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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 12:36:53 GMT
Catweazle Series 3, opening with the balloon crashing, would be an instant pre-order for me. Also, a reimagining of Rentaghost please....Siobhan Redmond as McWitch, and Matthew Waterhouse could do a belter of a Mr Claypole - he can even sing the theme tune.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 12:55:18 GMT
Catweazle Series 3, opening with the balloon crashing, would be an instant pre-order for me. Also, a reimagining of Rentaghost please....Siobhan Redmond as McWitch, and Matthew Waterhouse could do a belter of a Mr Claypole - he can even sing the theme tune. Dunno, is there a market for these old shows? Has Terrahawks done well? As for the casting choice of Matthew Waterhouse, my god! He's one of the worst actors ever!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 13:01:59 GMT
Catweazle Series 3, opening with the balloon crashing, would be an instant pre-order for me. Also, a reimagining of Rentaghost please....Siobhan Redmond as McWitch, and Matthew Waterhouse could do a belter of a Mr Claypole - he can even sing the theme tune. Dunno, is there a market for these old shows? Has Terrahawks done well? As for the casting choice of Matthew Waterhouse, my god! He's one of the worst actors ever! Yes, because I'm seriously mooting these as ideas. Hence the winking emojis. And is there a market for old shows? Well, not big markets but do you think BF operate with anything less than tight margins anyway? Every range is a risk outside of Doctor Who. There's always a market if you can target the niche audience. You do tend to only go a few posts at a time without declaring something or someone "the worst ever" - it's a rather negative way of going about your day to day! Sylvester McCoy was "One of the worst actors ever" last night....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 13:09:51 GMT
Dunno, is there a market for these old shows? Has Terrahawks done well? As for the casting choice of Matthew Waterhouse, my god! He's one of the worst actors ever! Yes, because I'm seriously mooting these as ideas. Hence the winking emojis. And is there a market for old shows? Well, not big markets but do you think BF operate with anything less than tight margins anyway? Every range is a risk outside of Doctor Who. There's always a market if you can target the niche audience. You do tend to only go a few posts at a time without declaring something or someone "the worst ever" - it's a rather negative way of going about your day to day! Negative way of going about my day to day? No, just posting my opinion. He's terrible.
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Post by bobod on Feb 18, 2018 16:41:54 GMT
Yes, because I'm seriously mooting these as ideas. Hence the winking emojis. And is there a market for old shows? Well, not big markets but do you think BF operate with anything less than tight margins anyway? Every range is a risk outside of Doctor Who. There's always a market if you can target the niche audience. You do tend to only go a few posts at a time without declaring something or someone "the worst ever" - it's a rather negative way of going about your day to day! Negative way of going about my day to day? No, just posting my opinion. He's terrible. And, as DavyG says,chances are your opinion will be a wildly negative one. MW is an excellent spoken word book reader both performance-wise and studio-craft-wise. And he's very popular in the Dark Shadows forum with the listeners there.
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Post by mrperson on Feb 18, 2018 22:59:21 GMT
Goosebumps?
Wasn't that a version of some kind of books for kids called "Fear"-something, which itself was a watered down version of Stephen King?
I have a lot of faith in BF, but I don't think that's for me....
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Post by Ela on Feb 20, 2018 2:32:58 GMT
Goosebumps were short horror novels aimed at kids. My kids read them and found them somewhat scary for a brief period of their lives. But most of the set ups were too simplistic and laughable to be be truly scary. Still, they were fun little books, for what they were.
We still have some of those books around the house somewhere.
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Post by omega on Feb 20, 2018 3:23:42 GMT
Goosebumps were short horror novels aimed at kids. My kids read them and found them somewhat scary for a brief period of their lives. But most of the set ups were too simplistic and laughable to be be truly scary. Still, they were fun little books, for what they were. We still have some of those books around the house somewhere. Scholastic also published Animorphs, which got very dark for a series targeted at kids. K A Applegate, who wrote Animorphs along with her husband Michael Grant (who wrote the very, very dark Gone series), also wrote some more mature novels that Scholastic published, Everworld and Remnants, after Animorphs took off in popularity.
Both Goosebumps and Animorphs went for a surprisingly long time. Both were able to spawn live action TV shows, of which Goosebumps is clearly better remembered (the episodes adapting individual books, which were stand-alone except for a few recurring elements like Slappy or the haunted camera). Goosebumps even got a theatrical film a few years ago, with the cast interested in doing a sequel.
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Post by Ela on Feb 20, 2018 4:16:59 GMT
Yeah, my kids read even more Animorphs than Goosebumps. I had to hide the books cause they were reading them instead of doing their homework. We still have a bunch of those books around the house. They never got to the last Animorphs book but a friend who did told them how it ended.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 21:49:10 GMT
Oh, I loved Animorphs and I wish it was better remembered generally in pop culture. Incredibly dark and uncompromising at times. Re-reading the books now and it hurts just how much K.A. and Michael Grant articulate that these are kids dealing with their situation. And re-reading the David triolgey.....Jesus, Christ. HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET AWAY WITH THAT AT SCHOLASTIC? Honestly, the quality of the series is AMAZING given they had to write a book month after month (before inevitably having to bring in ghostwriters after #25). I also reliase now I had a huge crush on Tobias as a kid
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 22, 2018 12:24:35 GMT
Wasnt the TV series quite kiddified?
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Post by omega on Feb 22, 2018 20:30:13 GMT
Wasnt the TV series quite kiddified? Animorphs? It was a science fiction show on a 90s Nickelodeon budget. The Dracon Beams were flashlights, the Andalite costume was only shown in shadow and even then it looked dodgy while there was only on Hork Bajir, and the Taxxons weren't even attempted. The lead actors were good though (Shaun Ashmore went on to pay Iceman in the X-Men films), so it wasn't all bad. It was limited by a tiny budget and poor writing at times.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 23, 2018 12:07:52 GMT
Wasnt the TV series quite kiddified? Animorphs? It was a science fiction show on a 90s Nickelodeon budget. The Dracon Beams were flashlights, the Andalite costume was only shown in shadow and even then it looked dodgy while there was only on Hork Bajir, and the Taxxons weren't even attempted. The lead actors were good though (Shaun Ashmore went on to pay Iceman in the X-Men films), so it wasn't all bad. It was limited by a tiny budget and poor writing at times. sounds like something they could properly attempt now then
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 13:19:51 GMT
Animorphs? It was a science fiction show on a 90s Nickelodeon budget. The Dracon Beams were flashlights, the Andalite costume was only shown in shadow and even then it looked dodgy while there was only on Hork Bajir, and the Taxxons weren't even attempted. The lead actors were good though (Shaun Ashmore went on to pay Iceman in the X-Men films), so it wasn't all bad. It was limited by a tiny budget and poor writing at times. sounds like something they could properly attempt now then I don't think it can really be done faithfully, it's very much a novel series. The kids start out as twelve year olds, not teenagers, so it's a completely different ball game to the Hunger Games. The kids battles with the Yeerks get awfully bloody and the kids actually kill the Yeerks hosts as well and it really can't be ignored or toned down, the effect of commiting these acts of violence, no matter how justified, is a HUGE part of the series and the series very much lives in grey morality. The kids get PTSD early on, one of the Animorphs begins to lose herself in the violence of the war, there's an arc about the kids taking in a new member who turns on them and without going into spoilers, it ends on a VERY dark note, that I can't see a Hollywood executive ever touching with a ten foot pole for pre-teens, Jake, the leader of the Animorphs, has to stop the Yeerk controlling his brother from killing his Dad at one point and the kids make heartbreaking uncomfortable choices with no easy answers.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 24, 2018 12:01:50 GMT
sounds like something they could properly attempt now then I don't think it can really be done faithfully, it's very much a novel series. The kids start out as twelve year olds, not teenagers, so it's a completely different ball game to the Hunger Games. The kids battles with the Yeerks get awfully bloody and the kids actually kill the Yeerks hosts as well and it really can't be ignored or toned down, the effect of commiting these acts of violence, no matter how justified, is a HUGE part of the series and the series very much lives in grey morality. The kids get PTSD early on, one of the Animorphs begins to lose herself in the violence of the war, there's an arc about the kids taking in a new member who turns on them and without going into spoilers, it ends on a VERY dark note, that I can't see a Hollywood executive ever touching with a ten foot pole for pre-teens, Jake, the leader of the Animorphs, has to stop the Yeerk controlling his brother from killing his Dad at one point and the kids make heartbreaking uncomfortable choices with no easy answers. Give it to HBO or Netflix lol
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Post by pazzer on Feb 24, 2018 17:32:43 GMT
Read the books as a kid my favourite been werewolf of fever swamp. Also watched the tv show though it wasn't as good as are you afraid of the dark.
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