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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

263.0. "F/SF on TV: the A&E channel" by VIRTUE::RAVAN () Wed Sep 11 1985 09:14

Since Warner Cable started showing the Arts&Entertainment channel
full-time, I've noticed several F/SF-type shows turning up. Last
night I saw the first of a three-part production of "The Invisible
Man," and found it pretty fair. (Haven't read the story in a while,
so it may have been off the mark as far as accuracy, but it felt
right; the claustrophobic feeling of being in a small village where
everybody knows the tiniest details of anything that happens...)

I'll be interested to see how the rest of it turns out.

A&E is also announcing a series called "The Borgias," to start in
October, which isn't fantasy at all but should contain enough period
detail, intrigue, and such like to be quite fascinating.

-b

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
263.1		TROLL::RUDMAN	`Wed Sep 11 1985 09:54`	9
	Welcome to A & E!! If history repeats itself, you'll get to see British versions of Holmes (The hound, The carbuncle, etc.) AND a well done (I thought) "Day of the Triffids". Not at all like the american DotT (seawater indeed!). Read your listings carefully, they're easy to miss. Don
263.2		AKOV68::BOYAJIAN	`Thu Sep 12 1985 01:06`	7
	American DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS??? What American DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS??? --- jerry (It was British.)
263.3		TROLL::RUDMAN	`Thu Sep 12 1985 16:57`	5
	Excuse me. It was so bad I didn't wait for the credits. I blotted everything out except seawater running down the steps. It must have been a Hammer film.... Don
263.4		AKOV68::BOYAJIAN	`Sat Sep 14 1985 04:26`	7
	Actually, no, it wasn't. Certainly, sea water is not a particularly inspirational weapon, but then, one assumes that it's the salt in the seawater that destroyed the triffids. Not completely off the wall. --- jerry
263.5		TROLL::RUDMAN	`Mon Sep 16 1985 12:49`	14
	Howard Keel threw me off. My info says Security Films, distributed by Allied Artists, 1963. Close enough for Rock 'n' Roll. Some did like it, so it is again a matter of taste. Just for glee, it might be nice to hear a few reviews from people who see the A & E version. (The Triffids looked so good I'd like a couple for my yard. What a watchdog! Watchplant?) Haven't seen the Invisible Man yet, but I will. Don
263.6		BEING::POSTPISCHIL	`Mon Sep 16 1985 13:02`	6
	Re .5: > Haven't seen the Invisible Man yet, but I will. -- edp
263.7		TROLL::RUDMAN	`Fri Sep 20 1985 11:26`	14
	re .6" I saw 'im! I saw 'im! (Name's Griffin, an intense, standoff-ish chap.) Too bad I missed the first installment. The special effects were kept to a minimum and, I thought, done quite well. The show gives you a feel of the period and how people react; folks are much more skeptical nowadays. I don't, however, think it captured the flavour of how the book was written. (Not sure how it could have, so it didn't detract from my enjoyment.) I won't miss part III. Don