From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 5 17:04:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29311 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 17:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au (cu-seeme.educ.utas.edu.au [144.6.16.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29305 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 17:04:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (iaint@localhost) by CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08556; Tue, 6 May 1997 10:03:29 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 10:03:28 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Sean Eric Fagan cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: And now for something completely different In-Reply-To: <199705052318.QAA21490@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 May 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > For anyone in britain: Ch. 4 (whatever that is) is going to be doing > animated versions of two Terry Pratchett books (_Wyrd Sisters_ > and _Soul Musc_). > BBC Channel 4, its the ah, same channel who show other things like "Drop The Dead Donkey" (no idea if you get the over there either). I guess someone in the UK could give a breakdown of what all the BBC channels do, but I think 4 might be the more "alternative" - the do doco's and comedy etc...of course I could be completely wrong. > I haven't been able to find out if they will ever be released in > the US. > Well, with any luck they'll be on TV in Australia... > Is there any chance of someone taping them, and transferring them > from PAL to VHS? > > I know several freebsders who would be interested (myself, obviously, > and I bet Jordan as well)... > Even if somebody doesn't, the BBC generally put all these sort of things on video eventually (but it might take a while). Iain.