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From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Composer of Black Adder Title music?
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:56:33 GMT
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.

In <1992Oct5.191122.5275@cis.ohio-state.edu> geary@dragon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lord High Everything Else) writes:


>    Does anyone know who composed the title music for Black Adder? (Or

The music was composed by Philip Pope of "Who Dares Wins" fame. He
composes a lot of the comedy music around today a bit like Neil Innes did
in Monty Python days.
The follow on question to this is, has anyone seen the advert (UK) for the
latest in a long line of Sixties compilation albums ? There's a clip of
Hermans Hermits and the guitarist is the spitting image of a very young
Philip Pope (well it would have to be). Was he in HH ?
For Blackadder fans Philip Pope actually appeared in BAII episode 4 (?)
Money in which he played the artist hired to blackmail the Bishop of Bath
and Wells.
EB: Are you any good ?

Artist : No. I am a jaynius.

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From: feldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Todd J. Feldman)
Subject: Video Rental Stores in the South Bay
Originator: feldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: ca
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:58:02 GMT


Can anyone recommend a video rental store with a good selection of
British TV series?  I'm particularly interested in Morse and Yes Prime 
Minister.

Any place from Redwood City to San Jose (I'm in Mountain View) would be best, 
but I could go up to San Francisco if necessary.

Thanks VERY much for any help!!

Todd
Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv.uk:5665 uk.misc:116
From: jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jan Wysocki)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,uk.misc
Subject: Re: Ch4's Big Breakfast
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:10:07 GMT
Reply-To: jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Distribution: uk
Organization: Vision Laboratory, Queen Mary & Westfield College.

In article <BvC627.L4H@fulcrum.bt.co.uk>, igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep29.091353.23145@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
|> > It will be Mr. Redhead on Today for me from now on.
|> 
|> What other choice is there?
|> 
Why not read the paper in the bath, while you listen to your lo-fi?
(High quality loudspeakers and water vapour are not very compatible :-)

-- 
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                                      |  Queen Mary and Westfield College,
 email:    jan@dcs.qmw.ac.uk          |  Mile End Road,
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From: rkc@svl.cdc.com (Rodney Cooper)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Brit Shows: Tape 6 Episodes and Then...?
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:28:51 GMT

proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:

>Another narrow conception that British TV isn't limited by:
>that all programs must begin and end on an hour or half hour.

You mean the "random" program lengths on British TV are not just intended
to make it difficult to switch channels??

Rodney
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From: WEBER@JEDI.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Kevin Weber)
Subject: Re: Are You Being Served???
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv.uk
Organization: 78-30
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 15:45:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.165026.16737@ncsu.edu>, cmgrawbu@eos.ncsu.edu
(CHRISTOPHER M GRAWBURG) wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For some reason, none of my posts on this subject have come up yet.
> 
> So instead of typing out all that I had before---I'll cut to the chase.
> 
> 
> 
> Is Are You Being Served still taped??
> When did it stop!
> 
> Where can the actors be sent letters???
> 
> 
> I love this show!!
> 
> 
> Chris

Are you being served? is now called "Are you being served again?" and takes
place at a country hotel which was owned by the now defunct Grace Brothers.
The cast, being the only remaining workers, own and run the hotel, with
limited success, as you can imagine. It's pretty good if you liked the
original, but the actors are now a bit old, and that takes away from it a
bit. I believe they are still taping some shows at their typical snails
pace.

There was a gap in taping of the show of at least 6 or 7 years, I believe.
I think AYBS? stopped around 1982, and ARBSA? started in about 1990.

Call you're PBS station to request they carry the show.

Letters could probably get to the show via Lionheart. Sorry, no address.

kevin weber
From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Ghostbusters - victim of violent knife attack?
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:35:10 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Wednesday, 30th September 1992 at 1:34pm BST
Originator: imc@msc3.comlab

In article <1992Sep30.040348.8147@hemlock.cray.com>, marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron) wrote:

>I read (or heard) somewhere that the TV companies have two approaches to 
>dealing with the different aspect ratios of film and TV screen: the first,
>and cheapest option is to `aim' squarely at the centre of the picture, thus
>arbitrarily cutting the edges off.  This is done most often.  The second,
>far more expensive, and rarer option is to `pan' the view to the most 
>appropriate part of the scene.

>Three guesses as to which the Beeb and ITV are most likely to choose ;-)

There is also another method: "postbox" format (especially useful for
foreign films where the black stripe can be used to carry the subtitles).
The aspect ratio of the postbox can of course vary, so that differing
amounts of picture are lost at the edges.  Most films are not shown in
postbox format, but seemingly an increasing number of films change to
postbox format for short sections where appropriate.  Most film purists
would prefer a film to be shown entirely in postbox format, but apparently
some researchers have discovered that this is more annoying to the average
viewer than the loss of picture at the sides.

The technique of panning is, I believe, commonly used with films shown on UK
television.  I do not believe that most films are shown by "aiming squarely
at the centre" (for a bit of trivia, the proof that "Return of the Jedi"
was panned is that some Jabba the Hut's subtitles slowly moved leftwards
because they were too wide to fit on the screen).

In case you are interested, panning is done by a person watching the film on
a monitor and using a joystick to move a TV-shaped rectangle about on the
screen.  As for the cost, I expect that editing the film for language is
much more expensive than panning it into television format.

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Video Rental Stores in the South Bay
Date: 3 Oct 92 05:58:23 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Oct2.205802.14379@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> feldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Todd J. Feldman) writes:
>
>Can anyone recommend a video rental store with a good selection of
>British TV series?  I'm particularly interested in Morse and Yes Prime 
>Minister.
>
>Any place from Redwood City to San Jose (I'm in Mountain View) would be best, 
>but I could go up to San Francisco if necessary.
>
>Thanks VERY much for any help!!
>
>Todd

Try "Videoscope" of El Camino a little south of Page Mill. They have a
fair amount of British stuff, not sure if they have the ones you mention.
If you find a source for "Morse", please let me know.

Paul
From: nur@dgbt.doc.ca (Nur Serinken)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: I want Mr. Bean! And I'll kill to get it!
Keywords: Football is a bitch!
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:23:10 GMT
Organization: The Communications Research Centre

In article <1992Sep28.004405.22577@emr1.emr.ca> lskinner@emr1.emr.ca (Lauren Skinner) writes:
>In article <717572439.2325@zooid.guild.org> adam@zooid.guild.org (Adam Lawrence 
>Salter) writes:
>>  Hello. I tried to record an episode of Mr.Bean here in Toronto, Ontario,
>>Canada. I missed most of it because I was out and I set my VCR to record it
>>and my cat turned off my VCR, at least that's what parents swear happened ;->.
>> ...  I want this episode! Does anyone have it?
>
>Join the club!  Here in Ottawa, at least, the first 10 minutes were 
>pre-empted by football.  *ARGGHHH!!!*
>
>Why can't the CBC stagger their programming for a stinking 10 minutes?


I have found out that in Ottawa french CBC channel started showing MR.BEAN,
it is ob every friday 7pm on cable channel 11. The series are in the third
episode last friday was the department store and restaurant. I am hoping
that they will show the last saturday nights episode in a few weeks.

And the good news is that The shows are not dubbed they left it as the
original, and added few subtitles whenever there is dialog. This weeks
episode Oct 2nd was shown few weeks ago. I am hoping I will be able
to see the 10 mins of the show we missed due to the sports overrun, in 
a few weeks.


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From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: A Question of Attribution
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:44:56 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

In article <1992Oct5.214637.16738@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:

   The above drama, with James Fox as Sir Anthony Blunt, ran last night as
   this week's Masterpiece Theatre on PBS.  Fascinating, if a little
   pointless in overall plot.  Prunella Scales pulled off a tour de force
   as Her Majesty Brenda, marking the first time anyone has even attempted
   her as a character.

   So how was this received in the UK?  Has Pru dashed her chance at an MBE?

I don't remember any controversy about it.  The scene with the Queen (as
opposed to the scenes with the queen :-) ) was the highlight of the whole
thing, it was fabulous.  I don't know if in real life she's as razor-sharp as
that though.
--
	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
From: EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.UK (Steve P eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Ghostbusters - victim of violent knife attack?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 04:43:19 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

 
From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
 
Re: Ghostbusters - victim of violent knife attack?
 
> I'm reading this thread with growing astonishment.  Am I really to
> understand that UK TV is censoring movies like this?  Or are they
> just buying the same prints that US TV uses?  Depending on the film
> and the market, "offensive" stuff is variously cut, silenced,
> overdubbed, or, rarely, reshot in milder form, as in Blake Edwards
> S.O.B.  Many US TV stations complain that they would like to show
> movies uncut, but distributors won't supply the prints.  That's
> broadcast TV, of course: cable shows what it likes, mostly without
> any fudging.

Yes, I'm afraid such things are true.  The main culprit seems to be
ITV with BBC1 a close second.  BBC2 and Channel 4 are a bit kinder and
tend to leave stuff complete.

ITV were asked why they censor movies like this.  They said that before
the watershed (9pm) children might be watching.  This doesn't explain
why films shown well after 10pm are also censored.  They also indicated
that they had trouble getting anything other than the US TV versions from
the distributors.   This also doesn't hold water since satellite TV seems
to get uncensored prints.

Another side effect to all this is that films are often shown off of
US NTSC videotape, meaning they sometimes look more blurred than they should.

The worst case I've ever seen was a UK film called "Get Carter".  Other
than its most recent showing, it was always shown with 20 minutes hacked
out.  The cuts made nonsense of the plot.    Sometimes films are shown
cut because the TV company claims it cannot get a longer print. This
happens for "The Wicker Man", which is *always* shown truncated.

Some films like "Straw Dogs", "Last Tango In Paris", "The Devils" are
banned outright and it doesn't seem they will be shown in the near future.

So it isn't just US films that suffer.  Our major TV Guide (TV Times) is
supposed to flag cut films with "TV Version" but they seem to conveniently
"forget" half of the time.

In short, if you care about the movies you watch, get them on videotape
or from satellite !

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|  eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk   ()   |
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From: ccaaand@ucl.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap back on UK TV ?
Keywords: Quantum Leap, TV zone
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:59:46 GMT
Reply-To: ccaaand@ucl.ac.uk
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

cs91eeb@brunel.ac.uk (Erik Bussink) writes:

>The TV zone, says that Quantum Leap should be back from the 6th October 1992
>but the radio times doesn`t show any slot for QL, is back ? Does it
>start next week ? Any information ?

I suspect that TV Zone (and DWB also) based their information on something
that the BBC told them, but then the Beeb subsequently changed their mind.

It's not back next week (13th), but the timeslot looks like it will be
free the week after, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I was told by someone who called the BBC Duty Office that it would be
back 'in October'.

Andrew.
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From: apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:39:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Identify this documentary series, please.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk

jwp@panix.com (JongWoo Park) enquires:
>Please identify this BBC( maybe not? ) series:
>1) It's a documentary.
>2) The last frame of each episode was a photo of a grave yard with credit
>   scrolling up.
>3) It's abour WWII.
>4) I saw this in mid-70s in Korean.  The Korean title translated 
> English is something like "Tumultuous Century".

It sounds like "The World at War"; I think it was an Independent Television
production, possibly by Thames.  I have the book of the series, possibly at
home.

Andrew
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From: daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Ch4's Big Breakfast
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:13:53 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I "caught" about half an hour of the Channel 4 Big Breakfast programme this
morning. Finally, yoof programming has come to the breakfast TV slot. What a
load of amateur drivel it was too. Between presenters who hadn't a clue what
they were doing or even where they were, production values that would put
a third rate amateur theatre to shame and a director who obviously believes
that a ten second viewer attention span is a vast over-estimate on the part of
his/her marketing researchers, this show really *stank*. They even had Bob
Geldorf about twenty thousand leagues out of his depth trying to interview
Paul Keating (Australian Prime Minister). What a crock.

It will be Mr. Redhead on Today for me from now on.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Ghostbusters - victim of violent knife attack?
Date: 28 Sep 92 09:32:33 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


Am I alone in thinking that Ghostbusters broadcast the other night was
somewhat hacked about?  There were a number of violent jumps in continuity
and the fade outs for commercials seem to have been inserted at random -
sometimes not even allowing a character to finish a sentence.

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From: gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Ch4's Big Breakfast
Organization: Ironpig Arcadia, Coventry, UK
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:21:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.124846.13145@spider.co.uk> andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>In article <BvC627.L4H@fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep29.091353.23145@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
>>> It will be Mr. Redhead on Today for me from now on.
>>
>>What other choice is there?
>>
>>ian
>
>The OFF button ?
>
>I listen to rock music first thing in the morning. It wakes me up and annoys
>the neighbours.

Maybe you should turn up the volume on the Big Breakfast? It'll wake you up
and piss off the neighbours (and anyone else in the house, too)...

-- 
        	 **Ridley McIntyre - Ronin Ironpig**			
		     gdg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk
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From: EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.UK (Steve P eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: RE: Huge selection of BBC Videos in NTSC
Date: 1 Oct 1992 04:13:02 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

 
From: jhc@iscp.bellcore.com (Jonathan Clark) 

> Another person who replied to me mentioned that they had read about the
> place in a magazine. If they are violating copyright then I'd assume that
> Lionheart (the BBC's agent in the US) would be after them pretty damn quick. 
> Then again, perhaps Lionheart is only interested in the big commercial
> sellers and they have sub-licenced this place to do anything else.

Seems a bit unlikely to me.   If this place is licenced to do
such things, then it would jepordise sales when it came to OFFICIAL BBC
releases in the US of the same titles.   I'm thinking here of the Doctor
Who stuff.  The Macrovision was applied to "Tomb Of The Cybermen" specifically
to minimise the amount of pirate copies finding their way to the US (etc) prior
to its official release.

Another point is that those tapes come from a lot of different companies,
they are not all BBC.  For example there's stuff by Thames and ITC included.
It seems unlikely that they have got licenses from all these people to do
this.

> A similar case in New Jersey earlier this year resulted in the closure of
> the operation, but no action was taken against its customers. After all,
> it's the reseller who is liable for the copyright fees, not the viewer.
> And how would they know that the vendor wasn't properly licenced?

Well, in this country, the buyer would be liable to prosecution if he could
REASONABLY be expected to know that these were pirate (therefore) illegal
tapes.  For example, the dud picture quality could be pointed to and it might
be said that given this poor quality the buyer should suspect that the tapes
are not genuine.  However, whether this would be done in practice is debatable.

Anyway, is any one volunteering to give this outfit a phone and to ask what
their situation is ?   I could ring BBC Enterprises myself and see if they
are licensed, but if they aren't (as I suspect) it would be shut down by
next week - something I don't really want to do.

> The Englishman never enjoys himself except for some noble purpose.

Yeah ?  Come and visit sometime and I'll show you how we enjoy ourselves
un-nobly!

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From: gibbons@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Alan Gibbons)
Subject: Re: Eastenders Question
Reply-To: gibbons@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola ASIC Division - Design Automation
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:46:27 GMT


>In article <nrp.717851240@reading> nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk writes:
>>andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>>
>>>This may seem like a weird question but.....
>>
>>>Watching Eastenders last night gave me the strange feeling of missing an episode
>>
>>>My landlady also felt the same way. Mark woke up in bed next to the little
>>>tart Mandy (last I saw he'd gone to visit his mother-in-law), Ian is suddenly 
>>>back with his girlfriend AND trying to find money to pay back a debt I don't
>>>remember him getting !
>>
>>>Did we miss last Thursdays episode or what ? I'm sure I watched it. Is this just
>>>crap continuity (something thats never happened on Eastenders before) or have
>>>they shown this Thursdays episode first ?
>>
>>>Am I cracking up or did anyone else notice this ?
>>
>>No, I noticed it too, and I KNOW I watched Thursday's episode because I
>>watched TOTP (for no reason except that I was bored) beforehand!  We were
>>trying to figure out what we did on Thursday...
>>
>>Do you think they'll show yesterday's episode tomorrow?
>>
>
>I hope so, because I want to know why Mark went to bed with Mandy ! I hope it
>explains itself                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


SEX !
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:21:52 EDT
From: <JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Lovejoy, anyone?

Does anyone have an episode guide/list for Lovejoy?  I realize that I'm a mere
Yank :-), but I really love this show, and I know someone else who would also
like to get this info.
Also, anyone want to trade episodes or whatnot?  I have a few, but depending on
an episode guide, there might be others that I might want to get copies of.  Of
course, my stuff is in American VHS, not that version the people on the other
side of the pond are so fond of.
Another also, would anyone like to discuss the show or have any info about the
actors?

Cheers,
Jean Prior aka Chainsaw the .sig-less
From: jseaver@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Favourite Mystery Shows
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:50:03 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Sep28.211847.2575@wam.umd.edu> kaurs@next09wor.wam.umd.edu (Sharanjit Kaur) writes:
>Definitely "Prime Suspect" even though it's a mini-series. Otherwise the  
>Sherlock Holmes stories with Jeremy Brett - but only because it's been  
>running for so many years, it's become a force of habit.
>
>-S.K.

	I dunno, Prime Suspect wasn't one of my favorite miniseries.  I mean,
Helen Mirren was great, but the rest of the show was not up to snuff.  The
miniseries for "Mother Love" and "Die Kinder" (although I wish I could see
Miranda Richardson do something _funny_ again) were better.

					-Jay
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