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a very unusual programming event occured nationally on australian television last evening.
Both rival TV networks albeit one is pay tv (Fox classics) broadcaster - playing THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY , a 1967 epic western at near the same prime time!
Fox classics channel -
8:35pm - 11:35pm
This masterpiece is perhaps the most stylish and ambitious western ever made. A man torments two gunslingers on a treasure hunt during the US Civil War. More Info
DIRECTOR: Sergio Leone
CAST: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1967
The 9gem channel scheduling but was with commercial content:
8:40PM - 12:20AM
CC
REPEAT
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Western | USA/Italy | 1967 | MA
Really amazing given it is 54 year old movie, i don't recall this ever happening before - other than some sporting events.
Has this happened before in your neck of the woods, where the same movie was shown , almost simultaneously ?
Of the two screenings i went with 9gem as it broadcasts in HD , but , on the downside these comes filled with adds (you note it is 50 minutes longer than fox classics airing) and when they do come back from commercials, they put up annoying promos/adds of up-coming shows near the bottom right side of our screens about 10 seconds long.
Both rival TV networks albeit one is pay tv (Fox classics) broadcaster - playing THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY , a 1967 epic western at near the same prime time!
Fox classics channel -
8:35pm - 11:35pm
This masterpiece is perhaps the most stylish and ambitious western ever made. A man torments two gunslingers on a treasure hunt during the US Civil War. More Info
DIRECTOR: Sergio Leone
CAST: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1967
The 9gem channel scheduling but was with commercial content:
8:40PM - 12:20AM
CC
REPEAT
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Western | USA/Italy | 1967 | MA
Really amazing given it is 54 year old movie, i don't recall this ever happening before - other than some sporting events.
Has this happened before in your neck of the woods, where the same movie was shown , almost simultaneously ?
Of the two screenings i went with 9gem as it broadcasts in HD , but , on the downside these comes filled with adds (you note it is 50 minutes longer than fox classics airing) and when they do come back from commercials, they put up annoying promos/adds of up-coming shows near the bottom right side of our screens about 10 seconds long.