Ian's Newsround - 14/11/03
Hello! Our top story tonight concerns the DVD of The Brittas Empire Series Three. The one bit of bad news is that the release date has slipped, from Boxing Day this year to January 19th 2004. Oh well. It'll give people a chance to regenerate some of the money they spent at Christmas. The menus are in the style of a promotional video for the centre, which sounds deliciously unconventional. However, the menu system from Series Two (a tour of the centre) won't go to waste; it's being used as the basis for the Where's Ben? game. This looks weird, frankly, but I'm sure it'll be fun. The main extra, of course, is an eight-minute interview between Chris Barrie and Terry Wogan, which is very exciting.
As you're probably all aware, two repeats of Red Dwarf were cancelled last Sunday: Timeslides on BBC TWO and Out Of Time on UK Gold. Naturally, we e-mailed the channels involved straight away. Yesterday, a nice lady from BBC Information left a message on my answerphone, explaining that "scenes in the show were deemed unsuitable for Remembrance Sunday". Ignore the BBC, they're complete and total nutters, and they've only got one testicle. Erm, between them. UK Gold were less helpful, simply stating the non-sequitor "editorial reasons". Mind you, providing you don't talk about scheduling, they're an absolute hoot.
The last week has been quite shit for Ganymede & Titan, hasn't it? We haven't been sat on our arses all the time, though. We've (well, John has) updated the Diary and DVD and Movie FAQ. Neither of them deserved Site Updates articles to themselves, really. However, there will be something very good appearing here in the next few days, with a bit of luck. Remember this? Well, there's more where that came from...
Incidentally, be sure to keep an eye on Matt Drizzly Miller's Deerstalker Watch. It is a legitimate investigation, and not just a string on in-jokes at all. And what did you get on the Series III Quiz? I got an embarrassingly low 17 out of 20. Wah!
Comments
If you do another shooting script report I will wet myself.
Also, seeing they're now out of print, if you don't come across any more shooting scripts it would be great if you could do them for the 12 published by Penguin - more or less the same thing, and virtually left alone for publication. Not the series 8 ones though, they've been tampered with for the books.
Just an idea - it would tie in with you transcribing the deleted scenes too.
Posted by Darrell Jones at November 14, 2003 09:43 PM
Well, I got 16, Pfft...But at least I can feel slightly smug in guessing the reason for the BBC episode cut..Slightly dissapointed with this weeks rd.co updates [No Interviews etc], but I suppose we've been spoilt recently..Brittas is at no3 on my list of 'must gets' at the moment, but it does look rather interesting.Oh and the 'Corgi' models are due out next week (arn't they)?? Mmmmm Toys.
Posted by Cpt-D at November 15, 2003 10:07 AM
17/20 myself.
Posted by Joey at November 16, 2003 05:13 PM
I'm afraid I got a mere 11/20, due to the fact that I haven't seen the third series since the first two came out on DVD.
Thus I lose.
Posted by Austin Ross at November 16, 2003 06:57 PM
UK Gold have been at it again, censoring the line "let's get out there and twat it" impossibly hamfistedly.
VIDEO EVIDENCE
http://www.thehusks.com/comedy/Red%20Dwarf%20-%20Polymorph%20UK%20Gold%20Edit.wmv
Posted by Darrell Jones at November 16, 2003 11:58 PM
He mentioned Deerstalker Watch! lmao! my God what a waste of time that was, but then again Ian did put me up to it :D
Legend!
Posted by Drzymala at November 17, 2003 12:01 AM
Why would they trim that line? That was one of my favorites from Polymorph.
Posted by Austin Ross at November 17, 2003 02:43 AM
I intend to do a proper article on all three released scriptbooks at some point - there are masses of odd anomalies in all of them; loads of stuff missing (example: Marooned doesn't have the deleted strip-poker scene at the start, but the revised model shot opening). Not *exactly* a big deal - nearly all scriptbooks have the scripts edited in some way - but it would have been nice to have had the ostensible final drafts, even if changes were made during shooting. Or at least some footnotes.
Posted by John Hoare at November 17, 2003 07:21 AM
And ta for the "Twat it" file Darrell - I'll download it in a bit. There's quite a few UK Gold edits which'll be added to the Edit News article...
Posted by John Hoare at November 17, 2003 07:23 AM
Positively stupid.
Posted by Joey at November 17, 2003 11:57 AM
I don't think John's that bad, Joey.
Posted by Darrell Jones at November 17, 2003 01:33 PM
Flubble blaggy wabble.
Posted by John Hoare at November 18, 2003 06:53 AM
I got 18 out of 20 in the series III quiz.
Posted by Jessica Malcolm at November 18, 2003 11:27 AM
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