Channel 5 Transmission Discussion/Updates

[Posy]

I think they’ve ditched the Friday 6pm showing as well.

[Red Ranger 1]

Ah yes. Odd. Maybe they're saving that for after the Christmas break as well!

[Bri1231]

And no treats in regards to old episodes this year?

[James Martin]

All seems a bit odd, as the whole point of Seven plotting that storyline when they did was to give Channel 5 a cliffhanger to come off-air for Christmas with.

The 6pm showing is a bit of a waste anyway, though.  If it was on Channel 5 proper where you could watch in HD it would make sense, but there's no "incentive" to follow "normal" pace and not "first look" pace - so that might be why they've come off-air on the Thursday and aired the cliffhanger on Thursday teatime FL/Friday lunchtime.

When are we back this year, the 6th?

[Red Ranger 1]

Thinking about it, I think they've done this before since the 6pm showing's been on 5Star. (It is still my go-to time for watching the show now I'm back on early shifts.) I guess they have their "Home and Away hour" from 6-7pm and it's easier to find an hour long programme to fill that slot for a few weeks than to find a half hour show to fit into the schedules at 6.30pm on the UK cliffhanger day.

Yes, we're back 6th January.