the end of Buffy?
Which is why Sky, having some financial muscle, would be more tempted probably to develop a program on its own than to buy the property and the rights to the characters and storylines and fund the filming of the program from a continent away (or transport everyone to the UK). It’d be much more cost-effective to create a new show from scratch since they don’t have the huge financial support that advertisers provide the US networks (larger commercial base = larger advertising fees levied = more income for the network).
I think Sky is now broadcast to many countries, not just the UK, and being part of a larget corporation which includes Fox, should give them quite a bit of muscle.
That said, I think your right, Sky aren’t in a position to handle US programmes.
But it wouldn’t need to bring across actors or sets to the UK, as Fox and Sky share the same umbrella so to speak, they could very well continue in the states, I know that as far as Fox programmes go, Sky doesn’t have to worry about bidding against the BBC or other UK channels.
In a way I’m thankful for just having Sky because of the fact they bring these programmes to us, if it were anyone else in the UK we would never see the volume of US programmes we now see.
But I guess that whether Dark Angel was in the UK or the US it would equate to the same thing, it’s lost it’s appeal among fans, so either way there’s no point in me moaning about it.
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