RWels
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Post by RWels on Mar 5, 2006 19:36:02 GMT
I was wondering: the 1948 show and DNAYS both got a DVD release - but not the Frost report. It would not have been illogical to release the Frost report as well, aiming for the same public.
Is there a particular reason for this?
(Or is it just one of those things that do not have any reason in particular?)
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Post by Laurence Piper on Mar 6, 2006 1:04:26 GMT
I'd like to see this series out, particularly as many episodes exist. It would make a refreshing change to actually see something other than the "i'm upper class" etc sketch that gets trotted out as representing the show all the time. I suspect that some of the sketches won't have the edge that other of the topical shows had though. Satire was pretty much finished by this time although it got put in that category, mainly due to the presence of Frost.
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Post by Matthew K Sharp on Mar 6, 2006 8:46:49 GMT
I was wondering: the 1948 show and DNAYS both got a DVD release - but not the Frost report. It would not have been illogical to release the Frost report as well, aiming for the same public. Is there a particular reason for this? Different companies. The Frost Report was BBC, the other two were Rediffusion. As there's not a lot of Rediffusion stuff surviving, it was presumably reasonably easy for the current rights holders to pick off a couple of titles they could easily exploit; whereas the Beeb have a lot of titles that are higher priority for them to release. I'm sure a Frost release will come, though, at the rate 2Entertain are working through the BBC's library. |
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Post by Laurence Piper on Mar 6, 2006 11:58:26 GMT
If we're talking of Rediffusion and David Frost together though, i'd also like to see some of The Frost Programme (the talk show) released! Some interesting guests there and a number of them exist. Other exploitable Rediffusion items (i.e. which exist to some degree) include A Man Of Our Times with George Cole and This Week (well, we've had World In Action - why not?!) Also there are those colour VT plays they made, including Dial M For Murder, which i'd like to see.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Mar 6, 2006 12:01:21 GMT
Oh, and forgot to mention their other single plays like The Lover and interesting play strands such as Half-Hour Story (quite a lot of those exist) and Seven Deadly Sins etc. Be good to see them.
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