Sky One

Really, really interesting for anyone who was.

So we never had Sky, like not, you needed Sky Sports for that, wasn't it? Eventually came on to Sky One.

Eventually came on to Sky One, which kind of

sorted me out for a good few years.

I missed all the glory years of it.

Yeah, I was watching them in real time as you could in the UK.

Sky One.

I can't remember.

I tried to look at it myself.

Usually Memory Alpha is good for this.

I was like, what was the Sky One date? Because I think we were getting a bit tighter by that point for delays.

So it wasn't overly far behind.

But I was very much watching them at the time.

Rolf, lovely chap.

He was quite excited because I was on TV and the guy from Sky Channel was phoning up.

Earlier on he'd watched interviewing Duran Duran and now he was phoning his sister.

So he thought that was quite fun.

And there was a lot of hype around it when it first released.

I don't know if you had Sky One at the time, but Sky One were really pushing at it.

I did.

And it was very... it's because they helped pay for it so they had a lot of skin in the game when it came to producing the show but I remember there was lots of these promos where they would talk to people that do the job that the character played by Carly Gugino does in this show, contingency analysts I remember this interview that was on a loop during advert breaks and things where it was yes I did that job, I prepared for alien invasions and pandemics and all this stuff so it's quite interesting that there's a real job out there where it's we're not only thinking about the worst, we're also preparing for it.

So yeah, it's an interesting artifact of television, I suppose.

And one of the interesting things about it is that final three episodes did not air in the US.

When they cancelled it, they just pulled it from broadcast, but Sky One showed the last three episodes.

So it's this kind of lost media if you're in the US.

So I can't wait to see what you're going to do when Saturday Night Live UK returns in January.

You can find SNL UK streaming out in the States on Peacock, on Crave in Canada and on Sky One and now in the UK.

george four acres thanks for joining us on the saturday night network thank you john thank you

very much

It is a much higher up problem with, like, Sky and the different variations of NBC and their subsidiaries where, like, Universal, where...

There is a belief somewhere with some people in a boardroom who are looking at like the budget of Saturday Night Live and Saturday Night Live UK and the numbers and the expansion plan or whatever is going to happen here where they're like, I don't think that people will subscribe to Sky One or Now to watch SNL UK if all the sketches are on YouTube.

I disagree.

I think that you get people like to buy in.

I'm going to play this just because it is quite alarming.

This is a clip from Sky One, which just tells you about the kind of constant, the constant preparation that's going on around the world and the constant sort of mobilization of weaponry and and the war machine, et cetera.

And it's unusual for Nadia to send me something about an aircraft carrier, but she did because you found it concerning.

Chilling.

Now it's called Te Reo.

But it's – so to a point now where the Maldi language – is now, so if you watch Sky One, it's in English, Sky Two, it's in Māori.

It would never, 20 years ago, not even, even five years ago.

So it's this embracing the Māori culture, which is, which, let's face it, the Māori were the first people No, they weren't there actually.