If anyone needs an extra (loaner) copy of the DVDs, it's 50% off at Amazon right now....
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Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
I've stopped loaning my extra set--to friends who have Comcast, that is. I give them Orville Redenbacher's and soda if they promise to order Firefly On Demand, or Serenity on PPV.
Just watched Out of Gas. Man, I miss this show.
Firefly would tend to be much longer than an English series.. We're normally about 6 episodes a series. If we're lucky we get two series of something in total, so 12 episodes.
At least the new Dr Who incarnations are 13 ep series/season.
Totally. Technically "Hex" also runs at around 13 episodes a season, too: but it's shit ("The British Buffy"). Two Pints of Lager - which I once wrote a script for: laugh now - also runs about 10 episodes a season, and is going on 6 seasons now. In fact, arguably Two Pints is the UK's longest running series of recent years, and BBC Three's highest rated. Which, I think, tells us something about the UK...
Didn't the thirteen episodes of Who tucker Eccleston right out? High price to pay.
Well, the BBC had something like £1.6m for the 13 episode series of Doc Who, about half of which went on VFX. They had two main leads, so I'd imagine Eccleston probably got virtually nothing for it.
I don't know diddly about pay rates--I was just remembering the reports that he found it too exhausting so he didn't want another series.
I thought it plausible, considering it was an action series running a longer number of eps.
Didn't even think about money.
Well, give an actor enough money, and they'll keep doing something regardless, generally. If the pay is shit it's a bit "Why should I bother?".