Subj : Re: Rome To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 15:50:41 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3oqqbsF79e50U1@individual.net: > weirdwolf wrote: >> Jim Larson wrote in >> news:Xns96D0D190D2A83v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >> >>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>> >>>> Jim Larson wrote: >>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote in >>>>>> news:Xns96D0E8453623Ejoiwhnanri@66.26.32.9: >>>>>> >>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote in >>>>>> news:Xns96D126407DAAr73u67jw56nas@ >>>>>>> 62.253.170.163: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote in >>>>>> news:3opgo7F6rb84U1 >>>>>>>> @individual.net: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This show is really shaping up into something good now. Two >>>>>>>>> thumbs >>>>>> up. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Lucius and Titus have a Cyclops and Wolverine thing going on. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I liked the crude latin scrawled on the wall of the houseof >>>>>>>> Atia after the riot. >>>>>>>> For those of us rusty in our latin: >>>>>>>> http://makeashorterlink.com/?N2A012BCB >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Atia sucks dicks. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I know I just thought that it was such a good link I couldn't >>>>>> resist using it. >;-] >>>>> >>>>> (I forgot to watch this again... >>>>> >>>>> Robin, to the Usenet! >>>>> >>>>> ) >>>> >>>> Don't you have On Demand *and* Tivo? >>> >>> It's not set up for TiVo-ing (must rectify this while I decide >>> whether it sucks or rocks), and I hadn't even thought of On Demand. >>> Good Trafford. Have a cookie. >>> >> >> What I find interesting is that it was written and directed by Brit's >> and done by the Beeb. It's apparently going to be shown on "normal" >> terrestrial Tv over here that everyone can get. Do you think you >> could get a show like this on free tv over there? >> I was reading an article in which they said that they may do a >> second >> series depending on the sucess of this one, the sets are all stored. > > Co-produced with HBO. Which can be read as, we needed the money from America. It was really a remark on the idea that all your sex and violence is on HBO and of course the news. We were talking about some other show a while ago and somebody was saying it would be the only place that you could get a show like that on air. > The sets used ~5 acres of space, that must be a > large bin they put them in. ;) Well the temple of Jupiter does seem awfully close to the forum >;-] I have just dug the relevant article out of the recycling bill and it states that after the first three episodes "they shut down production and retooled." Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .