bhowells

Noticed that this channel has disapeared from the Sky platform, can anyone tell me if its on cable. It will be much missed by me as there was usually something of interest whether it was the compilatiosn of Ed Sullivan shows or the showing of every series from the us Four Star television company, not forgetting "Inside The Actors studio. They also started showing b brit movies for a while.

Latterly they just showed classical concerts no bad thing, but all other gernes had disapered.

Its sister channel Mainstreeet is happily still with us and I can highly recomend a tribute concert to Charlie Parker which came under the umbrella of a series called , "Jazz In France." The concert featured Dizzy Gilespie and Stan Getz amongst others.

Steve Crook

Not at the moment, or not on my cable anyway (Virgin / Telewest)

It used to be cable only when it started so we had a good dose of it. The it became satellite only.

There were a lot of good things on it though, like the Inside the Actors Studio series with James Lipton that you mention. He was a bit overly fawning sometimes, but he was very good and knew his stuff.

They used to do some good jazz concerts which weren't often shown anywhere else - nice

And they did also do some good films and documentaries

They probably got kicked off the Sky package because they were competing too much, and too well, with Sky's own arts channels

Steve

winsfordtown

Apparently Mainstreet and Performance have merged under the banner of the former.

Steve Crook

Ah yes, that's it.
See their web site where they refer to themselves as Performance MainStreet

Steve