in message
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Andrew Poulter wrote:

BTW, how are C4 "making a mess of it"? Are they showing them out of
order, or something?


To answer my own question (yes they are). Do we know *why*, they're
doing that?

--
AJP




Haven't seen or read anything that could explain the bizarre scheduling of the
episodes in the order CH4 are using and while WAT is an episodic series it also
relies on character development and that requires continuity.

You've got to wonder why CH4/E4 bother to buy some programming, surely
going to the effort to purchase US imports means you intend for them to generate
viewers and therefore ad revenues.
Perhaps they had so much cash to spend they bought anything they
could get their hands on that looked half decent, it would explain why they bought
Angel and Alias but totally failed to notice they were not for kids and therefore
failed miserably when cut to shreds for a pre-watershed screening.

Mike C

Mike_C wrote:
"Andrew Poulter" wrote in message
...
Andrew Poulter wrote:

BTW, how are C4 "making a mess of it"? Are they showing them out of
order, or something?


To answer my own question (yes they are). Do we know *why*, they're
doing that?

Haven't seen or read anything that could explain the bizarre
scheduling of the episodes in the order CH4 are using and while WAT
is an episodic series it also relies on character development and
that requires continuity.

Most US shows are the same in that regards. I can't recall anyone ever
showing a series in quite this amount of disorder before. As I
understand it, they've so-far shown episodes 1x02 & 1x05; and on Monday
they will show episode 1x11. Which is crazy. I shall email C4.

You've got to wonder why CH4/E4 bother to buy some programming, surely
going to the effort to purchase US imports means you intend for them
to generate viewers and therefore ad revenues.

You'd think so, wouldn't you.

Perhaps they had so much cash to spend they bought anything they
could get their hands on that looked half decent, it would explain
why they bought Angel and Alias but totally failed to notice they
were not for kids

Don't get me started on that one...

and therefore failed miserably when cut to shreds
for a pre-watershed screening.

Oh yes. Angel S1 has an 18 certificate on the boxset versions (although
only one episode is actually rated 18). So obviously showing it at 6pm
is ideal. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

--
AJP

Andrew Poulter wrote:

Most US shows are the same in that regards. I can't recall anyone
ever showing a series in quite this amount of disorder before. As I
understand it, they've so-far shown episodes 1x02 & 1x05; and on
Monday they will show episode 1x11. Which is crazy. I shall email
C4.

Actually I can't. I can't find an email address; and their web site's
"enquires" thingamabob isn't working...

--
AJP