#747

Guess we are due an autumn thread soon but in the meantime

#748

She’ll get called up some time next year and be given nothing to do for the next 8 months.

#749

Call ups feel a bit redundant now though, don’t they? Cross polination between the brands will be the new normal going forward, I imagine. A special appearance on Raw/SD here and there then back to NXT, taking some new fans with them each time.

#750

Looks like it’s going to be $5/month (or $2.99 per episode) for us to watch AEW live then, after ITV completely fucked it.

#751

I think people were assuming stuff that wasnt confirmed, i spent a lot of this thread asking ‘is the weekly show on itv live then?’ And people were telling me yes but without any supporting evidence. ITV will still show it but not live. I guess the logic is ‘not worth airimg at 1am’ and i dont blame them as they rely exclusively on ad revnue unlike sky which operates on a subscription

#752

Haven’t got the quote to hand but Tony Kahn did make some pretty solid assurances about international tv, even going so far as to say it’d be better than the deal WWE currently has.

‘Not live’ is one thing but ‘4 days later at 8am on a Sunday morning’ for the full, unedited show is a total head scratcher.

#753

Sunday 8am sounds like a much better time slot than Wednesday 1am tbf. Especially if they want to do what TNA did and sucker in people who are lapsed wrestling fans

#754

Both of those are terrible slots

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#755

But does it sound like a better time slot than, say, 8pm on a Thursday evening on ITV4? This is my point. A 4 day delay in 2019 is a complete piss-take.

#756

Doesn’t look like ITV are broadcasting the inaugural Wednesday Night Dynamite either, at least not live :frowning:

Oh right that’s what we’re already talking about whoops :joy:

#757

Not to mention the fact that, when the full show does finally make air here, it’ll have to be edited to remove any TV-14 content for the Sunday morning audience.

Quite happy to pay the $5 Fite TV subscription myself, although I hope this includes replays as I’ll rarely be able to watch live.

#758

Hmm yeah it’s very much depends
I’m happy to see spoilers in the week before, in fact it’ll be good to know if I can miss an episode. Won’t even mind having to catch controversial bits online because I doubt they’ll be very long/I watch most 'rassling through online clips now.

The main kicker will certainly be how much ITV edits and plays with the matches themselves for ad breaks etc. If I’ve heard Pac and Page have a 25 minute rager and wait four days to see something cut up into a 10 minute mess that’ll be really crap.

#759

Dont get me wrong its disappointing but i do feel a lot of the backlash has been caused by people expecting something not promised to them. They were never gonnna put it into a prime time slot.

#760

Except it literally was promised to them. I’ve just watched an interview with Cody (it’s all over Twitter today, natch)where he says their UK deal will crap over the WWE’s, which you can only take to mean “better than showing it Live then following up with a 10pm repeat the very next day”.

#761

Monday sound reasonable for a new thread lads?

#762

Yeah.
All the season premiers

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#763

John Morrison has resigned with WWE

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#764
#765

Sounds like CM Punk is WWE bound

#766

As an on air personality not an active wrestler