No New _Life on Mars_ Tonight :-(

[major_clanger]

Tonight's BBC 1 transmission of Life on Mars (which should have been Season 2 Episode 3) has been displaced by people kicking a ball around. Furthermore, BBC 4 is showing S2E1 again tonight, not episode 4, and from now on will apparently be showing the previous week's episode after the BBC 1 screening, not the next one.

On the one hand, grrr! On the other, it does mean that we will avoid an awkward spoiler problem when we run the Life on Mars panel at Eastercon. If both BBC 1 and BBC 4 had shown the final episode it would have rather deflated any discussion; even worse, if BBC1 hadn't shown it but BBC 4 had we would have had the Spoiler Headache from Hell to contend with!

Comments

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

I am saving Life On Mars to watch during my recuperation and fighting the urge to buy series 1 on DVD.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

from now on will apparently be showing the previous week's episode after the BBC 1 screening, not the next one.

Nooo!

I thought I'd cunningly got around this by saving ep 3 to watch tonight, and then switching to BBC4-schedule watching next week, thus maintaining a regular fix. Now I discover that I've just delayed the two-week gap.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

me too :(

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

But it's OK because after this week we won't have to worry about which to watch, LoM or Battlestar Galactica, because BG won't be on ...

[inamac.livejournal.com]

And me. Now if only they'd shown ep1 on BBC3 a week before it premiered on BBC1 they could have avoided this.

On the bright side, I can now watch CSI without having to check the recorder is recording BBC1 rather than BBC2. And get to bed by 10.30.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

Recuperation? Are sympathies and good wishes in order?

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

They are acting like a couple of little boys in a pissing contest, those two.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

i should have specified that I was talking about Sky and Virgin Media.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, though it was an interesting mental image :-)

And yes, have you seen the letter VirginMedia have posted on their website?

We were willing to pay an increase in costs in order to give you a full range of Sky channels. However, Sky have consistently made unrealistic demands on the price they expect us to pay. We have refused to accept these demands, since it means we'd have to pass the price increases on to you, which would be simply unfair. We are not prepared to rip off our customers. So Sky have picked up their ball and gone home.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Not yet. Gallbladder is getting whipped out on Thursday.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

BTDTGTTS two and a half years ago. Just hope they don't leave the T-tube in for long. My life has been much less problematic since it came out. Of course, they also found a previously undiagnosed umbilical hernia while they were at it, so the fixed that as well. I'll be thinking about you on Thursday.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the letter, but I have seen Sky maintaining that they haven't raised their prices to Virgin, so they are claiming that Virgin is at fault. It will be interesting to see how it comes out.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

And not a LoM/BSG crossover? There I was, imagining Gene Hunt interviewing Gaius Baltar...