[KeyserSoze]

Starts on Sunday at 19.10 on Five

[wilko]

What, they made a second season of this tripe? And yet they cancel quality television like firefly?

Where the hell is the justice in this world.

[homerpovey]

There is none

[moes_girl]

Originally Posted by wilko_uk

What, they made a second season of this tripe? And yet they cancel quality television like firefly?

Where the hell is the justice in this world.

Yep Fox executives need

[smashed]

Yay... :)
Joey rocks..

I would like to try and get this onto DVD. Any ideas how best to do this? I only have Sky+ tho.
Im guessing I can borrow a friends DVD recorder and put it on there?

[manxmike]

Originally Posted by smashed

I would like to try and get this onto DVD. Any ideas how best to do this? I only have Sky+ tho.
Im guessing I can borrow a friends DVD recorder and put it on there?

That's probably the easiest way. Make sure to get the right type of disks for his recorder, though.

He must be a good mate! I wouldn't lend my recorder to ANYONE for 20-odd weeks! :wink:

[Qexit]

Originally Posted by wilko_uk

What, they made a second season of this tripe? And yet they cancel quality television like firefly?

I think the basic equation goes something like this:

Cost of making one episode/season of Joey = A
Cost of making one episode/season of Firefly = B
Audience figures for one episode/season of Joey = X
Audience figures for one episode/season of Firefly = Y

If B > A and X > Y then scrap B and make more A

Perceived quality of content does not count anywhere near as much as 'how much profit do we make on this ?' Hence, we are seeing more shows like The Mint and Glitterball here in the UK where production costs are mimimal and profits are significant. At the end of the day, Commercial TV companies are only really interested in the profits they generate for their shareholders not the standard of programmes they produce

Sit-coms, game shows and soap operas are relatively cheap to produce (unless/until the main cast start demanding ludicrous fees) and pull in large audiences. Sci-fi, documentaries and period dramas are expensive to produce and usually pull in smaller audiences. Such is life

[smashed]

I will just keep the 20 episodes on +. I could then copy it over after? Or can you only record live content?

Comedy is obviously cheap to produce. Everybody has different tastes. I found some of Joey Series 1 pretty funny, even if it wasnt the best program ever.
You can tell it is cheap tho ;)

[manxmike]

Originally Posted by smashed

I will just keep the 20 episodes on +. I could then copy it over after? Or can you only record live content?

I don't have Sky or anything, but if the + box has an output you can connect to the recorder there shouldn't be a problem, unless Sky have put something in place to deliberately stop people doing this? I wouldn't put it past the buggers.

As for Joey, I loved Friends but the only ep of Joey I caught seemed spectacularly unfunny! I'm still an analogue luddite who doesn't receive C5 so I haven't had the chance to try it again.

[stingersplash]

cheers i might watch it, i watched season 1 and it had a cliffhanger didnt it?

plus, the only reason i watched it was for his sister, Drea DiMatteo - very hot indeed.