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code spinneker
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Ok I want to start off with a little thing and that is...Im not ranting or raving about religion so don't worry I'm actually ranting and raving about fox and how much I hate them. Recently I saw the "Serenity" movie and it was one of the best movies I also bought, after much deliberation and realizing that I loved the show, Firefly the complete series and I have suddenly experienced an emotion never felt before...Nostalgia...When you go back and watch a firefly episode you realize that you'll never get a TV show as good as this again because stupid TV networks like fox cancel the good shows for silly reasons like not enough ratings....Everyone I know who has ever seen firefly has loved the series so I don't see how it got bad ratings, its a very popular show. So anyway if anyone has anything to say about firefly, Wanting a new season of firefly now that the movies done so well, Serenity the movie itself or just plain bit**ing about how stupid fox is- Do it here because it would be interesting to know if people agree with me on the subject of fox being COMPLETE MORONS.
Anyway love to hear your opinions and if your a fox employee well.....I don't mind your companies other shows I just wish you ahdnt dropped the only good SCIFI one, I mean even enterprise got more seasons then firelfy and it sucked.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 06:59
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Religion pwns! George Bush should become the new pope.


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code spinneker
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 07:01 Edited at: 10th Oct 2005 07:01
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PS i do realize that it was cancelled a while ago I still want to bit** about it because you know it was a good show and I didn't know it was cancelled when it was so I didn't get to Bi*** about it then or go to any SAVE OUR FIREFLY rallys cause I missed it all....DAMN
Oh and sarcastic that comments jsut weird.

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Jimmy
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 09:27
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Awwwwww, this one's cuuuuuuuuuute.

Can we keep 'im??


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If you want to see some quality programming, watch MTV. I never watched anything on there until a few weeks ago, and damn, now I know how the rest of the world gets its horribly warped perception of America. MTV makes Fox's choice of programming look like PBS.

You still can't knock House, though.

"when it's done" means "we have no idea, we forgot to do that; we were hoping you would all forget we promised <insert exotic promise here>"
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Osiris
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 13:46
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Firefly is still played on SCIFI if you have it.

http://www.scifi.com/firefly/

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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 13:52 Edited at: 10th Oct 2005 13:52
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nostalgia.....from somthing last year.....strange.bring back bsg new and old.
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Van B
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 14:09
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TV sucks. Well, except for...

Lost
American Chopper
World of Stupid

That's about as much as I watch these days. I miss the older shows, so if it's not the above then I tend to watch UK Gold - but really, American TV has all this cool stuff right now, stuff that us lowly brits etc have to download to see within the next year or so. Like 'Lost', frankly the most rivetting series for years, and it goes on for ages, 1 episode a week for 25 weeks!. I got a mate to make up some Lost DVD's for me and me and my bro watched the whole series back to back over about 3 days - now we're aching for series II, and we have the choice of either waiting for umpteen months or nabbing a download . They should release DVD box sets when they first show a pilot episode in the UK, because I'd happily spend a lot of cash on stuff like that to avoid a wait.

It is a real shame when your favourite show goes down, sorta like your fave band breaking up or your fave movie star having a stroke - it's never the irritating ones that suffer, like where's that Timberlakes horrible disease and just how many 'Fat-Funny dude married to hot chick' sit-coms can people watch?. And what happend to 'Titus' thant was a classy show, really funny and a really strong and talented cast - one series then bye bye, gotta make room for Joey and that horrible 'Mad About You', not mad about them, just mad, NOW GIMME A KNIFE!.

Don't get me started on House, that git Hugh Laury has eeked his way behind the other Hugh's like the slime in their trail - frankly we don't need to see another twitchingly arrogant idiot on our screens - you American women need to see some of the unriveled tripe he's been involved in to understand.

Is that a rant?


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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 14:37 Edited at: 10th Oct 2005 14:44
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UKGold is friggin' awesome.

Nip Tuck returns to UK screens this week, which is good.
It's my fave show, you know. (Except 24!)

Katie and Drew return!!!

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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 14:42
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24 is an awesome show, family guy rocks, alias was good b4 they ran out of moronic twist plots, 99.98% of all reality shows are gay nock-offs of the other .02%, over there on FX is pretty dam good, south park is still a classic in my book...

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I'm still in mourning over Dead Like Me being cancelled...

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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 16:28
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About tv stations cancelling good shows UPN Star Trek-don't say more
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Joe Cooning
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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 16:40 Edited at: 10th Oct 2005 16:40
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there's more to ratings than what the critics say. For a network to make a profit, they need to sellto advertisers and sponsers and such. With shows like firefly, while it was a good show, it wasn't attracting the desired numbers of people at the time. Saddly, when it doesn't attract people, sponsers stop paying and the show gets cancelled. So a note to the world: YOU GET WHAT YOU WATCH! STOP WATCHING JUNK LIKE AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 1000000! THESE PEOPLE ARE FORGOTTEN IN A MONTH!

(Oh, yeah...Go Simpsons!)

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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 19:27
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Mad About You was awesome...


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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 19:38
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Quote: "it goes on for ages, 1 episode a week for 25 weeks"
I heard on the news the other day that the writers plan to make 6 series (25 episodes each). And even they don't know what the twist is yet (they are going to wait until the last series). So that is about, ummmm, about 100 hours (40 mins per show after ads?) before knowing where they are (ie. are they dead?). I admit I like it, but grief.... plus everyone will have guessed pretty much every possibility before it ends so they will have to make up some pretty lame excuse, or use somebodies guess.

I'm still steaming about Darkplace (unsuprisingly - I swapped my signature spinning skull avatar for Garthy boy). If you have never heard of it then : Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s and has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying and radical television programmes ever made. Despite this, none of the episodes have ever been seen before now (although the show enjoyed a brief run in Peru). http://www.garthmarenghi.com/

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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 21:47
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Quote: " now we're aching for series II, and we have the choice of either waiting for umpteen months or nabbing a download"


I feel your pain ,I got the whole of the first series at once and it was so addictive but I could watch as much as I wanted, but now Ive caught up Ive got to wait a week before the dl's up. If you thought the first series was weird Van-b wait till you see series 2.


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Posted: 10th Oct 2005 22:03
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I don't watch tv.

I watch movies.

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Phooey, I have to wait till January for the Sci-Fi Friday line up to come back. Just when BSG was starting to make a little sense. . .

"There are no stupid questions, just a lot of inquisitive idiots."
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Jeku
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Quote: "just how many 'Fat-Funny dude married to hot chick' sit-coms can people watch?"


Hey, King of Queens is not that bad!

The shows I watch regularly are Conan O'Brien, Seinfeld reruns, true crime shows on A&E, and Sopranos reruns. Everything else is just crap.

I hate, hate, HATE shows where the laugh-track is so bleedin' obviously FAKE. For example, That 70's Show is the most overrated show in syndication. Fez walks into the room (HAHAHA), Ashton Kutcher walks into the door (HAHAHA), Red drinks a beer (HAHAHA).

I saw Ricky Gervais on Conan about a week ago and he was saying he would watch American sitcoms when he was growing up--- shows like M*A*S*H. He said there was no laugh-track, but when he watched it in the U.S. it had laughs galore. There's something to be said about how easily amused Americans are when they're being told when to laugh every 5 seconds.

The funnies shows IMHO are the ones without the laugh-track. Shows like the Office (Enlish or American version), Mind of a Married Man, Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc. Those can be side-splitting.

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You should watch House if you can.


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Quote: "You should watch House if you can"
Best program in ages. Hugh Laurie is a god. Although he should bring back his 80's power US accent from years ago. Class...

And Mash is totally weird with the laugh track after growing up without it (loved Mash).

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Quote: " now we're aching for series II, and we have the choice of either waiting for umpteen months or nabbing a download""


Episode 4 of Season 2 airs wednesday night on our ABC channel... the season so far has been just as good as the first, if not better. It has a way of sucking you in and making you HAVE to watch it next week because its ripping out your insides about whats going to happen next.

Since I work at night though, I just download the episodes HDTV ripped on bittorrent. They are usually out just a hour or so after the initial east coast airing.

As for Titus, damn I loved that show. Yet another show that Fox sacked though. Apparently the DVD set of all 54 episodes is out, I've just yet to order it yet...

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Quote: "I'm still in mourning over Dead Like Me being cancelled... "


Me too... that show was SO funny.
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Ok lots of rants Lots of raves and lots of people watching lost and sit coms.... Geez were all programming nerds shouldnt we watch something umm.....Nerdy not lost...........Anyway sorry about screw up yah it was UPN sorry I just really have problems with half of the enterprise episodes but the others were ok....Kind of. I have never seen lost and I don't feel like it, I just watch my syndicated rerun shows and drown myself watching old episodes of good shows cancelled on DVD now I mean Come on Whyd they have to cancel the oroginal Star Trek??? Ok that was over 20 years ago but I liked Kirk.

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Where did the rumour of the Lost dudes being dead come from?

Their not dead, or in limbo or anything like that - and they ain't gettin off that island - it's only on like episode 14 of series 1 in the UK, Charlie and the pregnant chick have just been kidnapped. Things get a bit strange from here on, hope it continues with series 2.

One of the best things about Lost is how everyone has their own theories, can't wait till series 1 is over so I can start talking about it without spoiling it for folk. Most of my friends are hooked on it.


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It becomes VERY strange from the word go in season 2.

I think the fact that there seems to be a lot of connections between the survivors from before the plane crash and it is almost as though they are attoning for sins or guilt from the past is the fuel for all the 'they are dead and waiting for judgement' ideas.


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I haven't seen one episode of Lost--- but my wife is into it every week. I should have been watching--- all these good reviews and Emmy nomations. Originally I thought it was just another cheesy TV drama.

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If you love firefly you'll hate mental roy........

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Quote: "Originally I thought it was just another cheesy TV drama."


It is. That's why everyone likes it though.

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Watch The Office it's the only TV show I watch now, and the only tv show I've watched in a long long time :/

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Quote: "that was over 20 years ago but I liked Kirk"
More like 35 years or so.

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public tv in australia

free to air 5 channels 1 of them is like the BBC in the U.K.(abc)
SBS is like a european style of channel
3 major players 7 9 and 10
home grown tv in major cities is channel 31
ironically 7 is suing them all for content rights in a cable sports channel debarkle
as well as fox and other companies totalling 19 for a billion dollars.
cable in australia is austar / fox / optus

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1464087.htm

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Ok wait did someone say kirk was 35 years Ago?? Where have I been my brain must have been on vacation or something....Anywhoo the Firefly Series on DVD is a must have because its SO DAMN FUNNY how could we cancel such a likable show GO WATCH JAYNESTOWN AND YOU WILL LOVE FIREFLY FOREVER anyway....Really 35 years...woah.

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Also UPN replaced Star Trek with Americas new topmodel
LOOSERS
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Quote: " Although he should bring back his 80's power US accent from years ago. Class..."


If you watch Paramount Comedy at 9:40pm weeknights, "A Bit Of Fry and Laurie" is on. Maybe if you're lucky, they'll show an episode where it's the Utoxeter Health Centre where both Fry (Peter) and Laurie (John) put on their best 80s power American accents. It features this classic, albeit rather simple line:

Speaking about his divorce from his wife, 'I came home one night, she mocked me about our marriage, our son, our future. There was a gloating in her eyes.... I lost it John and I emptied a large bowl of trifle over her head'

'So she got custody?'

'Very'

*sigh*

Quote: "Mad About You was awesome..."


Mad About You is funny in the same way as 'King of Queens' is funny... in that it isn't. I still watch it tho...

Now, "Everybody Loves Raymond" there's a classic show. I wonder how he'll manage to aggravate his wife this week.

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