The Television Thread

[Rick]

Anyone seen the british version of life on mars? great series!!!

Theres a non-British version?

Watched the first few episodes. Not bad, but haven't seen it reappear since.

The Yanks have apparently made a rip off of it, apparently it sucked.

[Sterlk]

Gotta love responses that occur 3 weeks late.

The US version's airing on Ten, they just changed the timeslot... think it's Friday now. Anyway, I quite like it.

In other TV news I just found out that Life has been cancelled. That was one of my favourites, disappointing it was canned, especially after the explosive season finale.

Got to see Crews kill Roman Nevikov with his thumb though.

[Rick]

Gotta love responses that occur 3 weeks late.

The US version's airing on Ten, they just changed the timeslot... think it's Friday now. Anyway, I quite like it.

In other TV news I just found out that Life has been cancelled. That was one of my favourites, disappointing it was canned, especially after the explosive season finale.

Got to see Crews kill Roman Nevikov with his thumb though.

So I was busy

Have you seen the British one? Most people I have known who have seen both hated the Yank one.

[Shadow Boxer]

I went and saw the X-men movie at the new VMax theatre in George street last night (best sound of any theatre i've been in, almost lifted you off your chair).

It's a bit hard to take Hugh Jackman seriously but great movie

[Stringer]

Masterchef and Merlin on ten are two new good shows

[Nick]

I went and saw the X-men movie at the new VMax theatre in George street last night (best sound of any theatre i've been in, almost lifted you off your chair).

It's a bit hard to take Hugh Jackman seriously but great movie

its copped abit of a pasting by people but i went and saw it with my g/f last friday night at La Premiere in the Ent. Quarter. I loved every minute it of it
Ryan Reynolds almost stole the show, but the big surprise was Leiv Shreiber (sp?) who i was stetchy on but thought he played Victor so well
Awesome movie, cant wait for Magneto, Wolverine 2 and Deadpool, which all look like getting to go ahead now with Wolverine's success

[Shadow Boxer]

It is very cool, two hours flies by in no time..

[Chickas shoe]

Trailer Park Boys

[Shadow Boxer]

Hell yeh, is that back on fox, I haven't seen it for a while.....

[Chickas shoe]

Nah, I'm rocking the DVD of series 4 at the moment - Samsquanchs!

[Shadow Boxer]

I will have to download some on the weekend,

I'm thinking of going into business collecting shopping carts from the creek down behind the carpark

[glassandahalf]

trailer park boys is probably my favourite show ever.

[Shezza]

trailer park boys is probably my favourite show ever.

Oath - by far. Hence my avatar ...

"Smokes, lets go"

[glassandahalf]

"lahey, why dont you make like a tree and f___ off!"

[Shezza]

someone needs to warn the storm about sh&t hawks tonight... that'd rattle em.

[Manbush]

Great show on ABC2 last night, "Should i smoke dope". A housewife researched and experimented with it, lol her 1st attempt was 12 times what the cafe owner recommended

[Sterlk]

Series finale of the US Life on Mars tonight... I already know the ending and why he's in 1973, a combination of curiosity and the Internet ruined it for me.

I've put the Wikipedia "explanation" in white text below to avoid spoiling it for people who want to watch, highlight it if you're interested in reading it.

At the end of the series, it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 and 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the onboard computer of a spacecraft that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling, and Skelton on the first ever manned mission to the planet Mars, in 2035. The crew he worked with in 1973 were just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. His room number, "2B", is his sleeping unit; his old precinct, "Hyde 125", is his identification number; his neighbor, Windy, is the name of the computer A.I.; Frank Morgan, an FBI agent in the series, is the Mission Control flight director. To sustain the crew, their minds were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but Sam's choice of a scenario where he was a police officer circa 2008 was abruptly changed to a 1973 setting by a meteor-storm induced glitch in the computer. This conclusion is markedly different from the conclusion of the original UK series, but is still left ambiguous as the first step on Mars depicts Gene Hunt's signature shoe stepping into the sand.

I don't really know what to think of that, a lot of people are apparantly disappointed in it... but I'll just watch and make up my own mind

[Guy Incognito]

Series 2 of Flight of The Conchords is on SBS on Monday

[Millsy]

Anyone seen the new Terminator movie yet ! Im going to try get to Cairns ans see it soon !

Transformers 2 is out on June 24 i think.

[Guy Incognito]

Futurama has been given another series

http://www.yourtv.com.au/news/?i=163363

[Sterlk]

You only just found out?

Bookmark this:

http://www.tvsquad.com/

It's a US site, but seeing as most shows come out there first...

They've got a lot of 'features' with top 10 lists and "what's on tonight" etc., but I find them really good for TV news.

[Sterlk]

So who's seen the new Transformers? I went and saw it on Saturday, damn it was good.

Got in just before the end of the previews though, front row cinemax... never again.

[yeh raiders]

TV casualty: All Saints axed after 11 years

The long-running medical drama All Saints has been axed after 11 years on air.

Seven's director of programming Tim Worner said the decision was a financial one, blaming increased production costs and tougher competition.

"All Saints is a show which Seven and viewers have loved. However, an audience shift and increased production costs are behind this tough decision," he said.

At the peak of its success it won the 2001, 2002 and 2003 TV Week Logie Awards for most popular program and was nominated for outstanding drama six years in a row.

But in the past two years its audience has declined, and speculation has dogged the series for six months that cancellation was imminent.

Seven has also expanded its drama portfolio to include two new hits, the crime drama City Homicide and the family drama Packed To The Rafters.

In its 11-year history, the show has featured some of Australia's highest profile actors, including Georgie Parker, Erik Thomson, Jolene Anderson, Wil Traval, Belinda Emmett and Josh Quong Tart.

In June, Seven announced that production for the show's 12th season in 2010 would be trimmed from the usual order of 40 episodes to only 24.

Today's decision means the show will now finish at the end of this year.

The final episode, 493, will be filmed at the end of August.

Worner paid tribute to the hard work of the cast and crew, saying they deserved "the highest admiration and respect for what they have achieved".

All Saints has made a significant contribution to the rich history of Australian drama."The series began on air on February 24, 1998, and starred Georgie Parker as nursing unit manager Terri Sullivan.

Her romance with Dr Mitch Stevens (Erik Thomson) was the major driver in its first half-dozen years.

It has since undergone two facelifts, the first in 2004 when the focus was shifted from the fictional "ward 17" to the emergency department, and then in 2009, a title change to All Saints: Medical Response Unit and another focus shift to accident and emergency scenes.

Only one member of the show's original cast still remains: Judith McGrath, who plays patient liason nurse Yvonne "Von" Ryan.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/tv-casua ... -def7.html

- Poor Von -

[Nick]

492 eps too late imo

terrible show

[Raidersrawesome]

**** now the missus might want to talk to me.

[-TW-]

what a shame

that show sucked worse then some of the ones that have been canned after a week

[Raidersrawesome]

Not sure if other have been tuning into this but the 1st 2 weeks of it have been some good fights.
Tonight its on at 9pm and the main event is John ( stick my finga up ya bum ) Hoppa against Big Bob. Its should be a good fight. They dont like each other and Hoppa broke Bobs arm in their first fight.

Tune in.

[Shadow Boxer]

I went along last night, pretty average fights but a good fun night out. did they televise the ladies fight ? they were going at it.

[Raidersrawesome]

I went along last night, pretty average fights but a good fun night out. did they televise the ladies fight ? they were going at it.

yeah they did and it was the best fight they showed last night. there is no way I'd like to get hit by them.
Hoppa's fight was crap , mainly because of Bobs tactics.
Young Edwards looks like he could punch out a tank, but his fight was a miss match.

i know one of the ring side judges , didnt really get to see him because of the camera was on his side all night.

[Shadow Boxer]

The girl that won had 10-0 record with 7 knockouts. There was about 1500 people there, not a bad turn out for cold thursday night in Canberra. Everyone was pretty close to the action though and there was lots of funny comments and things flying around. Best laugh I've had in ages.

Saw Harrison and Shillington there and what appeared to be most of Canberra's organised crime community

[yeh raiders]

I watched the Hoppa fight, what a joke that was!

[Shadow Boxer]

yep, Hoppa has no style but you wouldn't want to be on the end of one of those haymakers he throws. You could hear the impact.

[Raiders Lime Milk]

It was one of the many reasons I avoid free-to-air like the plague. I'm sure it will be replaced by something equally crap.

[jedski]

A tv show that I've watched over the last few weeks is the original UK series of Life On Mars. A brilliant show, with a cracker soundtrack.

For anyone who's seen the US "remake", don't be put off from watching the original, it's much better. And doesn't have the crap ending that the yanks gave it when it was axed.


I'm currently halfway through the spin-off series "Ashes To Ashes" that's running on the ABC at the moment. Didn't think it'd rank anywhere close to Life On Mars, but the Season 1 finale was better than I'd hoped.

[beetlejuice]

skins is back on SBS

Im also getting into shameless, a very good show!