First Sunday of the month...you know what that means

[Glen]

First Sunday of the month...you know what that means

The Sky at night!

11.25pm BBC 1

Final frontier: Patrick Moore and astronaut Piers Sellers discuss what the demise of America's Space Shuttle programme means for the future of man space flight, and asses whether a new initiative called Project Icarus might one day enable man to visit other planets. With Chris Lintott.

Lets hope there isn't any wax involved..

[OptiGone]

Indeed that time again, but I wait for the extended version as the first showing is normally the cut down 20 min job.

[singlespeedman]

does it come up on iPlayer too?

[OptiGone]

Yep, 80% sure Iplayer has the 30min version but maybe only when that version has aired...

[Stephen]

iPlayer doesn't show any version until the extended one has aired on TV

[JonnyP]

Indeed that time again, but I wait for the extended version as the first showing is normally the cut down 20 min job.

I didn't realise that there was a cut down version and a longer version!

When do they show the full version?

[Glen]

It'll be on Thursday BBC4 @ 7.30-8.00pm ~ then on iplayer soon after

[JonnyP]

Thanks Glen.

Any idea why they show a cut down programme alongside a full length one?

[OptiGone]

Thanks Glen.

Any idea why they show a cut down programme alongside a full length one?

The only reason I can think of is as S@N is often used as a program "filler" for the early hours of the morning on BBC 1,2,3&4, it gives the BBC more choice of programs to show.

IE say you have 40 min program on BBC4 @ 03:00 a twenty min S@N would slot in nicely to fill the whole hour. A little like playing Tetris but one program having two shapes!

Having said that I cant understand why they would have the first showing as a cut down version??

[Glen]

Matt has a point there.

I can always remember The Sky at Night being on at silly times, and there being complaints about people missing it due to that.

I think the BBC4 showing is the compromise ~ better time of day = get more peeps into astronomy.

I could be wrong though.. As for the shorter time first.. I have no idea:icon_scratch: