The Greatest Showman - on Sky1 Christmas Day
 

As a Christmas Gift for those without the movie subscription - Sky1 is showing 'The Greatest Showman' on Sky1 at 6.45pm on Christmas Day.

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You also have football on Sky one on Boxing Day for free
enjoy festive fixtures on Boxing Day, as three Premier League matches fill your screen while you get your fill of Christmas leftovers. Usually exclusive to Sky Sports, all three matches will be on Sky One from 12pm:
Fulham v Wolves, 12pm

Brighton v Arsenal, 5pm

Watford v Chelsea, 7.15pm

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With adverts every 15 minutes?

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That would really spoil the viewing that is for sure.

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Sky 1 schedule says 18:45-20:45 and IMDB says the run time is 1 hour 45 mins.

I would guess no adverts, 15 mins extra isn't long enough for ads. Also, for those that regularly record off Sky Cinema you will know that the film finishes with ages to go on the recording so likely this will be the same

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It would certainly be sensible of them to play it that way. As well as showcasing Sky Cinema to potential new customers, they’re up against BBC One which always walks away with the evening viewing ratings on Christmas Day. It has to be worth the commercial hit to get their own brand in front of more people at the one time of year everyone’s sat in front of the TV.

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I think there will be no shortage of ads through this film, which should net Sky a nice bit of extra money.

Best to record it and skip through the ads, folks!

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Which is easily done on TiVo

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If the film’s duration is 1h 45m and it has a 2 hour allocation in the schedule, where are the ‘plenty’ of ads going to go? Sky One typically runs 15 minutes of ads per hour, here they’ve left themselves precisely half that time. How have you come to your conclusion?

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Well, Sky normally do their best to extract as much advantage from advertising on the back of popular programmes as possible. This one will be massively popular and so it would be amazing if Sky did not milk this for all it's worth.

As for the duration of the film, commercial TV has form when it comes to chopping bits out of films to allow for advertising.

Maybe this will be an exception. On the other hand... :scratch:

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I honestly think the film will run unintupted.

If anything they will run a longer ad break before and after the movie.

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Let's hope you are right. We will soon find out! I'd still record it if I were you. You heard it here first!

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I've already got it downloaded from Sky Cinema.

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Very sensible, in my view!

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55% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a musical to boot.... Probably a miss for me like everything else on Sky !

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Ignore the reviews. It's a great movie.

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Good grief you only have three days until Christmas and you have already fulfilled most of your 12 miserable wishes of your Scrooge Christmas.;):D

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It’s good fun, and catchy tunes.

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I'm with Mr K, a load of trash imo.......

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Its a excellent film IMO MM.:D

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Looking through the films and programmes for Christmas there is not a decent thing on,

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It's the same crap every year!

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Come on, 'Carry on Camping' is on Xmas day :)

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l prefer 'Carry on Matron' me dear..:D

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As I've said elsewhere: Catering for the bottom of the bell curve. Got some decent HD blockbusters downloaded for the period. :)

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Spot on!

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fyi, the bell curve doesn’t have a bottom, it has two ends, and this was the third highest grossing musical of all time.

It might not have been to your taste, but a lot of people liked it, and the soundtrack equalled the length of time at number one as Adele (11 weeks).

It’s fine if you don’t like it (I don’t like things like "Mrs Brown’s Boys"), but don’t denigrate those who do...

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Imdb has it 7.7/10, seems pretty good.

I don't usually bother with anything below 5.5 on there.

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I bet Fox wish every film they did was so trash :D

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Yep, I watched most of the Carry On films yesterday on ITV3, shame some of them are edited these days, like the opening sequence to Camping, but that aside still very funny and a good holiday classic :D

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Perhaps MM and Mr K need to watch some of their older classics as l can guarantee you were would be glued to their seats.:D

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Indeed they might not be to everybody's liking but they are still fantastic viewing IMO.

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So they did indeed show the flm uninterrupted. It was a simulcast of Sky Cinema.

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Well, I'll be blowed! I certainly didn't expect that!

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Why not as they have done it before...

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:sleep:

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Ignore all reviews.

They said Bohemian Rhapsody was rubbish, yet it played to packed houses.

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I had adverts in my recording,how is that possible?

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Well, it's not. Someone must have been mistaken in saying there were no commercials. Was there an ad break every 20 minutes or so through the film?

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Probably more like 25mins and the breaks didn't seem that long.Cracking film btw.

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There were ads, but not many and not too often. It is their business model after all

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If they were trying to push Sky One as an alternative to the PSB channels they would have been able to get away with 8 minutes per hour, which is what ITV is restricted to.