Sky Living Have Chucked Chuck Season 5?
Chuck Chucked?
I’d been passed a rumour of this news a few days ago, but I’ve been trying to get some sort of response myself from Sky to confirm it. Despite the wall of silence from the press office, their Twitter account and their Facebook, finally the Sky Living Help Forum stepped up and confirmed it…
Sky Living ‘have NOT acquired the rights for the final season of Chuck’.
UPDATE: A further email from Sky explained a bit more saying “Unfortunately, we have not acquired the rights for the final season of Chuck. Whilst we appreciate this is frustrating to loyal viewers there are some great new series coming to Sky Living this autumn and unfortunately we have limited space in the schedule. On balance we decided that whilst Chuck has been a great asset to the channel, we need to focus our resources elsewhere.”
It’s not very clear if there should be a yet on the end of that, and they do say ‘this is still under review’ but as of right now (Sept 2011), Chuck’s final season does not have a home on UK TV…
As it is ‘still under review’, i’m sure the nice folk at Sky Living would love to hear from you if you feel you’d like to see Chuck Season 5 in the UK.
Why not tell Sky Living your thoughts by contacting Sky Living on Twitter, or on Facebook, and letting them know if you would like to be able to view Chuck in his final outing on TV in the UK, preferably in a timely fashion (i.e. Oct/Nov this year), and not 9 months from now…
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hey chuck fans like me i got really frustrated at sky when they outbaught chuck from feeview forcing me to buy chuck season 4 on dvd then my friend showed me letmewatchthis just type that into goodle click it type in chuck and seasons 1-5 thier just click witch episode and then choose putlocker its probablu ileagle but this is what sky drives us to only dissapoibtneabt may be that chuck season 5 may not be avalable on dvd in uk as it was never aired but we will have to wait and see
Well, thanks for putting the info out there as I’ve been searching for the answer to this question. I’m not impressed, either by Sky’s lack of commitment to their viewers, or the fact that I can’t actually reply to their response to your question on the forum unless I’m a customer of theirs. I may be a customer of the opposition but I’m still watching their channels.
Firmly of the opinion that the reason Chuck didn’t fare much better in the UK was precisely because it kept getting shunted around viewing schedules and then dropped and picked up again without notice. It deserved much better than the unwanted orphan treatment it’s been given.
And they wonder why people in the UK take to illegally downloading shows from the States? Maybe it’s because neither Sky nor Virgin can be relied on to finish broadcasting the shows…
This sucks!
But is typical of broadcasters lately, they just dump shows without caring about the people that watch them, knowing that we have very little choice of channels. and so realistically are unable to boycott them.
No real competition in the market anymore
Why isnt chuck season 5 being shown in the uk.. Its one of the best programs on television.. I havnt missed a single episode..
I usually watch CHUCK with about 5 or 6 people and we are all diaaappointed that the final season aint bwing ahown in the uk.. I personally think it should be shown as all the other seasons have been aired in the uk so why not the fifth and final season
Couldn’t agree more… but I have no idea.
You’ll need to ask Sky Living why they decided not to buy the final season…
Virgin1/Channel One should never have been allowed to sell out to Murdoch.