06-26-2004, 01:00 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Sass The Hoopy BBC Who Really Have Made The Next Series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life-forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
But, occasionally they really have neat ideas, like finally dramatising Douglas Adams�s last three books, "Life, The Universe And Everything", "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" and "Mostly Harmless". The BBC commissioned Above the Title Productions to make this series for the radio and they will:
"�use new material written by Douglas especially for these radio sequels. They will feature not only the original cast, but also Douglas Adams himself, thanks to the wonders of digital technology. Douglas had always intended to play the part of Agrajag and in fact was recorded in the part a few years ago.The programmes - to be broadcast in September and October 2004 - will be made according to Douglas' instructions and notes, which he made in preparation for these productions"
You can see a 'making of' video and hear a preview of the show at the BBC Radio 4 website. There's other good news as well: "The original Hitchhiker�s radio cast returns: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Stephen Moore as Marvin The Paranoid Android. The late Peter Jones�s great friend, William Franklyn, replaces him as The Voice Of The Book."
As it�s going out on BBC Radio 4, it means that everyone with an Internet connection can listen in through the BBCs free Internet streaming service. I just hope their servers are up to it! OK, so ten out of ten for style, but plus several million for good thinking, yeah? :mrgreen:
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06-26-2004, 01:46 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Great news 
Don't panic i'll restrain myself form quoting. :wink:
There is a film comming soon as well of the The Hitchhikers guide, great stuff.
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06-26-2004, 01:47 PM
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06-26-2004, 01:51 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Originally Posted by wocket
Great news
Don't panic i'll restrain myself form quoting. :wink: . |
Heck, feel free. Everyone else will and it's on topic! :wink:
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Originally Posted by wocket
Great I think there is a film coming soon as well of the The Hitchhikers guide.
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That's a saga all by itself and no mistake! :?
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06-26-2004, 02:27 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 734
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Fantastic news! I'm a huge Douglas Adams fan, and I have the complete radio show on my MP3 player, and I even have all the original TV eps! 8O
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06-26-2004, 02:36 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Remember, through it all, make sure you know where your towel is.
And very few mattresses ever come back to life.
This is very cool! I'm glad they're streaming it as well as broadcasting. I'd be tempted to travel to the UK just to hear the braodcast, but now I can listen at home! And I love my digital watch, by the way. 8)
The yellow ships hung in the sky the same way bricks don't.
(okay, that's enough. I could go on for hours quoting.) Good times!
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06-26-2004, 03:14 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Just spoilt it for you all :lol:
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06-26-2004, 03:26 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Originally Posted by GreenBoy2
Now does any one know where I can get a realy good cup of tea?
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Round at my place! I've just made a nice cuppa with freshly drawn water, a pre-warmed pot and first flush Darjeeling leaf tea. Fancy a nice biscuit to go with it? :wink:
I'm really looking forward to the new series, which will be broadcast as follows:
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LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING will be broadcast on 21st Sept (+23rd), 28th Sept (+30th), 5th Oct (+7th), 12th Oct (+14th), 19th Oct (+21st), 26th Oct (+28th). It will be broadcast on these days at 1830 and then repeated the following Thursday in each case at 2300hrs (in brackets).
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You can catch each episode on the BBC website for up to a week after it is broadcast.
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06-26-2004, 04:27 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 109
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I'm really excited by this, but the IMO radio series had lost it's steam and had sort of painted themsevles into a corner, storywise.
The radio series, the books, The audio records, the TV series and the Infocom interactive game all follow divergent paths once you get to a certain point in the 'story so far'. Douglas always made sure to change things when HHGTTG crossed over into other media. The best example I can think of is the Disaster Area Stunt Ship material -- it was never part of the radio series but was added in the audio records (which are *not* the same as the radio series) and then later incorporated into the TV series. The entire Frogstar sequence was added for the novel of Restaurant ATEOTU.
It looks as if these are going to straight adaptations of the books, and true to form Douglas (posthumously) changed things again. Anyone familiar with the radio series (which comprises HHGTTG and Restaurant ATEOFTU novels - mosty) will know that a lot of ideas introduced there were later reused in the novel of Life, The Universe and Everything.
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06-26-2004, 04:36 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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Originally Posted by rob_ocelot
I'm really excited by this, but the IMO radio series had lost it's steam and had sort of painted themsevles into a corner, storywise.
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It's going to be interesting to see how they manage to do it. It's true about the different stories in each set of media, but don't forget this quote :wink: :
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The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now so complicated that every time I tell it I contradict myself, and whenever I do get it right I'm misquoted. So the publication of this omnibus edition seemed like a good opportunity to set the record straight--or at least firmly crooked.
--Douglas Adams
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