For our US-based readers... some "Star Wars" silliness

[dduane]

Our major satellite TV provider, Sky, will shortly be showing all six Star Wars films at once on Sky Movies. As part of the promotional campaign for this, they've constructed some amusing little thirty-second spots, a couple of which are styled like their own ads and use Sky voice talent and onscreen presenters. (The "VI" visual motif they're using for the six movies turns up here and there.)

 

I didn't think it'd take too long before these showed up on YouTube. Here are some links:

• Sky Travel: Visit Tattooine (complete with correctly-positioned, alien-fonted upper corner "bug")
• Sky News Weather: Weather on Hoth (note the wretchedly omnipresent Sky bottom-of-the-screen crawl banner, which the designer here mimics perfectly)
• Star Wars: Villains
• Star Wars: Heroes