{"id":45042,"date":"2016-04-27T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=45042"},"modified":"2016-04-27T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:04:36","slug":"of-kings-and-prophets-is-still-on-the-air-in-some-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/04\/of-kings-and-prophets-is-still-on-the-air-in-some-countries.html","title":{"rendered":"Of Kings and Prophets<\/i> is still on the air in some countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"ofkingsandprophets-saul-family-a\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of Kings and Prophets<\/a><\/i> \u2014 the series about David, Goliath and other characters from the first book of Samuel \u2014 may have been cancelled last month<\/a> in North America after only two episodes had aired, but it turns out the series is still playing overseas.<\/p>\n

A Google alert informed me today that the seventh and eighth episodes are currently streaming<\/a> on a New Zealand website called TVNZ.<\/p>\n

A banner on the TVNZ website states: \u201cOf Kings And Prophets has been cancelled in the U.S. \u2013 but we will continue premiering it on TVNZ OnDemand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ofkingsandprophets-tvnz\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Alas, these episodes can only be streamed by people who are actually in<\/i> New Zealand.<\/p>\n

TVNZ only streams episodes for two weeks after they air on TV, which is why the first six episodes of the series are not featured on the website any more.<\/p>\n

Curious to see who else might have the series, I snooped around and found a Russian website that currently has the first five episodes, all dubbed in Russian. I don\u2019t know how \u201clegit\u201d the website is, but I assume the dubbed episodes are genuine.<\/p>\n

In any case, the key point here is that the series \u2014 at least nine episodes of which had been shot before the series was cancelled \u2014 is still out there, somewhere. It\u2019s airing on the networks of multiple countries. It\u2019s just not available in North America.<\/p>\n

If I had known about the New Zealand airings sooner, I might have asked friends of mine there to DVR the series for me. As it is, I just hope the full series gets released on this continent at some point soon: streaming, DVD, I\u2019ll take whatever we can get.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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