I'd sure like to know what is happening at Channel 7. They've just started screening a new show at 10:30PM on Tuesday and Wednesday. It's called American Embassy and from the opening credits I can see it's about the US embassy in London, plus they've started advertising ::shudder:: Joe Millionaire as "coming soon" but there has been no mention of Buffy or Angel. Meanwhile, over on 10 they're plugging the hell out of Charmed. What the hell is going through Seven's collective pea-brains?

Wait, they're actually running American Embassy? I don't think it lasted more than a couple of episodes here.

Ah, that explains why I'd never heard of it before now and why they're running it now. They probably only have half-a-dozen eps, so it'll be finished in time for the time Buffy and Angel will probably start -- late Feb / early March. ::fingers crossed::

You know this gives me some hope that you guys will get to see Firefly.

Yeah, American Embassy I watched the first ep of, I think, but no more--but it was gone really quickly...

TV Guide says six episodes were made, and three have been aired here so far. I've been quite enjoying it, even as I resist becoming too invested because of the whole no future thing.

What's the rating of the US disc?

In the US, most DVDs carry the rating of the movie when it was in theaters (in this case, PG-13), and just say something to the effect "supplementary material not rated".

Question for those Yanks (or others) who have the R1 Buffy DVDs. What is the average length of the episodes? Are they all under 43 minutes?

I am reading through the old threads archived on TT and I came across this line from Dr Satan relating to "Goodbye Iowa":

We didn't actually see him do it, but Adam skewered the kid (we saw the spine come out) and then mutilated him.

We definitely did not see "the spine come out". All we saw was Adam look at his skewer-arm, then the kid, then we cut to a scene of Riley walking -- which is the same thing we saw on the broadcast version. So now I'm trying to figure out how much footage the R4 versions are missing and whether it is worth getting rid of them and getting the R1 copies in their place. I've already decided to give the R4 Farscape DVDs a miss b/c the R1 versions are better. Moreover, there are a few dozen movies where I'll be getting the R1 version instead of the R4 -- mostly b/c they're either longer, or the disc(s) have more extras.

Oh and in case anyone thinks I'm A) nuts; B) made of money; or C) both; getting them from Amazon.ca, or better yet, [link] (another Canadian site with the shipping already factored into the price) means I'm paying about the same price I'd pay over here but in most cases, for a better disc. For example, check out the Dark City disc, or The Princess Bride. The Collectors Edition of the latter hasn't even been released over here.

Jimi--thanks for that link. One for the bookmarks!

In case anyone hasn't caught up with this, according to The Age yesterday, Buffy Season 7 will be starting in Australia on Feb. 11. (No word on Angel.)