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Submitted by Tarix Conny on Sun, 10/12/2003 - 11:23
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Ok, i posted this in the spoiler post but reckoned that many of the uk ppl wont be reading it so i posted another one here...

Help!! someone tell me pls when the angel epi's begin here in the uk and on which channel.

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Time is of the importance....

Submitted by MrDave on Sun, 10/12/2003 - 12:25.
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Took me a while but this is what I found...Dated Wednesday May 14, 2003

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Channel Five has picked up the terrestrial rights to Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off Angel, after Channel 4 decided it no wished to broadcast the show.

Five will begin broadcasting series three of Angel, which stars David Boreanaz as a vampire with a soul fighting all manner of evil supernatural beings in Los Angeles, from June 2 [2003].

The broadcaster has also bought the fourth season of the show from US producer Twentieth Century Fox Television, and has an option to buy any future series.

Angel is the third US import Five has bought in recent months from Channel 4 following the previous acquisitions of teen drama Dawson's Creek and espionage thriller Alias.

The show, along with Alias, will continue to get its first UK airing on Sky One; while Dawson's Creek is broadcast first on E4.

Angel is darker in tone and more violent than Buffy, which offsets the more adult content of its storylines with frequent lighter moments and humour, and is broadcast in an early evening slot on Sky One and BBC2 in the UK.

Channel 4 was forced to abandon transmission of Angel at 6pm in late 2000, after nearly 100 viewers complained to the independent television commission about violence and the adult tone of the show.

Since then the show has been going out in a late night slot on Channel 4, but a spokeswoman said the average audience of around 900,000 did not justify continuing to broadcast Angel.

"We sold the rights back to Fox because it wasn't performing for us," she added.

Five now rivals Channel 4, E4 and Sky One as the home of the best programming the US has to offer.

As well as Angel, Dawson's Creek and Alias, Five already broadcasts critically-acclaimed US crime dramas CSI, CSI: Miami, Boomtown and Law and Order.

BTW...Other shows to look for: Dead Like Me (just sold rights to Sky One), and Carnivale (HBO)

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Submitted by Meredith Bell on Sun, 10/12/2003 - 18:22.
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Saadia, for any buffy or angel related info in the UK the best site to visit is the BBC check it out at -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/

BBC TWO broadcasts Buffy (when they feel like it) and I hear they will be showing the final season sometime this autumn. As for Angel, it WAS being broadcast on FIVE, unfortunately for some reason it has stopped :? The BBC explains why -

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Angel Comes and Goes

Angel is back in the US - but not for Five's viewers in the UK.

While the fifth season of Angel is now underway in the US, British terrestrial viewers of the series will have to be patient for quite a while yet. Viewers were left at a crucial point of season three when the series disappeared from the UK's Saturday schedules late last month.

Five TV has now confirmed that Angel does not feature in their autumn schedules - so there won't any further episodes shown during 2003. However, they assure us that Angel will return in the New Year, with the seven episodes needed to conclude season three probably leading straight into the start of season four.

A return to a weekend slot (alongside a more established part of Five's schedules, such as Charmed) is the most likely placing for Angel in January 2004.

Meanwhile, season five premiere Conviction aired on the WB last night, and fans in the US are naturally busy debating the comings and goings in the cast line-up for this year. Look out for coverage of such matters in stories marked SPOILERS.

There are lots of spoilers for upcomming Angel eps on the BBC website. It's really your one stop spot to shop :D

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