The Friday Five

[dimity_blue]

TV Time!

1. What's your favourite TV network?
Not a clue. If you mean favourite TV channel then the Sci Fi Channel or UK Gold might qualify. But I like various programmes that seem to pop up on various channels.

2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
One that shows good quality TV programmes - no reality TV, holiday programmes, make-over programmes or game shows. Classic stuff from the past with good shows from now.

3. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
Garrison's Gorillas - though I didn't watch that until I was in my early 20s and it was on re-run.

4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
Last of the Summer Wine. I loathe that programme.

5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
There are lots I have bought or am hoping to buy. Garrison's Gorillas (if it ever becomes available); The Sentinel (got season 1, hoping seasons 2-4 will be released); NCIS; the Lord Peter Wimsey series (got most of them); Firefly (got the only season of it); the Cadfael series (got the first four, don't want the rest); various Star Trek series; the list goes on.

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

I see I'm not the only one who think the first four of the Cadfael series were the best ones!!!

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

They really seemed to go downhill once Sean Pertwee left the series. :o(

Did you ever see the last one, The Pilgrim of Hate? I've read all the books, so I know how the story goes, and that 'adaptation' totally ignored the book. They changed the victim, the murderer, the innocent-but-suspected guy, the relationships between the three of them, the motive and how the murder was committed!

That one was created after Ellis Peter (the author) had died, so I suspect that had something to do with it.

[leesa_perrie]

If it's the one I think it is (been a while since I read/watched any) then I seem to remember it being pretty bad. I do remember there was one where they changed the murderer - and also one where Hugh and Cadfael came across as enemies rather than friends (in the book there is some stress on the friendship if I remember correctly, but not like in the TV adaption - they didn't seem like friends at all in that one).

No, Sean Pertwee was a great Hugh Beringar - no one else ever got it quite right!

I'd love the see Lindsey Davis' Falco books turned into a TV series, but I really don't trust any TV company to get it right. Sure, you have to cut some bits out, but you don't change the actual murderer and therefore pretty much the entire plot!!!