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Re:2002
Alas, certain shows (such as the new Doctor Who series) are not accessible in that fashion, so I will have to wait many months until they are released on DVD
You can watch Doctor Who here on Space: http://www.spacecast.com/shows/doctorwho/episodes.aspx [spacecast.com]
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Re:47" HDTV, no cable, no blue ray discs
There is no legal way to get the new Doctor Who eps in a reasonable amount of time in the US anyway.
Get them here on Space: http://www.spacecast.com/shows/doctorwho/episodes.aspx
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Re:Is it on in Canada???
Good news, everyone! BSG Season 2 will be on in Canada, starting January 14th, 2006.
That'll be just fine, as long as everyone on the internet promises not to talk about BSG on any forum or blog until then... okay?
Arrgh. I think BitTorrent is about to become much more popular in Canada. -
I'm moving to Canada...
As a former die-hard Sci-Fi Channel viewer it saddens me to read about the direction the channel is going. I miss shows like The Lexx (before the writing began to go downhill), Farscape, and their movies that made an attempt at having a somewhat plausible script. Last night, I attempted watching Sci-Fi's The Fallen Ones starring several B-List actors. I had heard that it wasn't that great of a movie but watching it was actually an extremely painful experience. It was the worst piece of crap I'd ever seen. I'm still hung-over from the brain cells I lost just trying to process that tripe. On another note, there's a great series currently airing in Canada called Charlie Jade http://www.spacecast.com/charliejade . It's a joint venture between a Canadian and South African production team and it's a great, hard-core, dark sci-fi series. I had hoped that it could get picked up here in the USA. Check out the web site and maybe we can make enough noise to force a network to give it a chance.
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You should have been living in Canada
The canadian sci-fi channel Space has been showing Firefly reruns all last year.
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video and interviews
found this site
with lots of interviews game shots etc..
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Re:Canadian airing?
It's playing on the Space Channel in Canada. [ spacecast.com ] Saturday night and then repeated on Sunday.
CityTV played the movie a few days ago.
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Re:Explaining This...
In (very old) reruns, you nitwit. You could probably have figured that out from the URL you posted. The original poster stated that he's interested in seeing the current season (or any past the five in syndication). As am I, which is why I'm going to settle back and watch the next one right now, thanks to BitTorrent and some nice person in the UK (who even did a good job of mostly-removing the Sky One network "bug", which is pretty obnoxious - someone reading this knows the rip I mean and is nodding and smiling
I probably paid for it too, since it's on advertiser-supported television and I don't get a choice about the money spent that way on "my" behalf. Have I bought any products or services this year from the sponsors of Stargate or the Sci-Fi channel? Undoubtedly. Does that entitle me to watch the show? Actually, who cares - what difference would it make whether, when, where, or how I watched it? The money's spent, the show's made. If it really concerns you, you need a better cause. I suggest Tibet.
Might buy the DVDs when they come out, though. If I stay interested in the show that long...see where that goes? -
Re:Explaining This...
Quite frankly, bullshit. Space only shows it every weekday at 11AM and 8PM EST.
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Re:RobotWars
I dunno what Robot Wars your watching, but the UK one is a really good show.
Well, acording to the TechTV website, it is the UK version, albeit somewhat old compared to what might be running in the UK now. (Not living in the UK and not being able to access the robotwars.co.uk webiste at the time of posting, I cannot verify this claim.)
But then again, being Canadian and watching it on Space, I have no idea how TechTV is handling it. -
Canada...
Now if only Teletoon and/or Space would catch on and start showing some more Anime! YTV has always been anime-friendly but they appear to be restricted to their Youth format and only show such things as Dragonball, Inuyasha, Cardcaptor Sakura, Beyblade, Pokemon, etc.
Space, on the other hand, has been claiming in their FAQ for the past 4 years that they've tried showing Anime before on a weekly basis but that it didn't make much of an impact in ratings. I think it's about time they reevalutated their stance, however. Spirited Away won an Oscar, and the Animatrix is awesome bridge between the (often overlapping) realms of Sci-Fi and Anime. Meanwhile, shows like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and movies like Ghost In The Shell exist squarely within Space station's format and I for one think that they deserve a chance at proving themselves on Canadian cable television.
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Top Programs
There are a few science show gems out there - what would a decent lineup look like?
Some of the shows I've enjoyed watching:
- Beakman's World (for the kiddles and young-at-heart
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Connections (James Burke)
- Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
- Nova
- Wild Kingdom (watched an episode a couple of years back - was surprised at how informative and unpatronizing it was)
A few sundry IMAX shows, perhaps Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land on Sunday...
...and late-night, whatever that show was way back when on Access channel here with the bearded geologist guy explaining rocks and volcanoes. (Anyone remember him?)
Much as I love the Discovery Channel (and I do), the Space Channel actually has much more interestingly-presented news bytes. A new channel would do well to follow a similar format.
- Beakman's World (for the kiddles and young-at-heart
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Firefly on Space in Canada!Monday! Monday! Monday!
Starting Monday Space will be showing the entire Firefly run in Canada. Check your local listings and be sure to tune in. Give it a chance, it rocks!
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Two By Two -- Hands of BlueSchweet. Space Station (Canadian SciFiTV) is rerunning all Eps of Firefly this month.
Gotta get me one of those Blue Sun MindBlasters
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Space: TISHow exactly do you figure that Space is the place where bad programing goes to die? Granted, it's summertime, so I'm sleeping late and working to make money to pay tuition, thus less TV is watched, but Space is one of the few channels I tune into regularly. Sure, they run four hours of Star Trek in a row (one of each series except Enterprise), but you get Forever Knight in the morning, an eclectic mix of movies, and coming this fall Stargate (not to mention Brimstone , Angel and many more!). What more do you want?( Firefly perhaps?) We're not the US with 300 million potential viewers, so we get fewer dollars and fewer original programs, but it's always been that way.
Besides, if Moses hears you bitching, he'll punk you good, or send Rick the Temp after you.
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Next week in Canada
Space: The Imagination Station in Canada is running the finale next week.
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Next week in Canada
Space: The Imagination Station in Canada is running the finale next week.
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Farscape in Canada?!?
I've been in Australia for the last 3 months (where Farscape is filmed, I believe) and now that I'm back in Canada (where SG-1 is filmed... a few eps filmed up at SFU, I might add) I'm aching to watch some Farscape. A while back, the only canadian channel to have it was YTV (Youth TV), but they cancelled it when they realized that it wasn't really a youth program merely because of the Henson puppets. SPACE (our cool ass sci-fi channel) only has ep 2 for this summer
Do I have to resort to downloading the episodes again? -
What, again?This is just like the Activision/Toymax dealie from last year.
Why can't I have one with _ALL_ the commercially released games? Connected to some compactflash card or whatever? Think about how much space your old atari carts are taking up. And those 5 million E.T. carts in the landfill.
Same goes for NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis, and PCE and I'm set for life.
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Frank Herbert's Dune
For Canadian residents, Space: The Imagination Station is running the ''Frank Herbert's Dune" miniseries on New Year's Day, starting at 1pm Eastern Time (10am Pacific).
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Re:This isn't the reason they do it ...
Actually, they do it so that you always know who's PROPERTY the broadcast is.
You obviously don't know much about how television shows are produced. Television networks (like ABC, CBS, FOX, etc.) broadcast many shows, some of which they produce and some of which they do not. For example, in my home town, the local CTV station used to broadcast Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was produced by Paramount. (At the time, Paramount did not have its own network.) CTV (or its affiliate) was given a licence to broadcast TNG, but it did not "own" the show, or even its copyright.They could care less about brand identification
Wrong again. Some stations, such as Space, have publically gone on record saying that they display their logo for brand recognition only. In fact, it's difficult to fathom any other reason -- at least when the station first started up, it had very little (if any) content that wasn't syndicated. -
How can you watch Enterprise?!Season premiere of Junkyard Wars was on tonight!
I'm waiting til Sunday to watch Enterprise. Thanks, Space!
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Not for much longer
But for all you
To my great chagrin, I ran across this tidbit on Space's website. Space will apparently stop running B5 on July 31. The license simply ran out. It may be some time before B5 comes back.
This thread is a good, informative read for you fellow Canuck B5 fans out there. If anyone in the Toronto area wants to get together to watch either the final ep on July 31, or the 5-episode farewell marathon on August 6, contact me and we'll try to arrange something. Might not be a bad call; if the final ep of TNG got the friggin' SkyDome, the final ep of B5 on Space can at least get someone's living room:) -
Not for much longer
But for all you
To my great chagrin, I ran across this tidbit on Space's website. Space will apparently stop running B5 on July 31. The license simply ran out. It may be some time before B5 comes back.
This thread is a good, informative read for you fellow Canuck B5 fans out there. If anyone in the Toronto area wants to get together to watch either the final ep on July 31, or the 5-episode farewell marathon on August 6, contact me and we'll try to arrange something. Might not be a bad call; if the final ep of TNG got the friggin' SkyDome, the final ep of B5 on Space can at least get someone's living room:) -
Attn Canucks: Dune also on Space Channel
QUOTEWe are pleased to announce that Frank Herbert's DUNE will broadcast in three two-hour parts - April 7, 8 and 9 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT. DUNE, a highly-acclaimed adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel set in the year 10,991, stars William Hurt./QUOTE
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Re:Canada?
A bit more digging found this:
Will SPACE be airing the NEW mini-series DUNE starring William Hurt and Giancarlo Giannini?
YES! SPACE: The Imagination Station will be airing a NEW version of Frank Herbert's epic novel, DUNE, in form of a T.V mini-series closer to the new-year. At this time we do not have a specific date or time to give you. Keep watching SPACE and logging on to our website for further details as they become available.
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Re:Canada?
The Space Channel has information about the Dune series, but no dates: http://www.spacecast.com/info/dune.html
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Re:Canada?
The Space Channel has information about the Dune series, but no dates: http://www.spacecast.com/info/dune.html
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Canadian Airtime Details
According to the Canadian space channel, this Miniseries doesn't air in Canada until 2001. Unfortunately they do not give a date for the actual showing. From the www page:
Dune
Originally aired: brand new series. Will first air on the Sci-Fi network in the USA, December 2000.
number of episodes: 6
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Canadian Airtime Details
According to the Canadian space channel, this Miniseries doesn't air in Canada until 2001. Unfortunately they do not give a date for the actual showing. From the www page:
Dune
Originally aired: brand new series. Will first air on the Sci-Fi network in the USA, December 2000.
number of episodes: 6
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Conspiracy Guy on NapsterCanadians who watch Space (a sci-fi TV station) will know Conspiracy Guy. He did a rant on Napster, it's available here (as both RealVideo and text). My favorite part:
A group of users, sharing copyrighted materials with no direct costs to them? I mean, think about it, how did anyone ever come up with such a scheme?
CG walks out of frame, and we pan to a giant LIBRARY sign.
His other rants are available here.
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Conspiracy Guy on NapsterCanadians who watch Space (a sci-fi TV station) will know Conspiracy Guy. He did a rant on Napster, it's available here (as both RealVideo and text). My favorite part:
A group of users, sharing copyrighted materials with no direct costs to them? I mean, think about it, how did anyone ever come up with such a scheme?
CG walks out of frame, and we pan to a giant LIBRARY sign.
His other rants are available here.
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Conspiracy Guy on NapsterCanadians who watch Space (a sci-fi TV station) will know Conspiracy Guy. He did a rant on Napster, it's available here (as both RealVideo and text). My favorite part:
A group of users, sharing copyrighted materials with no direct costs to them? I mean, think about it, how did anyone ever come up with such a scheme?
CG walks out of frame, and we pan to a giant LIBRARY sign.
His other rants are available here.
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Canada
They may have exclusive rights in the US, but Babylon 5 has been airing up here on the Space Channel for a long time... every night. I've seen almost every episode. It's one of those sci-fi shows you don't really like at first, but later you get right into the characters. Except for all the Sheradan / Delene love crap. They overdo that WAY too much for my tastes.
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Re:I don't agree with it.
"I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew.... "
The thing is you pay to get cable TV into your home. What does this buy you? The channels comming in are often subsidised by the local retailiers paying the local cable monopoly to stick in their ads. In the case of a local TV station and a remote one (like CanWest Global and a US Fox affiliate), they just duplex the Global broadcast to both channels. So clearly the cable people are making money from this...
So why are we paying? We're paying for advertisements!
I wish an ultimate subscriber based system would finally appear. I'm betting that the 40$ I pay per month for Cable TV would be reduced to 20$ if I just paid Space for the rights to watch Babylon 5, and some of their movies, as well as the Comedy network for some of their shows. The only problem is that the cable company's monopoly would disapear, as they would receive zero adveninue. Sigh.
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