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Scheduling disaster for E4 imminant!

  • 11-08-2011 9:59am
    #1
    mike65
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    From the end of September E4 will lose the rights to screen Friends which accounts by their own estimate for 1,000 hours per year (so yes it was on every time you flicked the channel on!). The bad news is that a couple of 12 cert Alicia Silverstone movies and the likes of Made In Chelsea, Tool Academy, The Big Bang Theory are likely to be filling the gaps.


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  • #2
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,030 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    mike65 wrote: »
    From the end of September E4 will lose the rights to screen Friends which accounts by their own estimate for 1,000 hours per year (so yes it was on every time you flicked the channel on!). The bad news is that a couple of 12 cert Alicia Silverstone movies and the likes of Made In Chelsea, Tool Academy, The Big Bang Theory are likely to be filling the gaps.

    They have lost Glee to Sky One also
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  • #3
    Minstrel27
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    Scheduling disaster?

    I think it is fantastic news.


  • #4
    phasers
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    They'll just run their other Sitcoms to death now. Expect a lot of How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs.


  • #5
    mike65
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    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    Scheduling disaster?

    I think it is fantastic news.

    Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!


  • #6
    tvnutz
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    They gave up the rights,they didn't lose them. They want to refresh their schedule,which can only be a good thing.


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  • #7
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    mike65 wrote: »
    Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!

    Apologies for not detecting your sarcasm.


  • #8
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    tvnutz wrote: »
    They gave up the rights,they didn't lose them. They want to refresh their schedule,which can only be a good thing.

    "We were on a break"


  • #9
    JP Liz V1
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    They could repeat from the beginning shows like Misfits, Inbetweeners, Skins and Hollyoaks
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  • #10
    johnny_ultimate
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    They could repeat from the beginning shows like Misfits, Inbetweeners, Skins

    In family friendly daytime / early evening slots?

    Yeah, not a beeping chance.


  • #11
    Dman001
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    They've acquired the rights to Happy Endings, Napoleon Dynamite: The animated Series, Apartment 23, New Girl and Allen Gregory. And on top of that they have How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Bob's Burgers, The Cleveland Show, Skins and Misfits returning. So they won't be stuck for things to show.

    It's great that they decided to stop showing it. While not may will agree, it is one of the best US Sitcoms and constant re-runs has almost tarnished the Series Although, Comedy Central will now be showing it, so you know they will give it the same treatment E4 gave it. Lets hope Channel 4 don't decide to move Fraiser (which is just as good as Friends) to E4, and do the same thing to another great US Sitcom.


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  • #12
    mandz
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    phasers wrote: »
    They'll just run their other Sitcoms to death now. Expect a lot of How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs.

    They've already started repeating How I Met Your Mother in the evenings...


  • #13
    JP Liz V1
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    In family friendly daytime / early evening slots?

    Yeah, not a beeping chance.

    Oh yeah :o
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  • #14
    phasers
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    Dman001 wrote: »
    They've acquired the rights to Happy Endings, Napoleon Dynamite: The animated Series, Apartment 23, New Girl and Allen Gregory. And on top of that they have How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Bob's Burgers, The Cleveland Show, Skins and Misfits returning. So they won't be stuck for things to show.

    It's great that they decided to stop showing it. While not may will agree, it is one of the best US Sitcoms and constant re-runs has almost tarnished the Series Although, Comedy Central will now be showing it, so you know they will give it the same treatment E4 gave it. Lets hope Channel 4 don't decide to move Fraiser (which is just as good as Friends) to E4, and do the same thing to another great US Sitcom.
    comedy central has ruined Frasier with it's repeats, if E4 start at it they'll just basically be swapping!


  • #15
    WoollyRedHat
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    I was watching The Cleveland show the other day in bemusement, as I sat there solemnly looking at the tv screen in both intrigue and bafflement at how a show could be soo unfunny, while at the same time having characters who were painfunningly and unorginal, with a cringe a minute to be had... I tried to see the funny side, but instead I just saw this big ****ing annoying, bear.... along with an idea that should have never left paper


  • #16
    RolandIRL
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    but what will i watch at 5 or 8 most evenings??? :(


  • #17
    Dman001
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    phasers wrote: »
    comedy central has ruined Frasier with it's repeats, if E4 start at it they'll just basically be swapping!
    But Comedy Central didn't re-run Fraiser as much as E4 has with Friends.


  • #18
    amacachi
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    Dman001 wrote: »
    But Comedy Central didn't re-run Fraiser as much as E4 has with Friends.

    You're just not awake at the right times. :pac:


  • #19
    Dman001
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    Maybe I should re-phrase it. They don't re-run it at Prime Time hours..........or maybe they do but I tend to ignore the Comedy Central channels in fear of watching Two and a Half Men. :D Either way, Fraiser was never re-run as much as Friends (when you take into account that RTE Two and TV3 show it too) which is strange because it is a quality comedy.


  • #20
    amacachi
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    I think between the two Comedy Central channels (and not the two +1s) Frasier is on about 4 hours a day.


  • #21
    phasers
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    Dman001 wrote: »
    Maybe I should re-phrase it. They don't re-run it at Prime Time hours..........or maybe they do but I tend to ignore the Comedy Central channels in fear of watching Two and a Half Men. :D Either way, Fraiser was never re-run as much as Friends (when you take into account that RTE Two and TV3 show it too) which is strange because it is a quality comedy.
    Comedy Central Extra shows at least 8 episodes of Frasier between 9am and 5pm. In fact, they show them at the same time E4 shows Friends.


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  • #22
    Dman001
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    phasers wrote: »
    Comedy Central Extra shows at least 8 episodes of Frasier between 9am and 5pm. In fact, they show them at the same time E4 shows Friends.
    Oh, I stand corrected so. But Channel 4 have the rights to Fraiser too (I believe they show it early Saturday mornings), but never gave it the same treatment as Friends.


  • #23
    phasers
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    Dman001 wrote: »
    Oh, I stand corrected so. But Channel 4 have the rights to Fraiser too (I believe they show it early Saturday mornings), but never gave it the same treatment as Friends.
    I hope it stays like that, it would be all too easy for E4 to just grab another sitcom and stick it in Friends' timeslot.


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