Sky mess with the goods

While SKY and Virgin continue to fight like children in the playground, SKY One are treating some of their finest shows like unloved toys. Nip/Tuck has been ripped off Monday nights at 10pm and is now playing only in its re-run slot of Saturday night at 11pm. Strangely it now gets a repeat on SKY Three midweek. Good news that it can be seen free to air, but if you haven't seen the first half of the season, there's not much point.

Even more bizarre though is the decision to drop Rescue Me from Thursdays nights. Instead episodes will now premiere on Sundays at 11pm after Lost. Its replaced on Thursday by new episodes of Cold Case from March 22nd. This is the same night that Channel Five starts running the James Wood show Shark. Is that the reason?

What's going on here? Are Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me doing THAT badly? If so why are they both trailed so heavily? Does SKY really think that the likes of Bones and Cold Case are more distinctive programming?

Personally I don't care where these shows air, I don't watch any of them live anyway, but after the event. So is that a factor? I suspect not. But what happens when SKY just decides to abandon these shows? Anybody else still waiting for the second season of Jeremiah?

What's worse with the case of Nip/Tuck, is that they have held the show exclusively and prevented Channel 4 from a terrestrial showing.

SKY One need to get their act together, before more viewers of these quality shows retreat to finding a way to watch online, legal or otherwise.....