Sky is doing a big shuffle of its entertainment line up from February 1st. One change is that they're switching the HD and SD equivalents for HD subscribers to make the HD channels easier to find. Another difference is that Living is being rebranded as Sky Living after Sky bought the channel from Virgin back in June, and some flagship shows such as Chuck and Bones have a new home there. They're also moving around a lot of the entertainment channels while they're at it to cluster the best Sky channels on the first page of the TV guide. But the change I'm most excited about is the new channel Sky Atlantic.
Sky have signed an exclusive deal with the pay channel HBO from the US so that all the top shows will be on Sky Atlantic and available to all Sky subscribers without any extra fees as part of the variety mix. This starts with new shows Boardwalk Empire and Blue Bloods on the opening night as well as the new series of Entourage on Thursday. They are also going to repeat several classic shows from the start during the daytime line up such as ER, The X-Files, and Six Feet Under. Now I just need to find time to watch everything while still leaving enough time to blog about it!
The only drawback I can see to this new line up is that Channel One (formerly Virgin 1) has disappeared and I was watching Supernatural from the start on it. However that and Chuck were the only things I ever watched on it, and they did at least stop at the end of a series so I'm sure can pick it up again from the start of season 3 on another channel in future. This downside is more than made up for by the fact they also cancelled Bravo so I no longer have to sit through UFC matches with my husband.
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