topic Re: Free movie every saturday in Sky Q

Free movie every saturday

K84 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:49:21 GMT

I was told I can get a free movie every Saturday. How do I access it?

Re: Free movie every saturday

SKY1992bf — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:02:58 GMT

@K84 try channel 106,, there is a film on now and another at 9:50, but note their is no guarantee of a film every Saturday

Re: Free movie every saturday

TimmyBGood — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:42:24 GMT

@K84

The Sky Showcase channel 'free movie' today is LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) which, to be honest, has been broadcast once or twice before in the near quarter century since it was released.

Some sales reps appear to implying that the offer is free access to recent content from a Sky Cinema channel, which is not the case.

Re: Free movie every saturday

Daniy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:53:36 GMT

I got told the same thing! Is it a publicity stunt?

Re: Free movie every saturday

xenon81 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:43:36 GMT

@Daniy wrote:
I got told the same thing! Is it a publicity stunt?

No, as mentioned in the previous replies a movie is shown on Sky Showcase each weekend. It is usually on Saturday night but due to F1 coverage this week's film (Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers) is on Sunday at 15:10.

Re: Free movie every saturday

Daniy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:51:29 GMT

@xenon81 it was said on the phone a blockbuster movie not a decades old movie that is probably on netflix anyway? I will challenge this when they call me back on Tuesday

Re: Free movie every saturday

SKY1992bf — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 14:33:41 GMT

@Daniy Note paragraph 2 of post 3 above

Re: Free movie every saturday

TimmyBGood — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 15:30:35 GMT

@Daniy wrote:

it was said on the phone a blockbuster movie

At something like a three billion dollar box office the LOTR franchise is undoubtedly a blockbuster, just a rather old one now...

Some salespeople are undoubtedly overdoing the prominence of the offer though.

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best+of+the+best — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:06:17 GMT

@Daniy wrote:
@xenon81 it was said on the phone a blockbuster movie not a decades old movie that is probably on netflix anyway? I will challenge this when they call me back on Tuesday

Correction @Daniy it's not available on Netflix only Prime Video to Rent of Buy still a Blockbuster movie 23 years later.

Re: Free movie every saturday

Kate160 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:53:21 GMT

I had the same phone call and I can't remember the channel either. I'm sure they said the film would start at 7pm and that it is Wonder Woman this Saturday

Re: Free movie every saturday

xenon81 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:23:20 GMT

It's channel 106 (Sky Showcase) but Wonder Woman was last week's film.

Re: Free movie every saturday

TimmyBGood — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:29:18 GMT

@Kate160

Gladiator tonight at 21:15

Re: Free movie every saturday

Chris-t53 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:44:08 GMT

I was once told by a caller from Sky that there was a voice command to view this weekly free VIP

film. I can't remember it. Can anyone remind me please?

Re: Free movie every saturday

TimmyBGood — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:55:27 GMT

@Chris-t53 wrote:

I was once told by a caller from Sky that there was a voice command to view this weekly free VIP film.

My understanding is this was a miscommunication amongst the call centre folk: the 'weekly free VIP film' is nothing of the kind, but a garbled reference to the movie Sky has been putting out on Showcase in the Saturday broadcast EPG which would otherwise require a subscription add-on to view on a named Sky Cinema channel.

As noted above, they aren't exactly recent films either: this Saturday (21:30 - 23:30 ) is 'The Bourne Supremacy' from 2004.

Re: Free movie every saturday

PandJ2020 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:54:30 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
As noted above, they aren't exactly recent films either: this Saturday is 'The Bourne Supremacy' from 2004.

A great film nevertheless. I only watched the series for the first time last year after visiting the live show at Universal Studios....

Re: Free movie every saturday

Chris-t53 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:15:47 GMT

Yes sorry, I should have said that I realise it was a Sky Showcase film and not an exclusive thing for VIP customers, I realised that when I looked at the first one. Nevertheless, there was a voice command that found the film without you having to know the title. Does anyone know the voice command?