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Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display
According to the Guardian, a "developing deal" for a theme park located in Kent could transform various BBC shows into Disney-style in-person experiences. Says the article: BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has struck a deal with a Kuwait-backed property developer to allow a range of its programmes and characters to be “brought to life” at a new £2bn theme park and holiday resort to be built by the Thames estuary in north Kent, in partnership with Paramount Pictures.
London Resort Company Holdings has signed a development agreement with BBC Worldwide to feature the corporation’s intellectual property at the London Paramount Entertainment Resort, which promises to “combine the glamour of Hollywood with the best of British culture."
Shows named include Top Gear, Sherlock, and Dr. Who; I think I'd rather visit a theme park that was entirely based on Monty Python's Flying Circus, but a Top Gear racetrack or simulator would be fun.
What I am picturing is multiple, people,walking arond dressed as the Stig, Daleks, or even all the various Doctors for Photo opportunities.
And this is a site for nerds! It's "Doctor Who" thank you very much.
... don't forget Keeping Up Appearances!
I for one want to meet Mrs. Bucket, ulp, sorry Bouquet ...
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Would be at least consistent with BBC's position towards EME. Not firefox should get the blame and the shitstorm.
'cos the weather is shit round here.
that they went overseas to find developers for a theme park project in their own country. surely they could have found uk-based partners, investors and developers?
Wonder if they'll have a Yewtree exhibition?
Perhaps they could run a sweepstake for the next BBC paedophile to be outed?
I'm hoping for a full-on Orphan Black setup.
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make it so.
I'm surprised the BBC still owns any of its own intellectual property, after years of being forced to farm programme production out to third party production companies.
Monty Python isn't actually very funny.
I'm British and let me tell you lot's of us feel that way
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I think I'd rather visit a theme park that was entirely based on Monty Python's Flying Circus,
"No, you wouldn't."
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
Benny Hill? This could be fun.
I'm disgusted that the ambulances seen in this show set in the 1950s were 1950s ambulances that don't meet modern safety standards in a crash. They should have insisted on modern ambulances.
The ride for "Coupling" could be fun :)
I watched a series on Netflix from the BBC called "Call the Midwife". It was a story about midwifes in the late fifties. One of the midwifes was a chain smoker and even smoked around children. I find it hard to watch a program where it shows people smoking as it does not in my opinion add anything to the story. It just shows their almost total disregard of their advertising of cigarettes. It is also a sell out to the smoking industry.
It's hard to tell if you're trying to be ironic or something here, but, as you said, the program was set in the 1950's, guess what?, people smoked back then..a lot of them (hard to get an exact figure quickly, but say between 45-50% of the adult population as a lower best guess) and smoked a rather large amount (20-40 a day habit quite common in that generation).
'..even smoked around children..' is a modern affectation, firstly it wasn't perceived to be harmful (thanks to the propaganda campaigns mounted by the tobacco companies) besides, even children smoked (and still do), it was perceived as being part of growing up..yer first fag..(In my case, being a contrary bugger, my first cigar..aged 9 or so)
A drama set in that period where no-one smoked wouldn't look echt..
It's drama, attempting to portray another time and place based on someone's memoirs of said time and place, so what do you want?, revisionist history where none of the things we now consider 'wrong' to exist?, a nicer, happier, Disneyfied past c/w a nice clean London East end, full of nice clean, healthy smiling ragamuffins and unrealistically nice, clean non-smoking adults?
Btw, I'm a non-smoker..despite the cigar incident alluded to above, despite being brought up in, and around households where every adult smoked (bar one of my grandmothers, the other, as they say here, she 'smoked like a lum').
It was a story about midwifes in the late fifties. One of the midwifes was a chain smoker and even smoked around children.
Yes - in the 1950s, nobody would have batted an eyelid at that (its probably a detail from the real-life memoirs the series was inspired by). My dad was in hospital with a lung infection in the 50s. They came round the ward with a cart handing out free cigarettes.
it does not in my opinion add anything to the story.
Really? It shows one aspect of how social practices and attitudes have changed in the last 50 years which is the whole bloody point of the show! Should they have quietly corrected all the now-discredited medical practices while they were at it? Perhaps they should have shown more women in senior positions instead type-casting them as midwifes and nurses?
Perhaps you should stick to watching Life on Mars instead - then you have a modern-day avatar to call the 1970s characters out on any behaviour which would not be acceptable in 2010, lest you thought the producers were endorsing it.
It is also a sell out to the smoking industry.
Just because they really are out to get you, it doesn't mean that you're not paranoid.
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Will a giant white ball chase you down?
s/where none of the things we now consider 'wrong' to exist?/where none of the things we now consider 'wrong' exist?/g
[with apologies, I can't be arsed escaping the quotes etc.]
errant to...the dangers of rephrasing rants on the go...I need a ciggie....oooops!
Good point. In the interests of historical accuracy, all shows should include aggressive chain-smoking. To do otherwise would portray a diminished control over the health of the general population.
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Don't forget, it wasn't just ok to smoke around children - it was actually good for you.. or at least, that's what the doctors in the adverts told us
See if you can spot the cigarette advert featuring the babies in there!
As for the Disney-fied theme park, you should watch "Churchill: the Hollywood Years", where a (US marine, of course) Winston Churchill first appears with the Enigma machine that's he's single-handedly (well, with his black sidekick's assistance) captured from the Germans, but then visits London's East End which, as every American Hollywood person knows, was populated entirely with happy, singing, Irish Cockneys.
"combine the glamour of Hollywood with the best of British culture."
In North Kent ? The only time Swanscombe has culture is when it's grown in a petri dish.
and to remember smoking in TV shows... there was one called "Between the Lines", about 'internal investigations" cops. One of the actors was told he should smoke as it was part of his characters... only the actor had just given up smoking. So he said "sod it" and smoked... famously continually smoking throughout the show. It gave the show a really "grittier" look about it.
Such a theme park would be a lot more fun if it included references to those derisive Monty Python sketches about BBC culture.
"Welcome to the Mastermind Ride, please have a seat in that chair over there. Your specialist subject is obscure theme parks."
"Race the Stig" ride? ...please please please.
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I'd like to point out that almost certainly the smoke seen on screen would have been CGI. Bans on smoking in public places and workplaces typically extend to TV studios. Furthermore, if there's children in shot, there's no way they'd have real smoke.
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Top Gear themed rides? Well, I suppose it gives an excuse to be a little shit. The "Be a Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car" roller coaster: not quite as fast or thrilling as the "Ferraris" at other theme parks....
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Bans on smoking in public places and workplaces typically extend to TV studios.
They don't in England. So long as you can justify it dramatically, and there is no reasonable replacement there is an exception for theatrical film and TV smoking indoors.
So a brief shot at a distance you could reasonably be required to use an ecig as a replacement. But a longer close up shot may require the generation of ash, and the diminishing length of a real cigarette.
In Scotland however, there is no such exception.
(This is AFAIK, based on the rules in the year after the smoking ban came in. It's possible that it's changed, but I doubt it.)
Just put Doc in the park infirmary. Think of the money saved.
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Just last night, I was watching some videos taken while Yes were recording Going For The One where they took a break and passed around a joint. Those bits obviously should have been cut out, since nobody does that any more. Oh, wait...
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I just want a Sherlock holmes themed opium den.
However. Failing all of that. I could just add a theme park to my mind palace.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
For the Doctor Who ride, you would just get into the Tardis, which would then appear in some other part of the park, at which point you will be attacked by Cybermen or Sontarans.
a la Disneyland.
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they're certainly thinking of the children.
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The strength of the BBC is its documentaries. How about rides based on its medical documentaries? They contain bare-breasted schoolgirls and ejaculating penises, just like 'The human body' (1998) and 'A guide to 21st century sex' (2006). The re-releases were pixelated, which might not work for the ride.
Like Disney World, will it also have accompanying lodging.
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have the pub based on "Absolutely Fabulous".
have the gift shop staffed by the characters on "Are You Being Served".
Don't forget "The Young Ones".
Or the sci-fi: UFO, Space 1999, Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel......
...should of course be based on "Are You Being Served?"
The whole bloody point of the show was showing the caring relationship between the midwifes and their patients. It showed women helping each other and their patients. The odds that their would be 4 beautiful young midwifes is less than the odds that they would find 4 non-smoking midwifes. How could the smoking midwife maintain her clothes and buy her makeup and still have money for cigarettes? The smoking doctor had a son who would have been my age at that time. Did they show that boy waking up in the middle of the night because his father was coughing uncontrollably? No! it did not. I know I did and I experienced the fear that it gave me. The midwifes lived together in very modest home. It would have taken just one time where the smoking midwife fell asleep with a lit cigarette to burn that home down. It happened and is still happening today. They chose to show smoking but they also chose not to show any of the negative effects of smoking. It could have shown the smoking midwife at a store choosing to buy cigarettes instead of buying makeup, clothes, or even a birthday present for a fellow midwife or even a member of her family. If they chose to show accuracy, people would have not watched it. The question is whether more people would have watched the program if they left out the smoking than watched it because of the smoking. I think people watched the program to see the midwifes dedication to their patients and to each other and not because one of the midwives and the doctor smoked. I know I did.
Could we have someone designated as Bluebottle and have him blown up?
I'd rather boil my own head.
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