Cast?
Any news on the cast for this?
How about David Jason as Colonel K this time around?
DANGER MOUSE is back ... and he isn't half a GLASSHOLE
They call themselves explorers, but we all know there's a better word for anyone who wears Google Glass. Youtube Video Now the legendary kids' telly character Danger Mouse is set to return to Britain's screens, only this time he's a fully paid up Glasshole. A new series will air next year, with the rodent's eye-patch replaced …
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 10:01 GMT Billa Bong
Re: Cast?
What better way to re-introduce a techno-savy mouse than to give him the voice of someone who gets confused over IP addresses and domain names...
http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/17/stephen-fry-is-bookies-favourite-to-replace-david-jason-in-the-new-danger-mouse-animated-series-4765291/
Glad to see the Reg willing to re-open the whole "Penfold the hamster is a mole" debate (whether you believe I'm talking about which species or where his loyalty lies depends on how much tin foil you possess). Wasn't that also a question on QI one time?
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Thursday 19th June 2014 02:19 GMT Rampant Spaniel
No, leave DM alone. By the time they have finished modernism him he will be a lesbian and have a different accent each scene. DM worked as is. Leaving aside supergran, most kids TV was of a very high quality then, especially compared to the badly dubbed dross flung at our kids these days (although there are a few exceptions). They had plotlines that changed, effort was put into the animation and music. Just watch Fraggle Rock, Thunder cats et al then watch pokemon.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 07:06 GMT dan1980
I don't get it. There are numerous similar ideas that have been churned out over the years. What really differentiates them are the characters. To 'update' those characters is to loose part of what they were. If you're doing that why don't you create a new franchise?
The thing that I feel won't work all that well, or will be lost, is that DM was a kind of parody of a certain type of spy character, from a certain era and much of the personality of the show was in that. The parody can be updated but that character no longer exists.
The answer is, of course, that they want to play on the existing brand.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 07:57 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Nostalgia is good business. Why else do they still sell those Fisher Price pull along phones, with the moving eyes and rotary dials? No child of an age to play with one has ever seen a rotary dial phone. Once they hit three, they're trying to mug all nearby adults for their iPhones and iPads...
But they sell, becuase people my age remember them, and we're now in our 30s and 40s. So I guess they hope for DM merchandise sales. And who amongst us wouldn't want a DM outfit with eyepatch?
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 08:41 GMT Nick Ryan
I've wondered that with the pull along rotary dial phones... young children are unlikely to ever see such a device outside of old movies and museums yet they still produce new pull along rotary phones. Somehow my daughter even learnt to pick up the phone handset and talk to it. She's also glued to a more current phone toy model and learnt to mug adults for their touch phones at an early age.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 09:07 GMT TRT
I took my kids to Amberley Museum (it's in the South Downs region and well worth a visit, especially for Bond fans) when they were 10 and 5. I had a fun idea of calling between the village exchange, the phone box outside and the power station. I had to show them how to use the dial phone, because they simply didn't have a clue. Never encountered one before. They were actually amazed at seeing the rotors go round. "How the flippin' heck does that work?" I was asked. The complexities of digital circuit switching... a snap. Analog pulse-dial... bewildering. Same as the interlocking mechanism of an old railway signal box - can't move one lever until three co-linked ones in a bank of 24 are set right. And it's all done with levers and lumps of rolled steel.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 15:06 GMT AndrueC
There's probably just a small server room there now
Maybe not even that. There's this thing called Cloud Communications. You can already purchase (lease?) a cloud-based PBX and I vaguely recall reading about BT being interested in the idea.
So it might be that all that's inside the voice comms part of your exchange is a DAC/ADC bank and a data cable. Somehow that feels to me like 'the world's gone mad'.
Back to DM - I always liked the name of the MoD research centre. 'Putnam Down', I think it was.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 07:05 GMT Valeyard
Aw man
The dialogue was really good in the original series, some very clever back and forths you only really appreciated the wit of which as an adult. I bet now it'll be sanitised and dumbed down with action and gadgets, I mean they even made postman pat more dull than the original and that's saying something!
I'm going get the drinks in, hole up and play black forest chateau on the c64 and wait for all of this to blow over
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 12:36 GMT Chika
Re: Aw man
The dialogue was really good in the original, and that was only partly to do with the writing back then. The problem is that they need to find voice actors that can interact in a similar way to David Jason and Terry Scott, and that's going to be hard to do. Even if they do find people that sound good and write some good lines, if you don't get the chemistry right, it will all be for nothing.
That's even before we get to who will be the voice behind the Baron and Stilletto, the latter being a problem even back when they did the original.
This might be a boon for new viewers but I suspect that the remake is being done for all the wrong reasons and will annoy fans everywhere. I don't mind being wrong about that last bit, but I suspect that I won't be.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 07:10 GMT stu 4
Load of Shite
To 'win a new generation of fans' all that would be needed is to put the original series back on the TV.
this has FA to do with winning a new generation of fans.
My wee niece's favourite film is still Wizard of Oz, and it was made in 1939!
Stick Danger Mouse, bagpuss, originial magic roundabout, banana man, etc back on the TV and they'll be happy bunnies.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 07:17 GMT Dan 55
Re: Load of Shite
Is that the original Bananaman or the film coming out in 2015?
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 13:50 GMT Alan W. Rateliff, II
Re: Load of Shite
And Count Duckula. Maybe this means my DM DVD collection will go up in resale some. Not that I want to sell it, but it could double my net worth.
I am okay with the whole Danger Mouse "Glass" bit, too. It will help to reinforce the idea that the only people who need to use the real-time spying information gathering high-tech stuff are the spooks and plods, and we have nothing to fear if we are doing nothing wrong. Move along, nothing to see here, you can catch it on-line at your leisure.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 08:05 GMT I ain't Spartacus
BBC Radio 4 Extra
The Beeb did a documentary on Cosgrove Hall a couple of years ago, which got repeated this year. Which was excellent fun. With lots of David Jason.
I hadn't realised that in one week Dangermouse got 18 million viewers! It beat Coronation Street and Eastenders for that week. Which is astonishing. I can only imagine there'd been a catastrophic outbreak of flu (or skiving) that week.
They also admitted that all those scenes in the dark, where all you could see were Penfold's eyes and DM's eye, were basically done to save cash. Obviously much easier (and cheaper) to animate. But they were also funny.
I'm not sure the gadgets is all that bad a thing though. The original had gadgets. They had a flying car that could go underwater, videophone watches, computers... Plus Baron Greenback had plenty of Wylie Coyote style gadgets of his own.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 09:05 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: BBC Radio 4 Extra
William Towle,
Cripes! Thanks for the correction WT.
21 million for a kids cartoon. We 'ad to make oor own entertainment in them days laddie.
They also did Chorlton and the Wheelies. Which is one of those things I had strong memories of, but no-one I spoke to had ever heard of it. It wasn't until the internet that I was able to find out what that show was.
And one of the worst ear-worms in TV music (another show I watched), 'Jamie and his Magic Torch'.
Happy days...
[actually that's another show I watched back then where I still find myself singing the theme tune 30 years later]
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 13:56 GMT Alan W. Rateliff, II
Re: BBC Radio 4 Extra
Not animated, and not Cosgrove Hall, but your mention of others shows you watched and finding things on the Internet reminded me of my own "other show" and trying to find it on the Internet.
"The Young Ones." Absolutely loved that program. Later on in life I decided, hey, maybe I can find it on the Internet. While the proper search results have percolated to the top in Google these days, back then... just say that the results were rather heavy and not quite what the Peoples' Poet would have smiled upon.
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 09:07 GMT Lionel Baden
Re: BBC Radio 4 Extra
I'm not sure the gadgets is all that bad a thing though. The original had gadgets. They had a flying car that could go underwater, videophone watches, computers... Plus Baron Greenback had plenty of Wylie Coyote style gadgets of his own.
Gadgets are cool, Everybody loves gadgets. It when they start pushing products like an "iPatch" Some very non specific branding there !!!
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Wednesday 18th June 2014 08:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Eyebrows that float
Deeply brilliant concept, we know it's daft, they know it's daft, together as sentient beings we can both marvel at the simplicity and ridiculous nature of the animation while enjoying the humour.
Sad to say V2.0 will probably introduce modern irrelevant distraction and “Bring it up to date”,
Completely missing the point.
I bet even the voices won't be a patch on the old ones.
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