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Jim: "Is it true that Five plans to move its comedies (both home grown and acquired) from Sundays to Fridays?"
Neil: Nope. In fact, it will be home to new Chris Rock comedy Everybody Hates Chris from March 19.
Niles: "Thanks for your great column every week. I'm looking forward to the new season of 24. Since I am going to miss several episodes during my March holidays I was wondering if Sky One will be screening catch up nights on a regular basis. Do you know anything about that?"
Neil: Sky Two, Saturdays at 10pm - but only two episodes a time.
Wayne: "Are there any plans to start to show repeats of Everwood on ITV2? if so when will it start and roughly what time?"
Neil: No, ITV has the terrestrial rights only.
Justine: "Is Five ever planning to have a repeats channel like ever other channel seems to have? I've got used to catching something I've missed at another time on E4 catch up, BBC three etc, but it all falls apart when I miss somthing on Five!"
Neil: Yes, before the year is out Five will have launched two extra channels, each of which will have their own theme but each of which - as is standard - is likely to have a heavy bias towards repeats.
Tom: "Help! Roseanne's vanished from Paramount! I'm suffering severe withdrawal symptoms - will it be back?"
Neil: Not too long to wait for a cure - the show returns with a seven-hour marathon from season nine at midday on Paramount 2, March 11 and 12.
Lesley Peatfield: "We are loving this latest series of House and wondered if there was a soundtrack album available at all in this country?"
Neil: Not at present, although the season one boxset is out on the 27th. And speaking of House, Five is moving it to the 9pm slot from March 23 to team it with Grey's Anatomy, which begins the same night.
Wamdue: "This may seen kind of obvious, but since I haven't heard anything official from the BBC, have they official renewed Life on Mars for a 2nd series? And just pure speculation on my part, any chance of a spin-off series, where a Doctor wakes in the 80s, and has similar problems with 80s medical technology."
Neil: Yep, a second series of eight episodes has been ordered for transmission in January 2007. As for the second, have you tried pitching to ITV?
Nicky: "Why is it that Everwood is a daytime programme? I was loving it on livingtv but now that it is on ITV I don't get a chance to watch it because I'm at school. It is so unfair."
Neil: It's better than it not airing at all. Can't you just record it?
P Wickham: "My friend missed the Brit Awards last night. Will they be shown on TV again?"
Neil: Unfortunately, your "friend" has missed out, if they missed the repeat on ITV2 this afternoon. I'm sure there will be a repeat window later in the year though.
Ryan: "Is it true that Big Brother will be starting earlier than usual this year?"
Neil: I think the only certainty right now is that it will be longer than last year's eleven weeks. As for the start date, there are two schools of thought: bringing it forward from the traditional start date - the last Friday in May - gives it a jump on Celebrity Love Island and is also a more advertiser-friendly period than the summer. Alternatively, extending it through August opens it up to a younger audience. When it's been extended in the past - to ten weeks in 2004 and eleven in 2005 - it's always been on the end rather than the start... but then again this is the year when C4 has vowed to get "tactical" with the BB scheduling. So, who knows? You decide.
That's it for this week - more next Saturday!
(*) Prize has no physical manifestation.
