yeah I got the hbo eps from bitme and it is great!

Alex boxcutter.

Exactly. It's blatant stupidity. Clearly they were showing it with a mind to getting rid of it.

"Oh, we'll put Rome on, but when that doesn't work..."

Stupid Channel 9. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the proper unedited HBO version, rather than the BBC rubbish.

RB

Stupid, I watched all of rome and I loved it!
once you got past all the sensationalist crud of the first few episodes and got deeper into the political intrigue stuff of the middle an end of the season it was a very engrossing show.

who does it help to show a show once then pull it off? Audience doesn't get a chance to build and nine's already paid for it anyway.

I just dont' get it.

Yer well I should have emailed, if only because I could have fixed the crap spelling :)

I read it too, although post show.

I agree, and just like the fact Ch 9 respond by sticking their heads further and further in the sand and whining that their revenue is down.

Well, quit treating your audience so shockingly.

I read it.

You could mail it as well if you wanted.

BB

It was cut anyway (as I knew it would be), but that is hardly the point. Unfortunatly Austalians channels these days (SBS and ABC excepted) are all about cash flow ass opposed to content. ROME represented, at least in parts, new content which required views to have a look and see if was for them. Nine has become the poster boy for Brucism (the following of the Bruchimer idea of remaking the same thing over again and selling to the audience as new content without risk) and cheap low rent shows which make money (quiz monkey). As long as this keeps up Austalia won't have any telly worth watching (Not that it has much now). People well use alternative viewing habbits and networks will complain. The problem is they are applying totaliatian ideals to a capitalist public that has finally worked out that they can demand and expect to serviced; if not though one method then another.

As Internet speed increases and content becomes ever more portable (through both the Internet and physical text like DVD) networks will face the increasing problem that content delivery is no longer their's to control.

Bugger. I should have emailed this as no one will read it here.

*goes back to marking essays*

Obviously they pulled it because Josh didn't like it.

Screw them. Blood channel 9 & the bbc...

From ebroadcast http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/enews/Rome_won_be_...

"Rome's gone the way of Who Wants To be A Millionaire, Clever, Magda's Funny Bits, The Master, You May Be Right and Yasmin's Getting married: to be 'rested' re-formatted' or just left to die in a tape box somewhere in a TV network library until ratings finish and the under performing program can be thrust back on a suspicious audience.
...Rome will return in summer"