Know what I wish? I wish that once a serialized TV show has run through a full season, the studios would release the DVDs of that season, immediately - or at least quickly enough to give the people who've been watching the show on DVD a chance to catch-up in time for the next season. HBO timed their Sopranos DVD releases correctly; they came out in the middle of the (long) gaps between seasons - you could easily catch up before the next season started. On the other hand, SciFi did it wrong with Battlestar Galactica; they released the season 3 DVDs in April 08, at the same time they started showing season 4 on TV. You can't catch up.
See, when you can catch up, and do, you're much more likely to watch the next season as it's being shown on TV. It's why we spent the extra $10/mo to get HBO when the last two or three seasons of the Sopranos came out - we were all caught-up, the new shows were starting, and because we could watch them along with everyone else, we did. That's much nicer than trying to avoid spoilers for six months (as if we could've avoided spoilers for the Sopranos finale). But on the flip side, SciFi's stupid scheduling is why I just spent two days downloading the 4th season of Battlestar Galactica from LimeWire.
BitTorrent rules.
I have Sky TV here in the UK (which costs $$$), but they show a lot of the latest US shows (BSG, Lost, etc.) just a couple of days later, and in glorious HD. It hasn’t always been like that – they were waaaay behind with BSG season 3.
However, they don’t have the rights for every US show, hence, during the autumn, I download Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Heroes, Private Practice, etc. (not all for me you understand). Of course, I always buy the DVD box-sets of these shows. *cough*
Hell’s Kitchen USA is another – my wife lurves Gordon Ramsey – but it hasn’t started airing here in the UK (even though it is part funded by a UK TV station), and we wouldn’t want to have it spoilt.
Oh, and the BSG season 4 finale is frackin’ awesome. :)
Oh, and the BSG season 4 finale is frackin’ awesome
that’s what i hear.
but, i just saw the season three finale last weekend (which was also awesome), and i don’t think i can avoid spoilers for another 12 months while SciFi screws around. hell, just going to the Wiki page for Col Tigh to get the actor’s name spoiled something for me.
if the season 4 DVDs were for sale, or were looking to be on sale in the next few months, i would’ve bought them without question. but… alas.
>just going to the Wiki page for Col Tigh to get the actor’s name
Er, yep, big spoiler!
The Soprano’s finale was ruined for me, thanks to some twat posting a story on Digg. Grrrr.
yeah, we made sure we saw the final Sopranos when it was on, even though we were out of town that weekend (tnx M-Lo!) – there was no way we were gonna let that get spoiled.