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Dave · 28th November 2007, 03:12 AM

I agree with you, and I hate investing time into watching something never to get closure. I think Jericho and Odyssey 5 would be the ones that stick out for me, so I'll be interested in seeing that half season. Unfortunately, if I have to wait for these things to come to terrestrial TV in the UK then I will have to wait a very long time. Maybe they will release a DVD?

As for the other point about sporting events, I heard Michael Palin on the radio today and he said much the same thing happened with Monty Python's Flying Circus when the Horse of the Year show came on. That was the reason they did a Horse of the Year show sketch. They got very upset with the BBC and only one person dared to come and see them about it, David Attenborough. He said they were actually doing them a favour, because it was so hard to catch the show, that they were building up a cult audience. That proved to be correct in the end, and it is still the same today. Don't you think that the X-Files was much better when it wasn't popular and no one knew about it except the cult following? Once it was scheduled in peak viewing times it lost its edge.

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Dave Wherever I Am, I'm There Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Greater London Posts: 11,443	Re: control of viewing I agree with you, and I hate investing time into watching something never to get closure. I think Jericho and Odyssey 5 would be the ones that stick out for me, so I'll be interested in seeing that half season. Unfortunately, if I have to wait for these things to come to terrestrial TV in the UK then I will have to wait a very long time. Maybe they will release a DVD? As for the other point about sporting events, I heard Michael Palin on the radio today and he said much the same thing happened with Monty Python's Flying Circus when the Horse of the Year show came on. That was the reason they did a Horse of the Year show sketch. They got very upset with the BBC and only one person dared to come and see them about it, David Attenborough. He said they were actually doing them a favour, because it was so hard to catch the show, that they were building up a cult audience. That proved to be correct in the end, and it is still the same today. Don't you think that the X-Files was much better when it wasn't popular and no one knew about it except the cult following? Once it was scheduled in peak viewing times it lost its edge.