Due south repeats

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David (UK)

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I recently watched the Pilot episode of Due South that I downloaded on Iplayer.

I loved it and have downloaded more episodes.

does anyone know if BBC plan to show the entire series of this.

Is there a contact email address where I can ask the BBC
 
They are showing the entire series - started last week and seems to be on three or four times a week on BBC2 at 1 pm

Edit: It seems to be one Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
 
Well so far it is the first season, as they will get through the first season pretty quickly I would expect the second season, I don't know if they will then go on to the spin off (also named due south)
 
LOL It wasn't a spin off.

It was a continuation but with a different 'Ray' and with help from the BBC as the original studio was going to cancel the series.
 
Not quite. The producer was CTV in Canada, and to finance the show they got America's CBS involved as a co-producer. CBS DID cancel the show (in the sense of ending their involvement), but since CTV wanted to continue making new episodes for broadcast in Canada they had to go out and get new international co-financing, and the BBC as well as a German broadcaster stepped up and provided some of the money lost because of CBS bailing on the show.
 
According to IMDB it is a spin-off, when I was younger I didn't even realise it was cancelled (with only having the four channels you never got shows quickly) so I thought it was a continuation - but they say spin-off not going to argue. Also TV.com also state in the summary it is a spin-off but that there was confusion, because the two series were combined and presented together in the United States as one series with three seasons.
 
Those sources are wrong, and don't trust an American source anyway. Due South is a Canadian show. Americans have no idea what happened. As far as they know there was the CBS network series that lasted two seasons (1994 to 1996) and then it disappeared and came back later in syndication with new episodes and a new Ray, giving rise to the idea that it was a different series. Due South ran for FOUR seasons in Canada on CTV, 1994 to 1999, and the new Ray came in at the start of a new SEASON, season three -- not a new series, let alone a spin-off. Season three was 13 episodes (1997 to 1998) and season four was 13 episodes (1998 to 1999) in Canada. THEN a deal was made to syndicate seasons three and four in America. The Americans didn't want two thirteen episode seasons. They like their 22 episode seasons in the US. So the Americans bought only 22 out of the available 26 episodes and aired that as one season. And since by this time it had been about three years since the show was available at all in the US, American fans started saying "Oh, this is a brand new series. A spin-off."
 
OK that is fair enough, I tend to think of these sites as to know a bit more about the entertainment industry than the average layman (i.e. myself) so I tend to go by their information, until there is confirmation to the contrary by someone more in the know.

As I said I thought that the show was one continuation series myself, until recently when searching for the show on IMDB, but thought maybe legal issues or some sort had resulted in the creators needing to classify it as a spin-off, or something. As I said don't know what happens in the entertainment world.

As for the original question I do hope they repeat the complete series including the new Ray episodes as I have really gotten into them again - and I am appreciating them on a whole new level as an adult instead of a child.

Edit to add: It didn't run straight through on Canadian TV surely as there was a one year Hiatus, but I assume you mean it didn't go on about making a new series or anything?
 
I edited my post to include more information.

Yes, there was a one season gap of over a year, but by "straight through" I meant CTV put new episodes on TV in every CALENDAR year (I tend to think of things that way) from 1994 to 1999. The CTV/CBS Due South ended in Spring 1996. With CBS cancelling, CTV took a year to get the BBC and a German broadcaster to agree to co-finance, and the new episodes (Season 3) started on CTV in Fall 1997.
 
Ah right cool, sorry missed the edited post :)

OK well I will go back to my original thinking of 4 series of a great show.

And I hope it re-runs the whole lot.
 
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