Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Yeah ... I'm not sure what exactly works with this post, but I'm with Russell - a great piece of work.
And Happy Birthday for tomorrow.
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The Region 4 DVD set is just the 7 episodes too.
No. R4 got the original version and the 3-disc 10-ep "special edition", with its bonus features.
Both were released the same day, but for some reason (in Wellington at least) the special edition was available from ?__Sounds__? only for a time. You can certainly purchase both now in NZ, anyway. A number of countries however only received the special edition, but from memory, they were all non-English speaking countries - which I may hazard a guess probably saw the show later so received a dubbed or subtitled 10-ep series first time 'round.
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not the edited 7 eps that screened on TV One a while back...
That's a little unfair. TV One screened the series as originally made available. The ten episode version is basically a director's cut they produced when the show was well-received.
I note that according to their website, however, that there are plans for a Long Way Down.
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there really has been absolutely nothing on the telly
Um... Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (replacing Midday when there wasn't tennis), 'though I'm not sure what episode they're planning for today, because they've gotten through the whole series...
Only-been-on-twice-before episodes of The Simpsons (replacing CLive).
Dickens in America ('though maybe this is one of those things you've been catching up on).
Ends of the Earth - an NZ celebrity-travelling show that is actually watchable.
If-you-don't-have-the-DVDs - Blackadder.
Letterman - if only I could receive Prime...
Olsen Twins movies :)
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I was perhaps the only person who caught this NZ mini-series the first time it aired, and I thought it was quite good, but TV3 are repeating it this Thursday and Friday.
PA's own Fiona Rae notes in the Listener in her TV Week column:
"The mystery wrapped in the enigma that is New Zealand television spat out this series last year and the general consensus was, “What were they thinking?” Perhaps it was too mysterious and enigmatic for just one viewing and all will become clear upon a second."
But the question I have is how do TV3 intend to fit a six-hour tv series into the four hours they've given it?
I know that sydicated shows have minutes shaved to allow extra advertising, and there's occasionally editing of shows and movies to make them acceptable for free-to-air broadcast, but cutting a third of a series and leaving it remotely intelligible must have been a major effort!
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David Ritchie noted:
"TVNZ are showing Torchwood without mentioning it's a spin-off from Doctor Who? I can envision a lot of confused viewers, especially around Cyberwoman and the finale..."
No more than the confusion there might have been when Touched by an Angel, and it's spin-off Promised Land were aired out of synch, and at least some time of different channels - not just referencing, but actual cross-over episodes, starting in one series one week (in the US) and finishing in the other later in the week.
Or Diagnosis Murder (airing most recently on Prime), which had similar crossover episodes with Promised Land, and also Mission Impossible, Mannix and Jake and the Fat Man - none of which (I think) have ever aired on Prime.
New Zealand has had frequent anomalies in it's schedule, about ten years back, when reality TV series following people's work lives were starting to kick-off TV3 had a minor hit in Airport which TV One had already aired during BBC World. This is a pretty minor one.
The Herald article certainlt makes good reading for someone like me with only TV1, TV2, and TV3 to watch, statements like this "TVNZ hopes its Primeval will take over from where Prime's Walking with Dinosaurs left off" give me some pause - Walking with Dinosaurs may have repeated on Prime a couple of years back, but it first aired on TV One.
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peter - not quite - they actually replace it with an extra half-hour of Eating Media Lunch.
TV2's Friday line-up is movie, followed by EML (half hour), Entourage (half hour), Tommy Lee Goes to College (half hour).
This week it was movie, EML (hour), Tommy Lee Goes to College (in its normal spot).
Entourage is back next week, moving a half-hour earlier into EML's spot directly after the movie (9:45 next Friday, following Scooby Doo, and 9:55 the following week following Scobby Doo 2).
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Munter?
He's up there in second place, but doesn't everyone love Aurora?
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Ben - the argument might be that Nandor has not taken a stand for the consumer - the Greens opposed sending a bill to select committee that would mean owners of IPods weren't criminals.
They currently are, and the Greens oppose even allowing public discussion of a law that would change that.
I'm with DPF - point out all the flaws in the bill, but vote for it to be sent to select committee so they can be fixed.
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The letter is here
(ain't the Internet wonderful)Salient quotes:
before Ng’s piece was published I’d already made a correction to my Herald on Sunday column, which indeed should have read “four out of five teenage pregnancies in Asian women ended in abortion in 2003”. That was not, as Ng alleges, intended to demonstrate a callous disregard for human life, but to highlight a concern – contraception is much less harmful to women than abortion. It’s irrelevant that the Asian teenage pregnancy rate is low when these women could unnecessarily be putting their future health at risk.
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Ng alleges my statistics were wrong. He’s the one who’s mistaken. He uses “crime statistics” involving all Asians aged 0 to 99 to show “the number of offences attributed to Asians in 2001 was 3182. In 2005? 3182”, a difference of “precisely zero”.
My North & South article clearly stated: “Statistics New Zealand national apprehension figures from 1996 to 2005, total offences committed by Asiatics (not including Indian) [Statistics’ definition, not mine] aged 17 to 50 rose 53 per cent from 1791 to 2751.”