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Sunday, June 03, 2007 ( 6/03/2007 02:27:00 AM ) Bill S. HEX MARKS THE SPOT? – So we're planning to watch the season opener of the occult series Hex on BBC America last night, and we turn on the tube at about 6:45 p.m., only to see from the cable teevee menu that the three-hour season premiere started at 6:00 Central Time. Not to worry, we think; Beeb-Am will doubtless rerun the three hours later in the night – after the season premiere of Graham Norton's newest chat fest, no doubt. We click on the cable teevee menu and see that the network is rerunning just two hours of the three-hour season premiere. Perhaps, we think, the first hour is a recap show, similar to the one that the producers of Lost cobbled together to precede their two-hour series finale? Nope, we learn when we later click on Hex at 10:00 p.m., the cable net has apparently decided not to rerun a whole hour of story that night. During a commercial break, I head for the BBC America website to track down the missing hour of story. And I'm confronted by a bewildering numbering system which makes it look as if the first two hours are out of story sequence, though, clearly, from what I've already seen of the second hour (Ella's been sprung from the loony bin! And is dying!), this is not the case. Way to make things easy for your returning loyal viewers, guys . . . UPDATE: On BBC America's Hex web board, other viewers complain about the incomprehensible scheduling – which apparently is not just limited to this series . . . # | |
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