View Full Version : Sky 1 to simulcast LOST finale with USA
Kwebbotaurus
20-05-2010, 15:14
http://sky1.sky.com/lost-sky1-to-simulcast-the-lost-finale-in-the-uk
Excellent news!!!
degeneration
20-05-2010, 15:20
Um... Does this mean early Monday morning?
Hmmm... If Lostepedia and my Maths is correct... 2am to 4.30am Monday 24th.
Toxic Girl
20-05-2010, 15:23
5am :D
scoobyood
20-05-2010, 15:25
Oohhhh... nifty.
degeneration
20-05-2010, 15:30
5am :D
EST is 5 hours behind. It'll be shown in NY at 9pm.
Kwebbotaurus
20-05-2010, 15:31
If only I could book Monday off work, I'm going to be checking I've set this to record correctly umpteen times.
rebeccajones
20-05-2010, 15:36
<i>Sky1 is to broadcast the finale of Lost at 5am on Monday 24 May, as a simulcast with ABC's broadcast on the US west coast.
The unprecedented scheduling move aims to prevent illegal internet downloads of the finale</i>
Thats awesome and all... but they do know that most of the guys who capture and upload this stuff actually live on the EAST COAST...
These guys are highly competitive with each other, and have the whole process down to a fine art, they start encoding episodes while its airing, and then assemble and upload within minutes of the show ending...
When I was living in California, it was possible to download the HDTV versions of shows and watch them before they where aired locally.. I know a lot of geeks who did just that...
Still 5/10 for effort and creating hype.
AndyWilson
20-05-2010, 15:41
Conveniently I've got Monday and Tuesday off. I do have other stuff to do, but I may well end up making an arse shaped dent in the sofa while watching Lost + 24 :)
scoobyood
20-05-2010, 15:45
<i>Sky1 is to broadcast the finale of Lost at 5am on Monday 24 May, as a simulcast with ABC's broadcast on the US west coast.
The unprecedented scheduling move aims to prevent illegal internet downloads of the finale</i>
Thats awesome and all... but they do know that most of the guys who capture and upload this stuff actually live on the EAST COAST...
These guys are highly competitive with each other, and have the whole process down to a fine art, they start encoding episodes while its airing, and then assemble and upload within minutes of the show ending...
When I was living in California, it was possible to download the HDTV versions of shows and watch them before they where aired locally.. I know a lot of geeks who did just that...
Still 5/10 for effort and creating hype.
You've got to give them a break over an hour or two here and there. That's not a problem. Really all they had to do was do it Monday evening. Nice they went the extra mile and put it on live.
rebeccajones
20-05-2010, 15:51
You've got to give them a break over an hour or two here and there. That's not a problem. Really all they had to do was do it Monday evening. Nice they went the extra mile and put it on live.
Oh yeah, as I say, its a good effort, but trying to sell it as 'beating the internet pirates'.... its not going to at all
It is actually funny that the pirates are almost better at it than the professionals!
Seriously considering doing this.
Its going to be quite hard to avoid spoilers on the Monday I think - if it starts at 5am that means it will finish at 7am?
LeftHandedGuitarist
20-05-2010, 16:41
Very good idea, I was terrified of spending next week being spoiled. Gonna make a night of it with friends and family, methinks.
This is great news, presumably Sky will just make it PIN protected in order to avoid making any cuts.
Im recording it, getting up at 6am and then I should be able to watch it and fast forward the ads and finish it before I have to leave for work :D
Im recording it, getting up at 6am and then I should be able to watch it and fast forward the ads and finish it before I have to leave for work :D
Now that is a good idea! :thumbs:
I doubt it'll matter as no doubt they'll be a 101 things that won't be resolved and we'll all be left wondering what the point of it all was.....bit like Episode III
degeneration
20-05-2010, 17:46
5am? Bah!
Oh well, I'm in for the waking up early idea too.
hookbeak
20-05-2010, 17:50
Forget that, read it wrong!
Now available on the planner if anybody wants to Sky+ it.
What a brilliant idea! :clap:
cjanderson
20-05-2010, 19:50
what the heck, Kitty and I are in (she gets up that time anyway)
Walrus Man
20-05-2010, 21:44
Absolutely brilliant! If only they put it on Sunday night so we actually got it first! Great news for us legal viewers! :thumbs:
Now available on the planner if anybody wants to Sky+ it.Not showing on the Virgin schedule yet. :(
What a brilliant idea! :clap:
It is, if they did it. 5am is about 3hrs after the start and 30min after it ends! If they showed it at 2am they'd have more viewers than 5am. :doh:
degeneration
20-05-2010, 21:58
Seriously considering doing this.
Its going to be quite hard to avoid spoilers on the Monday I think - if it starts at 5am that means it will finish at 7am?
7.30am. It's 2 and half hours.
It is, if they did it. 5am is about 3hrs after the start and 30min after it ends! If they showed it at 2am they'd have more viewers than 5am. :doh:I'm guessing it's so it complies with something about it not airing anywhere else before it's aired in full in the US, by using the west coast feed they honour this.
I've no idea on the veracity of this but I expect that's what it is and would make perfect sense.
If they can't air it simultaneously, don't call it a simulcast. Can't see why they wouldn't let it air simultaneously. They could air it simultaneously on the west cost if they wanted. I guess it is simultaneous with the west cost broadcast, though
Well done Sky:thumbs:
All adds to making the last episode of LOST as a bigger event and a first from British TV.
I know that they have a lot of knockers out there but can you imagine any other UK broadcaster showing its top rated import show at a time that is generally regarded as the grave yard shift of TV?
OK you could argue that they are 'only' doing it to get the "pirate viewers", but they could have just shown it at a peak time Monday night and would get a lot more viewers than they would at this time. I now almost forgive them for showing the Pacific on Sky Movies where I cant watch it, almost:p
EDIT - only donwside is that they are still only showing Lost: The Final Journey at 7pm on Friday 28th. Would be good if they could slip this in before they show the final at 5AM Monday.
The finale will be repeated on Tuesday, May 25 at 9pm. Meanwhile. The finale will air again at 9pm, followed by Sky1 specials The End Is Nigh and Top 10 Greatest Scenes.
cjanderson
21-05-2010, 07:00
they have end is nigh and top 10 around the 5am showing as well.
its very good of sky, though honestly a Monday evening showing would have deterred pretty much everyone from downloading bar a very tiny handful.
Its really not like the Sun will splash across its front page whats going on, so the only place you would need to avoid is say digital spy, maybe bbc news. its easy enough to spoil the result of say the US apprentice - done to me the year Piers Won as it was in the metro with a pic - but there is probably not much they can say in one sentence that can sum up the show.
though if its "it was all a dream", then i'd be mad anyway :D
But I think its Lost: The Final Journey that is a re-cap of important/relevant events from the series so would be nice to get a quick up to speed. Still its only a slight niggle.
I doubt I will watch at 5AM as I have to be at work by 7AM so Ill wait to I get home that night, but wont be doing any web browsing that day and the radio will be off at work (perks of being the manager - radio control :lol: ), and will avoid all free papers on the way home and have my head phones firmly in my ears so as to not over hear anything:nuts:
In a very, very, sad TV :dork: way Im going to miss some of these TV characters once its all over, and unlike Friends and X-Files these are not TV episodes that you can really did in and out of for a quick fix of them.
Still I really hope there is a big all singing and all dancing Blu-Ray set of the whole show out before Xmas for me to relive the whole experience from the start.
Can't wait for this.
Just a thought tho, will they get away with showing this uncut? When they reapeat Lost during the day they do cut some parts out.
arsenalfc
21-05-2010, 08:29
Any know if it's going to be shown on skyplayer? I use sky through the 360 only so don't want to get up at 5am for nothing. The latest episode does appear on the on demand section so assuming it's shown.
Delta Kneebone
21-05-2010, 08:30
Hard to believe anyone could offer a single word of criticism to Sky over this.:notworthy
LeftHandedGuitarist
21-05-2010, 08:48
Can't wait for this.
Just a thought tho, will they get away with showing this uncut? When they reapeat Lost during the day they do cut some parts out.
As someone else mentioned earlier, if they broadcast it PIN-protected then I think they can get away with it.
Barnacle
21-05-2010, 09:10
Any know if it's going to be shown on skyplayer? I use sky through the 360 only so don't want to get up at 5am for nothing. The latest episode does appear on the on demand section so assuming it's shown.
Do you want to watch it live or on demand ? Some things live on Sky are not available on the Sky Player live streams (like the Simpsons).
surfer_chicky
21-05-2010, 09:29
yeah, was getting worried as I though it was going to be on next friday and I was going away! Last thing I wanted was to open the paper on the saturday morning for it all to be ruined. I have been so good in not spoilering myself all season lol.
I would quite happily watch it before work on monday but the OH starts work at 6.30am :(
arsenalfc
21-05-2010, 09:42
Do you want to watch it live or on demand ? Some things live on Sky are not available on the Sky Player live streams (like the Simpsons).
Live, hence the getting up at 5am.
Barnacle
21-05-2010, 09:48
Live, hence the getting up at 5am.
I don't know if Sky Player will be showing it live on Monday, you could check if tonight's episode at 9pm is shown live and this would probably be an indication of if you can watch it or not.
TigaSefi
21-05-2010, 09:54
Will it be Subtitled ? even live subtitling will do me!!
This sounds good. Means i'll actually watch the HD version first for a change
Handily I have Monday off for a completely unrelated reason so that's part of the morning taken care of.
I doubt I will watch at 5AM as I have to be at work by 7AM so Ill wait to I get home that night, but wont be doing any web browsing that day and the radio will be off at work (perks of being the manager - radio control :lol: ), and will avoid all free papers on the way home and have my head phones firmly in my ears so as to not over hear anything:nuts:
In a very, very, sad TV :dork: way Im going to miss some of these TV characters once its all over, and unlike Friends and X-Files these are not TV episodes that you can really did in and out of for a quick fix of them.
Still I really hope there is a big all singing and all dancing Blu-Ray set of the whole show out before Xmas for me to relive the whole experience from the start.
Just caved in and booked the Monday off so can watch it ASAP :dork:
MetalGearAl
21-05-2010, 13:37
Even if I was gonna do this, I'd be watching it on Monday evening. Not worth a 5am start for it.
I have to wait till the 30th, just so I can watch it with my mates as promised. MUST AVOID SPOILERS :help:
That's nuts, why are you waiting until the 30th?
Hard to believe anyone could offer a single word of criticism to Sky over this.:notworthy
Totally agree - I find it amazing that Sky are getting grief for simulcasting with the wrong coast of the US. And, as mentioned above, that will be due to them not being able to air it before any of the US timezones. Several other countries are doing the same thing so I presume that ABC offered it as an option but only gave that timeslot.
It seems a bit much to complain that we aren't seeing it before viewers in Hollywood.
And as for the pirates being able to 'beat' them. Is anyone really going to get up even earlier and sort out downloads etc just in order to be able see this an hour earlier than anyone else? (And then not be able to even gloat about it).
EDIT - I'm sure there are some people out there that will, but there's only so much Sky can do.
SIMON ADEBISI
21-05-2010, 16:03
MUST AVOID SPOILERS :help:
NO net, no radio, no papers, no talking to anyone for you then. May as well climb under a rock.
Just watch it and dont tell your friend :shrug:
Alan George
21-05-2010, 16:10
Was it all.......a dream!
mullethead
21-05-2010, 19:10
Totally agree - I find it amazing that Sky are getting grief for simulcasting with the wrong coast of the US. And, as mentioned above, that will be due to them not being able to air it before any of the US timezones. Several other countries are doing the same thing so I presume that ABC offered it as an option but only gave that timeslot.
It seems a bit much to complain that we aren't seeing it before viewers in Hollywood.
And as for the pirates being able to 'beat' them. Is anyone really going to get up even earlier and sort out downloads etc just in order to be able see this an hour earlier than anyone else? (And then not be able to even gloat about it).
EDIT - I'm sure there are some people out there that will, but there's only so much Sky can do.
Couldn't agree more :thumbs:
Unfortunately there's no point us trying to watch this at 5am. The baby wakes at 6 & the 4 year old about half an hour later. I'll just record it & watch it in peace after 8 that evening.
thejetsons
21-05-2010, 20:35
Prefer to watch TV at night, but feel this is the only way I can guarantee I will watch it without being spoiled so an early morning for me on Monday!
Kudos for ABC for supplying this. I'm sure it's $ motivated and not out of the kindness of their hearts, but still. And fair play to Sky for sticking it on - they could have put it on Sky Movies a'la The Pacific (is anybody watching that?)
It's helped to create more of an event and there are so few of those on TV these days.
Kudos for ABC for supplying this. I'm sure it's $ motivated and not out of the kindness of their hearts, but still. And fair play to Sky for sticking it on
It is also being shown at the American time in other countries as well I think.
SIMON ADEBISI
21-05-2010, 22:17
9pm on irish tv monday night. Half tempted to just wait for that but it means avoiding everything on monday. Hmmmm.
9pm on irish tv monday night. Half tempted to just wait for that but it means avoiding everything on monday. Hmmmm.
You know you'll have to disconnect the pc :nuts::nuts:
Totally agree - I find it amazing that Sky are getting grief for simulcasting with the wrong coast of the US.
Given that it defeats the purpose, is it really a surprise? They should air it simultaneously on the west coast too, they're liable to read the same spoilers we are, maybe not so much. With things like twitter, spoilers are even harder to avoid, we're lucky in that not many brits are going to be tweeting at 5am
we're lucky in that not many brits are going to be tweeting at 5amExcept we're all be up watching Lost now! oh the iron's on or sumfink! :D
scoobyood
21-05-2010, 23:25
Given that it defeats the purpose, is it really a surprise? They should air it simultaneously on the west coast too, they're liable to read the same spoilers we are, maybe not so much. With things like twitter, spoilers are even harder to avoid, we're lucky in that not many brits are going to be tweeting at 5am
Is it really that difficult to not be on the internet or twitter for a few hours? Why on Earth would some one deliberately go hunting around and then be annoyed that they saw something? Even if you come here you only have one thread to avoid. It's not that difficult.
I'm not talking about deliberately looking for it, clearly that would be the persons fault. AFAIK with twitter (I don't use it) it will send you the tweets of people you're following automatically like an email/txt and a lot of people will get it on their phones.
Like trying to avoid the result of a footy match, it'll be pretty impossible to avoid Lost spoilers next week.
Simultaneous screenings of the double episode will also be held in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Turkey and Canada
Given that most of those countries will require their own dubbed version I am presuming that this won't actually be a true 'simulcast' with ABC? But they will probably be providing multiple feeds direct from the US since releasing tapes in advance would surely be too risky?
That would all point to ABC controlling when 'we' can see it.
mullethead
22-05-2010, 08:14
That would all point to ABC controlling when 'we' can see it.
How dare 'they' tell 'us' when 'we' can see 'their' programme :brickwall
How dare 'they' tell 'us' when 'we' can see 'their' programme :brickwall
Sorry - you misunderstood my (obviously badly made!) point. I was just saying that those numpties blaming Sky for not showing it in line with the initial US showing are barking up the wrong tree.
ABC have rightfully kept control over who sees it 'first'. But they are doing a damn fine job of getting it to everyone asap.
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Bapapapa
22-05-2010, 08:41
:lol: @ catLocke
cjanderson
22-05-2010, 08:58
surely we're more likely going to be the ones spoiling it for people having seen it at 5am, and the rest of the "normal people" watching Monday or even friday.
I have no worries about avoiding spoilers at 4am Monday morning :nuts:
bomchickawawa! :n0rty:
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Quincunx
22-05-2010, 10:16
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:D That is ******* hilarious! :lol: :lol:
LeftHandedGuitarist
22-05-2010, 11:36
That's one of most clever uses of editing I've ever seen!
joconnor
22-05-2010, 12:43
The Sesame Street one will never topped though even if it is a bit wrong.
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shand754
24-05-2010, 04:11
Nice that Sky screwed up the first minute or so :(
Temporary fault :nono:
God, I hate watching adverts, I miss Sky+.
I'm really fudged right now -i just watched the first HOUR of the Finale on my xbox360 skyplayer only for "this programme is not available on skyplayer screen pop up !!!! WTF !!!!
hate you SKY just messed up something I've waited six years to watch !!
i'm gonna have to resort to other sources to get to watch it
why oh why even bother showing the first half at all ???!!!
Don't know how I'm going to go to work after this - I'm in bits! :cry:
I wonder if these constant messages that keep popping up on screen saying we are watching this live from the US are in the places where an ad break would be in America.
If it is I can't even imagine how they can sit through a single episode of anything with that amount of breaks.
well it looks like my sky box has ****** up and isnt recording it :( Its got the little show that was on before recorded but not the main one. Bugger :(
I wonder if these constant messages that keep popping up on screen saying we are watching this live from the US are in the places where an ad break would be in America.
If it is I can't even imagine how they can sit through a single episode of anything with that amount of breaks.
I suspected that the number, and timing, of ads may be a problem with this 'simalcast'. Remember that one 'hour' of US tv is actually only about 40 minutes of actual tv.
Still, at least they didn't wheel out Claudia Winkelman to pad out the time like they do with the Oscars.
"Aquireing" now.
edit....got it !:D
yellafella
24-05-2010, 06:14
How was the beginning screwed up on Sky 1 and was it the same on the HD channel? I am recording it to watch tomorrow night when the GF gets back from her course.
Cant wait!!!
Awesome end. Off to work. :cry: :D
It was only a few seconds - technical hitch. Small problem with dubbing for a while after the first break too, but nothing major. Doesn't spoil anything.
Great end to a great show. But I feel sort of sad.
yellafella
24-05-2010, 06:41
Is this a spoilers free thread or should I avoid? No marking on the title!!
I'd avoid everything Lost related from here on in until you've seen the end.
is this repeated tonight or just its normal time on Wed?
cjanderson
24-05-2010, 08:04
repeated tonight.
they sky HD showing was fine, 10 secs at the beginning when there was no pic and some voice stuttering. I assume the LIVE FROM US signs were where the adverts would have been, though of course the US would have had ad breaks far longer than that.
horseflesh
24-05-2010, 09:45
Is there any point in someone who hasn't seen this in 4 years (i.e. me) watching this episode?
Is there a (very) comprehensive "catch-up" beforehand?
Terribly_Mauled
24-05-2010, 09:47
Is there any point in someone who hasn't seen this in 4 years (i.e. me) watching this episode?
Is there a (very) comprehensive "catch-up" beforehand?
I dont think you have much chance of following it!
horseflesh
24-05-2010, 10:13
I dont think you have much chance of following it!
Are you saying I'm thick?
Terribly_Mauled
24-05-2010, 10:22
Are you saying I'm thick?
haha, would I? ;)
No, more the fact that the series is so far along and removed from 4 years ago that the opening recap on this episode is nowhere near enough to follow whats going on
horseflesh
24-05-2010, 10:31
haha, would I? ;)
No, more the fact that the series is so far along and removed from 4 years ago that the opening recap on this episode is nowhere near enough to follow whats going on
:D
Can you (or anyone) recommend anything online that will give me a good enough recap to watch the finale?
I'm not all that pushed really, but wouldn't mind finding out how it all ties together.
Or should I just not bother?? :suspect:
Terribly_Mauled
24-05-2010, 10:38
Heres a season one to five recap in 8:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zvM0EzT7c
I'd say watch the episode. I loved it. But its divisive. Depends how you viewed the show all the way through - [thematic not episode spoiler - Is it about the mystery or the characters?]
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