Season 5 will air in the UK in 2013

Today TVWise broke the news that all UK Sons Of Anarchy fans had been fearing. We will have to wait until 2013 to see season 5 (series 5) on UK TV screens. Which means, that like season 4, the USA fans will have seen the entire season before it begins in the UK.

According to TVWise’s Patrick Munn:

“I have just learned that Channel 5 has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to acquire the exclusive first run UK broadcast rights to the fifth season of Sons of Anarchy for its 5USA channel.

Details of this are coming in a little late, but sources familiar with the deal tell me that it includes a clause preventing 5USA from broadcasting the show’s fifth season until 2013; thereby guaranteeing that US broadcaster FX will have the global premiere for the show’s fifth season, which is due to premiere in the United States this fall. I’m also told that the UK premiere for the show’s fifth season is tentatively penciled in for late January or early February.”

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