SERENITY FINALLY broadcasted on german TV

POSTED BY: emmapeel66
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EMMAPEEL66

Saturday, July 5, 2008 12:08 PM

Hello everyone,

good news: we finally made it to German TV !

RTL, the TV station that holds the rights for FIREFLY and SERENITY is showing the movie during his summer movies campaign on 19.07.08 at 22h.

YEAH, maybe all those emails, calls and faxes over the years helped.

http://www.tvinfo.de/exe.php3?target=popup&sidnr=67252376&sel=&comefro
m=senderlist.inc&backQS=0x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x00x0230x00x00x00x00x00x00x00000000

I´m soooo happy !

Cheers

Beate, Berlin

KHYRON

Saturday, July 5, 2008 12:18 PM

Good stuff, but too bad it'll be dubbed in German. If there's one thing Germans can't do, it's proper dubbing.

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EMMAPEEL66

Saturday, July 5, 2008 2:11 PM

Hi there,

you are so right, german dubbings are absolutely horrible !

There is only one movie that has a better german dubbing than the original, thats Lord of the Rings.

Fantastic choices of voices, they fit so perfect to the characters and they used a form of very oldfashioned more traditional german language, its very poetic and just beautiful. The old german language is very similar to Tolkien´s work, I think thats why.

I´m really glad about the fact that Serenity has a chance now to be seen by a wider audience over here.

Maybe there is a chance also for Firefly to be shown on this station as well. I don´t give up. Ive send them so many mails over the years and maybe it helped to get the movie shown.

Keep fingers crossed.

Take good care and enjoy your day

Beste

ANONYMOUS1

Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:54 PM

Is this a cable network...cause Serenity has only been shown on pay-extra cable channels like HBO, Showtime and such in the USA. Not a broadcast channel yet. The normal cable channel USA has bought rights to it but hasn't shown it yet.

EMMAPEEL66

Saturday, July 5, 2008 4:14 PM

Hi there,

yes, RTL its cable, a big station, but nearly all people have it, as most households have it already added to your rent automatically.

Its the first time they show it over here in germany, they hold the rights for FIREFLY as well, which was also never shown here.
Keep fingers crossed that a lot of people will tune in.

Cheers

beate

SUASOR

Saturday, July 5, 2008 5:28 PM

Yeah, Tolkein made no secret of his "Rings" drawing from the same basic sources as Wagners. Tolkein probably would have loved to hear the German dubbed version, especially using the old dialect. Very period and all that.

Germans have always been big fans of American Westerns. Don't they do a good job dubbing those? Did any of Karl Mays German language originals get made into movies?

(note for my fellow Americans, Karl May wrote a series of German language Westerns before WW I, that were really popular in Germany, but never made it to the US in translation, although some were published in the UK.)

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Originally posted by emmapeel66:
Hi there,

you are so right, german dubbings are absolutely horrible !

There is only one movie that has a better german dubbing than the original, thats Lord of the Rings.

Fantastic choices of voices, they fit so perfect to the characters and they used a form of very oldfashioned more traditional german language, its very poetic and just beautiful. The old german language is very similar to Tolkien´s work, I think thats why.

I´m really glad about the fact that Serenity has a chance now to be seen by a wider audience over here.

Maybe there is a chance also for Firefly to be shown on this station as well. I don´t give up. Ive send them so many mails over the years and maybe it helped to get the movie shown.

Keep fingers crossed.

Take good care and enjoy your day

Beste

EMMAPEEL66

Saturday, July 5, 2008 5:40 PM

To be honest, i have ever been a great fan of Western at all, until I discovered Firefly, funny enough... but thats a different approach to the genre and if it would not have the sci-fi aspect, don´t know if I have would have touched it at all.

A lot of Karl May´s stories have been transferred into movies troughout the years, they were all produced over here shot in former Jugoslavia, as they had beautiful landscapaes. ALl of them very sucessfull here, in cinemas and on TV. They became classics. Pierre Price played Winnetou and Bruce Boxleitner played Old SHatterhand for example.

But I´m not sure, if they ever made oversees, but the are known in most european contries.

NTLZYJSTDNTCARE

Saturday, July 5, 2008 5:59 PM

Congratulations emmapeel! I'm sure the letters you sent had some impact.

I've only sent the one email to the two national broadcasters in Britain and Ireland, maybe I should send more.

not lazy just don't care (about anything but Firefly)

SCATHAC

Saturday, July 5, 2008 6:30 PM

I didn't realize that this was an issue - I don't have cable or any sort of reception for local stations, so I've pretty much written non dvd based telivision out of my life. Stations own the rights to Serenity but won't play it? Why is that? I thought Serenity did pretty well at the box office, is that wrong? Who do we have to write to get it shown?

KHYRON

Saturday, July 5, 2008 6:57 PM

Yeah, the Karl May movies were great, although some of them didn't age too well. My favourite is "Schatz im Silbersee", but I haven't watched them since I was a kid, so maybe I'd enjoy another one more these days.

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They became classics. Pierre Price played Winnetou and Bruce Boxleitner played Old SHatterhand for example.

As I mentioned, it's been a while since I saw them, but I'm sure Old Shatterhand was played by Lex Barker!

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