Why not BBC2 by VCDHunter

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Why not BBC2

POSTED BY: VCDHUNTER
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 23:31
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:18 AM

Surely the BBC should pick up this show. They've already had runs of Buffy, and the various Star Trek shows were shown quite often on BBC2.

Come on BBC execs, Firefly on BBC2 maybe on a thursday night or something.

Ok, so what about CH4, they had Angel I think, and don't they do SG1 and that Babylon5 thing ?

Come on British TV execs pull your fingers out and get on the Firefly bandwagon.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:27 AM

DARKFLY

You know we should send loads of emails & letters asking BBC2 or C4(channel 4) or even channel 5 to buy the rights to show Firefly.

First we need to agree on a Channel,I personally think C4 are more likely to buy it because BBC2 haven't bought any new sci-fi series in years,& channel 5 don't have much money but they do buy sc-fi things like Stargate Alantis which is unsual because C4 have Stargate SG-1.The reason I think C4 are more likely to buy Firefly is because C4 have bought a few sci-fi shows in recent years & have just finished showing Enterprise & Smallville won't be on for quite a while.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:57 AM

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

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Yes the british government endorsing a program where the good guys are

THEIVES
PROSTITUTES

There are cannibals and chinese swearing and sex scenes and lots of violence

Theyll jump right on board

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:02 AM

DARKFLY

Quote:
Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
Yes the british government endorsing a program where the good guys are

THEIVES
PROSTITUTES

There are cannibals and chinese swearing and sex scenes and lots of violence

Theyll jump right on board

What you don't think the British goverment will love that...well I do.I'd actually say that about the American goverment.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:04 AM

MRT

I've been reading for a while but never posted... but if there is any way to get firefly onto UK TV I'll join the queue at the post-box to send letters - just tell me where to address them!

"Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains: those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple" - Cato the Censor

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:12 AM

DARKFLY

Quote:
Originally posted by MrT:
I've been reading for a while but never posted... but if there is any way to get firefly onto UK TV I'll join the queue at the post-box to send letters - just tell me where to address them!r

Unfornatlely I have go somewhere right now so i can't go looking for addresses & email addresses for BBC2,C4,C5 right this instance,but if anybody is kind enough to go & find the right addresse & email addresses to send suggestion letter's that would be much appreciated but if not it will take me a while to find the info.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:23 AM

CITIZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
Yes the british government endorsing a program where the good guys are

THEIVES
PROSTITUTES

There are cannibals and chinese swearing and sex scenes and lots of violence

Theyll jump right on board

Luckilly the British Government has F

k all say on what the BBC puts on air. Which is how they remain one of the most unbiased (not completely unbiased, but right at the top of the list). The organisation that pays for them can't tell them what to do.

BBC contact page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/contactus/form.shtml

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:31 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Quote:
Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
Yes the british government endorsing a program where the good guys are

THEIVES
PROSTITUTES

There are cannibals and chinese swearing and sex scenes and lots of violence

Theyll jump right on board

Hey, it would be following in fine British tradition! Charles Dickens wrote about theives and prostitutes all the time. And his prostitutes weren't even legalised!

I mean his prostitutes as in his characters, not his... never mind. *has scary image of pimp Dickens*

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:38 AM

CITIZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
Hey, it would be following in fine British tradition! Charles Dickens wrote about theives and prostitutes all the time. And his prostitutes weren't even legalised!

I mean his prostitutes as in his characters, not his... never mind. *has scary image of pimp Dickens*

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:42 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Waaaaaaaaaah!!!! *runs away to scrub offending post from her brain*

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:11 AM

CITIZEN

It's truth, I have photographic evidence:

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:33 AM

LWAVES

Here's some links for contact:

C4
http://www.channel4.com/contact_us.html

C5 e-mail
customerservices@five.tv

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/

A few years ago I would have said that the BBC was the best bet for a Sci-Fi show but these days I'd go for C4. If by some miracle it did get picked up they might just show it on E4 as well and then we get repeats throughout the week plus a week later it all gets repeated again on C4. Lots and lots of showings.

I always thought that the BBC controlled the govt.
The 'license fee' crap where they charge what they want for usually very substandard programmes (there are some exceptions though), and endless repeats of Dads Army, Last Of The Summer Wine and other lame sitcoms.
BBC2 on the other hand has it's fair share of decent to fantastic programmes.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:39 AM

CHOO1701

Quote:
Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
Yes the british government endorsing a program where the good guys are

THEIVES
PROSTITUTES

There are cannibals and chinese swearing and sex scenes and lots of violence

Theyll jump right on board

you've never watched Channel 5 before, then

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:01 AM

DARKFLY

I think we need to send email & mail to all of the channels BBC2,C4,& C5.That whay there's more of a chance but it's going to take a lot of us to make them even consider buying Firefly.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:32 AM

SIRIUS

What about the other viewers such as myself who don't have access to BBC? A lot of Firefly's fan base is in America and many of them probably don't have BBC or C4 etc etc including myself but i wish i did since i like a number of britsh shows

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:08 PM

LOSTDOG

I think it would be great to get firefly aired anywhere it can be. In the US or UK, it doesn't matter to me. I will be happy to send some e-mails. You never know, maybe if we get enough people to respond. Anyway, I think I only pick up BBC, but that's okay. Either way, we will have to break through the alliance stronghold.

"Let's be bad guys."

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:06 PM

DARKFLY

Quote:
Originally posted by Sirius:
What about the other viewers such as myself who don't have access to BBC? A lot of Firefly's fan base is in America and many of them probably don't have BBC or C4 etc etc including myself but i wish i did since i like a number of britsh shows

But you Americans had Firefly repeated multiple times on Sci-Fi plus we Brits have never had Firefly on TV before hell you even got Serenity on HBO we won't get Serenity for a while on TV.And as for BBC,C4 programs which you can't get I feel exactly the same way cause us Brits can't get all your TV channels.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:09 PM

NWUKSTEVE

Quote:
Originally posted by Darkfly:
But you Americans had Firefly repeated multiple times on Sci-Fi plus we Brits have never had Firefly on TV before hell you even got Serenity on HBO we won't get Serenity for a while on TV.And as for BBC,C4 programs which you can't get I feel exactly the same way cause us Brits can't get all your TV channels.

Firefly has aired multiple times on UK Sci-Fi (ISTR they had the world premiers of Trash, Heart Of Gold & The Message). And Sky Box Office are currently showing Serenity. However, I do agree it would be nice to have Firefly on a main UK network, even though it only aired on a main US network (Fox) once, with (apparently) not much success. And I agree that BBC2 would be the ideal choice over C4/E4 and five.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:14 PM

SIRIUS

most of the shows we have are crap. and the few shows that we have that are good are often stolen from the lads across the pond such as The Office. But then again you guys had Red Dwarf (my favorite brit show) and it never took off in America, in fact i have a copy of the pilot episode which is of extremely poor quality and fails in comparison to the british version since you cant beat Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn, Danny J. Jules, and Chris Barrie and Norman Lovett

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:18 PM

DINALT

Great idea for BBC2 to pick it up, might bring a few more fans in.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:30 PM

DARKFLY

I don't like the BBC(1 or 2) anymore,first reason is they cancelled 7 Days(US sci-fi series),second they started to buy no more sci-fi series,thirdly they can't even be bothered to show the sci-fi series anymore as repeats(even though Star Trek:TOS & TNG are being repeated on Satardays).Plus there a*sholes which keep raising the TV license fee but are making more & more cr*p every year.So that's why I prefer C4 or Five to get Firefly but we should all ask all of them(BBC2,C4,Five) to buy Firefly.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:16 PM

SIMONF

The BBC didn't pick up Firefly when Serenity came out so I think it's less than likely they will show the repeats now. I just can't seem them airing a show that's four years old.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:17 PM

YLESS

So are people actually going to do this or just debate? The general consensus seems to be those three so get writing people, and not here to say the same things. A few dribs and drabs of letters spread over years wont affect anything, it needs to be hard, fast and consistent, like in the Shoreshank Redemption (sorry, can't think of a Firefly example of mass letter campaigning - yes I can, the broadcast in Serenity, although that wasn't long term enough).

Anyway, we need it in this country.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:29 PM

DARKFLY

But first we need to alert all UK Browncoats that we're doing this before we send all our email & mail,so here's my plan I'm going to create a thread later today which will be have the links & explain what needs to be done,we need every UK Browncoat on the site to see this thread or the thread I will create,I will also include the date at which I think we should all start emailing & mailing so don't do it right now cause not everybody know's about that were doing this & if we do it when I say then will get the maximum number of Browncoats emailing & mailing.

I'll create the thread this evening(between 6pm-9pm) cause I think that's the time the most UK Browncoats will be online cause some of us do have jobs.

I think the date at which we set to start emailing & mailing should be around at least 1 month time.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:03 PM

MRT

I think the date at which we set to start emailing & mailing should be around at least a week's time.

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... just remember that this is August so we need to think of those Browncoats who are on holiday... start in a week and then aim for a peak in 2-3 weeks when we'll have more numbers back in the trenches...

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:13 PM

DARKFLY

Quote:
Originally posted by MrT:

... just remember that this is August so we need to think of those Browncoats who are on holiday... start in a week and then aim for a peak in 2-3 weeks when we'll have more numbers back in the trenches...

Okay I agree I've edited my post.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:25 PM

ANDMAN

Quote:
Originally posted by Darkfly:
C4 have Stargate SG-1.

But the thing is, C4 have recently abandoned the "Sci-fi zone"

And C4 has gone downhill recently.

They got rid of all the friday night comedy recently.

Sure, it's more time to watch FF and S but still.

To be honest, I doubt that anybody on analogue TV (Where you use an arial) are likely to show it. Digital TV is probably the best option.

For example, every time a new series of the simpsons comes about, Sky are the first to show it in the UK.

But seeing as I don't have digital TV myself, I can't suggest who.

Anybody who disagrees with any of this violently can do so. But no matter what you do, "You can't take the sky from me".

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 11:31 PM

DARKFLY

Quote:
Originally posted by andman:
Quote:
Originally posted by Darkfly:
C4 have Stargate SG-1.

But the thing is, C4 have recently abandoned the "Sci-fi zone"

And C4 has gone downhill recently.

They got rid of all the friday night comedy recently.

Well actually the only reason the sci-fi zone isn't on at the moment is because Enterprise finished & SG-1 finished the 7th season 4 or 5 months ago & the 8th season is coming back in the next few months so the sci-fi zone will back soon.

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