Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35519169)

ITV 4 showed a couple of seasons of that a few years ago and then abandoned it after moving the broadcast to the early hours of the morning. I remember not being that impressed and stoped watching season one after a few episodes. But I kept seeing good reviews so gave it another go when I saw season one going cheap on Amazon. I'm glad I did, as it is a really good show. I then bought each seasons from the US as soon as they were released because, at that time, only season one was available in the UK

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35519177)

wasn't it shown once on VM On Demand (seasons 1 and 2)

Originally Posted by geordiechris (Post 35519143)

Something that doesn't bother me as I thought that G.O.T was rubbish

Originally Posted by carmad (Post 35519210)

I also thought it was a load of absolute rubbish can not see what all of the hype was about it was the most boring program I have ever tried to watch and I did give it a chance watching 2 episodes before finally deleting the series record. :td::td::td:

Originally Posted by 1701-e (Post 35519160)

Anyone else not annoyed that BBC HD will become BBC2 HD?
This means that Borgen, The Killing etc will only be in SD from then.

Surely its better to have the current compromise channel.

Will the BBC also have to regionalise BBC2 HD as well?

Originally Posted by carmad (Post 35519210)

I also thought it was a load of absolute rubbish can not see what all of the hype was about it was the most boring program I have ever tried to watch and I did give it a chance watching 2 episodes before finally deleting the series record. :td::td::td:

Originally Posted by 1701-e (Post 35519160)

Will the BBC also have to regionalise BBC2 HD as well?

Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35519269)

The trouble is there are too many people who cant/wont deal with subtitles, regardless of how high the quality of programming is and I guess viewing figures are what counts when deciding what is shown in HD.

I guess you will be aware, but if you did not know The Killing has offically finished and (currently) there will no more made:mis: Lets hope we get more quality Scandinavian programs as a replacement:)[COLOR="Silver"]

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Originally Posted by nstokes (Post 35518889)

Lets see if they change it on Monday. I personally think its a bad move for them.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35519071)

Maybe AJ were leading people on all along to get their hands on the channel- I really don't know, but Time Warner Cable have pulled the plug to stop them from broadcasting anything. It's now showing a blue screen with a "This channel is no longer available" caption.

A lot of America regard it as "Terrorist TV", so, as a result, much of Al Jazeera English was censored.

I'm shortly going to contact a friend at Dish TV to let him know, in case he hasn't heard of this secretive and rushed change of ownership. They may want to disconnect them too (assuming that they actually carry Current TV).

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35519325)

I think that renaming ITV1 back to ITV is a stupid idea too.



My friend no longer works for DirecTV (sorry, I got the name wrong), so no longer has any direct influence there.

Shareholders, however, are calling for it to be taken off the platform by putting pressure on the directors.

There are reports on the Current TV facebook page that Al Jazeera celebrated 9/11 and have broadcast footage of American troops being beheaded and marines being burnt to death.

If this is true, I think that this channel should be proscribed in this country.

It is believed that the Saudi royal family paid for Al Jazeera to go onto satellite, freeview and the channels recent additions to the Virgin Media platform.

Ultimately, no doubt, paid for by us all from their excessive oil profits.

I have asked a contact if we could see Al Jazeera coming off VM shortly.

I was told that this was doubtful, as they have paid to be there, it has not changed ownership, so VM cannot use that as a get out clause with the carriage agreement and many customers were actually asking for this channel.

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35519350)

If you want a balance of news you NEED to at least look at AJ now and then , as you should look at Euronews & CNN . Relying on BBC is - what word can I use that wont offend - idea

Originally Posted by nstokes (Post 35519351)

I prefer Sky News

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35519360)

Sorry left them off as I did Fox :)

Originally Posted by harry_hitch (Post 35519269)

The trouble is there are too many people who cant/wont deal with subtitles, regardless of how high the quality of programming is and I guess viewing figures are what counts when deciding what is shown in HD.