BBC4 – that means metal is officially Art with a capital A.

The 3rd is a Wednesday, which day is the Flight 666 Broadcast on?

@ Jamie… “Not content to spoil us with a night of riffed-up programming, BBC4 have also confirmed that they will present the television premiere of Iron Maiden’s stellar movie, ‘Flight 666′, this Thursday, March 4th at 11pm.”

err Jamie – “Flight 666′, this Thursday, March 4th at 11pm”

They should show the ‘Arena’ episode from 1990/91 dedicated to metal. Was classic. Interviews with Napalm Barney and Mickey in their bedrooms, Sepultura’s first UK headliner (Marquee), Donington when it was still ONE STAGE, ONE FOCUS…..they should film an update to cover the subsequent 20 years then show both episodes back-to-back. People would then better appreciate the timeless nature of metalworld.

best week ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are they now using Iron Maiden in GCSE questions? Do you do a GCSE in learning to use a TV guide? This is the best thing since they got rid of Neighbours from the beeb.

Aahhgh, I’m off to Wigan Beer Festival Friday night, and t’ sky box is full to the brim with recorded CSI, NCSI, SCSI Miami 95101 bollox…

FUCKING AWESOME im always looking for programmes about metal on tv and there never is ……until now

Reverse Trend – Barney wasn’t even in Napalm Death back then! It was Bill and Shane being interviewed.
And it was ‘89 too!!
Get your facts right dumbass!

that’s me set it all to Record on Sky+, as i’ll be headbanging to Vader in Glasgow when it’s on

I think I’ll have these recorded. The Prog rock set of programmes was quite good, so these should be decent

This is pretty good but metal seems to be only 3 bands to the bbc; Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Motorhead, I think they need to delve a bit deeper into heavy metal like they did with that history of rock thing or whatever it was called, which had priest and metallica. There is a wider spectrum and new bands breaking through, becoming popular (which are an integral part of metal, bands cant defend the faith to a large extent when retired) and other infulential ones who are 20+ years old and still rocking, even if their popularity might have downsized or if they are that little bit more unacceptable to the general public. If they wanna give a more accurate and true schooling of metal to the viewers who arent metal fans, they should branch out a bit into the bands that spearheaded more sub genres, such as Megadeth, Machine Head, but i doubt they would put too much metal that is extremely fast and heavy, such as Carcass, Decapitated and Napalm Death. But this is just my opinion because i love all aspects of metal and think that metal should be portrayed how it really is, and, how much of a positive difference it has made to its fans. The three main bands they focus on are an essential part of metal, but they’re only the foundations, the beeb need to see the whole picture. But inevitably, a government funded media company, who frankly despise or deeply dislike heavy metal and its impact on young folk, will not like to delve too deep into it because they’ll feel like they’re going against the utopia that they hope to achieve, so they include the bands who are slightly tamer from a musical POV than some of the bands you can listen to today, but dw i still think Sabbath, Maiden and Motorhead KICK ASS, i grew up listening to them xD

I actually just watched that Arena documentary… was actually really funny in parts! As i’m in Norway i’ll hope somebody ripsit from TV then uploads it

lee dorrian was the singer at the time,ive got it on vid, it was two parter with slayer from hammersmith 89 + an interview with tom araya

actually im mistaken it was 88

I think he meant the Arena Heavy Metal doc dude, not the thrash one!
I could be wrong tho, and if I am apologies to Reverse Trend. But if I’m right……

bbc have had some great documentaries on music, their british prog one was cool and the krautrock one was even better. this should be a good watch.

They’ll completely omit Led Zeppelin’s contribution again – you’ll see!

Is this the ancient history lesson- this is lip service to metal cashing in on the Osbourne’s tv series- if the Beeb were serious they would get some updated metal including all those Brit bands joebalbo mentioned Carcass etc and some Waylander and Gama Bomb, Saxon? but they are too scared! Carcass, Napalm death, Evile…… too much!

This is all just olde UK hard rock! I loved all that stuff and sure it’s the roots but ‘heavy metal’ was largely an American/Euro phenomenon!!! Manowar, Metallica, Accept… the real full-blown, double-kick-driven, volatile, stadium-bound attitude.

Not bloody goodtime UK boogie-centric bands like *Budgie* or bad panto music like Maiden. May as well feature Groundhogs.

It’s ‘metal’ for Guardian readers… a convenient filtering similar to Julian Cope’s cred take on the genre which seems to be exclusively bands like Sunn, lol