The Screen Actors Guild Awards

Just a heads up really, Film24 are currently (01:00 - 03:00) showing this live in 4:3. Odd for this channel to show anything live let alone something from across the pond.

That's the problem with having so many channels on Sky, if a minority channel actually makes an effort to either spend some money on original programming or try something different like this, it doesn't get much attention usually.

They have done very well with the coverage too. I'm not sure if they are showing too many adverts for OFCOM's liking as they are going to ads whenever America does and are showing just adverts, no channel promos. It will be interesting to see how they handle the likely overrun in a few minutes too.

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Although they didn't cut the feed dead at 3am (the show overran to about 3:06), they did cut the feed a little early. After the end credits there was an explanation of how the voting was done, they cut away during this but the audio continued over the first advert. In the US (TNT) this was followed by an United Airlines sponsor credit so they probably cut away to avoid that but someone got a little trigger happy. Half way through one of the adverts, we cut to the awards programme rewinding. We then jumped to part way through the scheduled programme (Dangerous Liaisons) and I guess that brings the channel back to its usual automated play out.

Not bad for a channel that is probably run on 4p a day though.

Its repeated tonight, be interesting to see if they've tidied it up