Re: Fantasy/sf TV shows Re: past discussions

--- On Thu, 4/12/12, Jenny Tait <piratejenny@verizon.net> wrote:

>
> That was Showtime. :-) I think Sho also tried one on the
> Borgias. Starz
> of course has Spartacus (Lucy Lawless and lots of nudity)
> and they also
> had an Arthur show that I couldn't bear to watch.

Ah, here I lose track of which is Showtime and which is HBO. I never had those channels in the US, but here their shows crop up all over the place. Sometimes they are aired on satellite/cable* channels, but we don't have to pay an extra fee per month just for that channel. That's why I don't watch more American sports. ESPN America is an extra £10 a month. I like watching the occasional basketball or baseball or hockey game/match, but I've never liked it enough to pay £10 a month even in the best of financial times. Sometimes HBO/Showtime programmes appear on freeview here. For example, FX airs True Blood first and then Channel 4 picks it up.

We don't have Spartacus and I don't think we have/had Camelot.

For fake Camelot, I like Merlin on BBC1. I know it's wholly inaccurate, but since they don't take themselves seriously, I can handle it and actually like it a lot. They're currently filming the fifth series.

Ellen
*No cable where I live. The New Forest won't permit the roads to be dug up to lay the cable. It's satellite and freeview only here, and we've had the digital switchover, which meant we re-tuned the freeview box. :)