Yet doing that you would still have to wait to see the whole season. You wouldnt see the last episode quicker. and....


Sky clearly prefer to show the whole run in one go rather than the constant stop start that they would have to do with the "days after the US".

The actress has given birth recently, so I imagine she wanted a reduced schedule and will be back later on!

at least the 19th is a Sunday .. can't imagine this being shown on a Saturday night

YES Sky has just put up on their face book page the date.

Five0 on Sunday 19th January 2014 at 9pm at last can not wait

just seen it on the EPG and series linked .. looking forward to it

You could already have seen it 3 1/2 months ago, if Sky were running to US pace. The show only had a 3 week break over XMAS, and has already picked back up @ Episode 12 Friday (10th Jan) just gone.

"but I want to watch it uninterrupted, and think my opinion that Sky running 4 months behind the US is correct, and the only opinion that matters" - Use your Sky + box, is my stock answer, and we would not have had 2-3 weeks of Sky One scraping the barrel for wall-2-wall January repeats, until show's start to pick up and air.

errr .. ok

Anyone know when its repeated? Clashes with too many things right now.

Give it up man, your like a broken record

I suspect it'll be midweek at some point

Not including the +1 channels, here are the other airings:

Monday 20 @ 21:00 on Sky 2

Tuesday 21 @ 20:00 on Sky 1

Wednesday 22 @ 22:00 on Sky 2

Plus it might turn up via On Demand.

But in terms of ratings, which Sky use to sell advertising, you have to watch the programme ‘live’ or within 7 days via a DVR (depending on the ratings system you’re using) to count.
Under your logic, all those viewers who would stack the episodes on Sky+ wouldn’t be counted, so the programmes performance in the ratings would drop as a result, Sky would make less money from it, and the chance of it getting dropped would increase.

Sky attempted the ‘days after the US’ approach (complete with scheduling gaps) with a number of programmes a few years back, and ratings suffered as a result. They also tried it again with Glee a couple of years a go, and got the same poor results. It might be your preferred option but evidence shows its not most peoples.

Anyway, I’m glad its back. And starting in January means we’ll get it uninterrupted and by the end of the season will only be about 4 weeks behind the US. If Sky were holding it back until later in the year I might join your protest, but I think the current scheduling model is perfectly acceptable.

If the last couple of years are anything to go by, each episode should be available on demand for about 4 weeks after original broadcast.

Thanks both.

I'm glad it's back, don't misunderstand. It just disappoints some, creates the supposed evil of file sharing, and allows spoilers to leak out through the media/internet etc.

With the ratings rules, as above, they can't even remotely be right for advertising rates. With the exception of time sensitive stuff, you'd have thought getting the info back from the sample groups on when someone does indeed watch the show, and revise the figures would have been the best/worst method. At least you have some certainty with Sky +/YouView etc, that someone has positively watched the programme, and the channel is not just 'on' - like Click-Ad's on web pages.

Episode 1 is On Demand already - grabbed it earlier so off to watch

Me to followed by NCIS: LA.

Only if you watch it via 'on demand'. If you simply record it from the broadcast they have no way of knowing how many people have watched it.
But i do agree that all current ratings systems are far from accurate.

Was it this or ncis LA that was gonna be shown on Saturdays? I remember reading about the change of schedule which some weren't happy about. Would have prefered it myself.

Cracking first episode

If more Michelle Borth and less Grace Park is the order of the day then I'm very happy!

Both this and NCIS:LA got moved around the planned schedules a bit and were both down for Saturday nights for a while, but it appears Sky changed their minds again and will keep them on Sunday nights.

Maybe I'm over thinking this but Wo Fat has been arrested how many times in this series and yet they don't seem to have his DNA on file....I think McGarrett just likes to smack people around sometimes

Anyone if the final episode of S3 is on before Sunday

It's not on again until Feb 5th. (They're re-running S3 at the mo but it over-laps with S4.) It was last shown back in October. You think they'd schedule S3 to finish before S4 though

ONE more day to go and I can watch my favour program again. Can not wait until Five0 stats again on Sunday.