Beasts of War Hit Terrestrial and Sky TV!
August 27, 2011 by beerogre
That's right, if you can't catch Beasts of War online, then you will soon be able to tune in using your Sky TV or Free to Air box.
You won't need a Sky subscription and the signal is available across most of Europe.
Thanks to the unwavering support of our sponsors (in particular Wayland Games), fans and Backstage Pass holders, we've seized the opportunity to take our own brand of wargaming TV to the commercial airwaves.
This is part of our continued commitment to take our hobby to the mainstream. We have big plans for TV and with your continued support we know we can blow the world of tabletop gaming wide open... erm... one TV set at a time!
Check out TURN 8 tonight for more info and brainstorming on this unprecedented opportunity and find out how you can get involved and support our flagship show... and the others that will soon follow.
So tell us. What would you love to see on TV?
LIVE BATTLE REPORTS. that would be something different for a TV show.
I second this live battle report suggestion and more lol.
This is brilliant news and I can’t wait to see what comes out of this epic turn of events!
That would be so cool and then rerun them on here for people that don’t have sky or missed it due to work etc.
With 2 British commentators like they have with Starcraft in Korea.
Pllaaaggguuuu!
I knew joining backstage was a wise decision.
You guys are the new leaders of tabletop gaming, let the mainstream revolution begin 😛
what channel number(s) is it going to be on and will it be your own CHANNEL or your own SHOW?
We’ll be announcing all that in the next week or too. We’re kicking off with one or more TV Shows, ofcourse not on SKY 1 (Yet), but its a start and we have certainly the Tools, Talent and Ambition to try and take this as big as we can – the hobby deserves it 🙂
We have Xplay for video games…now Beasts of War for Table Top Gaming…bring on the awesome. Would love to see lots of interviews with game companies and miniature makers.
For those of us who don’t own a TV will the content be put up on the website as well?
No TV? *shock horror*
Does not compute!
What…..WHAT? I can watch beats of War on TV? *faints*
Also could you make sure Darrels keeps his clothes on – my parents have a HD TV and there are sometings that should never be in HD.
Here’s to BoW the best wargaming news place around!
This is rather astounding.
I’d like to see Darrell playing a game , cheese , ruthlessness and all intact, I’ve never been to a tournament, and play for kicks with a few mates , the whole ‘must win’ culture is kind of alien to me, even though I appreciate you need to be like that to win these competitions, so I’d love to see it first hand.
But not if hes wearing a nappy again.
I don’t know if this si what got you all into trouble with youtube, but going through the different trop types in a given army list was really great. If GW are too protective how about going through the Infinity lists or the Warmachine characters? Just a run down on how to use them, where they fit in well, where not so well? Andy did some excellent vids on the warmachine starter boxes and some fo the Wrath units – it’d be really good to see those discussed ‘in game’ perhaps with a battle report using that said feature/feat? However,… Read more »
I’m optimistic. I think you guys are the right people for the job. Honestly, is any other wargaming site tried something like this, it would end up as some kind of epic disaster. You’d end up with either A) How to be a WAAC gamer, hosted by the world’s biggest d’bags, or B) The We Hate Everything Show…hosted by old fat people who spend the entire show going over the finer points of GW’s last financial statement.
Horray for BoW
Absolutely amazing news, this will help push Wargaming into the mainstream more and will very likely help out smaller companies and give them more recognition. This can only be a good thing.
Oh wow this is amazing news, really well done for flying the flag!!! Although I second the comment about maybe never launching a BoW HD channel Darrell’s underpants could hinder the mainstream appeal of wargaming!
Ambitious. And potentially awesomely cool. Battle reports sound interesting if well presented/commented. And the gamers need to be able to play a good pace so that it doesn´t get too tedious (if you you have live coverage). (live ) Painting sessions, event coverages certainly. You could collaborate with the History Channel to do documentaries on historical topics and how to deal with them in Tabletop terms (one can dream…). Live readings of Fantasy/Sci fi novels by the respective authors. Behind the scenes documentaries of the gaming companies. Well, that are the first things that come to my mind.
Paintshop classes, if Romain is up for the challenge, Terrain building (on a smaller scale), and cute female gamers 🙂
This is great news! I’m a bit slow on some things, I’m Canadian Ah! Is Sky TV only in Europe? Im in Toronto Canada and never herd of sky tv. I guess I’m gona be left in the dark ages 🙁 I’ll go cry in the corner now!
Excellent news – hat’s off to all the crew at BoW for your constant hard work. Unless you really know how much goes into producing quality productions, you’d think this lot are just having a laugh. The secret is working hard and still having fun. Looking forward to setting my digi box and lining up a whole evenings worth of BoWHDTV. 🙂
WOW guys, seriously I’ve been impressed with progress so far but this is the best news in the industry in a long time. I don’t watch much TV but i’d sure tune in to that. unboxing, painting, interviews, doing example games like infinity would all work well I think.
picks jaw off floor…..
I have no idea what sky tv or free to air boxes are, but the AC/DC makes this story relevant to my interests.
Free to Air is just Freeview in the UK pretty much. Digitial channels.
so i will be able to watch it on a standard set-top box?
I would like to see boobies.
Oh and excellent job guys, livin’ the dream.
OMG!!! i LOVE YOU GUYS BEYOND MORTAL COMPREHENSION!!!!!!!!!! ‘Ahem’ thanks, you rock btw.
I wonder if it’s with information.tv/Showcase. That’s where most of the video game shows in the UK tend to be and they have quite affordable rates.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!
HELL YEEAAH!!! 😀 😀 😀
Great news guys, really great news!1
I hope this works for me out on the beaches of California.
Amazing news. Are you going to do new stuff or just a compilations of that’s weeks videos?
Will it be like a tabletop games master with Darrell as Patrick moore’s part or do it like tabletop gear
Woah that is big news o_O