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What has this to do with The Expanse ?

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The Expanse returns April 12th (11th in US).

https://www.space.com/39804-the-expa...w-trailer.html

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Ah nice, not long then

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Not sure it's confirmed as coming to the UK via Netflix then though.

Not yet seen if we'll get it quickly this time.

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doubt it, it was only a couple of weeks ago that I saw an ad for season 2 so they are way behind

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This is US timeline.

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I appreciate that but for other shows, US timeline is the UK timeline e.g. Star Trek Discovery.

My hope was Netflix was doing the same for The Expanse this time.

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If only that applied to everything.

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Depending on the source you use, it does ;)

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we had this discussion about something else around xmas time (I think we were having a whinge about the BBC again and the quality (or lack of) programming) and I said I don't understand why all prime time US series can't be aired the same day on Sky Atlantic or equivalent. There is just no excuse in this day and age. Ironically I cleared up the tv schedule thread earlier but it should be somebody's job to sit down with that list of all the best shows and make sure they appear on a UK channel the next day. There are still too many series which don't air in the UK until after the entire season has finished in the US. Far too many a time when I read my SFX magazine does it say "US air date: 12th July on NBC UK air date: TBC Channel: TBC". You even get readers writing in begging for info hoping that SFX knows more than they do.

Now here's an idea. Another thing we have been doing since Discovery came out is moaning about streaming services and multiple subscriptions. I was going to say that in this day and age distributors that care will make content available online so they don't have to worry about fans being delayed and international broadcasters picking up the series. Rather than having a zillion streaming services and subscriptions, how long do you think it will take for a company like youtube to come around and host everyone's content for one monthly fee and the studios get paid per viewing just like how Spotify works? It doesn't matter who made it or where it comes from, there is one platform which everything can be accessed from. Surely something like that has got to happen in the future because there is no way things can stay as they are.

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I love this series and it is defo my fav out of all currently airing series and the 15 or so I watch every week. I know some people (myself included) like stuff like Star Trek where you get a different story and for the most part you know it is going to have a happy ending and all is well. I prefer stuff like this, B5 and GoT where there is one big story which you can really get into and it is so intense.

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The Expanse had been cancelled https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/...it-a-new-home/

I flipping jinxed myself with this because it was only the other i was thinking how goid it is and how lucky we are that the ming mongs at syfy havent cancelled it in favour of stupid reality series. Somebody needs to sack all of them and put a new team in to sort the channel out.

Hopefully Netflix in their infinite wisdom will pick it up.

Edit: I have just been looking at the viewing figures and it really is infuriating. The Expanse is the only syfy channel series with positive year on year growth for viewers and you have got shit like Z Nation, Wynonna Earp and Van Helsing which are all around -30% in YoY viewers and have been renewed. I can only assume that always it is to do with $$$ which the only thing Syfy thinks about and The Expanse is a lot more expensive to make that Z Nation which I imagine costs them 10p.

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Think your right Netflix or Amazon will pick it up. Mad not to. Really annoyed. Only half way through the books.

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While I appreciate your are unhappy about the Expanse, you dont need to start bad mouthing other good shows. :td:

I happen to enjoy Wynonna Earp and Van Helsing (I've not seen Z Nation).

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There's a lot of noise on twitter/reddit ec with people trying to get other media to pick up The Expanse, sets are being 'deconstructed' starting on Monday though. Hope it doesn't go the way of Farscape/Firefly/SGA/SGU etc

Really not helped that so many people haven't even heard of the series yet because of amazingly marketing, zero merchandise and the weirdest doomed to failure/piracy way of broadcasting to an extremely limited audience.

I'd like to see amazon or Netflix perhaps pick it up but I'm not hopeful.