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According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)

WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
sometime later this year.

i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
to seeing the uncut 60min versions.

On 25 Aug 2003 15:10:24 -0700, (Evil) wrote:

>According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)
>
>WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
>sometime later this year.
>
>i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
>and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
>to seeing the uncut 60min versions.


The A&E bug is OK. I stopped watching MI-5 when they started keeping
the name on screen throughout the whole 42 minutes. I don't need
a neon sign telling me the name of the program I'm watching.

I don't think you will see a 60 minute version. My British friends
say Spooks runs for 50 minutes in the UK.

In alt.video.dvd Jack Ak <> wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2003 15:10:24 -0700, (Evil) wrote:

> >According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)
> >
> >WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
> >sometime later this year.
> >
> >i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
> >and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
> >to seeing the uncut 60min versions.


> The A&E bug is OK. I stopped watching MI-5 when they started keeping
> the name on screen throughout the whole 42 minutes. I don't need
> a neon sign telling me the name of the program I'm watching.

> I don't think you will see a 60 minute version. My British friends
> say Spooks runs for 50 minutes in the UK.


They're wrong then. I've nearly finished watching the first ten eps (tv-rips)
of season two; they're 59 minutes and a few secs each,

A&E should try to accomodate time-fat programs. Their audience would love them
for it. They could show the full versions in the middle of the night for
instance, Nex

In article < >,
says...
> According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)
>
> WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
> sometime later this year.
>
> i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
> and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
> to seeing the uncut 60min versions.
>
I have The Office Series 1 DVD (Region 2) which I brought back from the
UK earlier in the year - it was great to watch the episodes back-to-
back. I tried to find Coupling Series 2 but it wasn't yet available when
I was there -- I think I missed it by just a couple of weeks.

Jon

Evil wrote:
> According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)
>
> WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
> sometime later this year.
>
> i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
> and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
> to seeing the uncut 60min versions.

Frankly The Office is kind of a yawner, don't get your hopes up. One of
those shows that has a handful of funny jokes but the rest is pretty
boring. And Coupling is beneath contempt, it's a rip-off of the
contemptible Friends for crying out loud. When are they going to
release Black Books over here? And more Red Dwarf! Only two smegging
series a year? They must be mad! What's the hold-up?

Is Hetty Wainthropp a BBC show? More Hetty Wainthropp!

--
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Australia's Dingo Barrier Fence, nor do you work the Savannah, capturing
and tagging wildebeests."
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"Matt Ackeret" <> wrote in message
news:big94s$t67$...
> In article < >,
> Evil <> wrote:
> >According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)
> >
> >WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
> >sometime later this year.
>
> Woohoo! I watched the first season of Coupling on DVD several weeks ago
> one night, and everyone thought it was hilarious.
>
> >i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
> >and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
> >to seeing the uncut 60min versions.
>
> So we're *sure* it will actually be the uncut episodes? If this is
> somehow connected with A&E, I can almost imagine them releasing butchered
> episodes "because it's what people here saw on TV".
>
> I sure hope they're uncut. This sounded intriguing based upon the news
> articles, but after finding out they were seriously hacked, I haven't
> watched it on A&E.

I have the season 1 set from the UK of MI-5 (called SPOOKS over there) and
each episode runs 59 minutes. So, I assume this is the uncut version. Season
2 has not yet been released.

--

Irulan
from the stars we came, to the stars we return
from now until the end of time

In article <RBM2b.83157$>,
Grand Inquisitor <> wrote:
>Frankly The Office is kind of a yawner, don't get your hopes up. One of
>those shows that has a handful of funny jokes but the rest is pretty
>boring. And Coupling is beneath contempt, it's a rip-off of the
>contemptible Friends for crying out loud. When are they going to

Did you *watch* Coupling?

I do really like Friends (though Chandler is 90% of the humor), and
they are certainly similar, but I think the "British Friends" stance
is a bit overblown.

Heck, Coupling's at least an R rated Friends, which is maybe PG.

(Matt Ackeret) wrote:

>>i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
>>and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
>>to seeing the uncut 60min versions.
>
>So we're *sure* it will actually be the uncut episodes? If this is
>somehow connected with A&E, I can almost imagine them releasing butchered
>episodes "because it's what people here saw on TV".
>
>I sure hope they're uncut. This sounded intriguing based upon the news
>articles, but after finding out they were seriously hacked, I haven't
>watched it on A&E.

Since the DVDs are being released here by BBC Video rather than A&E,
there's no reason to believe that they will be cut. The only question
I have is what they're going to call it. The title was undoubtedly
changed for A&E's broadcast because "Spooks" was seen as a politcally
incorrect term. Will BBC Video follow suit, especially given that the
show *is* known as "MI-5" over here?

-- jayembee

Matt Ackeret wrote:

> In article <RBM2b.83157$>,
> Grand Inquisitor <> wrote:
>
>>Frankly The Office is kind of a yawner, don't get your hopes up. One of
>>those shows that has a handful of funny jokes but the rest is pretty
>>boring. And Coupling is beneath contempt, it's a rip-off of the
>>contemptible Friends for crying out loud. When are they going to
>
>
> Did you *watch* Coupling?
>

Yes, I saw two episodes and realized what a rip-off of an already
terrible show it was, and this was before I was aware of the controversy
surrounding the similarities between the two.

> I do really like Friends (though Chandler is 90% of the humor), and
> they are certainly similar, but I think the "British Friends" stance
> is a bit overblown.
>
> Heck, Coupling's at least an R rated Friends, which is maybe PG.

It doesn't matter how explicit they are, it has nothing to do with that.

--
"Get rid of the Range Rover. You are not responsible for patrolling
Australia's Dingo Barrier Fence, nor do you work the Savannah, capturing
and tagging wildebeests."
--Michael J. Nelson

Grand Inquisitor
http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mycollection.asp?alias=Oost

Grand Inquisitor <> wrote in message news:<RBM2b.83157$>...
> Evil wrote:
> > According to the digital bits (http://www.thedigitalbits.com/)
> >
> > WB will release THE OFFICE S1 and S2, COUPLING S2, and MI-5 (SPOOKS)
> > sometime later this year.
> >
> > i've been dying to see THE OFFICE since i've heard so much about it
> > and i enjoy MI-5 (except for that damn A&E bug) and am looking forward
> > to seeing the uncut 60min versions.
>
> Frankly The Office is kind of a yawner, don't get your hopes up. One of
> those shows that has a handful of funny jokes but the rest is pretty
> boring. And Coupling is beneath contempt, it's a rip-off of the
> contemptible Friends for crying out loud. When are they going to
> release Black Books over here? And more Red Dwarf! Only two smegging
> series a year? They must be mad! What's the hold-up?
>
> Is Hetty Wainthropp a BBC show? More Hetty Wainthropp!

Have you seen this article?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...io/3177479.stm

It says basically that BBC will be providing their tv and radio
broadcasts for public download.

CoooL.