Smaug Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Some spoilers are seen as news. Interviews with the actors though informative can contain spoilers. Therefore both spoilers and news have rights in both threads. The spoiler thread was created specifically for spoilers regarding the three shows plots however, the news thread was created to spread news of anything the cast and crew were up to and as such runs the risk of having spoilers. There shouldn't be any problems with this if certain rules are followed. If you don't want to be spoiled don't go in the spoiler thread. However if you want to post news *with* spoilers in, post it in the news thread with consideration (and with a lot of warning that the artical contains spoilers) for those people who like news but don't like being spoiled. Then it is down to the reader (not the poster) whether or not they want to read it. Spoilers can appear any where. Even in the OT thread (spoilers for other shows/movies). People just have to treat every one as wanting to be spoiler free. Net etiquette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfy_sah Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 ahhh *lightbulb* that makes sense Luv sah xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crippsy_99 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 After much nagging to move it: On lovefilm.com ==================== The CSI Effect As season 5 of CSI arrives on DVD, the evidence doesn’t lie: the forensic franchise is leading the way in small-screen quality with big-screen style With cinema attendance at an all-time low, it’s not really surprising that the wave of top quality TV shows have been steadily persuading us to stay at home, crash on the sofa and turn on the goggle box. But while we seem to be enjoying a new ‘golden age’ of Television, it’s worth remembering that the current crop of TV high flyers owes a massive debt to the movies. ‘I’ve been coining the phrase in the press a long time about doing Feature Television’, says CSI creator and day-to-day overlord Anthony Zuiker. ‘We create mini Bruckheimer-esque movies week-to-week with a colour scheme and a level of editing and sound and fractured time and pace.’ Zuiker’s background is as a movie fan: he worked for years as a tram driver in Las Vegas, punctuating his shifts with breaks to watch films and TV shows. And, like so many before him, he got his foot in the door of Hollywood by writing a script. ‘I wrote a spec [a draft script] called The Runner, about sports betting and that parlayed me into the business and I wrote the Harlem Globetrotters Story for Columbia. That got the attention of Jerry Bruckheimer, who called me in to se if I had an interest in doing television.’ The rest, as the old saying goes, is history. Zuiker now has three CSI shows running on one channel in the States, all of them ratings juggernauts that have been sold to hundreds of countries around the world. But none of it would have happened without powerhouse producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The canny film maven saw the potential in Zuiker’s idea and backed him up. Nowadays, Bruckheimer's input is more peripheral (after all, the man has a film production stable to run alongside his TV teams), but he continues to be the driving force behind the show. ‘Jerry reads every script and watches every cut,’ laughs CSI Miami producer Carol Mendelsohn. When does he sleep?’ And what does Bruckheimer bring to the show? ‘I think it’s really learning the importance of pace, of taste, of cutting, of visual look and style and being bold in your visual storytelling,’ says Zuiker. ‘And taking a cinematic point of view. That’s what I learned from him.’ ‘We emulate a lot of those same things today. Before CSI if you watch the shows, they were really of the slower mould. And one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in television is the fact that the audience is smarter than you, and you have to respect that and give them 30% and let them fill in the rest and take them for a ride.’ And it wasn’t just Bruckheimer. Zuiker found inspiration for the show¹s trademark look  the zippy, CG-influenced camera angles that fly in and out of corpses from Three Kings. ‘When the bullet went in the chest, that's where I got the idea from.’ With Bruckheimer on hand to guide him, Zuiker found the right team to get the job done  a team which still runs the show today. ‘We put together with the right team of Danny Cannon, Jerry Bruckheimer, the other producers and myself, to really create what this show looks like. And we've done that, and evolved it too. So I think it was just the right pack of people to do it.’ That driving ambition to change the face of TV led to some changes early on. ‘Jerry he had a vision in mind of what it should look like, so a lot of department heads were replaced to make it more visually appealing’, recalls star Marg Helgenberger, who plays CSI’s Catherine Willows. Still, even with the job losses, the CSI franchise has become something of a career saviour for actors and directors. Could you name many of the films Manhunter star William Peterson had worked on in the years before he accepted the part of Gil Grissom in CSI? And director/producer Danny Cannon was best known for the cinematic nightmare that was Judge Dredd before his rebirth as one of CSI's guiding lights. Finally, there’s David Caruso, who left one of TV's best cop shows  NYPD Blue - for a less-than-stellar shot at the movies (Jade, anyone?) before CSI Miami found him the perfect role for his return to TV. With such a driving need to focus on the procedural and the plot, do the CSI team ever worry that they’re sacrificing character for stylish lenses and bullet-wound CG? The actors certainly found it a problem in the early days, but that has since changed. ‘It’s what you call formula TV,’ says Gary Dourdan, AKA Warrick Brown. ‘When we first started, we needed to show more of the characters and now we’re going: “I need a day off. D’you think this could be about the crime, because there's so much character stuff going on!†I’d love a week off!’ That shift - particularly in the show’s fifth year - was a conscious effort on the part of Zuiker and co. ‘We’ve had an impact on procedural, but the challenge is to stick to the formula I’ve created, obey the procedural, but be able to lay in character moments that satisfy feature quality actors that are starving to do some acting in the shows. You can do mysteries all day long and at some point the actors will feel like they're just pawns in a game.’ Even with its procedural bent, the show continues to attract top talent, including some big-screen celebrity fans. Zuiker laughs at how little it took to persuade Quentin Tarantino to write and direct the Season Five finale Grave Danger. ‘I talked to him at Lawrence Bender's party  he had a 9/11 fundraiser. I said: “Hi Quentin, I'm Anthony Zuiker, creator of CSI...†And he was, like, “Oh, I love that show!†He was quoting stuff I wrote. And the funny thing is this whole show is because of Quentin. I saw Pulp Fiction and I thought, “Wow, I think I could write this.†And then when he was approached years later by CSI Vegas to do the show I co-wrote that finale.’ Zuiker’s clearly a little in awe of Tarantino, but recalls that the time spent with him was well worth it. ‘He was quite a master of story and quite a smart individual and truly humbling, being with him for those couple of hours and talking story. If you ever want to feel that you¹re back on the tram, just sit down with Quentin Tarantino.’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Controversial ads top 10 AD BREAKDOWN The Magazine's review of advertising ---- The last 12 months have seen a bumper crop of complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority. The 26,236 complaints received in 2005, up 16% on the previous year, included those for the most complained about advert ever. Here are the top 10 adverts by volume of complaints and the ASA's decision on them. Top 10 controversial ads... And "Why is this posted here?!" I hear you all cry... Well, just read number 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crippsy_99 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I never had one of them through my door Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evie_Nitram Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Me neither - and I'd have liked to have one!! Why the hell do people take adverts so seriously?! Those that are the most controversial get the best responses... which is why advertising companies keep doing it... gosh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quirky Koala Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I never had one of them through my door 965963[/snapback] You can buy them on ebay I wish I would have got one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crippsy_99 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 What did you search for on there? Just looked and cant find any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quirky Koala Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 What did you search for on there? Just looked and cant find any 966111[/snapback] I just serached under csi:ny: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BANNED-CHANNEL-FIVE-...1QQcmdZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I wanted one of those posted through my door too. BUT I found something better. A place that does a sort of CSI roleplay (not based on the show it's just people playing at being detectives etc) can have people volunteering to be victims. And what they do is make up all the case files in with photos of you and evidence. A guy I work with had one given to him for a birthday present! Now I want one of those!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 DeviantART goes to the set of CSI: Miami !! Just an article I found on the artist community I'm part of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfy_sah Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 What did you search for on there? Just looked and cant find any  966111[/snapback] I just serached under csi:ny: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BANNED-CHANNEL-FIVE-...1QQcmdZViewItem thanks Rach! have just read that BBC link and posted a comment back I'm gutted we didn't get any promotional ads in Cardiff Quirky Koala - I just followed your ebay link, even though it's 3months old, and would you believe the seller has ANOTHER promo pack up for auction £7 though inc p&p and that's a tad much for me! Rach - you're right, that sounds awesome! any pics you can get of it? Luv sah xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 Rory news A Scanner Darkly: Here ( http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/670/670907/vids_1.html ) you can find the first 24 minutes of the movie along with several interviews with Keanu Reeves, Richard Linklater, Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane. The poor soul doesn't interview very well. There is also the red carpet interviews on the next page too. Please be aware that you have to confirm that you are old enough to view the first 24 minutes. As the film is age restricted. The Empire website Sah posted on the Rory thread also has these clips but I believe it is as a result of a punter posting the above link I just did William Petersen news ( http://www.trinityrep.com/about_us/press_r..._43rd_season.ph ) William Petersen is to come back to the stage in a production of Dublin Carol (a play written by Conor McPherson) late this year. However, I have read this play and even though I would love to see William on the stage, I would like to see him in something more challenging and a little... better. It is a matter of opinion though. I may yet travel over to Rhode Island to see the play, I just have to convince myself it's worth it. As an actor though I would rather people came to see me act, not come to see me because of who I was. I like that people appreciate my work, what I do and how I do it. It is a matter of opinion and that's just mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crippsy_99 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 CSI show 'most popular in world' Forensic drama CSI: Miami has been named the world's most popular TV show in a study of ratings in 20 countries. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5231334.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueliza Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 nooo, i hate miami. I can't see how people can stand it, esp with Horatio who you just wanna slap and tell him to stop being silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Well it has to be the most popular, really! It has the constant dramatic storylines that are NOT totally out of character for the show (seeing as they have been extreme from the start) and it keeps you entertained! Mind you I can't really say much as I have to admit - I stopped watching when they killed Speed off. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Ok, tell me people. Have you all seen the Loreal advert with George Eads in yet? Ye Gods!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueliza Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Hehe, i have! I heard about it on another board, and then nearly missed it when it came on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crippsy_99 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 No idea if its in english too, but he's a french one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfy_sah Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 ah ha ha! soo funny!!! heehee!!! caught the English one on tv few times, but not since c10 as haven't watched tv , it amuses me!! Luv sah xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfy_sah Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 from five, they have secured the rights to s7 yey! I emailed them a few days ago, before they updated the webpage, and they do not have an airdate yet but I'm keeping my eyes on it!!! cannae wait!!! newwww CSSSSIIIIIIIIIII wahooo also Five US (c185 on cable) is showing NY Thursdays at 8pm and Miami Sundays at 10pm c5 is showing CSI s4 Tuesdays at 9pm 10pm (eps 9 and 10 tonight) continuing with eps 11 and 12 on Saturday during the 9:10pm and 10:10pm slots Luv sah xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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