AnneMarriott Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 41 minutes ago, zxDaveM said: if its not Andre Rieu, I think Sky Arts struggle... I think you're forgetting Tales of the Unexpected. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Gordon from Viewers Relations has replied to me to assure me my comments are receiving their attention and I will receive a further reply shortly. I have asked if Sky intends to broadcast the RB production and, if so, when - I won’t hold my breath! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzballetfan Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I actually recorded a Tales of the Unexpected yesterday, and the voiceover at the end says, "There never was a tale of more woe, or more drama and romance, especially when choreographed by Kenneth Macmillan, and performed by the Royal Ballet. Romeo and Juliet, new tonight at 9 on Sky Arts." We've been had! Thank you for the welcome. I'm a long-time lurker. There is another Romeo and Juliet scheduled for Friday morning on Sky Arts at 6.55am, also apparently Naghdi, so fingers crossed 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justkeepsmiling Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I emailed Sky about last night’s mix up. They told me that programming was ‘subject to change’ and apparently the RB one is available to download from Sky OnDemand. Might be helpful for those who aren’t watching on Freeview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akh Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 13 hours ago, Ian Macmillan said: Hope the surprise doesn't keep anyone awake half the night! I spent several minutes wondering about my sanity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, Justkeepsmiling said: I emailed Sky about last night’s mix up. They told me that programming was ‘subject to change’ and apparently the RB one is available to download from Sky OnDemand. Might be helpful for those who aren’t watching on Freeview. That doesn't explain why their announcers don't appear to know what they're announcing or whether it's what was scheduled. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob S Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) I didn't see the start or finish or any of the middle, didn't the announcer say that the programme differed to some listings? Edited January 18, 2022 by Rob S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzballetfan Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 32 minutes ago, Justkeepsmiling said: I emailed Sky about last night’s mix up. They told me that programming was ‘subject to change’ and apparently the RB one is available to download from Sky OnDemand. Might be helpful for those who aren’t watching on Freeview. Thank you I do have Sky and just tried to download it from On Demand. It says it's Macmillan/Naghdi/ 2019 but when you play it it's just the Urals one from last night. I feel a thunderous email coming on. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, Rob S said: I didn't see the start or finish or any of the middle but didn't the announcer say that the programme differed to some listings? I didn't either - my comment reflected what has been said above. If they did acknowledge it was a change, I withdraw it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 17 minutes ago, Justkeepsmiling said: I emailed Sky about last night’s mix up. They told me that programming was ‘subject to change’ and apparently the RB one is available to download from Sky OnDemand. Might be helpful for those who aren’t watching on Freeview. But only for those who have Sky anyway, isn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justkeepsmiling Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 40 minutes ago, nzballetfan said: 1 hour ago, Justkeepsmiling said: Thank you I do have Sky and just tried to download it from On Demand. It says it's Macmillan/Naghdi/ 2019 but when you play it it's just the Urals one from last night. I feel a thunderous email coming on. That’s interesting! I will reply to their email stating that. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justkeepsmiling Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 43 minutes ago, bridiem said: I didn't either - my comment reflected what has been said above. If they did acknowledge it was a change, I withdraw it! I’m pretty sure they announced it as the ‘Royal Ballet at its finest…’ but I wasn’t paying too much attention to the announcer to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justkeepsmiling Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Just got this reply from Sky 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzballetfan Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 21 hours ago, Justkeepsmiling said: Just got this reply from Sky Thank you! It's still saying Naghdi for Friday, but clearly that's not correct and I won't hope for it. Sky Arts also claim they will show Giselle (Cojocaru/Martin Harvey/Nuñez) on February 2nd at 7am, but they say it's 2016, which if it were that cast, it clearly would not be, sigh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 Muntagirov/Nunez again, no doubt. As it was when they claimed it was Osipova/Acosta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I have long thought that Sky Arts has a huge disrespect and disdain for the art of ballet. The fact that they can almost never even get a listing or announcement right, and that they constantly show ballet at ridiculous times of the morning, shows what they really think. They can't be bothered with it and are paying a bit of lip service to it....we're an arts channel so we'd better make some kind of attempt to show some ballet. Who cares when, or even whether we get it right. Let's just chuck the ballet fans under the chin with a few morsels here and there and they will be grateful for anything...gggrrrrr! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 Not just ballet, but dance in general, if their recent insertion of advert breaks in the middle of dance works by the Alvin Ailey company is anything to go by The only one that missed out was a 5-minute solo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Yet, it wasn’t always so. A few years back they did show what were then recent recordings of RB productions. I recall being pleasantly surprised that Osipova’s Giselle was shown less that 12 months after the original cinema streaming. I think the timing of those showings was also more reasonable. Presumably they failed to do a deal with the ROH that suited them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Sim said: I have long thought that Sky Arts has a huge disrespect and disdain for the art of ballet. The fact that they can almost never even get a listing or announcement right.... As I said, if it's not Andre Rieu... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 47 minutes ago, zxDaveM said: As I said, if it's not Andre Rieu... He must own shares in Sky Arts! 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Odyssey said: Yet, it wasn’t always so. A few years back they did show what were then recent recordings of RB productions. I recall being pleasantly surprised that Osipova’s Giselle was shown less that 12 months after the original cinema streaming. I think the timing of those showings was also more reasonable. Presumably they failed to do a deal with the ROH that suited them. Presumably once they get hold of a newer version of a ballet the older one(s) is discarded? I'd love to see some other versions, particularly those which aren't available on DVD. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralds Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Sky Arts said they did a deal with either ROH or Opus Arte (you could argue they’re almost the same!) about 9 to 11 years ago where they could broadcast some of the cinema relay performances hence they aired the Osipova/Acosta Giselle, the Yanowsky/Kish Swan Lake, the Lamb/Bonelli/Watson/McRae/Yanowsky Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Cuthbertson/Bonelli R&J, the Cuthbertson/Polunin Sleeping Beauty, the Yoshida/McRae/Loots/Cervera/Avis Nutcracker, the Osipova/McRae Rhapsody with Cuthbertson/Munragirov/Kaneko Two Pigeons etc. They repeat some of them from time to time but there seems to be no pattern or order as to what gets aired. Maybe it’s based on previous revenue from ads? When the replies started appearing in response to forum members emailing them, I had visions of the following dialogue at Sky Arts:- Complaints junior clerk: There are some angry emails from customers saying they’re unhappy that the Royal Opera House Romeo and Juliet ballet turned out to be from Ural Opera House. Sky Arts boss: Royal, Ural, is there a difference? Isn’t ballet just ballet? Complaints clerk: They are unhappy that they were promised the choreography of MacMillan, but they got Samodurov. (Peers at screen). This lady says Samodurov is not terrible, but she was promised MacMillan. Sky Arts boss: Again, is there a difference? Isn’t it all ballet? Complaints clerk: Several customers have threatened to end their subscriptions. Sky Arts boss: Get Kelly to go and say sorry to them. Complaints clerk: You mean Kerry. Sky Arts boss: Is there a diff.....I mean, umm, yes. Kerry. Tell Kerry to do it urgently. (Any resemblance of the above hypothetical dialogue to real life people or events is purely coincidental.). 😉 I quite enjoyed some of the crowd scenes from Samodurov’s version, and their Juliet was very good, but will go on to YouTube or Facebook to watch some excerpts of the promised Naghdi/Ball performance that I didn’t get. Still shopping around for the DVD recording. 😋 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I am watching Sky Arts and the announcer just advertised Kenneth MacMillan’s R&J available on catch up, whilst showing clips of the Samodurov version. Clearly the message still hasn’t got through. 🤦🏻♀️ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Summing up, since we've got rather distracted by the non-MacMillan-ness of the scheduled offering, here's what's coming up this weekend, or rather, this Sunday 23rd: As if a solid night of dance on BBC4 wasn't enough, Sky Arts are showing: 6 am: The Australian Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty 8.20 am: Arts Uncovered: Candoco Dance Company Then this is the evening's entertainment on BBC4: 7 pm: Danceworks: Ballet Black: The Waiting Game 7.30 pm: Carlos Acosta: This Cultural Life 8 pm: Ballrooms and Ballerinas: Dance at the BBC - this had some nice snippets, I seem to recall, although I've deleted it now 9 pm: The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project - looks stunning, and, thankfully, appears from its running time to include the introduction included on the streaming 10.50 pm: Betroffenheit from Sadler's Wells (not to be missed if you haven't already seen it) 12.40 am: Dancing Nation 1.40 am: Carlos Acosta: This Cultural Life 2.10 am: Ballrooms and Ballerinas: Dance at the BBC Then, on Monday, Sky Arts again: 7.15 am: English National Ballet in Paris (their tour of Le Corsaire to the Opera Garnier) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 13 hours ago, Sim said: I am watching Sky Arts and the announcer just advertised Kenneth MacMillan’s R&J available on catch up, whilst showing clips of the Samodurov version. Clearly the message still hasn’t got through. 🤦🏻♀️ If you went to their studios and gave the announcer the proverbial clip across the ear, they still wouldn't get it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Apologies if it's got lost among all the Yuli/R&J mess, but I see there's a "Royal Ballet" scheduled on Sky Arts in the early hours of Wednesday morning, I think it was. Does anyone know what that is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 According to my TV it's the Ashton triple bill. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 The Ashton triple is scheduled for Wed 26th Jan on SkyArts at the usual user friendly time of 6.45am! it appears to be the usual one with the Dream and marguerite and Armand. SkyArts are also showing a RB Giselle Wed 2nd Feb at 7am. it SAYS it's Acosta/Osipova but who knows. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) SkyArts Sat 5th Feb 7am-8.30am a repeat of Ballet Lorent Rumpelstiltskin. Talking Pictures Monday 7th Feb 12am-2.20am Nijinsky biopic film starring George de la Pena and Alan Bates. Edited January 30, 2022 by jmhopton 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I know I have mentioned it previously, when it was last aired’ but I highly recommend the Nijinsky biopic. Carefully recreated extracts of the repertoire from the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, some lovely cameo appearances from the likes of Carla Fracci and Anton Dolin. And a wonderful stellar cast. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 30, 2022 Author Share Posted January 30, 2022 Still haven't watched it from the last time, but thanks for the recommendation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzballetfan Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 As you all predicted, the Sky Arts Giselle this morning starred Marianela and Vadim, to my daughter's utter delight (we usually alternate our recordings of Osipova/Acosta and Seymour/Nureyev, so she's thrilled to have another recording to contrast these with). Muntagirov, being the dancer and actor he is, is a treat, isn't he? I wish he paired with Osipova in this occasionally. I'd remortgage the house to get down to London to see it. (But if technologically-minded people could splice in ultra-naive Osipova and mega-cad Nureyev together, that would be the ultimate.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 Phew! Since I totally forgot to set the recorder last night, having got home a lot later than planned, I'm relieved to see it's one I've already got. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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