Discussion » Blasphemy!

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Posted by bumdog, around November 2005:
 
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Hello AP! How are you? :)
Posted by bumdog, around November 2005:
 
i'm ok!

rarely online these days though :(
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
I see that! Mrs. b keeping you busy? ;)
Posted by Brock, around November 2005:
 
"Although it will be a radical reinvention, it will still be a heightened show,"

Translation: We've really fucked it up, but we will attempt to package it and extract every possible commercial bean out of a classic by surfing on the reputation that it already has. What's the point of buying the rights to something if you can't make money of it?
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
the new series would take "liberties with the original" and would not retain its arty feel.


So it'll be unrecognisable, then. For those who never saw the original, it may be OK, but for the likes of me who's seen it many times I'm sure the new version will be disappointing.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Wow, 40 years ago. In South Africa, we did not get TV until 1978! I think the apartheid government must have thought it unwise for us to open our minds a bit.
Posted by bumdog, around November 2005:
 
Back in Wales our only form of entertainment was a dancing bear until the 1998 reforms changed things.
Posted by Brock, around November 2005:
 
Tom Jones?
Posted by bumdog, around November 2005:
 
You sunk my battleship!
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
nooooooo!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 21st November 2005:
 
But it is understood the themes of paranoia, conspiracy and identity crisis would remain.


so... it's going to be a documentary covering either parliament house or the corridors of the bbc
Posted by WarHead, around 21st November 2005:
 
They should have just made it and not announced it was a Prisoner remake.

Sky One is said to be planning a new series inspired by the original .....


'Inspired.' That could mean anything.