Open letter to Channel 5 re Person of Interest
DanDud17
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Dear Channel 5 please give the tv series Person of Interest better respect on your channel than it is already receiving. This includes giving the show better promotion and advertising on both your main channel and 5USA as well as a better timeslot and less waiting between when the show airs in the USA and on your channel. As you may know the U.S is currently in the middle of Season 4 whilst you have not started Season 3 yet. It would be a shame if people started illegally downloading this show or giving up on it altogether. You already gave up on Once Upon A Time, Justified and Sons of Anarchy and lost the rights to other hit shows you have shown in the past to other Channels such as Prison Break, House, M.D, Greys Anatomy and Breaking Bad. You have also moved shows from Prime Time scheduling on your main channel to your spin off Channels Five USA and Five Star such as The Walking Dead, the Law & Order franchise, Longmire, Castle and Body of Proof and we hope Person of Interest won’t get tossed to those Channels as an afterthought. Channel 5 seems to be only interest in CSI and NCIS franchises, these shows whilst scoring big for channel 5 won’t last forever and 2 CSI spin offs have already been cancelled. If channel 5 treated its full portfolio of shows like they did with CSI with good scheduling and advertising Channel 5 would get better ratings and more advertising revenue. Person of Interest is a great drama and is shown on CBS in America the channel that gave you CSI to begin with so by treating Person of Interest better you will be showing CBS that there partnership with Channel is one to be reckoned with.
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Too late!
I lost touch with PoI mid season 2 when Channel 5 took a break. As I rarely watch Channel 5, I never realised it had returned. If I ever decide to watch it now, it will either be a box-set or a streaming service.
I don't watch P.O.I. but I sympathatise with the OP- Channel 5 have a horrendous
record with their US imports.
As mentioned, they bought Breaking Bad from FX UK, stuck it in a graveyard slot, then abandoned it- so UK & Ireland viewers couldn't
see the show until Netflix and TG4, respectively, picked BB up.
Channel 5 also bought the superb "Archer", and again stuck it in a graveyard slot with no promotion whatsoever. >:(
Believe me, you will get increasingly frustrated with being stonewalled, patronised and in the end insulted, and it'll get you nowhere, until you concede defeat.
Just wished another channel had the rights to show it.
Shame as its a really good show but CH5 keep mucking us around.
Bullshit, Archer got a lot of network promotion. It just doesn't promote well...
What about the many imports like NCIS, The Mentalist, CSI, Under the Dome, Wentworth Prison and more, that I've watched and followed for free with absolutely no problems over the years ? How do they fit into your little theory ?
Then you've got Gotham at the moment which is fantastic and airing close to the US. Chicago PD another one they've added recently which was excellent viewing, and having only finished a couple of weeks ago is back as soon as January to try and catch up with the States.
I think it should be tried in the post Gotham slot when it returns in the New Year. Likely to be highly compatible with that I would think.
They have a bad reputation, and deservedly so.