Comments on: TV: What Are You Watching?

By: Alfonso Delgardeo

Alfonso Delgardeo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:10:47 +0000

Prime doesn’t really feature with me for the same reasons as Sean. It’s not on Freeview, so other than Top Gear, it just doesn’t cross my mind (& the quality is hard to put up with after Freeview). It does also seem that we’re in the middle of a bit of a programming drought.

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:47:49 +0000

And Antiques Roadshow,Black Books and The Dog Whisperer. But as for Millionaire, it’s all repeats – well, for that matter so is Black Books.
Coro St, Boston Legal, Underbelly, Spooks (now that Rush is finished). But there is such a preponderance of blood-and-guts violent rubbish, mostly American, sometimes even watching those last two makes me slightly uncomfortable. Oh please, someone bring back Green Wing!

By: Sean Lewis

Sean Lewis — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:41:56 +0000

It is obvious that Prime is a ‘Free to air’ TV station owned by a pay TV parent.
Why else would every other large-scale FTA channel subscribe to Satellite & Terrestial transmission, while Prime remains analogue terrestial, and encrypted digital by satellite.
There are programmes I would probably watch on Prime, but as I now mainly view all my TV through my terrestial Set-top-box, I don’t see Prime in my EPG, or while I’m ’surfing’ the channels.
It would be great if there was a law requiring all national FTA broadcasters to supply their programming to Freeview.
All I can assume is that Sky keep it this way to try & entice people to Sky. Sorry guys, but the reverse is happening with me, and quite a lot of my friends who can’t justify the cost of Sky.
So Prime is becoming less & less of our ‘usual’, and now very rarely viewed.

By: Ana Samways

Ana Samways — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:08:25 +0000

Yeah, having TVNZ 7 on Sky will be great for viewers and programme makers alike.

By: Graeme Edgeler

Graeme Edgeler — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:39:49 +0000

A lot of C4 for me – “The Daily Show”, “South Park”, “30 Rock”, new eps of “Family Guy” too, and new eps of “The Simpsons” on 3.

TVNZ 7 has a few things too – “World News with Charles Gibson” is my nightly news, and – depending on the topic – “Media 7″, and “This Week with George Stephanopolous”.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:15:17 +0000

Just to be a cynical little so-and-so, isn’t ‘the little channel that could’ owned by Sky? Hardly a little channel… as for TV watching, I do all my by way of DVD…

By: Altero

Altero — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:44:42 +0000

Having said all of that ‘Prime News’ remains a waste of space.

By: Altero

Altero — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:43:44 +0000

Totally agree re Prime TV, especially ‘Mad Men’. As a former pilot I also enjoyed ‘Mayday’ (and similar air crash investigation documentaries), and of course Top Gear. When I feel like laxing out, ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ is still a good option.
Excluding ‘Darklands’, ‘Grand Designs’ and ‘Boston Legal’, it’s my default channel of choice. Five years ago I couldn’t have imagined this being the case.