Con report of absurd length

[danceswithwords]

Happy (belated) birthday, dtissagirl!

I am beyond behind in posting about (or, for that matter, watching) TV, and RL has been rather frantic since I got back, but I wanted to write the con up while I still remembered it. And while LJ is still up! (Although there's every reason to believe this move will be much smoother, wasn't the great blackout of ought

Comments

[aquaeri]

It's not quite true Farscape hasn't shown in Australia. Some episodes were shown, at crazy and random (and constantly changing) times in Australia during 2000. I was only trying to follow the show because they'd filmed the on-location bits of an episode or two near where I worked in November 1999, and we'd asked around to find out what was being filmed (quite a few ads were done there, but they didn't take as long, or have as interesting extras wandering around). Some googling then established that this "Farscape" thing was a sf TV show being broadcast in the US, and possibly showing in Oz in future, so when it did come up, I had some idea what it was.

My memory is that some episodes were broadcast during the Sydney Olympics, against the Olympics coverage (channel 9 must really have regretted taking part, big-time). I didn't mind, because I found Farscape more interesting than Yet More Swimming Coverage, and I was staying up for The Dream (which was a comedy sendup summary of the day's Olympics which didn't start until 11pm). Channel 9 wasn't stupid enough to broadcast Farscape opposite The Dream.

[danceswithwords]

I knew bits of it had aired there (wasn't it called Far Horizons at one point?), but she made it sound like it's getting an actual run now.

In general, the rights for the show seem to be a mess. SciFi had them forever, and wouldn't rerun it at all after a certain point, just sat on it for a couple of years. Then it went into syndication in the US and, to put it bluntly, it is not a good candidate for casual viewing in syndication; my TiVO picked up a few out-of-order episodes, and it seems like it sank without a trace after a few months. The DVDs have sold out; as far as I know, ADV doesn't have the right to make more, and nobody else is doing it either. Bizarre.