Vampires, demons and space opera will figure big this year on SciFi Channel UK.
The David Boreanaz series “Angel” has been acquired for its entire 5-season run along with the “Friday the 13th” franchise of movies.
Four Stephen King novel-to-miniseries programs will get aired, including, “Salem’s Lot,” “The Langoliers,” “Rose Red,” and “Storm of the Century.”
However, the really big news is the acqusition of the digitally remastered original series of STAR TREK along with STAR TREK movies II through VII, as well as the fan documentary “Trekkies.”
The other list of additions to keep an eye out for are the BBC’s “Strange,” the Babylon 5 spinoff “Crusade” and Joss Whedon’s “Firefly.”
If you are looking for horror and gore you will find it in “Witchboard 3,” “Hemoglobin” and “Demon House.”
According to Jon Farrar, the SciFi UK program director, STAR TREK, Firefly and Angel are the durable, tried and true pretty ribbon that ties all the acquisitions together in a nicely wrapped package that UK fans ought to love and find very attractive.
A lot of their standard fare being re-advertised there, but some nice new gems. The star trek deal will be much appreciated- the channel was a bit of a misnomer without it.
Sky 1 have been showing the whole of Angel for quite a while now so this is nothing new (you cannot get scifi channel without having sky first in any case) but maybe I might actually get round to sitting down and watchuing it this time.
Crusade and Firefly have been shown on the channel many times, as have a couple of the Stephen King films. Good standard fare though.
I’m afraid the only meat here is the original star trek. What is really disappointing is that there are no new series, and no ‘new’ old classics apart from trek. Sci-fi should be showing SG1, Atlantis and BSG- but they have all been bought up by sky over here.
I don’t live in the UK but I was of the understanding that SciFi UK has an new agreement with Sky Digital to be on a short time-delayed broadcast, so does that mean that what is on Sky 1 will also be on SciFi UK or does it means they simply share the same satellite time?
I’m not too savvy with how the UK runs their TV broadcasting schedules or agreements and usually depend on our UK reporters for that kind of info.