Not sure if this is really news, but Hippies has officially been announced for 10th March through Freemantle.
Click on the link below for more details & a pack shot...
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/hip...ete-series.html
Kev W
Full Version: Hippies on DVD
Hey gang!
Not sure if this is really news, but Hippies has officially been announced for 10th March through Freemantle.
Click on the link below for more details & a pack shot...
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/hip...ete-series.html
Kev W
Not sure if this is really news, but Hippies has officially been announced for 10th March through Freemantle.
Click on the link below for more details & a pack shot...
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/hip...ete-series.html
Kev W
Simon looks like a young Ray Brooks on the cover.
Yaaaay!!!!
...I've been waiting for this for ages!
In fact, I mentioned to a mate at work just yesterday about how they needed to release this.
Groovy!
...I've been waiting for this for ages!
In fact, I mentioned to a mate at work just yesterday about how they needed to release this.
Groovy!
QUOTE (dandan @ Jan 31 2008, 11:35 AM)
QUOTE (an email from some distributors)
++ HIPPIES (Fremantle Home Entertainment). Available to buy on DVD from 10th March 2008.
Following the huge critical and public success of Father Ted, acclaimed sit-com writers Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd; Black Books) and Arthur Mathews (Comedy Showcase: The Eejits) turned their comic attentions away from the surreal peculiarities of the Irish priesthood to focus on the equally surreal idiosyncrasies of the late 1960s counter culture in HIPPIES.
Starring Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz; Shaun Of The Dead), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Stardust; Green Wing) and Sally Phillips (Green Wing; Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason), and set in and around a Notting Hill commune just as a new decade is about to dawn, HIPPIES pokes affectionate fun at the everyday lives of the editorial staff of the ambitious but laughably ineffective underground magazine, Mouth.
Following the huge critical and public success of Father Ted, acclaimed sit-com writers Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd; Black Books) and Arthur Mathews (Comedy Showcase: The Eejits) turned their comic attentions away from the surreal peculiarities of the Irish priesthood to focus on the equally surreal idiosyncrasies of the late 1960s counter culture in HIPPIES.
Starring Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz; Shaun Of The Dead), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Stardust; Green Wing) and Sally Phillips (Green Wing; Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason), and set in and around a Notting Hill commune just as a new decade is about to dawn, HIPPIES pokes affectionate fun at the everyday lives of the editorial staff of the ambitious but laughably ineffective underground magazine, Mouth.
Not to steal your thunder, Kev, but I don't want dandan to be overlooked.
No probs - I didn't know if it had already been reported!
I would hate to think that I was stealing anyone else's thunder!
Kev W
I would hate to think that I was stealing anyone else's thunder!
Kev W
Well, I didn't know about it.
QUOTE (KevinandNick @ Feb 6 2008, 10:34 AM)
Hey gang!
Not sure if this is really news, but Hippies has officially been announced for 10th March through Freemantle.
Click on the link below for more details & a pack shot...
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/hip...ete-series.html
Kev W
Not sure if this is really news, but Hippies has officially been announced for 10th March through Freemantle.
Click on the link below for more details & a pack shot...
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/hip...ete-series.html
Kev W
Awww, look at Simon's child face!
I can beat that, Baz...
£7.99 from HMV.com!
£7.99 from HMV.com!
QUOTE (Baz @ Feb 7 2008, 08:56 PM)
Sorry Baz, I still beat you,.... You forgot to add £1.45 for postage from amazon.
QUOTE (Jon 79 @ Feb 7 2008, 05:14 PM)
Sorry Baz, I still beat you,.... You forgot to add £1.45 for postage from amazon.
Ha! £6.79 for me (from Amazon), and I don't have to pay VAT. But I still have to pay shipping...
QUOTE (Jon 79 @ Feb 7 2008, 09:14 PM)
Sorry Baz, I still beat you,.... You forgot to add £1.45 for postage from amazon.
Damn that P&P.
Bargain! Must get a copy of this. It's a great funny little series if you've not seen it before.
Anyone know if there are any extras on the DVD? 
Feel the love.
dolfyn.
Feel the love.
dolfyn.
Apparently there's just:
Shame there's no cast commentary.
QUOTE
* Audio commentaries by writer Arthur Matthews
* 1970 archive footage of the David Frost Show featuring hippies
* Photo gallery
* 1970 archive footage of the David Frost Show featuring hippies
* Photo gallery
Shame there's no cast commentary.
I already have this on DVD, courtesy of the Michael J Dolan comedy archives. When I watched it again I was suprised how funny it actually is. It's a really good sitcom, well performed, good jokes and some wonderful visual gags. There's certainly elements of it that went on to be used in 'The IT Crowd', and at it's best there's touches of 'Father Ted' too. It has that traditional sitcom with a twist quality that Linehan and Matthews do so well. I'm sure it had the potential for broad appeal, as it's working on at least a couple of levels. It would have been nice to get a second series, but as it stands it's great example of the genre, six strong episodes of sitcom fun
AT LAST! The series that inadvertantly led me to Spaced (it's a long, boring story detailed elsewhere)
The series that inadvertantly led me to Spaced (it's a long, boring story detailed elsewhere)
Superb. It'll be nice to finally get hold of a copy this - I've never seen it.
QUOTE (Ade @ Feb 22 2008, 07:34 PM)
Superb. It'll be nice to finally get hold of a copy this - I've never seen it.
Never ever?
First episode part1
QUOTE (Ade @ Feb 22 2008, 03:34 PM)
Superb. It'll be nice to finally get hold of a copy this - I've never seen it.
You can actually find most of the eps on Youtube (at least you were able to at one point..)
Now only £6 from Tesco Jersey.
Bargain. Why've you not bought it yet? (assuming you haven't)
Bargain. Why've you not bought it yet? (assuming you haven't)
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