This is why we can’t have nice things!

[ishtar79]

I was channel surfing when I saw a Firefly episode in one of the (smaller) Greek channels. I was so excited over it I actually called ariadneelda. You see, Greek TV is absolutely useless when it comes to importing the decent show. They’ve aired random episodes of such shows like Angel, Queer as Folk and Doctor Who at really convenient hours like 2AM, often out of order, a few years too late and rarely a full season: and of course they neglect to do the slightest bit of promoting. Yet perplexingly, we’ve gotten the full series of Seventh Heaven, ER and the Gilmore Girls.

About half an hour later, ariadneelda called me to tell me they were apparently showing a second episode. I switched the TV back on, and sat confused a couple of minutes, wondering why I was seing the opening shot of the Serenity episode with the new characters bording the ship, when I’d been watching a scene of the characters discussing what to do with River’s discovery earlier, when it hit me: those bozos in Greek TV somehow managed to purchase the two parts of the series pilot…and proceeded to air them out of order. FAIL, Greek TV, EPIC FAIL!

Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

OMG, that really is too funny! Of course I have to be grateful to Greek TV because when I was traveling in Greece I actually saw Amber Benson playing an epileptic in her first ever role... it was actually quite a good movie; so when I met her a few weeks later at a Buffy convention I could even tell her that she was on Greek TV!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Okay, that is classic.

[miranda-skye.livejournal.com]

That is impressive fail o_O

talk about EPIC FAIL!!!

[olympia-m.livejournal.com]

lolol

I started watching that because there was nothing else on TV, but then I fell asleep. HOW FUNNY!!!!

lol

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Good to know not only the German TV screws up when it comes to airing TV shows. Well, it's not good at all, it only shows that the people who are responsible for these things are not interested enough to do their job properly, which is sad. :(

Happy new year, sweetie! Hope everything is all right with you!

[helkamaria.livejournal.com]

O.O

*headdesk*