TheSecondComing(UK)

The other day I did something I never thought I’d do. I emailed Channel 5 with a scheduling query. I know, who’d have thought Channel 5 had a schedule worth querying. I wanted to know when they were going to show the second season of Californication, which started in September in the US. After a week they replied saying that while they held the rights to show season two, they had no plans to do so.

That’s the last time I email them for anything.

If you didn’t see it – and why would you have, it was on Channel 5 – go and buy the season one boxset now. Here’s the season one trailer to explain why.

2 Comments »

  1. James says:

    That is a shame – I didn’t see all of season one, but what I saw I liked.

    If you decide to download the 2nd series from the t’internet I’d recommend using a bit torrent program in conjunction with the very clever ‘torrent episode downloader’ – http://ted.nu/

  2. dangennoe says:

    Thanks James, hoping beyond hope that it won’t come to that. Hoping that worse comes to worst I’ll be able to down load off iTunes or buy the boxset, but if Channel 5 don’t show it, then I don’t fancy my chances on either of those. It’s a bummer because it’s one of the funniest and smartest things I’ve seen on TV in years

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