Showtime’s free content weekend

6 October 2006 Rob Buckley News, US TV Post a comment

ShowtimeSomeone at Showtime has just written to me to let me know that this weekend (6th-8th October), Yahoo! is offering free access to Showtime programming, including Dexter, Weeds, L Word, Brotherhood, Sleeper Cell, Penn and Teller: Bullshit and The Tudors (currently in production in Ireland with Jonathan Rhys Meyers). If you’re in the US and Showtime’s available in your cable package, you’ll have free access to it this weekend, too.

It’s worth pointing out, UK readers, that unlike similar streaming facilities from ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, you can actually watch the Yahoo! videos in the UK. Since you’ll need FX, which is only available on Sky, to watch Brotherhood and Dexter when they turn up later in the year and in early 2007, now’s the chance to find out what you’ll be missing if you don’t have Sky.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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