Topic: Name This TV Series

[addicted2dvd]

No idea what so ever! 

[Najemikon]

Luvmunkey, I think you are going to have to tell them answer and accept the credit. I thought this was smegging well-travelled! Ah, well. Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ... 

[Kathy]

Luvmunkey, I think you are going to have to tell them answer and accept the credit. I thought this was smegging well-travelled! Ah, well. Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ... 

One of us is from another planet - smegging?!?  What, pray tell, is a smegging?

After you get done with breakfast and smoking kipper...

[Najemikon]

I can't smegging stand it any longer. The answer is Red Dwarf. 

www.reddwarf.co.uk/

The funniest sci-fi show ever:"A radiation leak destroys all members of a mining ship in space except for Dave Lister, a chicken soup machine repairman. He is revived three million years later and spends time with Holly, the ship's senile computer; Arnold Rimmer, a holographic projection of his dead bunkmate; Cat, a life-form that evolved from Lister's pet; and Kryten, an android."

The DVDs should be available in the US and you should get them. It's like Star Trek on drugs.

[Kathy]

And the next posting is...?

[lovemunkey187]

Still Najers' board, I knew the answer but didn't post the title, so it still with the fella with Scarlett Johanson's face

[RossRoy]

The DVDs should be available in the US and you should get them. It's like Star Trek on drugs.

They are available in the US (or at least in Canada). I have them right here, but I've only seen one episode back when I decided to actually buy it 

[Najemikon]

How many Red Dwarf DVDs have you got? It's just I know a lot of people struggled with the low budget series one. Series two was a marked improvement, but series three through to six at least are the absolute best. Kryten had only appeared in one episode in series two, but they changed the actor in series three, made him a regular with an American accent and called him "novelty condom head" from time to time!

By the way, remember I'm talking British here. Each series was only six episodes!

I'll find another pic shortly. Of something you might half a chance at ...  (new smiley!)

[RossRoy]

How many Red Dwarf DVDs have you got? It's just I know a lot of people struggled with the low budget series one. Series two was a marked improvement, but series three through to six at least are the absolute best. Kryten had only appeared in one episode in series two, but they changed the actor in series three, made him a regular with an American accent and called him "novelty condom head" from time to time!

I have all 8 series 

By the way, remember I'm talking British here. Each series was only six episodes!

That's been puzzling me.. Why 6 episodes only? It's the same thing with The Office, and that ran for only 2 seasons 

[Najemikon]

Quality over quantity! 

I don't know is the honest answer. Maybe it's down to writers. I know American shows are often like machines, with over a dozen writers generating material. Red Dwarf had two. Series eight hired other writers when one of the pair decided to stop; famously it didn't really work and there's been no series 9. The Office only had two writers as well. Older shows were the same, like Fawlty Towers or Porridge.

In recent years, some programs have pushed into 8. I notice Doctor Who is about 12 or 13, but interestingly, Russell T. Davies is taking a Joss Whedon approach and writing the arcs, but not the fillers. It must be very daunting on US TV to get a pilot made and then someone says, "Great! We'll have 22 more, thanks!".

On one hand, shows here have a better chance of being commissioned because their few episodes are cheap and of surviving because a single writer can alter his approach very quickly and hopefully earn a series 2. On the other hand, you still need an audience and they only get six chances to see it!

[Najemikon]

Ok, in an effort to leave this board to someone else, I present ...

[Kathy]

It looks like it might be from the Sopranos but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

[Najemikon]

Well done! It is The Sopranos. Your board, Kathy ... 

[Kathy]

 

[addicted2dvd]

the picture is a little small to be sure... but it looks like In Living Color... not 100% sure... but looks a little like Jim Carey's Character of the Fire Marshal??