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10th Aug 2007, 1:23 PM #1
Comics Britannia (BBC Four - September)
Spotted it on Teletext earlier and the BBC Press Release is up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre...0/comics.shtml
Originally Posted by BBC Press Office
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/yoursay/
Should be worth a look.
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10th Aug 2007, 1:34 PM #2Wayne Guest
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10th Aug 2007, 1:38 PM #3
I've probably started the thread too early... again!
It'll be on Page 4 by the time the season starts.
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10th Aug 2007, 1:39 PM #4
I thought this was about stand up comedians!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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10th Aug 2007, 2:01 PM #5
I hope there's stuff on 2000AD. And Alan Moore.
But alas, it seems to be a 'penny dreadful' fest.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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10th Aug 2007, 2:19 PM #6Bash Street Kids, Dennis the Menace, Roy of The Rovers, Fat Slags, Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many more are brought to life using a special graphics style that allows the audience literally to step inside the comics.
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10th Aug 2007, 2:23 PM #7The Eagle to 2000AD
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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10th Aug 2007, 2:34 PM #8Bash Street Kids, Dennis the Menace, Roy of The Rovers, Fat Slags,"Whether you grew up on the Beano or Jackie – or wished you'd been allowed to – this season offers a trip down memory lane, peppered with the customary wit and intelligence of BBC Four."Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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27th Aug 2007, 12:22 AM #9
Trailers are now showing and the season seems to start on 10th September:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pro...tml#mon_comics
Originally Posted by BBC Press Office
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10th Sep 2007, 5:39 PM #10
Bumping this thread as Comics Britannia starts tonight @ 9pm.
Documentary of the Week (?) in the Radio Times and a good review over at the OTT Blog (bottom of page). "One of the best things on telly this year."
Batman repeats start tomorrow night.
BB Four site now contains video interviews (including Alan Moore):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/comicsb...ritannia.shtml
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10th Sep 2007, 10:13 PM #11Wayne Guest
I enjoyed that!
I remember most the comics mentioned, so it was quite nostalgic for me. I was disappointed that Topper & Beezer were passed over, but the Beano stuff was great fun.
Loads of characters to remember! I guess as a younger child i was quite lucky, because i had an Uncle that was only about 8 or 9 years older than me, so i ended up with hoardes of his Beano comics from the late fifties & early 60's when they were still in their prime. It's funny to see & be reminded of little things like what Minnie the Minx's Dad looked like, & the headmaster from the Bash Street Kids. Stuff you'd totally forgotten about.
Very interesting to learn the background & story of these comics, & the totally different sociological climate in which they were produced.
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15th Sep 2007, 9:06 AM #12
I caught the repeat at 11 last night and, like Wayne, I really enjoyed it. Although obviously I couldn't have ever put a name to the artwork, I did recognise the Little Plum and Three Bears style from when I was wee. A shame that it seemed to focus solely on Beano and Dandy for 95% of the time, and then pretty much rushed over the rest (did Buster even get a mention?) but it was still a very enjoyable, and interesting programme.
When are the other programmes on (it's 1 of 3 isn't it)?
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15th Sep 2007, 11:35 AM #13
The episodes are on Monday evenings at 9pm on BBC4, Abdrew.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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15th Sep 2007, 12:28 PM #14
I liked it too, though like everyone else wished they had covered more of the other comics on the market. Just as they got to the late seventies they seemed to jump about a decade and so didn't really cover 'my era' of the Beano too, which was a shame. Still, it was still fascinating stuff, I didn't know that DC Thompson used to treat the creative staff so badly for one thing, you could definitely notice the decline of both The Dandy and The Beano as they exhausted the really talented. Anyway, I hope the next two are a bit more indepth as that's when I started getting in to comics properly, but this was still all good stuff.
"RIP Henchman No.24."
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17th Sep 2007, 6:34 PM #15
Last night's Jonathan Ross in Search of Steve Ditko was the best programme so far... even though it's sod all to do with Britannia.
Some Dan Dare action tonight:
Originally Posted by BBC Four
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17th Sep 2007, 7:22 PM #16
Yeah I enjoyed the Ditko one, though with 15 minutes to go it became apparent that we weren't going to get the hoped for interview with him. I imagine the only reason Ross got to speak to him was because he brought Gaiman along with him as well. Still, I was always a big fan of his quirkier work like The Question and The Creeper rather than old spidey, so it was nice to see them covered in some detail - and I'm really going to have to try and find that pilot of Doctor Strange online too as that looked like fun stuff.
As much as I'm enjoying this season so far, I get the feeling that it could be a bit of a missed opportunity - Gaiman especially deserves a similar one hour show devoted to him, and I'd love to see programmes on Grant Morrison and Peter Milligan too, whilst Alan Moore should have a whole night covering his work!"RIP Henchman No.24."
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17th Sep 2007, 8:16 PM #17
As a fan of Ditko's work, this was one of my viewing highlights of the month. Sadly, we weren't granted an interview with the great man himself, but did anyone really expect to see one?
That interview with Stan Lee made up for it, though. I enjoyed seeing Stan (The Man) squirming his way through Ross's questions about whether or not Ditko had a valid claim to be Spideys co-creator. And trying to be diplomatic about the whole thing...that's one exasperated man there, when it comes to Steve Ditko! Stan Lee is rightly regarded as a legend in the industry, and I'm not knocking him in the slightest, but I found this short interview to be pretty compulsive stuff!
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17th Sep 2007, 8:24 PM #18Captain Tancredi Guest
I ended up with the impression that Lee and Ditko were ultimately starting from different definitions of what it meant to create something and so could never agree completely in a million years. But it was an interesting insight into something I knew next to nothing about- as far as I knew Ditko could have vanished off the face of the earth after his Marvel work- and some of the more philosophical aspects reminded me of the exhibition of Josh Kirby's work (the Discworld covers as well as more conventional pulp sci-fi covers) I went to on Saturday. Asks the interesting question of how much we expect an overtly commercial piece of work like a comic book or cover art to convey a philosophy- and conversely, whether we can expect philosophical or political ideas to work in a commercial format.
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17th Sep 2007, 8:31 PM #19
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17th Sep 2007, 11:34 PM #20Wayne Guest
I'll have to catch the repeat of tonight's show. I was watching 'Hindenburg' on C4.
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17th Sep 2007, 11:59 PM #21
Cheers for that, have just replied.
I was thinking about the whole ownership of a character thing after the programme last night, and I think I side with Stan Lee. Of course it all depends on just how much of a synopsis Lee gave Ditko, but even if it was a pretty brief description initially, as long as it included the main points - Young geeky student, lives with aunt, wants to date cute girl, bitten by radioactive spider, gets spidery-powers, makes red and black webby costume and fights crime - I'd credit Lee as the actual creator of the character. After all, no one gives the costume or set designer a co-created by credit on a tv series or film, or even the cinematographer for that matter, and it's sort of along the same lines."RIP Henchman No.24."
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18th Sep 2007, 3:13 PM #22
On a similar note...
Did Jack Kirby ever ask, in a similar way to Ditko, to be regarded as the co-creator of The Fantastic Four? Or of Captain America back in the 40s?
And over at DC, Superman is credited as being created by Jerry Seigel and Joe Schuster, but Batman is credited only to Bob Kane. I know Bob Kane was the artist, but did he actually create the character? Bill Finger (I think that was his name)wrote many Batman stories in the 40s, but who actually wrote the first one?
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18th Sep 2007, 5:12 PM #23
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I gather that Finger wrote, and Kane drew, the first strip. Finger died in 1974, never having got any official recognition from DC other than a salary, and Kane only got credited because he'd swapped his share of the copyright for a creator's byline.
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