Quote: Griff @ July 10 2009, 2:17 PM BSTMy point was there is a lot worse shit in the TV schedules to complain about than Austen adaptations.
And the bottom line is Austen adaptations pull in the punters. They're not particularly innovative or original, but they put bums on seats.
Quote: Rob H @ July 10 2009, 2:18 PM BSTWhat they said.
What he said.
Quote: chipolata @ July 10 2009, 2:19 PM BSTAnd the bottom line is Austen adaptations pull in the punters. They're not particularly innovative or original, but they put bums on seats.
Artful use of cliche to illustrate your point. Nicely done, that man. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 10 2009, 2:11 PM BSTHBO and the US networks have always known (and have re-discovered) the concept of TV drama as a way of telling a big story quite distinct from both the novel and of movies.
Plus The Life and Times of Tim is f**king great. You must be so proud to have something good done in your name at last after that ropey Mel Gibson film.
How much does writing porn film scripts pay?
Quote: David Bussell @ July 10 2009, 2:21 PM BSTPlus The Life and Times of Tim is f**king great. You must be so proud to have something good done in your name at last after that ropey Mel Gibson film.
what about that Gilliam thing with the midgets, Tim Bandits?
Quote: Rob H @ July 10 2009, 2:21 PM BSTArtful use of cliche to illustrate your point. Nicely done, that man.
Damn you and your underlining tool!!!
Quote: sootyj @ July 10 2009, 2:21 PM BSTHow much does writing porn film scripts pay?
It depends when it's released.
Ba-dum-tish.
Quote: David Bussell @ July 10 2009, 2:21 PM BSTPlus The Life and Times of Tim is f**king great. You must be so proud to have something good done in your name at last after that ropey Mel Gibson film.
What about Tim Cop with John Claude Van Damme? His best film.
Quote: Griff @ July 10 2009, 1:27 PM BSTWell the BBC relies on subscribers too, except we don't have a choice about it.
Although HBO has produced Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood... while BBC produced Bonekickers and Robin Hood.
Paradoxocally, the best service provided by the BBC is one you don't have to pay a licence fee for: BBC radio, which is unbeaten by any other radio in the world.
HBO needs to persuade people to pay a premiumn so they're willing to pay out the nose for stuff like Rome (albeit that blew the budget). But Rome looked better than a lot of motion pictures. And they were willing to pay huge sums for the script writers on their big productions.
Quote: chipolata @ July 10 2009, 2:23 PM BSTDamn you and your underlining tool!!!
And there's nothing you can do about it... 
Quote: Griff @ July 10 2009, 2:17 PM BSTNovels sell by the bucketload after being shown on TV. Middlemarch went back to the top of the bestseller list for weeks on end.
No doubt they do. But how many copies actually get read? I may sound like a snob, but I imagine that once many people realise that they're not getting a novelisation of the TV show, they give up.
Oh, really...?
Quote: Rob H @ July 10 2009, 2:25 PM BSTAnd there's nothing you can do about it...
Quote: David Bussell @ July 10 2009, 2:21 PM BSTPlus The Life and Times of Tim is f**king great. You must be so proud to have something good done in your name at last after that ropey Mel Gibson film.
It's like they took my life - realised it wouldn't make a funny animated comedy, wrote something that would - and put it up on screen!
Quote: chipolata @ July 10 2009, 2:27 PM BSTOh, really...?
Now I know how the policeman feels at the end of The Usual Suspects. It's like this, in case you were wondering: 
Quote: chipolata @ July 10 2009, 2:24 PM BSTWhat about Tim Cop with John Claude Van Damme? His best film.
