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Sky free pass on PickTV 2013
http://skythursdays.sky.com/
24 Jan:
19:00 Modern Family s1 e1
19:30 Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow
21:00 Elementary s1 e1
22:00 Game of Thrones s1 e1
31 Jan:
19:00 Modern Family s1 e2
19:30 Spy s1 e1
20:00 Touch s1 e1
21:00 Stella s1 e1
22:00 Game of Thrones s1 e2
7 Feb:
19:00 Modern Family s1 e3
19:30 Spy s1 e2
20:00 Touch s1 e2
21:00 Stella s1 e2
22:00 Game of Thrones s1 e3
14 Feb:
19:00 Treasure Island s1 e1
21:00 Stella s1 e3
22:00 The Borgias s1 e1
21 Feb:
19:00 Treasure Island s1 e2
21:00 An Idiot Abroad 2 s2 e1
22:00 The Borgias s1 e2
28 Feb:
19:00 The British s1 e1
20:00 Blue Bloods s1 e1
21:00 An Idiot Abroad 2 s2 e2
22:00 The Borgias s1 e3
7 Mar:
19:00 The British s1 e2
20:00 Blue Bloods s1 e23 (so it says on the website, but imdb says season 1 only has 22 episodes! Probably means s1 e2)
21:00 An Idiot Abroad 2 s2 e3
22:00 Boardwalk Empire s1 e1
14 Mar:
19:00 The British s1 e3
20:00 Smash s1 e1
21:00 Mount Pleasant s1 e1
22:00 Boardwalk Empire s1 e2
21 Mar:
19:00 Richard E Grant - Hotel Secrets s1 e1
20:00 Smash s1 e2
21:00 Mount Pleasant s1 e2
22:00 Boardwalk Empire s1 e3
28 Mar:
19:00 Richard E Grant - Hotel Secrets s1 e2
20:00 Smash s1 e3
21:00 Mount Pleasant s1 e3
22:00 Mad Dogs s1 e1
4 Apr:
19:00 Teen Wolf s1 e1
20:00 Bedlam s1 e1
21:00 Parkinson: Masterclass s1 e1
22:00 Mad Dogs s1 e2
11 Apr:
19:00 Teen Wolf s1 e2
20:00 Bedlam s1 e2
21:00 Parkinson: Masterclass s1 e2
22:00 A Young Dr's Notebook s1 e1
Not just one weekend this time but every Thursday For 12 weeks from 24 Jan 2013 7-11pm until 11th April 2013.
24 Jan:
19:00 Modern Family s1 e1
19:30 Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow
21:00 Elementary s1 e1
22:00 Game of Thrones s1 e1
31 Jan:
19:00 Modern Family s1 e2
19:30 Spy s1 e1
20:00 Touch s1 e1
21:00 Stella s1 e1
22:00 Game of Thrones s1 e2
7 Feb:
19:00 Modern Family s1 e3
19:30 Spy s1 e2
20:00 Touch s1 e2
21:00 Stella s1 e2
22:00 Game of Thrones s1 e3
14 Feb:
19:00 Treasure Island s1 e1
21:00 Stella s1 e3
22:00 The Borgias s1 e1
21 Feb:
19:00 Treasure Island s1 e2
21:00 An Idiot Abroad 2 s2 e1
22:00 The Borgias s1 e2
28 Feb:
19:00 The British s1 e1
20:00 Blue Bloods s1 e1
21:00 An Idiot Abroad 2 s2 e2
22:00 The Borgias s1 e3
7 Mar:
19:00 The British s1 e2
20:00 Blue Bloods s1 e23 (so it says on the website, but imdb says season 1 only has 22 episodes! Probably means s1 e2)
21:00 An Idiot Abroad 2 s2 e3
22:00 Boardwalk Empire s1 e1
14 Mar:
19:00 The British s1 e3
20:00 Smash s1 e1
21:00 Mount Pleasant s1 e1
22:00 Boardwalk Empire s1 e2
21 Mar:
19:00 Richard E Grant - Hotel Secrets s1 e1
20:00 Smash s1 e2
21:00 Mount Pleasant s1 e2
22:00 Boardwalk Empire s1 e3
28 Mar:
19:00 Richard E Grant - Hotel Secrets s1 e2
20:00 Smash s1 e3
21:00 Mount Pleasant s1 e3
22:00 Mad Dogs s1 e1
4 Apr:
19:00 Teen Wolf s1 e1
20:00 Bedlam s1 e1
21:00 Parkinson: Masterclass s1 e1
22:00 Mad Dogs s1 e2
11 Apr:
19:00 Teen Wolf s1 e2
20:00 Bedlam s1 e2
21:00 Parkinson: Masterclass s1 e2
22:00 A Young Dr's Notebook s1 e1
Not just one weekend this time but every Thursday For 12 weeks from 24 Jan 2013 7-11pm until 11th April 2013.
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An absolute waste of time, but not unexpected from such a trashy channel.
Pure marketing trash. Well, nothing new there then.
Who anyone here really object if they replaced pick with sky sports news and moved challenger to channel 12?
You can see if you like it, and then buy the DVD
The whole point of this is to encourage Freeview viewers to subscribe to Sky, not to actually entertain people with whole series! Tease you and hook you. They must have some success or they wouldn't keep trying it every year.
I would say the same about channel 5 the way they treat some us shows.
As noted above you'd do better watching the show on Pick see if you like it then get the box set on sale, which of course gives the production company some income so they can make more great programmes.
At least at the moment we seem set to get the whole of Warehouse 13 series 1 and Terra Nova so I'm more or less happy, shame about the other shows they could have run one 'new' series more or less to the end in those 12 weeks. Then again why not do the same thing again after a couple of months with the next three episodes and so on that way they can tempt new customers and over about a year or so you get to see the whole series free.
I'd suspect UKTV would have something to say about Sky trying to replace Dave with Challenge.
I have seen all the episode's via Sky 1 and its worth it just for the opening credits.
No, they are trying to get people interested in a series and hope that people miss it so much that they will subscribe to their services.
They are not doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, they want to get more customers. Maybe they are worried that with the economy as it is, people may start getting rid of Sky or downgrading, certainly the ones that will lose some benefits.
That's exactly what I did for Series 1 and 2 of An Idiot Abroad, basically the only thing I've seen on Sky 1 which has ever interested me. £12.75 for the box set on Blu Ray with 4x discs from Amazon, bargain!
Wow, I would object - I've watched loads of things on Pick TV recently - the Futurama movies (split into episodes), The Chicago Code, Strike Back, Modern Family season 1, Stargate Universe, and the first few seasons of STTNG. And now Terra Nova and Warehouse 13.
I may of ment channel 11...
If you take Game of Thrones, it's ludicrous that Sky are showing a couple of episodes from series one as a taster. If you sign up to Sky on the basis of that, you will find they are about to start showing series 3, so you are going to be perpetually behind. It's more an advert for the DVD/Blu-ray than for Sky, as that's the only way to see the rest of the series and catch up.
Really they should have shown the entire series so it finished shortly before series 2 started on pay TV. With a long wait for the DVDs that might actually have encouraged people to sign up to Sky to watch the second series. They could then show series 2 on Pick with a significant delay in order to cash in on the advertising revenue.
Their "encourage people to subscribe" ethos would be satisfied, Pick TV would be a better channel and gain more advertising revenue from people who won't ever subscribe.
They are too intent on "weakening Freeview" for that to ever happen though. Showing a couple of episodes from the first series when the third is about to air doesn't seem to be the right thing to do in any respect.
Arguably they've made an even bigger error with An Idiot Abroad - showing half of series 2 when series 3 has just finished.
It's like with Modern family, they ran the whole of season one week nights if they had run season two right after it would have finished just before season three started on pay tv. Do that with Game of Thrones and few other shows and it should hook people or in my case I'd just shrug and see if season three turns up free in a year's time or get the box set which seems to be the idea with the cross section of shows that are set to be on.
We had Sky Sports News for a while on Freeview, didn't we, but they (News) moved in as I recall, partially I think the spur people to take up their rather dubious offering. So the chances of it coming back are minimal, I'd hazard a guess.
Ad revenue would multiply and would compliment the Pay TV market share Sky has. Especially if they take the highlights packages too.
I'd call the channel "Sky Free"
& if course it could be in HD.
There is a slot available???????!