Sarnya
Active Member
Yep. The reunion show was because some chick wanted it.... and it managed to get 200,000 members.
So I saw on the news tonight that the BCC head office in London was swarmed by hundreds of angry protestors today. I guess this was the reason?
The only explanation for this is that Nine threw a HUGE amount of money at the BBC. Surely the BBC and the TGAu production team (Freehand?) would have done the most basic due diligence and realised that moving the show to channel 9 will kill it. There is no way that TGAu will be given the fair go that SBS were giving it. We won't ever see it on a decent timeslot, let alone the juicy 7:30pm Monday slot SBS had gifted it. It won't have the same creative freedom, and we can be assured that after the ratings bomb (due to both poor creative restrictions and terrible timeslots) the show will be axed.
It's almost as bad for the showing of the TGUK eps as well. I'd be extremely surprised if we get to see it on a prime time slot, unless it's relegated to Go! and languish in crap ratings there.
Fuck channel 9.
I've become this desperate:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159071728167
Facebook protest group. Might as well make one before some Hammond fangirl does.
I do know that SBS cut out certain parts of the TGUK to allow for their ads (the American road-trip in series 9 for example) but I would say that they would cut even more, or it will take 2 hours to watch an episode because of all the ads.
I hope you dont mind but I have posted a link to your group in the TV lounge on Whirlpool, only long term or highly active members will be able to see the link, the site does have 300,000 australian members though. So you should get a few from it.
Then you clearly don't know anything at all.
God I'm sick of explaining this over and over again. SBS cut nothing. The BBC shows the original version (which can only be shown on the BBC due to UK law) and provide an edited "international" version for overseas networks. SBS never edited TopGear and I'll be very surprised if the deal with Nine will let them edit it either. They'll probably just finish overtime every week. Nine certainly doesn't mind ending its show late. In fact I suspect that they prefer to, it stops you from switching channels at the end of the show.