LL
I was almost expecting that to end with a slide that said "Sky Movies has ceased broadcasting. Please call your local cable provider for more information."
MD
Actually, I can identify that the photos of Hollywood stars, near the start of the montage, are from the 1997 ident for Sky Movies Gold.
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/skytv/skymoviesgold.html
Don't be so sure. The egg was the only 90s logo shown, and it wasn't even the main ident.
Actually, I can identify that the photos of Hollywood stars, near the start of the montage, are from the 1997 ident for Sky Movies Gold.
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/skytv/skymoviesgold.html
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BA
Is there another plural for "sport" that I don't know about?
Yeah, just sport. Like how the plural of sheep is sheep. Hence the names ITV Sport and BBC Sport. Americans say sports, Brits say sport.
You are incorrect. Hence the phrases "sports day" and "team sports".
uld make sense. The pluralisation is an Americanism anyway.
Is there another plural for "sport" that I don't know about?
You are incorrect. Hence the phrases "sports day" and "team sports".
MI
It also had things like concerts and documentaries, including a behind-the-scenes look at Genesis' We Can't Dance tour of 1992.
The "like HBO" thing surfaced as early as the early 1990s. At some point between 1990 and 1993, Sky Movies was briefly renamed "Sky Movies Plus". I don't think the "Plus" bit was any more than a few WWF pay per views and it went no later than the September 1993 rebrand.
It also had things like concerts and documentaries, including a behind-the-scenes look at Genesis' We Can't Dance tour of 1992.
KU
Now I'm curious to see the idents..
This logo already appeared on an Italian Sky Mag back in March (the rebrand has been delayed), but apparently it's the UK that will get this first, along with a renaming process
BTW Sky Movies Showcase will rebrand to Sky Cinema Hits, as in the UK and Germany
This one reminds me of the current Sky Cinema Classic Italy ident
This logo already appeared on an Italian Sky Mag back in March (the rebrand has been delayed), but apparently it's the UK that will get this first, along with a renaming process
BTW Sky Movies Showcase will rebrand to Sky Cinema Hits, as in the UK and Germany
This one reminds me of the current Sky Cinema Classic Italy ident
IT
When it became Sky Premier it wasn't supposed to be just a change of name but a complete change of concept, as part of one of Sky's endless attempts to create a British HBO. Barry Norman's show was on Sky Premier and I know that series like Harry Enfield's dreadful Sky show and Baddiel's Syndrome were both initially commissioned for Sky Premier, because the idea was it would become a flagship channel with classy drama and comedy that you'd pay extra to watch, exactly like HBO.
But before any of those series were shown Sky completely changed their mind, realised hardly anyone watched the original content when it was on Sky One, and so moved all the British comedy and drama over to Sky One and just used Sky Premier for films. You could fill a book with Sky's U-turns.
Back in 98, Sky Premier was the only widescreen channel on Sky aswell, and was showing that range of specially made films that included the pilot of Doc Martin.
When it became Sky Premier it wasn't supposed to be just a change of name but a complete change of concept, as part of one of Sky's endless attempts to create a British HBO. Barry Norman's show was on Sky Premier and I know that series like Harry Enfield's dreadful Sky show and Baddiel's Syndrome were both initially commissioned for Sky Premier, because the idea was it would become a flagship channel with classy drama and comedy that you'd pay extra to watch, exactly like HBO.
But before any of those series were shown Sky completely changed their mind, realised hardly anyone watched the original content when it was on Sky One, and so moved all the British comedy and drama over to Sky One and just used Sky Premier for films. You could fill a book with Sky's U-turns.
Back in 98, Sky Premier was the only widescreen channel on Sky aswell, and was showing that range of specially made films that included the pilot of Doc Martin.
KU
But if I don't get wrong, Sky Movies Premier Widescreen (closed down in 2003) was a channel with a separate schedule, right?
Sky Cinema Italia went into a similar WS switch process but much later, with Sky Cinema 16:9, with a separate schedule (launched in 2003, along with Sky and the other Sky Cinema channels; note that its predecessor, Tele+, had a Tele+ 16:9 channel too.. Canal+ Spain, France, Poland and a couple of others had similar equivalents too) becoming a new channel, Sky Cinema Hits, and obviously all the remaining Sky Cinema's switching to WS
By the way, in a market such as the British one with the BBC channels switching to WS in 1998 already, one would have expected the Sky channels to have gone WS much earlier than 2003
Sky Cinema Italia went into a similar WS switch process but much later, with Sky Cinema 16:9, with a separate schedule (launched in 2003, along with Sky and the other Sky Cinema channels; note that its predecessor, Tele+, had a Tele+ 16:9 channel too.. Canal+ Spain, France, Poland and a couple of others had similar equivalents too) becoming a new channel, Sky Cinema Hits, and obviously all the remaining Sky Cinema's switching to WS
By the way, in a market such as the British one with the BBC channels switching to WS in 1998 already, one would have expected the Sky channels to have gone WS much earlier than 2003
VM
Sky UK took a long time to go widescreen IIRC. I'm pretty sure it was a couple of years into the Sky Onc era. If I remember, the telltale sign was that they changed the break bumpers from the Sky Onc logo to the corporate Sky logo.
UKTV were probably the longest, I don't think they went widescreen until the late 2000s. And even then, they had plenty of 14:9 copies of shows that took a while to be replaced with the proper 16:9 versions.
Then there's the channels that for some reason don't have the ability to switch between showing 4:3 and 16:9 programmes, like Viacom's Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, and so stayed 4:3 for a long time, showing 16:9 programmes letterboxed for a while before switching to native 16:9 (and thereafter cropping 4:3 programmes to 14:9).
UKTV were probably the longest, I don't think they went widescreen until the late 2000s. And even then, they had plenty of 14:9 copies of shows that took a while to be replaced with the proper 16:9 versions.
Then there's the channels that for some reason don't have the ability to switch between showing 4:3 and 16:9 programmes, like Viacom's Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, and so stayed 4:3 for a long time, showing 16:9 programmes letterboxed for a while before switching to native 16:9 (and thereafter cropping 4:3 programmes to 14:9).
NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
Nickelodeon's archive programming pre-widescreen isn't cropped now. On the SD channel it's 4:3 and on HD it's pillar-boxed. It's +1 was 4:3 and presenting widescreen in 14:9 for months after the main channel went widescreen, but it eventually caught up.