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[djellison]

Right, British UMSFers..

Roving Mars starts at the Birmingham Think Tank Imax theatre next weekend...but hold your horses
http://www.imax.ac/schedule.htm

1200, 1515 and 1830 are the showings.

Anyone fancy a get-together on April 21st? I can't make any promises, but it should be more than your usual showing - and it's on 3 times in the one day. Think Tank is about 3/4 mile from Birmingham New Street (I will travel by train from Leicester and I would aim to get there before the first of the three showings on the day - about 11ish

Once I know more details, I'll let you know

Doug

[dvandorn]

I have what I believe to be a little news about "Roving Mars." However, it has the potential to annoy some of y'all over on that side of the pond.

Ya see, the Discovery Science Channel runs what they call "Space Week" once or twice a year. At those times, they premiere several new space documentaries (which they then re-run, once or twice a month, for a year or more). Sometimes these are new documentaries produced by Discovery, sometimes they're programming originally developed for Australian or British audiences (like slightly re-edited episodes of "Horizons," for example).

The ads for the upcoming Space Week, which starts in a couple of weeks or so, are listing titles of new programs that will be airing then on Discovery Science.

One of the titles listed was "Roving Mars."

I dunno if they're just going to run the IMAX piece, reformatted for a much smaller screen, or even if it's an entirely different project. But somehow I doubt it.

So... the annoying thing for y'all is that you're finally getting to see the thing all of about two weeks before it appears on cable TV here in the States.

The redeeming fact is that you'll be able to watch it in IMAX, which is a really great experience in and of itself.

-the other Doug

[mcaplinger]

I dunno if they're just going to run the IMAX piece, reformatted for a much smaller screen, or even if it's an entirely different project. But somehow I doubt it.

http://www.press.discovery.com/ekits/space...ge=pressrelease

Yes, it's just the IMAX movie on TV. Premiere is Thursday, May 10, at 9 PM (ET/PT).