New (and improved) Sky 1 Futurama schedule

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Over the UK half term, Sky will be showing Futurama almost everyday at 9:30 AM. The episodes in question will be...

Sunday 25th, 7:00PM - Space Pilot 3000
Monday 26th, 9:30AM - The Route of All Evil
Tuesday 27th, 9:30AM - Kif Gets Knocked up a Notch
Wednesday 28th, 9:30AM - Less Than Hero
(As of yet, there will be no Futurama on Thursday)
Friday 30th, 9:30AM - The Why of Fry

Interesting that Sky are now showing mostly Season 5 during the week, ending with TWOF - perhaps indicating that Sunday 31st could be a new S5 episode...(could be). Sky did say they were planning to show S3 episodes until new shows were available, but maybe they now know something I don't. Anyway, it seems like a good chance to catch the pilot if you havn't seen it, or catch up on some S5 episodes you missed.

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Wicked. I missed both season 5 and most of 4 :-(
Roll on half term.

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Looks promising.

Oh and if it hasn't already been mentioned, Futurama apparently returns to Channel 4 screens in July.

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Originally posted by sheep555:
Interesting that Sky are now showing mostly Season 5 during the week, ending with TWOF - perhaps indicating that Sunday 31st could be a new S5 episode...(could be).

Just to be really annoying  , I'll point out Sunday is the 1st June  .

Thanks for clearing that up, Radio Times' website has been jumping around all over the place on this.

In a slightly related note, the affiliates are predicting (I refuse to say scheduling now) "The Sting" will air on FOX on the 1st June, as well. I'm still expecting the worst-case-scenario, however  .

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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
 Just to be really annoying   , I'll point out Sunday is the 1st June   .

Aplogies for getting my "30 days hath all the months" rhyme the wrong way round... 

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hmm it's bets if they show the rest of the season 5 episodes on Sundays.

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Well, the schedule updated. Nothing particularly interesting; there's a repeat of SP3K on Saturday (marking a return to the Saturday repeat), and TSHL on Sunday:

Saturday 31st, 8:00pm - Space Pilot 3000
Sunday 1st, 7:00pm - The Series has Landed

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That is the most ridiculous schedule! 1ACV, 3ACV, 4ACV, 4ACV, 4ACV.

Whatever. At least they're showing it.

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The return of Saturday showings could be a sign that Sky are preparing to show the brand new Futurama episodes very soon after FOX. Perhaps the following week. I mean, I don't think they could show it on the 1st since I really do think FOX refuse to allow them to show it before they do, and if they aired the same day, Sky would be 5-6 hours first.
I don't see what the problem is. If any Americans wanted to bootleg the Sky version, the download time would probably take more than 5-6 hours anyway...
I suppose it's just the principle of the thing 

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Originally posted by Zed 85:
I don't see what the problem is. If any Americans wanted to bootleg the Sky version, the download time would probably take more than 5-6 hours anyway...
I suppose it's just the principle of the thing   

Wrong on the download time. A lot of Americans (like me) have broadband and can easily download it from an undisclosed source in under an hour. I would never do this, but it is possible.

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I'll bump up this with a little update to the update    - in addition to the above, Sky are now showing even more Futurama on...

Saturday 31st - 1:00 PM - I Second That Emotion
Sunday 1st - 9:30 AM - I Second That Emotion
Sunday 1st - 12:00 PM - Brannigan, Begin Again

Bit of a weird schedule, but hey - at least its on. As I said before, I guess its a good chance to watch some old episodes at TV quality if you don't have the DVDs.