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The Colour of Magic

Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:14 pm

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http://www.skyoneonline.co.uk/tcom/

From the maker's of The Hogfather (the best adaptation of a disc world novel so far)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079959/

Stars David Jason as Rincewind, Sean Astin as Twoflower and a whole host of celebs.

Hoping for something as good as the book.
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Postby mxyzptlk on Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:22 pm

WTF!!!
fucking awesome!!!
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:34 pm

aye, exactly the reaction I had when I saw the "subscribe to sky" advert in the middle of "Ice Road Truckers" :lol:

That's the show that just keeps giving...

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Postby dinky on Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:58 pm

I thought you didn't have commercial breaks on UK tv?
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:03 pm

i bet you think we only have two channels too? BBC1 and 2. :lol:

There's 5 non-satellite channels, 3 of which are funded by advertising. There's also about 20 free-to-air channels, all of which barring the bbc news, bcc 3+4 and the childrens bbc channels are all advert driven. Then there's about 50-100 other channels that are all advert driven.

The ITV channel has been advertisment driven for 50 years.

So in short, no we have advert driven television too.

Sky are advert and subscription driven, The Colour of Magic is produced for Sky One which is there light entertainment channel.
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Postby dinky on Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:43 am

well that sucks. I had this idealistic view of england where tv shows were seen all the way through, and you didn't have to train yourself to time the fast forward on the remote by counting commercials or whatnot. :(
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:28 pm

na, just the beeb that doesn't have adverts I'm afraid.
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Postby Jynks on Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:35 am

whne is this ment ot be released? I was hoping for it to be a feature film series... oh well... with luck it will be a huge hit and they can start going though all of them.
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:14 pm

easter holiday, its a mini-series made to sky 1 akin to the hogfather production.

Its not a ultra-high budget production but for a uk tv production is rather large... hogfather was £6m (~$12m), i imagine this is higher. Trailer looked great :)
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