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The Bond channel keeps coming and going. When it's gone they're mainly shown on the action channel although I did watch Goldfinger on Sky classics not too long ago.
Yeah but I watch the ones I dont have on the computer and its annoying!
I think they bought it back for Skyfalls TV premiere and I think that was at least a month ago, so probably not that much longer.
Yes, i agree. The adverts, and the news in the middle of the film spoils the flow and excitement, and sometimes, a small part of the film seems to be missing when the film continues aswell. Having said that, it wont be the same without a Bond film on Boxing Day or Bank Holidays..
Never bothered me so much with adverts in the days prior to Sky plus (spin on!) but I was always annoyed when they broke up a great movie with the News! Outrageous!! Also agree Bank hols especially Xmas won't be the same but if you have the Bond movies on DVD or similar than perfect just to put that on for a Bank Hol :)
Bond on telly hasn't been a big deal for well over a decade now, the popularity of home formats have rendered the terrestrial TV showing Bond films obsolete.
Some of us do remember when a 007 film was on it was an event but this was when they were hardly available on VHS let alone all the formats available now and they showed 2 a year if you were lucky.
At least Sky know how to present these film and show them some respect, ITV not having them is a good thing.
Yes that's my feeling on it also. I remember when I was a child and in my teens, a Bond film on ITV was always a big deal, particularly on Christmas Day (after the Queen's Speech of course), but since the films were re-released, first on video in the mid nineties, and subsequently on DVD and Blu-Ray, I have very little desire to watch them on television anymore, especially since ITV used to show them mid afternoon and bastardised them with the countless edits they made.
Incidentally, the versions of LTK, GE & TND were usually shown in their uncut form when shown on ITV and yet the DVD versions at that time still had the BBFC cuts up until they released the Ultimate Edition DVD's in their uncut form in 2006.
This used to bug the hell out of me. Why have I paid all this money for my DVD collection, only to find some of the films are still cut by the BBFC, yet ITV can show them to me for free in their uncut format?
I must admit though having as is tradition purchased Sky Movies over the Christmas Period, the 007 channel is well put together and it good to see one Bond film after another without adverts.
Broadening it out, why are the movies on the big five channels so rubbish these days? Always the same ones, repeated ad nauseum, nothing special or unusual, just the same old classics dulled by familiarity. Casablanca, Great Expectations, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, About a Boy, School of Rock. You can't say Sky Movie Classics have anything better really. It's all on Netflix, an embarrassment of riches, but there's a generation growing up never seeing movies with Charles Laughton or Clark Gable or even Marilyn. Or even Laurel & Hardy, Tom & Jerry or Harold Lloyd. Why is this?
Quite simply because SKY and to some extent other broadcasters have a monopoly on movies, which the terrestrial channels simply can't match. I remember growing up and you'd be guaranteed at least one great film every night on either the BBC, ITV or C4 but nowadays? The odd decent film every now and again.
Again, when I was on lovefilm, all sorts of rarities and little gems would pop up in recommendations, you'd never know they existed otherwise.
I think it's just a case of younger generations may miss the chance of watching one of the films purely by chance and get hooked on Bond. This is how I discovered Bond thanks to my dear old mum who has a crush on Roger Moore! ;))
Your mum clearly has good taste ;-)
Taking her to see him in November! May have to take a adult nappy with us! Bless her! :))