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Topic History of: USA Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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steveimp
Angel wrote: I was a massive fan of Entertainment USA. It did have its fair share of shameless plugs. At the time it worked as there was no "window on the world" as there is now. Would the format work today? Not sure if theres room anymore.
Charlie Brooker in his pisstake come saluted rip off of E-USA showed that perhaps an updated version could work and work very well.
steveimp
JK2006 wrote: The problem originally was getting clearance on all those hits, film trailers etc.
The problem now would be the vile pervert heavily featured therein.
Oh, it's not a simple thing, life.
The original video does (or at least did) sell quite well on eBay.
Angel
I was a massive fan of Entertainment USA. It did have its fair share of shameless plugs. At the time it worked as there was no "window on the world" as there is now. Would the format work today? Not sure if theres room anymore.
DJones
Fry's show is based on culture rather than comercialism.
If there is "culture" at all in America (some think "american culture" is an oxymoron), it was based from the very beginning on commercialism.
JK2006
Not sure I agree with you Angel - I think it is two different ways of seeing places - Whicker did it one way, I did it another; there's Palin's way and Fry's way and Merton's way...
For me, a weekly way of looking at America involved music, TV commercials, film trailers, news items as well as interviews and travelogues...