Bones moving to LIVING from Sky1 next year!
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How strange!
I know Sky have bought the LIVING TV group and have to accommodate the shows from Bravo and ChannelOne but why move Bones?!
(I'll watch it wherever they show it obviously but it seems an odd move)
Thoughts?
I know Sky have bought the LIVING TV group and have to accommodate the shows from Bravo and ChannelOne but why move Bones?!
(I'll watch it wherever they show it obviously but it seems an odd move)
Thoughts?
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Dare I hope this means Criminal Minds will repeat on Sky 3?
Chuck doesn't strike me as a perfect fit for Living either.
I can see that it fits in with the demographic in some ways, but Bones is often the top rated show on Sky1 in the weeks that new episodes air.
Yep.
The timing just seems odd.
Sky 1 had lost Lost, 24 and nBSG. Reinforcements were required but instead, shows like Bones are going to Living and other potential reinforcements from VMTV like Chuck and Nikita are also going to......Living.
Hell, I actually watch Syfy more than Sky 1 these days.
It is clear they want to make Living as successful in multi-channel homes as Sky1, so this is not a surprise. Sky1 is no longer a priority, especially with Atlantic on the way. I could see channel controllers having to put their foot down.
so after Christmas it will be on Living or they will make some annoucnement about it first?
As I said I wonder if its an attempt to move Sky One away from imports, and on to shows it makes itself, what you think of Sky or the shows, they have increased the amount of UK shows the air on Sky One recently.
Yep they're building 106 107 & 108 into distinctive brands (1 living and atlantic) with sky1 having a lot more home grown drama and comedy etc
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a283997/sky-reshuffles-entertainment-channels.html
Yeah, there is and continues to be a shift of focus.
Sky 1, until now, was one the major channels for US imports. Now, to be fair, the likes of The Event have gone to C4 and V and Warehouse 13 have gone to Syfy.
But now, Sky 1 seems to be reinventing itself as the home of Sky's UK content - all the good imported stuff is moving to Living/Sky Atlantic and in its place is home-grown nonsense like An Idiot Aboard. No thanks.
For Sky 1, that leaves the likes of NCIS LA (not a patch on the original show); Caprica (cancelled last week); SGU (which could be cancelled any week now after more sub-million ratings) and Fringe (having a great 3rd season so far). Nothing stopping Sky from moving Chuck and Nitika to Sky 1, where they would probably be a better fit for that channel, or at least, the old version of it.
For me, the HD version of the channel was more desirable when they focused on the imports. I actually like watching home-grown stuff, mainly on the Beeb (Waterloo Road; Merlin, Doctor Who, to name a few show) but nothing UK-made on Sky has appealed to me in years.
I doubt if this was the HD channel Virgin thought they were getting, or me for that matter after waiting years to get it. A quick look at various threads on DS/CF will reveals dozens of threads along the lines of 'When will Virgin get Sky 1? The new season of [INSERT US IMPORT HERE] starts soon and I wanna see it in HD!'
I don't recall seeing the same desire from Cable viewers to views the likes of Chris Ryan's Strike Back or Got To Dance in HD.
However moving on, I am sure Sky would love to get FX on board, with this as well, gives them Dexter, and also it could air NCIS: LA, leaving Sky One clear for more UK content.
Of course what Sky needs to be careful with, is not to loose the female focus of Living, which is why they bought it in the first place.
a very imrpessive cluster of channels.
Yes but it will be a Sky branded channel.
'Sky Living' so why not? Might allow some of Bravo's programming to move over to Sky1.
I presume the move of Bones will be timed with the arrival of Sky Atlantic and the rebranding of LIVING to Sky Living.
Its all abit confusing I just hope that means that it doesn’t take a slot on Living that Supernatural or Greys Anatomy would have got in the new year??
Not that I know of.
It was renewed for two seasons back in 2009 (so this is the second of those seasons).
It's doing pretty well in the US as far as I know.
Have you not watched it lately, for the last 2 weeks at least they have announced Bones was moving to Living in the New Year.
If Sky1 is going to cater for mainly UK shows then rightfully it doesnt belong there, I wouldnt see a point of keeping all the large imports on one channel and Sky are obvously wanting to break up the audience share thus bring in a wide viewership to ALL the channels and this way it will help the relaunched channels to do better and make more money.
It makes perfect business sense.
Well said. I don't know why such trivia seems to excite such concern. So long as it is on one of the channels I receive (and in HD) which channel is of little consequence.
Clearly it makes sense if Sky are realigning their entertainment offering to assign programmes to channels as they think most appropriate to that channel.
Well that explains why the series-link indicator isn't on the planner entry that was put on after last night recording