Sent to Sky and Phill Jupitus a couple of minutes ago:
To: phill.6music@bbc.co.uk, skydigital@bskyb.com
Hi Phill / Sky,
I’d like to complain about the ridiculous voice overs being used during the credits of movies on Sky Movies. I understand you want to promote the showing of all six Star Wars movies on the Sky movie channels, and the trailers have been both entertaining and fun.
However, is there really a need to hear Phill Jupitus waffle on about the next Star Wars movie to be shown for a good two to three minutes while the credits are rolling to the movie we’ve just seen? I don’t think so.
The real insult is that you’ve gone to all the effort to show Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope this evening in its original widescreen ratio, in Dolby Digital sound, and it was utterly fantastic, but you completely ruined the evening with the completely unnecessary voice-over about The Empire Strikes Back being shown next Saturday night. By all means have a quick 10-15 second voice over, I can almost tolerate that, but to have to listen to someone – even someone as entertaining as Phill – waffle on about his favourite bit in Empire (when Chewie’s head pops up from behind a snow drift? In the probe blowing up scene? Really?) takes the biscuit.
I can’t believe Sky are passionate about movies, or that Phill is passionate about Star Wars, when this is the way you treat the actual movie you’ve been promoting for the last month, never mind abusing other movies in the last week with this awful voice over.
Please make it go away.
Yours, someone who has paid a lot of money for Sky Movies in the past, a very grumpy Sky Digital subscriber and BBC 6Music listener: William Anderson, Glasgow.
I hate complaining to Sky, you rarely get somewhere unless you’ve really been messed about, i.e. by installers. I doubt anything will come of this, but with luck Phill might get shamed into making some sort of public apology for whoring himself so blatantly on Sky. I mean really, a good two minutes spent over the credits filled with waffle. Were John Williams dead, he’d be spinning in his grave. In prestissimo, no doubt.
Update:
Followed by:
Well, cheers then! 🙂
Another e-mail received while I was out this morning:
Good action taken, problem addressed. Thats what i like to see.