Carnivale

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, is it possible to get me a copy?
*Ivy bats eyelashes and attempts to look suitably winsome and sweet*
 
I taped it too:D

Its repeated on a Monday night if you miss it on Sunday too so thats great news for me cause im more than likely to miss it
 
The Master™ said:
Got it setup to record on Sundays!! ;)
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Thats all well and good but you had best think about checking the other days its on this week I missed sundays so was checking the repeats times etc and there is a different episode on

Edit- Opps silly me maybe they are just repeating the firts 3 episodes :p
 
Aside from all the excited banter about when it was on, what did people think? They're showing it on the ABC (free-to-air, petty foreigners) and though I missed the first to episodes I saw the Babylon one this evening and it was genuinely creepy. The acting wasn't great, but for the type of story it just worked so well. Very eerie. I'm waiting with bated breath for next week's.
 
I really dont like the carnivale series... however I watched the entire first season last year and I think they are actually replaying the entire first season again!? That's french television for ya.
 
That's no more money to buy more for you. IIRC, Jimmy (the french satellite channel broadcasting it) belongs to Canal + and all the money went to acquire football TV rights.

Personnaly, there were too many specific US history references I didn't get to follow the serie on a regular basis. Don't want to search for two hours in my encyclopedia to understand a single episod.
 
yes we have canal+ satellite. We only have so many series I can change to english and that is one of them. I just wish they wouldn't air the same seasons back to back. With NYPD Blue they aired one season then two seasons back then one season back and now have finally got to the latest season. It's wierd how they do things all out of order.
 
This way you can see some of the cast die again and again. The worst is M6 I think, since its creation there's always re-run of the Ingalls family : one day, they're just a bunch of little girls, the other day they're grown-ups and one is blind.

Maybe because here we don't product that much series, more of one-shots with recurring characters and continuity is not so important ?

Ahem, back to Carnivale ?
 
With cable I've got both of them, none is better than the other.
 
I can't wait til this series comes back on! It's a lot of fun and creepy at the same time.:D
 
CARNIVALE - Your help is Required!

Hi there

I belong to a group which is based in the USA - www.savecarnivale.org.

HBO saw fit to cancel this wonderful series after just 2 seasons in the USA. The original remit for the story was to be told in three " Books" - 2 seasons per book. Therefore, HBO have pulled the plug when only one third of creator " Dan Knauf's" story has been told.

What makes this decision incredible is that the plug was pulled when season 1 was just BEGINNING in Australia and New Zealand, when season 1 had only just been aired in the Uk and within Europe. HBO CEO Chris Allbrecht blamed the $2million per episode budget as well as a failure to do well in the overseas market as the reason for the cancellation. This is ridiculous when you consider that the show had not been given a chance to do well overseas and also, when Allbrecht was quite prepared to spend $10million on a billboard poster to promote the up coming HBO/BBC collaboration " ROME"

Anyway, what I wanted to ask of you all is to look out for Carnivale in the UK on FXUK - season 2 is due on your screens in September and FXUK is currently rerunning Season 1.

Also, for any Kiwis on this site, Season 2 is being aired on TV1 as of Friday 2nd September at 11.15pm.

There is a huge campaign in the States at the moment to get the show reinstated by promoting the reruns to improve viewing figures and promote the sale of the season 1 DVD. This has the FULL backing of the shows Creator Dan Knauf who is working with us, as well as the actors who appear in the show - many of whom will be attending a convention in LA in April. Money talks and it is only by increasing the viewing figures, especially outside the US market that we will have a chance of getting the story finished.

This is a wonderful show. In a world of dumbed down television, shows like Carnivale, which make you think and debate, should be encouraged and nurtured.

I feel sure that you are the kind of people who would appreciate this show so please, if you are already fans, or just if you are curious, watch the show and get all your friends to! Viewing figures are what will make the difference.

Thanks guys!

KR
 
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It is a shame, but really, if the TV channels are demanding returns from the start, then the people behind such shows really have to make a bigger attempt to get the audiences in the from the start.

Probably most people are thinking about how expensive marketing is, but that's thinking in terms of mass marketing media, and that is becoming a very fragmented market - so what people behind such shows have to do is isolate the market fragments they need to connect with and market to it - product awareness as a first pointer.

The internet has become very much a champion of fragmented market marketing, and I think if we're going to see SFF shows with a budget do well on mainstream media, they really have to make more of a point to engage in a campaign in which the widest targeted audience can be involved from the start.

Fragmented markets, viral marketing, permission marketing - these are the "buzz-words" that need to be embraced.

Until that happens, I don't think that shows such as Carnivale be the last in a line that already includes Firefly, Star Trek Enterprise, and Farscape.

2c.
 
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its not a shame that carnivale is being pulled it is an end to credible tv as we know it. i have watched the 1st season and am sooo excited about season 2. They can not pull the plug now the show was written to be over six seasons!!! we need the rest. even if you have never seen the show sign one of the online petitions and save the show for the rest of us!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:
 
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