8dad55e1
From: wog-NotThisBit-george@amd-p.com
"vic arpeggio" wrote in message
news:66e1f991-9aab-4676-a1b6-23be78427889@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 30, 3:44 pm, "Wog George"
> wrote:
>> [reply top posted because the original post didn't automagically indent
>> and
>> I can't be bothered doing it manually (even though I somehow mustered up
>> the
>> energy to type this long-winded explanation)]
>>
>> Thanks for the good news. If people have access to view the show
>> on-line,
>> surely the fan base will increase and more people will actually watch the
>> show when it's on TV. It is very much a positive step.
>>
>> From a personal perspective I guess it doesn't really matter because I,
>> like
>> many who post here, have every episode safely tucked away on the PC for
>> the
>> purpose of instant gratification.
>>
>> I'm not sure how things are in the US but South Park is shown on
>> free-to-air
>> TV in Australia before it goes to pay-TV. I'm assuming that the good
>> folk
>> in the States need to subscribe to Comedy Central or its equivalent if
>> they
>> want to watch the show. Is that correct? In Oz it's shown on SBS first,
>> which is a national multicultural (ie usually foreign language) station,
>> and
>> we also have the benefit of seeing the show with no commercial breaks.
>>
>> I noted from the last100 article that someone in Canada had trouble
>> viewing
>> it. I don't suppose you're aware of any restriction being imposed on
>> where
>> the episodes can be viewed from? That's probably a difficult question
>> because you're just the messenger.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> --
>> George
>> "Dolphins, Eskimos, who cares?! It's all a bunch of tree hugging hippie
>> crap!" - Eric Cartman - 20 August 1997
>>
> Hi George,
>
> Yeah, we need Comedy Central to see first run episodes, but the
> earlier ones are now available in syndication on free stations. I
> haven't watched too many of those, but I suspect they're edited for
> content and they definitely have a couple of minutes cut out to allow
> for more commercials in syndication. I'm not sure if I'd like seeing
> a first run of the shows without commercials--those breaks are
> valuable for getting more beer and draining beer by-product.
>
>
Depending on the particular brand of beer, often the line between the beer
and the by-product is considerably blurred. Foster's, for instance, is
considered to be the beer of Australia. I'm yet to meet an Aussie who
drinks Foster's by choice, and I reckon it tastes like the by-product to
which you refer.
South Park features on the Comedy Channel in Australia on a daily basis on
pay-TV. I've actually seen a few Season 10 episodes multiple times on my
Foxtel service, so I figure Season 11 can't be far away. Usually the first
run on SBS (sans ads) is about 3 or 4 months after going to air in the US.
Then they go to the Comedy Channel on a Wednesday night a bit after that,
and then they just lengthen the cycle of South Park re-runs from episode 1
to the latest that they have on pay-TV on weekdays and weekends (which
doesn't leave much time for a rest).
It's been about 5 years since I saw a "first release" episode on the telly.
I used to be primed and ready on a Monday night for the SBS transmission but
I now get them via bit torrent about 4 hours after they go to air in the US.
By Thursday afternoon Aussie time, it's usually a done deal! I can pretty
much recite an episode by the time it appears on the slightly bigger screen
these days.
--
George
"Kyle, I swear, if I didn't have a guy's hand up my asshole right now, I'd
leap across the room and kick you in the nuts" - Eric Cartman - 19 March
2003
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
|
