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[Franko]

@ KThuder

Mr Murdoch who currently owns around 39% of SKY and is at this very moment trying to buy out SKY completely, is not a very popular chap in this county mainly thanks to his vast ownership of much of the newspapers & other media here...

He also like to do things as cheaply as possible in any of the pies he has his grubby little fingers in which generally leads to the dumbing down of it's content...

If Murdoch has his way TV here will only get worse as he'll simply flood us with more cheap made American trash and even more adverts (it's almost as bad as American TV here now...)

I wish Mr Murdoch would do as his arch rival did (Robert Maxwell) and fall of his luxury yacht and swim like a brick...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/city-news/2010/07/30/sky-tv-reveals-record-profits-115875-22451060/

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a252503/sky-profits-soar-amid-hd-demand.html

[Boudicca]

@ KThuder

Mr Murdoch who currently owns around 39% of SKY and is at this very moment trying to buy out SKY completely, is not a very popular chap in this county mainly thanks to his vast ownership of much of the newspapers & other media here...

He also like to do things as cheaply as possible in any of the pies he has his grubby little fingers in which generally leads to the dumbing down of it's content...

If Murdoch has his way TV here will only get worse as he'll simply flood us with more cheap made American trash and even more adverts (it's almost as bad as American TV here now...)

I wish Mr Murdoch would do as his arch rival did (Robert Maxwell) and fall of his luxury yacht and swim like a brick...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/city-news/2010/07/30/sky-tv-reveals-record-profits-115875-22451060/

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a252503/sky-profits-soar-amid-hd-demand.html

Hear...Hear!

[Boudicca]

ok Mrs.? Boudicca

Better

Queen of the Iceni
 

I read, and reread your post and you don't seem to really be saying anything, until the end so other than the Mrs. thing i'll only address that.

I thought I was being witty, but I can't please everyone

doesn't seem to be proper english so I don't know what to do with it.

Low....English is spelt with a capital E.

If you actually get into it you realize how much syndication costs, production costs etc. all are.

and I like good acting and writing

It all costs money. thats were we come in.

Yes but our money just seems to be crossing the Atlantic to fund your T.V, Sky syndicate/produce absolutely nothing of their own and what passes for new content, generally follows some wannabe reality T.V tart getting a boob job for two hours, or worse the 100th showing of best of police chases 6....Our TV is your TV. and we are paying for it.

[KThunder]

ha, yeah I won't make any defense for "reality" tv.

my favorite shows are sitcoms like big bang theory, and sci fi stuff ive head some of that does really well overseas. big bang theory especially.

I like to think of it all as "our tv" we have tons of shows with people from many different countries not just in acting roles but in support and staff as well.
Actors from the UK, Canada, Australia, and India, have been very succesful in particular. And many of "our shows" do as well if not better in other countries, like scrubs and a few others.

as for English or english, you'll find I am very inconsistant. I never used to use any capitalization or punctuation and quite obviously, I don't use spell check.

[kedawa]

If there are ads, I'm not paying a dime, and neither should you.

[KThunder]

@ KThuder

...If Murdoch has his way TV here will only get worse as he'll simply flood us with more cheap made American trash and even more adverts (it's almost as bad as American TV here now...)

...

We seem to be doing something right, US made movies make hundreds of millions to billions a year out side the US. and dozens of US tv shows are redubbed in other languages to show in other countries. Most of our shows are anything but "cheap" we have some of the highest production values in the world, something that shows in the international intrest in our media.

Actors from around the world come here to find work. And many do very well.

Other countries are doing some fantastic work as well and many production houses even here in the States are multinational.

As for some of your other comments such as attention span etc. I'll mark down to meds? Not to be offensive of course, but at the same time I'll try to assume you weren't trying to be offensive either.

[huronking]

Come on... lets not get distracted from the biggest news out of Intel since the MMX instruction set!

[Franko]

We seem to be doing something right, US made movies make hundreds of millions to billions a year out side the US. and dozens of US tv shows are redubbed in other languages to show in other countries. Most of our shows are anything but "cheap" we have some of the highest production values in the world, something that shows in the international intrest in our media.

Actors from around the world come here to find work. And many do very well.

Other countries are doing some fantastic work as well and many production houses even here in the States are multinational.

As for some of your other comments such as attention span etc. I'll mark down to meds? Not to be offensive of course, but at the same time I'll try to assume you weren't trying to be offensive either.

No wasn't trying to be offensive...

Some of the best shows have come out of America, Star Trek & Lost to name but two...

The problem show are ones like Americas Next Top Model and those type which fill just about every channel here on SKY, not exactly quality programming if your honest about it...

So no offence intended, it's just that the quality of TV in the UK has been going downhill for years now and unfortunately most of these shows happen to be made in America... (that's not to say we don't make crap here in the UK too, cos we sure do...)

The attention span thing comes not from me but various scientific journals and studies that show over 65% of folks in the US (especially the younger generations) lose interest in a show if it runs without a break for more than 8 minutes. But the same can be said about the UK today as well, hence the TV companies getting away with longer and more ad breaks and fewer people complaining about it...

[KThunder]

I like the new Dr. Who on BBCA thats pretty good.

I hope the stupid reality and talent crap is just a fad that will go away soon, but I doubt it.

[KThunder]

Come on... lets not get distracted from the biggest news out of Intel since the MMX instruction set!

Dude, I think we were well off topic about 20 posts ago

[huronking]

I would never let that get in the way of an opportunity for tongue-in-cheek buffoonery.

[runequester]

I like the new Dr. Who on BBCA thats pretty good.

I hope the stupid reality and talent crap is just a fad that will go away soon, but I doubt it.

Unfortunately, it'll be here past the robot apocalypse, when our titanium raygun overlords will vapourize it all.

The problem is that reality and talent shows are absurdly cheap to make, so its basically free money for the networks.

[the_leander]

Unfortunately, it'll be here past the robot apocalypse, when our titanium raygun overlords will vapourize it all.

The problem is that reality and talent shows are absurdly cheap to make, so its basically free money for the networks.

Yup, that said, there seems to be a slow death for purely reality based shows; Consider that Big Brother here in the UK was cancelled last year. I suspect however talent shows will continue on for a long time in one guise or another, it's just that currently they're fashionable.

Once they get old, then just as with BB they'll get canned for something else that's cheap to produce until the pendulum swings back.