BBC America puts on weight
BBC America has announced a revamped schedule that will thrill many fans of different genres. Beginning shortly, there will be themed blocks airing from 8 pm – 10 pm:
* Murder Mondays – a night of scripted dramas including new seasons of Wire in the Blood starring Robson Green, and Murphy’s Law with James Nesbitt.
* Tuesday Nitro – targeting male viewers with such shows as MI-5, which focuses on British intelligence battling international espionage and global terrorism, as well as the drama Ultimate Force about an elite army unit in dangerous situations.
* Wicked Wednesday – aiming at female viewers with such dramas as Footballers Wive$ with Joan Collins joining for the new season; Hotel Babylon about the antics of an exclusive hotel; Goldplated, a comedy about a rich family who exists on credit cards; and Sinchronicity which follows three young party-goers who are looking for love.
* Big Thursday – will feature new seasons of "larger-than-life" personalities such as Gordon Ramsay and his two shows: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay’s F Word in addition to the celebrity gossip program The Graham Norton Show.
* Crime Scene Friday – back-to-back crime shows including Whistleblower, The Innocence Project, Silent Witness and Waking the Dead.
* Supernatural Saturday – enters the world of science fiction and the paranormal with such shows as Jekyll, Torchwood, Life on Mars, Hex and Doctor Who.
* The Brit Movie – a different British movie each week on Sunday nights and prior to the movie presentation, the network will air Adventure Sundays starting at 7p with new seasons of Robin Hood and Wild at Heart set in the South African bush.
Fans hoping for Torchwood to follow Doctor Who at Sci-Fi Channel as well as those of us without BBC America (curse you, Cablevision!) will no doubt be disappointed.
Where the heck is Saxondale?!
"A single arrow, that's our salvation." Now we know what those words mean.I like this episode. It's filled with character. Here's a scene that I would like to see! I wanted Marion to borrow Little John's staff and smash the wine barrels. She could say, "I just want to make sure Robin of Loxley has no reason to get off the wagon!" (But that's just me. I'm a punny guy.)Here's another scene I want to see: I want Robin to pick up Tuck's arrow and immediately take out his knife to shave it. Tuck gets apoplectic, screaming, "You can't whittle at THAT! That is a HOLY relic!"To which Robin says, "I don't know anything about Holy Relics, but at one time I was England's finest bowman, and I can tell you this arrow is out of balance and not quite straight. Do you want to preserve a relic or hit a target?"As long as I'm kibitzing with lines. I would like Robin to comment that the fletching on the arrow is excellent and that he's never seen feathers like them on any arrow. And Tuck explains that the feather is from the Angel Gabriel, saved by Mary after Christ's Annunciation.The head of the arrow could have been made from one of the silver pieces paid to Judas or some other more interesting relic.I'm writing ahead of the story. And I hope I'm not playing SPOILER. But this is a nice premise. Good characterization, exciting action and we seem headed toward one HELL of a climax! I'm enthused. Rock on!
Not so much a comment as a question. I have a friend in the forces over seas. He likes comics. I think he'd rather have a flash drive of online stuff than carry around a stack of paper. Is it possible to download the available episodes of Demons of Sherwood?
The comics pages on ComicMix are set up as .jpg files. This is a standard graphics format and can be opened by any number of applications. So you could open up Demons of Sherwood and right click on each page and then save each one to a file on a flash drive. There are a few problems here. Technically you may be breaking the law. The comics here have copyrights. I think that if you are making a single copy to share with a serviceman who doesn't otherwise have access to the Internet … that may fall into some kind of "fair use" category. Or the "we support our troops" category. I would just include with whatever files you might save documentation. Making sure you give credit to the creators and ComicMix and links back to this site.Here is problem #2. Not only will it be a pain in the tuchus to save each page as a separate .jpg file, but you will still need a convenient reader to open them and page through them. The comics reader on ComicMix is really slick. It's small and intuitive and it stitches double pages together. This isn't as big a deal with "Demons of Sherwood." Bo Hampton doesn't do a lot of double page spreads. Mike Grell's, "Jon Sable: Ashes of Eden" (also here on ComicMix and I highly recommend it) would be unreadable and incomprehensible without being able to see the double page spreads.Alternately, you can try to open each issue of "Demons of Sherwood" and save each one as a Webpage, complete. (A .htm or .html file) This makes things easier than trying to copy each page of the comic as a separate .jpg file. You will only have to copy 21 files up to this point (the number of issues), instead of 124 (the number of pages). Then, in theory, your buddy could open the files with whatever web browser is on his computer. This is probably the easier and better option because you also be copying the copyright notices, credits, ComicMix logo and links and other stuff on the page. What doesn't seem to get copied are the sponsored links and some of the Comics Reader, graphics. I'm not sure if the "ComicMix Comics Reader" will load this way or not. Copying the entire web page, you probably run into less moral and legal hurdles too, since you are attempting to make a direct copy of the ComicMix experience.This may require a bit of experimentation on your part. Copy the files to a flash drive and see how they open on a computer that's not connected to the Internet.I would suggest that for whatever comics from ComicMix you copy and send overseas, you purchase a TPB copy when that comes out. That way, when your friend returns home, you can give him a bound copy of the book you shared with them while they were away. A cool welcome home gift! Hopefully it won't take years before we see paper back version of Demons of Sherwood.Hopefully it won't take years before your friend comes back from overseas.
Thanks for the info. While I could have slogged my way through both of those solutions, I do appreciate the effort and comments.