The Simpsons to take Friends slots on C4

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1211079,00.html

New episodes of The Simpsons will air at 9pm on Friday nights from November, taking the slot occupied by the outgoing Friends. C4 will also screen repeat editions every weekday at 6pm and during T4.

C4 also have the first option on Friends spin-off Joey, while it looks like Will & Grace has made a permanent home of 9.30pm on Friday nights.

What C4 need now is more British comedy - it used to work quite well in the 9.30pm slot after Friends. I know a Phoenix Nights spin-off, Max and Paddy, is due to air soon, but at the moment that's about it.

I don't think it'll work in that slot. At a guess it'll be there 3 weeks before being replaced with, ummm, let me think - a repeat of Friends?

So they do have rights do seasons 1-12 as well, afterall?

Please re-phrase, preferably in English...

So do they (Channel 4) have rights to Seasons 1-12?

So they will repeat them on T4?

I don't want to endure a June Sarpong link before a Simpsons episode!

Ever so sorry. I was one letter out. It should infact have read

"So they do have rights to seasons 1-12 as well, afterall?"

Following the suggestion in the article that they do, whereas previously the thought was that they only had access to the newer episodes.

I added the question mark as an invitation for someone to confirm this.

That makes sense now, does it?

No, thats not a question. Neither is it a sentence. "Afterall" isn't a word. It SHOULD read:

"Do they have the rights to seasons 1-12?"

Bla bla bla, of course they do, they take all the seasons off the BBC in November, why would they screen the new eps on T4, it doesn't make sense????? It's like so the final series of friends, yet, does anybody actually care?

It's pedantry gone mad I tell you!
He's writing the way he would say it - and in spoken English it would be perfectly acceptable to say this sentence with a rising interrogative tone at the end to make it clear it was a question.

Unless you're suggesting we should all write perfectly formal Written English on what is after all ( ) a 'chatty' forum. The main aim is to communicate - and I think 9 out of 10 readers (at least) would have understood what he was saying (even if he did leave a word out originally).

Can I just confirm this, but the episode that went out on BBC Two earlier was the last one on the BBC? As Jane Root says its not coming back to BBC Two and I've looked at the schedule and it doesn't appear on BBC Two at all, so I take it that was the last one on Terrestrial TV until November now?

Stop the petit grammer debates now!!! I didn't start this thread to test people on their English!!!

Re: will it work? Personally I thought 8.30pm would be a good slot, up against an ITV1 Frost/Morse repeat and the latest rubbish comedy on BBC1, but correct me if I'm wrong, I think Sky One use this slot for new episodes.

I guess the T4 screening will be a repeat of the new episodes, with further old episodes on T4 Daily. The Simpsons is quite a good show for T4 - just right for the teen/adult audience.