FOX Sleuth & FOX Sci Fi launch
Two channels get a rebranding on Foxtel from today.
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Two channels get a rebranding on Foxtel from today, with mystery channel FOX Sleuth and science fiction channel FOX Sci Fi.
These replace 13th Street and Syfy channels, both owned by NBC-Universal.
FOX Sleuth is a dedicated channel for the detective in all of us presenting beloved and iconic characters from classic whodunnit series Vera, Endeavour, Murder, She Wrote, Murdoch Mysteries, Agatha Christie’s Poirot and the original Magnum P.I. As home for all the best in mystery and intrigue, FOX Sleuth will also feature series The Brokenwood Mysteries, Prime Suspect, Silent Witness, Waking the Dead, A Touch of Frost, Inspector Morse, Wire in the Blood, and Jonathan Creek.
FOX Sci Fi is the doorway to non-stop supernatural, paranormal and science fiction programming including Heroes, the original Charmed, Battlestar Galactica (1978), Battlestar Galactica (2004), Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Deep Space 9. FOX Sci Fi will also be home to popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and The X-Files.
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So new channel names some very slight program changes hey presto two channels gone from fetch tv
And foxtel can get away with this it surely is anti competitive ACCC anyone
I agree, to do a dodgy deal that locks out a competitor from programming is anti-competitive. I now worry about how dodgy their new deal is with Discovery.
NBCUniversal entered a deal with Foxtel to license the content, but not the channels. What NBCUniversal then decide to do about keeping or cancelling their channels going is a matter for them. We don’t know the position on Fetch toward keeping or not keeping those channels is (or was). Hard to see how Foxtel could have any influence on deals between other companies.
Looking at the guide for Sci Fi, Foxtel have brought what looks like select iconic series and plan to simply play them to death. No Syfy originals in the schedule. Unless they can acquire new content soon they are going to be rebuilding their viewer base from scratch like Syfy after they forced SF out (the irony).
The scifi channel, is nothing more than a bunch of shows which have been on various sci-fi channels, or other mystery/drama channels. Names include Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Xfiles, ST: TNG, etc etc, and eventually they turn this channel into another endless loops channel, with 5-7 episodes back to back and repeated to death, Dunno who foxtel are trying to kid, but this is nothing more than another repeat to death channel and no new content or shows they don’t air like classic who, blakes 7 etc etc.
It’s the rebranding you have when your’e not really rebranding, Foxtel do take their marketplace status very much for granted even today when streaming is grabbing more and more viewers and their money. Those familiar ‘looped shows’ demonstrate little new business initiative by Foxtel (at least to long term subscribers) but there is a lot of commercial hype as if putting a new wrapper around something old makes it look new again.
I don’t watch either of these channels but for those that do, I hope it is better than the TV Hits rebranding where they used to play shows from series 1 to the end, now they just play about 5 episodes of the show on continual loop. I have seen the start of the friends episode where monica’s parents find out about Richard about 7 times in the past 2 weeks at the same time each night.