Didn't know BBC America ran anything other than Star Trek...
Posted on 08/25/2016 7:22:05 AM PDT by C19fan
Stilton is a beautiful thing. I love British cheeses, and Italian, and even Greek. French cheeses are just nasty though.
True, I didnt watch TNG beyond a couple of episodes.
It lacked the epic, mythical feel of the original. It was prosaic.
Picard surrenders the ship. Kirk would have blown it up.
I LOVE time travel themed science fiction! The Time Traveler’s Wife is a favorite.
Wait. I think Blink is one of the ones I saw. It involves the rock angels that can only move when you are not looking, and at the end they all get caught looking at each other, forever freezing in that look.
I didn’t like it.
Kirk makes a mortar to fire at the Gorn when he gets close enough.
Picard would make a cooking device to whip up various reptilian delights for the attacking creature.
Star Trek TNG is Roddenberry’s socialist world view unfettered by Desilu.
Gene Coon was a big part of TOS as the day to day Producer for most of the first 2 seasons. He left to produce “It Takes a Thief”.
I read “The White Mountains” when in Jr High. I loved those books! I never knew the Brits made a series out of it. I just checked it out and it’s on Youtube! I can’t believe they didn’t finish it. Oh well, I’ll watch what’s there.
Why does BBC America show American shows?
Any show can be gotten for a license fee. I would imagine Star Trek, the original episodes, still command a pretty good fee even after all these years. If the cast had any decent residual deal they might have made really good money off that show.
A couple of years ago TBS renewed to keep showing “Seinfield” and they were paying $1 Million an episode for a 20 year old show since it was still getting good ratings as a re-run. Hence the huge fortunes of Jerry Seinfield and Larry David, whose personal fortunes because of the syndication deals are about $600 Million each. Which is why Larry David can fund all his Liberal causes and play golf with Obama.
Didn't know BBC America ran anything other than Star Trek...
What’s the point, I expect to see British shows on BBC America.
I note a few years ago they removed Benny Hill, although it still was one of their higher-rated shows.
Oh that would be sublime.
Well, Picard has a British accent, doesn’t he?
But is French. One of the oddnesses of Trek.
Who here remembers “Space 1999”? Wasn’t that a Brit production?
I do. Big crush for Maya the shape shifter. :) The same production did the short lived series UFO.
Now, "new generations" can enjoy the old series without being distracted by the outdated/budget-restricted special effects.
I have the whole remastered original series (I think it was done in 2004 or so) and I love it...
ST:TOS all the time is the main reason I dropped the cable tier having BBCA.
I originally subscribed to that tier specifically for Doctor Who on BBCA. I was hoping BBCA would show more BBC programs.
A couple of the BBCA series were good, but a few others were lousy. Copper was good. So they cancelled it.
I think this is their replacement to Dr. Who, which was run into the ground by feminism. Clara went from a mystery to be solved to giving Dr. Who tips on etiquette and behavior and nannying him. She died, then came back via time loop, paired off with immortal hybrid they created through alien tech. Empowered immortal girl turned time lord plus Clara leave behind a Dr. Who trying to decide where to go, nearly emasculated by the loss of what seemed like his soul mate (Clara).
You beat me to it about Stilton, although in my opinion Maytag cheese comes very close.
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