The Thrill of Watching the Unknown
Tuesday Sep 23, 2008
This blog posting is a direct result of Twitter. Many of the people I follow were commenting on the season premiere of Heroes season 3, which was on the US TVs yesterday. Already I have asked the people I am following to refrain from posting spoilers about the new season.
There is nothing worse than finding out what is going to happen next when you are watching TV. I am a big fan of NBA and the pay TV channel I subscribe to shows 2 games a week (would want more of course). As they are broadcasted live during my night time I tape the games and watch them the day after. Watching these during lunch used to be no problem, but these days there are so many channels where the result might be broadcasted that I usually have to refrain from going online (apart from work). But sometimes I do get the result from a source that I was not expecting, and of course this means deleting the game.
The same applies for TV shows. There used to be a time where I would download the latest episodes of all the great shows that I follow (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes,...) in order to be up to date with US TV. This obviously is not completely legal, but that is what we Europeans have to do in order to be up to date. And as the majority of my friends do this, you had to follow in order to be able do discuss your favourite show. But in the last 2 years I have stopped doing that, now I follow the European schedule, which means being months late, and having to warn friends not to discuss what Jack, Kate and Sawyer are up to.
And this is why I am so happy that the BBC has decided to show the new Heroes season with only 1 week delay between the US release. For us this is quite a revolution, as we are used to waiting months (and sometimes even years) for our favourite shows to appear on European TV.
Here is to hoping that now the trend has been set and that other channels will follow, and start airing new material much sooner. I really think this will prevent a lot of illegal downloading, so in the benefit of the studios as well.
Feel free to leave a comment, unless it's a spoiler ;-)
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