{"id":1065,"date":"2006-09-11T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/09\/11\/for-our-us-based-readers-some-star-wars-silliness\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:03:42","slug":"for-our-us-based-readers-some-star-wars-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/09\/11\/for-our-us-based-readers-some-star-wars-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"For our US-based readers&#8230; some &quot;Star Wars&quot; silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our major satellite TV provider, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/portal\/site\/skycom\/home\">Sky,<\/a> will shortly be showing all six Star Wars films at once on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/portal\/site\/skycom\/template.PAGE\/menuitem.a56d5c1f4ec8beb1ab47931050a041a0\/?javax.portlet.tpst=5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0&#038;javax.portlet.prp_5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0_filter=&#038;javax.portlet.prp_5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0_action=render-listingsview&#038;javax.portlet.prp_5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0_channelid=&#038;javax.portlet.prp_5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0_channelOption=g%3Amovies&#038;javax.portlet.prp_5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0_viewport=4103-66-90-10-0-10-1157990400000-90-movies-1&#038;javax.portlet.prp_5ba6123624e7c93f260cd4e9c0b041a0_date=1157990400000&#038;javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&#038;javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken\">Sky Movies.<\/a> As part of the promotional campaign for this, they&#8217;ve constructed some amusing little thirty-second spots, a couple of which are styled like their own ads and use Sky voice talent and onscreen presenters. (The &#8220;VI&#8221; visual motif they&#8217;re using for the six movies turns up here and there.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQHOgWMy_no&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weather report for Hoth: click here for the video\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/HothWeather.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center>I didn&#8217;t think it&#8217;d take too long before these showed up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>. 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