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Post by PokerKitten on Sept 15, 2004 11:00:47 GMT
From the BBC site: The whole lot on DVD in one box coming soon.
Out on 22nd November, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, is Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Complete DVD Collector's Edition.
Joyously packaged in a leatherette box, the set includes the seven seasons spread over 39 discs at the bargain price of £199.99.
As well as all the episodes, the DVD set includes various extra including commentaries, featurettes, outtakes, Easter Eggs, trailers and cast biographies.
Plus, there's a special booklet included and a letter from Joss Whedon himself – although we doubt he's written each one.
Be warned, with only 10,000 produced, it may just fly off the shelves. www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/cult/news/buffy/2004/09/15/14254.shtmlAm I tempted to replace my vid boxed set collection with these space saving and packed with extras disks? Only in my head. I could spend £200 in many new and exciting ways.... *ponders them*
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Post by PokerKitten on Sept 24, 2004 13:41:37 GMT
Slayer Collection DVDs Four more character discs announced.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have annouced the release of four more Slayer Collection DVDs for 1st November 2004.
Cordelia, Dawn, Giles and Xander are featured this time around, with each disc containing four specially selected episodes and a 15 minute character profile featurette.
The Cordelia Collection features Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight, What's My Line Part Two, Homecoming and The Prom.
The Dawn Collection offers up The Real Me, Blood Ties, Older And Far Away and Potential.
Giles is represented by The Dark Age, Passion, A New Man and Lies My Parents Told Me.
Finally, The Xander Collection offers us The Pack, Bewiched, Bothered and Bewildered, The Zeppo and Hell's Bells.BBC Cult siteActually, some of these are quite Spikecentric ;D I love him and Giles in a A New Man! And I hate Giles in LMPTM, but adore Spike/William
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Post by Cyrus on Sept 24, 2004 18:07:51 GMT
but adore Spike/William hmmm now wouldn't make for an interesting fic pairing...
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Post by DeeDee on Sept 24, 2004 18:41:48 GMT
Im sure Ive read a fic with William/Spike ;D ;DBuffy sandwitch ;)Two come blonds I think it was called???
Might save the money for a con next year got them all on video I know you get all extras but James in flesh mmm... ;D ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Oct 23, 2004 19:45:54 GMT
The December SFX mag has a feature on How Buffy Changed Everything, which I doggedly transcribed today - here it isThere's also an SMG interview.
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Post by PokerKitten on Nov 26, 2004 19:43:28 GMT
[url=http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=214&Thread=367063&Type=1&P\ age=1]DVD Reviewer[/url]
Letter from Joss Whedon, included in the BtVS Complete Series DVD Set (R2)
Well, here you have it. All of it. Seven years of painstaking work, of pain and creation, of wit, confusion, strength, compromise and achievement... of me, dreaming of nightmares.
To say that Buffy has been the greatest, most difficult and rewarding experience of my career thus far would actually be to undersell its significance. It represents the best work (again, so far) of so many talented people I can't possibly name them all here. David Greenwalt and Marti Noxon, who ran the show with me are more responsible for its shape and terrible beauty than I ever intend to give them credit for, do spring to mind. But so many great writers, actors and crew labored beyond the beyond to make this show happen that it extended, as true art does, beyond my reach. This show ran me, not the other way around. It told me what to say, what to show, when to give comfort and when to draw blood. This show, seven years of it, is a living thing. Put it on your shelf, and go to bed. It'll whisper to you in your sleep.
Joss Whedon [/color]
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Post by Pixie on Nov 26, 2004 20:20:27 GMT
*sigh* I think I'm in love with mine... So glad Grey persuaded me to buy them, lol!
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Post by PokerKitten on Dec 20, 2004 14:04:32 GMT
Oh dear, some sad news if correct. Apparently the BBC is going to be dropping some of its online features, and one of thiose is its Cult site. This features many splendid programmes, not least BtVS, and was always such fun and a source of news etc. Boo! Article at Media Week
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Post by Cyrus on Dec 20, 2004 17:47:53 GMT
"cutting back some controversial areas of its online presence" What a bunch of smeg!
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Post by Cyrus on Dec 22, 2004 19:43:44 GMT
Buffyworld has on their home page links to some clips from season 7 that are without the score music and sound effects. #4 has some nice snarling and growling Spike that is all James and no funny effects! ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jan 8, 2005 12:38:00 GMT
Blood Relations Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Jes Battis
ISBN 0-7864-2172-X notes, bibliography, index [192]pp. softcover 2005
$32 Not Yet Published, Available Fall/Winter 2005
Description The television series Buffy and Angel revolve around radical conceptions of family. Indeed, their coherence depends on the establishment of nontraditional families that admit vampires, demons, witches, werewolves, and other bizarre characters without censuring them for their peculiarities. This work argues that what makes these characters enduring and engaging is their critical family connections—for their most involved struggles occur not within the graveyard, but around the dinner table, just as the most challenging adversarial forces that they must face are not demons or vampires but the stuff of everyday life.
What does “family” encompass within these two series? How does it relate to concepts of gender, sexuality, power and the supernatural as they emerge from the shows’ complex narratives? This book explores such questions. It also examines the “chosen family” (an idea marketed specifically by successful programs such as Friends and Sex in the City within the past ten years), juxtaposing it against various images of the fractured biological family displayed in both Buffy and Angel.
Through eight chapters addressing various family-related aspects within both shows, this work plots the trajectory of this unstable notion of family, even as it is transformed, remediated, and rendered unrecognizable from a “family values” perspective by the unique and supernatural relationships that proliferate in Buffy and Angel.
About the Author Jes Battis is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2172-XNeat book cover!
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Post by PokerKitten on Jan 11, 2005 11:42:49 GMT
ooh, sneery, snooty dismisiveness about BtVS - haven't seen that for along while in the media! Article on the 10th anniversaries of the WB and UPN. Hollywood Reporter
Deep impact By providing family-friendly and youth-oriented programming, the two upstart networks have made their mark on popular culture.
By Ray Richmond
When seeking to assess the impact on popular culture of the WB Network and UPN, it pays to remember that the young people at which both baby networks have aimed their primetime programming are loyal only to the remote control itself. That has made carving out a niche a decidedly dicier proposition than if each had launched, say, even 20 years ago.
A decade later, the WB's output finds a surprising number of quality shows that paint it as a friendly destination for female teens, young women and, occasionally, even their parents. UPN has stumbled, bumbled and only recently begun to find genuine footing, moving away from its status as the place where immature males travel to feel brain cells die.
But let's start with the WB, which has overcome its unfortunate decision to use a frog from a 1955 cartoon as its logo/mascot to thrive. By zeroing in on the young female demographic, it has been able to craft some of the tube's most personal and poignant dramas -- particularly "Felicity" and the perpetually underappreciated "Gilmore Girls," both of which have given the American female icons worthy of embracing and emulating. They remain the standard against which all femme-centered hours are measured.
The network has also taken some of the heat off of its fellow broadcasters by demonstrating that families don't need to flee to cable to find wholesome alternatives. "7th Heaven" remains "the little positive-themed show that could," still plugging along nine years later. "Everwood" and the freshman hour "Jack & Bobby" are further examples of dramas that are upright and morally nourishing without being unwatchable.
Of course, one also shouldn't forget that the WB is the place that helped pioneer the painfully self-absorbed teen/coming-of-age melodrama genre during the late 1990s via "Dawson's Creek" and its overheated, mournful, dysfunctionally ambitious, aching romantic ilk ("One Tree Hill" and "The Mountain" are currently carrying on the tradition). "Creek" did its part to teach adolescents and twentysomethings that they were correct in positioning themselves as the center of the universe, helping define modern youth culture as an angst-riddled petri dish of unbridled narcissism.
Forget about "Burn, baby, burn!" These days, the rallying cry is more likely "Yearn, baby, yearn!"
It's also rather amusing in hindsight to consider the social importance attached to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a WB rep-building series (later stolen by UPN) that was said to embody all sorts of female empowerment issues and even inspired scholarly manifestos waxing poetic on its "learning as redemption" dynamic. What it was, of course, was a show about a woman who killed vampires, making it something less than a pragmatic vocational tutorial.
But hey, whatever plunges your dagger, you know?
Series such as "Smallville," "Roswell" and "Charmed" have likewise demonstrated the WB's penchant for infusing fantasy with a compelling contemporary spin. And it will now always be known as the network that helped uncover the talent of a fellow named Jamie Foxx with his namesake series -- not that that Foxx bore much resemblance to the current serious artist.
By contrast to the WB, UPN has been like the goofball, hormonally challenged little brother who often embarrasses you when you take him out in public. It was launched on a foundation of the latest "Star Trek" spinoff "Voyager" and not a whole lot else. To this day, it remains a headline in search of a story, making waves mostly with its oft-stunningly lowbrow sensibility.
Or have we already forgotten "Chains of Love"?
"Chains" arrived and quickly departed in 2001, featuring potential mates literally shackled together -- rather like "The Dating Game" meets "Oz." Its impact on society was to prove that people really will do anything to be on television, including feigning incarceration. Of course, some saw this as a moral improvement on the 1998 UPN comedy "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer," a show about the British black butler of Abraham Lincoln that portrayed Lincoln as a closeted gay oaf. The purpose of the show seemed to be, "Just how much can we irritate the NAACP?"
When UPN has tried to be comparatively tasteful, the results have been the wrestling show "WWE SmackDown!" and "America's Next Top Model," which apparently has less to do with influencing a new generation of women to pursue modeling careers than it does unmitigated leering. Hard to believe, but it's true.
But perhaps unintentionally, UPN has revealed in its program "strategy" that some guys will watch whatever you put in front of them -- quality be damned. This not only gave the network a willing target but set the table for Spike to follow. It also proved that a full-service broadcast programr need not be all things to all people but only one thing to one person to survive.
Indeed, what both the WB and UPN have established over their 10 years of life is that it's possible to more or less thumb your nose at anyone over the age of 40 (with a couple of exceptions) and attract a substantial enough viewership anyway. They have accomplished that not only by being younger-skewing but also more energetic and, generally, more urban in their series choices.
As far as any broader impact on the populace wrought by the two networks' programming, a viewer who received only these two networks and no other television since day one of their existence would no doubt see the world as: young people looking for love and/or someone to blame for why they can't find it; witches, aliens and superheroes struggling to blend in; single parents fighting the good fight; and seemingly average people who really aren't so average at all.
But what the WB shows in particular have introduced to the culture at large is the capacity that we humans have to emote. More than even the dialogue, their characters have elevated the deep breath, the brooding look and the heavy sigh to the level of art, and in the process influenced a generation of unrepentant drama queens and kings.
For that, certainly, an increasingly Type A nation owes them an immense debt of gratitude.
Published Jan. 11, 2005
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Post by PokerKitten on Mar 11, 2005 14:04:46 GMT
Seems like UK's C5 have acquired the rights to BtVS... given what they did to Angel, is this a good thing, I aks myself?! They are showing Welcome to the Hellmouth Saturday 19 March 6:40pm - 7:30pm, which I believe is the Charmed timeslot.... Whcih could mean it gets a proper run and not dropped and messed around like poor Angel. But it is also a tad early so we can expect cuts a la BBC 2, I shouldn't wonder Still, it's been so many years since I saw series 1 that I'll give it a go.
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Post by PokerKitten on May 21, 2005 11:43:33 GMT
Well, that S1 plan fell by the wayside when Dr Who started up on the Beeb New trading cards are planned from Inkworks - Buffy and the Men of Sunnydale Available - July 2005
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Post by nightnurse on Jun 6, 2005 16:06:00 GMT
Seasons 1-6 0f Buffy on DVD are on sale at £17.99 each at www.dvd.co.uk
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