Sky Atlantic to be "free and exclusive to Sky customers"
Satellite John
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Coming February.
Saw it advertised on Sky 3 today.
The exclusive bit must mean no carriage agreement with VM.
Saw it advertised on Sky 3 today.
The exclusive bit must mean no carriage agreement with VM.
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If Sky are promoting it is an exclusive then they can't give it to VM for ages. Most Sky exclusives they do not make a point of advertising like this. It is going to be at least a year, and possibly years before Sky Atlantic comes to VM.
The only decent US shows were Lost and 24 - both long gone.
I have watched boardwalk empire, and I watch WWE other ways due to VM not having sky sports 3 HD.... Sillly sky
It's the quality US cable shows that few watch either in the US or UK that are going on Atlantic.
The normal US network programmes will still be on Sky 1/Sky Living.
Dunno how you work that out. One only has to remember the Basics dispute to see how quickly on-air advertising, that in the press and on billboards changed and equally how quickly it changed back at the end of the dispute.
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I thought this Atlantic channel was going to be the home for all of Skys new US product.
Although it did seem far fetched that Sky One could run without US shows
I would expect so.
Sky do need to have some significant HD channels to combat the free HD that Virgin offer
The Logo is Sky Atlantic HD, so that doesn't mean the SD version won't be available to Virgin customers.
Or will I have to buy or rent the boxsets?
I doubt it. So yes, get Sky, or bittorrent them, or watch the boxsets.
It does mean that the SD version won't be available on Virgin. Sky put HD on the end of their channel names rather than saying & HD (e.g. Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD - they just say Sky 1 HD and you realise that this means both channels). Confusing but true.
I thought Sky Atlantic was only for HBO shows? from the deal Sky made to be exclusively screen HBO shows in the UK.
Also i'm sure Virgin will get the channel as Sky now offer their channels to Virgin under the deal from the sale of VMTV.
It is supposed to be the home for HBO shows but the schedule is filled up with other stuff as well
Why would all the various platforms have the same channels? pointless.
Virgin could have done a deal with HBO, but they did not want to, Sky did and it's on a Sky platform seems simple.
VM can do a deal with any distributer they want, if they want.
bit like Film 4HD, this is not available to Sky subscribers, Virgin did a 'deal' as an exclusive to them, I think there are also a couple of channels on Freesat that are not open to Sky (?)
Haven't seen it with Sky lately as the newer episodes of Lost or 24 were broadcast within days of the US airing but it's hard to avoid people gobbing it about spoilers (Lost was bad for that).
It comes as no surprise that Sky is doing this as HD is the only card they can hold to keep their customers jumping ship to Virgin, BT Vision or Freesat. Personally i'm a bit pissed off paying for Sky Sports HD on Virgin and Sky is only giving them two channels of it.
I doubt the HBO library would be enough to keep an entire channel going.
I'm wondering if this channel will feature uninterrupted programmes like the Movie channels to give it more prestige.
Otherwise its just another in the long list of ad filled channels and another one to avoid in favour of Bluray boxsets
It would seem daft for the HBO content to be pulled from TVC only to then be made available on this channel, I couldn't see Sky being that kind.
I wonder when Sky Arts HD will make an appearance, I think it's around 6 months since the 'coming soon' announcement.
http://www.skymedia.co.uk/_downloads/823/Sky%20Atlantic%20HD-%20no%20logos%20(W).pdf
From what I can gather on the net, I think that HBO shows will be shown with just one centre break. That way, they will fit into an hour slot,
FX show True Blood with three internal breaks in a 65m slot and C4 show it with four in a 70m slot.
What nonsense. I have seen the full list of US shows lined up for Sky Atlantic. Right from the start (not counting future acquisitions), the channel will have more quality drama on it than the entire British TV industry has generated in the last ten years.
http://skyatlantic.sky.com/
Angels in America
Bored to Death
Big Love
Boardwalk Empire
Bored to Death
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Eastbound & Down
Empire Falls
Enlightened
Entourage
ER
Flight of the Conchords
Funny or Die
Game of Thrones
Generation Kill
How To Make It In America
Hung
In Treatment
Inside the Actors Studio
Luck
Mad Men
Mildred Pierce
Seinfeld
Six Feet Under
Tell Me You Love Me
The Mind of the Married Man
The Pacific
The Sopranos
The Wire
The X-Files
Thirtysomething
Treme
Weeds
That is a lot of good programming for one channel. I almost wonder how they are going to fit it all in. I can see Sky Atlantic 2 coming soon. Only thing missing is maybe a deal with Showtime, so they could show Dexter and Californication.
I completely agree with you. Sky could have chosen to take subscriptions off us and advertisers could make extra revenue. Rather than that we are being used as pawns again. It is time there was proper regulation to stop this happening. It's not going to happen though.