Firefly premiering on Philippine TV this August 2007 :-) by horge

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Firefly premiering on Philippine TV this August 2007 :-)

POSTED BY: HORGE
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:15
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:53 PM

Better late than never :smile:

Looks like all that rotation of "Serenity" on HBO Asia has a few channels interested.

"Firefly" will be premiering on C/S this August 2007, as either the lead-in to ongoing Season 6 of "24", or else tucked between "Bones" and "Prison Break". C/S is one of the most popular cable channels here, and if the show rates well, might then get picked up by semi-affiliated broadcast channel RPN 9

Some kids that I've asked say they're excited about "that new Serenity spin-off", impressed that "they even got all the original movie actors!".

Cheers. horge

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Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:02 PM

ANONYMOUS1

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Originally posted by horge: Some kids that I've asked say they're excited about "that new Serenity spin-off", impressed that "they even got all the original movie actors!".

That is so funny!

I wonder why they called the Serenity spin-off Firefly. That is so strange. Why didn't they call it Serenity?

Watch episodes 1 - 6 online at http://www.myspace.com/driveonfox

Watch Emmy nominated Drive clip at http://www.fox.com/drive

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Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:12 PM

FIREFLYPASSENGER

HooooYa! Yahooo!

I am so excited about this.

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Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:12 PM

FIREFLYPASSENGER

Hooooya! Yahooo!

I am so excited about this.

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Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:13 PM

FIREFLYPASSENGER

Yahooo!

I am so excited about this.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 2:51 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Glad to see you're excited about this FireflyPassenger!!

Whereabouts in the Philippines are you Horge? I am guessing Manila though I could be wrong... I left a chunk of my heart in the Philippines - it's a beautiful country with the most amazing people! I will immediately email all my friends and let them know to watch out for it! :biggrin:

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:22 AM

HORGE

Hi, magdalena! I am indeed from Manila :-)

The series is presenty being promoted as "Joss Whedon's FIREFLY"

Check out a few screencaps from the TV plug on a a small page I threw together, here: http://fireflyphilippines.50webs.com/ffp.html I left out the portions of video from the actual show, as I'm pretty sure everyone's seen those before ;)

Cheers! horge

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Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:32 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Thank you Horge!! That looks terrific! I bet it's hot there at the moment!! I arrived on New Years Eve of 2004 so you can imagine the party that occoured on my first night there!!

I shall pass on the link to my friends - especially my friend who's a teacher - she'll need to let her pupils know for sure... eh?

It's so nice to find someone from Manila is part of the FFF.net family!! :biggrin:

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Monday, August 20, 2007 1:30 AM

HORGE

It's on tonight (here in the Philippines, 'course)!

The premiere's airing just a few hours after HBO showed Serenity. Firefly's skedded Monday nights 8:00 pm on C/S leading in to "Heroes".

Heavy promotion on the channel in the past week, with cast interview snippets, etc.

:smile: horge

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Monday, August 20, 2007 2:08 AM

HORGE

AAARGGGHHHHH!!! :disappointed:

They're airing the episodes out of order!!! They kicked it off with "The Train Job".

At least here was an interesting 30 second intro, describing the history of the Alliance, Independents, the difficulties of border planet life, and particularly of captaining a smuggling ship, voiced by Ron Glass...

then a dissolve to the bar with the belly dancer.

horge

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Monday, August 20, 2007 2:19 AM

GRIZWALD

Oh dear. They're airing them in Foxed-up order? Argh indeed!

Those lead-ins are original, BTW - didn't get on the DVDs for some reason.

At least the Philippines has you, Horge, to straighten them out. Big job ahead for you! I'm looking forward to an influx of new Asian fans to this board as a result of this airing.

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Monday, August 20, 2007 11:55 AM

HORGE

"Big job" is right... Or maybe not. The people I enticed into watching Firefly last night seem to have enjoyed it enough. I want to let them find out stuff on their own, and only help them when they ask (mostly by pointing them this-a-ways, hehe).

:smile: h.

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Monday, August 20, 2007 1:41 PM

MAEKCHU

The Philippines has some of the best cable TV packages in all of Asia. They are light years ahead of Japan, Korea and Thailand just to name a few. I travel there several times a year and always look forward to the TV programming. Jack TV rocks!

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:37 AM

GRIZWALD

Just read on someone's blog that August is Sci-Fi Month in Asia. Not sure how true that is, as it is kinda generalizing over many, many different peoples, but I like the idea of sci-fi month. :biggrin:

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:15 PM

HORGE

Sci-Fi month, Griz? Not here in the Philippines, I'm afraid.

I'm glad someone likes Philippine cable, MAEKCHU! :smile: I'm worried about the (increasing) number of cable channels here, though, and the trend of genre-specialization going on.

Pretty soon there will be a Sci-Fi channel, as C/S (ostensibly "crime/suspense", and hosting everything from Law&Order reruns to Prison Break and 24) is overweight with S/F shows like Battlestar Galactica and more obscure ones like Eureka, Threshold, Invasion, etc. etc.

I like it better when good S/F shows share space with more 'mainstream' fare, so that a wider audience can be err... assimilated :)

"Having a ship can get you a job. Having a gun will let you keep it"

-Ron Glass (Shepherd Book) the intro narrative to "Train Job"

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