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September 11

what's with andy

Hay, it's me again. sorry to be annoying. Are they more likely to put the hit tv series What's with Andy? back on the air? or would they probibly put out dvds of the show. it's a good show and i would really like to se it. 204.112.104.172 (talk) 03:19, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

'Back on the air' as in produce more episodes? Or as in airing the same episodes again? If the latter, why wouldn't they do both? There are DVDs of most every show and quite a few of them have reruns still being aired somewhere. Dismas|^(talk) 03:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I do mean the airing the same episodes again, but the people at teletoon, where i live in canada have taken it off the air, and i have only found episodes in romanian online, which is useless to me as i do not understand a word of romanian. I really want to see the show and its funny gags again. and i am unable to download torrents and everything because a: my computer doesn't download and b: coppywrite stuff. It is getting on my nerve because they replaced it with a lame show. where and or how can i watch it again? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 03:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, according to Teletoon's web site it airs daily at 4am. Do you have the means to record it? Dismas|^(talk) 03:40, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Hrm, I now see that the same site also states that it's "A zany new series..." (emphasis mine), so I don't know how reliable the production company's web site is.. Dismas|^(talk) 03:41, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

are there any sights online that have episodes in english? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 04:05, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

There are a lot of hits on YouTube. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 04:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I am still finding romanian and dutch episodes, it's annoying. 204.112.104.172 (talk) 04:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

what is ksps

I watch pbs spokane all the time, and i always hear on comercials "friday night at 10 on ksps" what does ksps stand for? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 06:03, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I infer from KSPS-TV that the SPS part stands for Spokane Public Schools. The prefix "K" is, of course, standard for stations west of the Mississippi. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:21, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Or perhaps the original poster is unaware of the concept of a call sign. It used to be that pretty much every TV and radio station in North America routinely identified itself by its call sign ("This is channel 4, WBEN") but today they often have a brand name in addition and prefer to use that ("This is News 4 Buffalo" -- made-up example, but typical), giving the call sign only when required by law. Also, today cable-only channels are more important and they don't have call signs at all. So you hear call signs less often than you used to. Evidently KSPS-TV is one station that still does it the old way. For the part about the Mississippi, see Call sign#North America in particular. --Anonymous, 21:25 UTC, September 11, 2010.

I'm fairly sure that the FCC requires all TV and radio stations to announce their call sign and city every hour near the top of the hour. Sometimes nowadays they use real small letters for the call sign while showing the station branding ("News 4" or whatever) in big letters. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 23:02, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

who is the announcer on ksps

Who is the announcer on ksps that says things like "friday night at 10, on ksps". i know he also narrates northwest profiles. 204.112.104.172 (talk) 07:06, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm fairly certain that if you went to their web site and asked them, they'd be happy to tell you about their station. Although being a weekend, you'd likely have to wait till Monday for a response. But their info would be the most accurate that you could get. Dismas|^(talk) 14:30, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Like i said above, he also narrates northwest profiles, and the episodes of nw profiles are on youtube. I know i heard this guy somewhere, i think he was the mayor on what's with andy, not sertain. 204.112.104.172 (talk) 18:39, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I just noticed that there are 3 diferent narrators, can you please name them? here is where to go to find their names.

a: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULLSmhsB6M

b: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXSfZ8Q_UHc

c: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwarSJq2NE

I would like to know who the narrators for this interesting show are please. thank you. 204.112.104.172 (talk) 23:53, 11 September 2010 (UTC) ps: if any of you users work for ksps tv, i would like to congratulate you on your good work on northwest profiles.

why is progressive house associated with certain djs

not only am i a big tv watcher, but i listen to house music all the time. I like progressive house, but i would like to know why people call progressive house "deadmau 5 style" or "inpetto style?" when there are many other prog house djs out there? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 07:50, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Because DJs all have specific tastes, and specific genres they play. Within those genres, there are subgroupings of sounds. So DJs become associated with certain sounds (consider the differences between PVD, Tiesto, Digweed, and Goa Gil. They all play trance, but they play very, very different styles; PVD (live) tends to go dark and hard, Tiesto is unabashedly big-room anthemic, Digweed is dark and deep, Goa Gil is, unsurprisingly, goa). As one becomes famous, one tends to be cited as an exmplar of a given style--which is an interesting conflation of the person bringing you the music with the people who actually created it, but that's neither here nor there. The point is.. you get big for playing a specific sound, and that sound will be associated with you. → ROUX ₪ 08:14, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I notice that a song toca me (cannot remember if that is the right spelling) is has a progressive house mix, but it seems that there is a conflict on whether deadmau5 or inpetto did it. who was it, and are there any other such confusions with prog house or related? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 08:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Toca Me is by Fragma, assuming we are discussing the same song. It was release in 1998, long before deadmau5 was around. → ROUX ₪ 08:45, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes i mean that song. who does the 2008 progressive house remix, inpetto or deadmau5? there is somewhat of a dispute over that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.112.104.172 (talk) 09:06, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Read the articles I linked to. → ROUX ₪ 18:06, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Film books

What are the major differences between films and film-book adaptations? Samespelldifferenttimeline (talk) 13:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Often parts of books are not used in the film due to time constraints. See, for instance, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)#Differences from the book. Dismas|^(talk) 14:32, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Often films that aren't adaptations have scenes cut for the same reason. I'd think that's more of a similarity. Vimescarrot (talk) 14:46, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

[The following is my unreferenced opinion, but may be helpful.] An original book (I'll assume a novel) generally contains at minimum: events making up an unrolling plot or story; speech between characters; descriptions of the characters' surroundings; and often 'author's voice' descriptions of other 'off-stage' events (it may of course have further elements). A film necessarily depicts the first three elements, though the last is unusual.

If filming a novel, the descriptions of surroundings are not a problem, because the set designer and others display them without taking up any time - indeed one will see in any film far more visual detail than any books has the space to describe. However, most novels contain far more 'events' and speech (which may be direct, or indirectedly reported) than can be fitted into the normal length of a film. To make a film of such a book usually requires that the story be simplified and shortened, often by cutting entirely various sub-plots and characters.

When going the other way - 'novelizing' an original film (or screenplay), novelizers often find that there is too little plot material for a novel-length work, and may have to create additional events and characters. They don't have to describe everything seen on screen, because ordinarily in written work writers rely on readers to supply most of the detail from their own imagination based on relatively sparse hints (compared to what a film shows). However, novelizers often have to work in advance from screenplays of films without having seen the final product: screenplays lack most of the visual details that will be created and added by the film's designers and director, so such screeplay-based novelizations often seem descriptively rather 'thin'. Sometimes, too, novelizers assume that everyone reading the book will have seen the film, so they may also skimp on descriptions of characters.

All of these generalities may be muddied by writers such as Michael Crichton, who writes most of his novels in the expectation of them being filmed and (in my opinion) anticipates the sparser details of a screenplay to his novels' detriment, and by the unfortunately rare occasions when a really good novelist is commissioned to do the novelisation of a film. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 16:21, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

"Erich von Stroheim attempted a literal adaptation of Frank Norris's novel McTeague in 1924 with his film, Greed. The resulting film was over sixteen hours long." This and more, including Eisenstein's thoughts, can be read under the film adaptation's subsection novel adaptations. ---Sluzzelin talk 17:08, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, if nothing else, they could get a lot of popcorn sold. Imagine sitting through a 16 hour silent film. I recall when I read Ben Hur, how little time was spent on the chariot race, which in that lengthy film is its centerpiece, its climax. You can do things with film that you can't do with the printed word, and vice versa. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

My best claim is that I once sat through War and Peace (1965 film) in a single sitting. It lasted over 8 hours, including 3 intermissions. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 01:06, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Wow. That is one long day. And there's only so much borscht cola you can consume. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:56, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

mmmm... beety.... --Jayron32 06:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

world cup bid favorites

According to the media, who are the "favorites" to win the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids? 68.6.124.171 (talk) 21:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, Henry Kissinger says he expects it will be in Europe in 2018: [1]. Although the US is bidding on 2018, the President of the US Soccer Federation, Sunil Gulati, says he thinks the US is more likely for 2022. He also says that a Chinese interest in 2026 means that it's unlikely an Asian bid in 2022 will succeed. [2]. Other than that, your guess is as good as mine.  :) Everard Proudfoot (talk) 23:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Chad Campbell's wife

The Golf Channel just played a song which they said was from the wife of golfer Chad Campbell. They said her band's album would be coming out soon. Searching shows that she uses both the name Amy Lepard and Amy Campbell. Does anybody know what her band's name is? Everard Proudfoot (talk) 23:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Original CD, her myspace, her band's myspace. Nanonic (talk) 23:38, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 23:38, 11 September 2010 (UTC)