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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 3, 2018 18:49:57 GMT
Yes the TV series Highlander was outstanding. Nice historical stuff in there, and well arranged sword fights. The lead was called, err, Adrian Paul. Or was it Paul Adrian... Anyway, very watchable chap and a good martial artist. Adrian Paul. Also kno... I was going to say "known for", but I'm unsure if anyone other than me watched the second season of the War of The Worlds TV show... Karl There's a War of the Worlds TV show..? |
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Post by legios on Feb 3, 2018 18:53:24 GMT
There's a War of the Worlds TV show..? There _was_ a War of the Worlds TV Show. It is long in the past. And there it should probably remain. It was...poor... Karl (EDIT- Not "oh jings if I could only escape from the horrible abomination!" poor like the Tom Cruise film. Poor in the sense of "yes STV, I can see why this is on at 00:00hrs on a Friday night") |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 3, 2018 18:59:08 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 3, 2018 19:27:35 GMT
There's a War of the Worlds TV show..? No no no. Don't go there. Just, leave it be. Did that one ever make it to late night ITV? I remember renting some episodes on VHS and being horrified at what they'd done. By the way, why is Big Finish's new WotW production not called War of the Worlds? The book is out of copyright, has someone copyrighted the title? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 3, 2018 19:36:20 GMT
There's a War of the Worlds TV show..? No no no. Don't go there. Just, leave it be. Did that one ever make it to late night ITV? I remember renting some episodes on VHS and being horrified at what they'd done. Oh yes, hence The Kaptain's STV comment above. (EDIT- Not "oh jings if I could only escape from the horrible abomination!" poor like the Tom Cruise film. Poor in the sense of "yes STV, I can see why this is on at 00:00hrs on a Friday night") I seem to recall LWT running it Saturday lunch time in the very late 80s/early 90s. I may still have some on VHS somewhere. |
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Post by blueshift on Feb 3, 2018 19:39:02 GMT
Didn't they completely change the series premise in season 2 to make it even less like War of the Worlds?
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Post by legios on Feb 3, 2018 20:27:50 GMT
Didn't they completely change the series premise in season 2 to make it even less like War of the Worlds? Yep. They had a second wave of aliens come from their homeworld (specifically identified as not being Mars, but a planet called Morthrax) and basically execute the first lot for failing to conquer the Earth. They killed of several of the first seasons regulars and managed to make the government collapse (or something - it was never entirely clear) but still didn't actually manage to seize power per-se. Yeah... the first season had been stupid and badly written, but the second season was just plain incoherent. Karl |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 3, 2018 21:12:45 GMT
I do vaguely remember all that. Maybe it did reach the late night Friday genre TV slot on TVS. I have fond memories of first encountering shows like Alien Nation and The Highwayman through that.
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Post by Jim on Feb 3, 2018 22:29:17 GMT
I remember this being on randomly late at night on terrestrial when I was a teenager. I thought season 2 with the new dystopian feel was an improvement, but the only episode I remember at all clearly involved the resistance using their contacts and resources to get the ingredients together for a birthday cake for a girl. I liked that one!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2018 23:33:58 GMT
I caught random episodes late night on STV. It was pish and then as the Kaptain has pointed out turned into an even pisher show in season 2!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2018 23:35:29 GMT
There's a War of the Worlds TV show..? No no no. Don't go there. Just, leave it be. Did that one ever make it to late night ITV? I remember renting some episodes on VHS and being horrified at what they'd done. By the way, why is Big Finish's new WotW production not called War of the Worlds? The book is out of copyright, has someone copyrighted the title? I wonder if it might have something to do with the Wells Estate. They have now authorised an 'official' sequel (a novel by Stephen Baxter - it was hyper shite) so perhaps that is why BF's production has a different title? -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Feb 4, 2018 0:14:34 GMT
Apparently it's because Jeff Wayne claims he owns the copyright to any audio release entitled War of the Worlds and has been threatening legal action against all the productions that sprang up in the last year as the book left copyright - or so Outpost Gallifrey claims.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 4, 2018 0:14:54 GMT
Tis odd. The book has been in the public domain since last January but there is another audio drama adaptation due out now (starring Colin Morgan of Merlin fame) but that also doesn't directly use the proper book title.
There's some mumbling on old forums that Paramount hold the adaptation rights and have to give permission to use the title, but that is also disputed.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 4, 2018 0:15:41 GMT
Oh! Blueshift's google-fu is stronger than mine  |
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Post by blueshift on Feb 4, 2018 0:16:32 GMT
Tis odd. The book has been in the public domain since last January but there is another audio drama adaptation due out now (starring Colin Morgan of Merlin fame) but that also doesn't directly use the proper book title. There's some mumbling on old forums that Paramount hold the adaptation rights and have to give permission to use the title, but that is also disputed. That's not how copyright works! That's not how any of this works! BUT if someone threatens to sue that's a lot of money a small company has tangled up, even if they'll probably win. |
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Post by legios on Feb 4, 2018 10:52:54 GMT
Tis odd. The book has been in the public domain since last January but there is another audio drama adaptation due out now (starring Colin Morgan of Merlin fame) but that also doesn't directly use the proper book title. There's some mumbling on old forums that Paramount hold the adaptation rights and have to give permission to use the title, but that is also disputed. That's not how copyright works! That's not how any of this works! Indeed - by definition the right to authorise an adaptation is an element of the creator's Copyright, literally part of their Right to give or withhold permission for a Copy in part or whole of their work. Once Copyright lapses, it lapses entirely and so the work and it's constituent parts may be used by anyone in any way that they wish. Paramount's rights in terms of adaptations - which under the US model of copyright they could purchase from the original creator by definition cannot last beyond the period of the author's original copyright, they are in effect the creators rights being exercised by another individual and extinguish normally - thus they will have expired at the time they would have expired if they had never obtained them from the Wells estate. Yep, it is quite possible to threaten someone with a lawsuit which under the law they would indisputably win, but which they cannot hope to financally survive fighting. In effect, stifling their legal rights by dint of being bigger than them. Paramount would not be the first corporation to do that, and they wouldn't be the last either. Karl |
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