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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:46:56 -0000
To: dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com
From: "punky_blue_fish"
Subject: Re: Broken News


I've seen a couple of episodes of Broken News and you're right it is
really funny:

"I'm here at the northern most tip of Norway. If you go far enough
that way you'll reach Russia. If you go far enough the other way
you'll end up back here ... That's the kind of place this is."

Brilliant!

If you can get BBC 4, watch broken news tonite at 9:30pm.

If you like DTB (which you do), you'll likely like this...

Splob

If you're a MySpace user you might be interested in the MySpace Dare to
Believe group at http://groups.myspace.com/daretobelieve

I'm haven't worked out MySpace yet, but I hear it's very popular with
the kids.

jim

thats a shame about Patrick Allen he was one of the best parts of Dare
to Believe.

:(

he will be missed but not forgotten

I have just learnt Patrick Allen, Wordmaster to you, recently passed
away. Apart from Dare to Believe he was a face and voice of television
for 30 years, including the narrator in Blackadder and on the smash hit
single "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Tim Scott emailed to say,

"He was a wonderful person. Incredibly friendly, gentle and keen to
have a go at anything."

I thought he was great in Dare to Believe, I know a lot of you did too.
So here's a clip of him in Dare to Believe http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=BR8dwMUAsR8

jim

I emailed Tim Scott (he wrote the thing you know) and told him what
we're up to. He's so nice - here's what he said:

---

Jim! Jim! Jim!


> Let me tell you what I've been up to. Remember I told there's been
> a resurgence of interest in Dare to Believe recently. Loads of
> people have been getting in contact, and they've all said lovely
> things. So I've been setting some things up, like a new agua-
> moose.com, clips on YouTube and videos on a site called UKNova, all
> for one last big push.


I am enormously touched. And not a little stunned.


> I'm here to announce the relaunch of agua-moose.com - the original
> Dare to Believe fansite, with its spangly new look at
> http://www.agua-moose.com


All very good. Hell extraordinary.


> Be the small bookcase,


Yes always be the small bookcase.

Tim

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "punky_blue_fish"
<boldly_going_nowhere@...> wrote:
>
> Thank God there's another D2B site up and running! I don't know what
> it is with D2B sites but they never seem to last long, hopefully this
> one will be different though!
>


Except agua-moose.com. We were the first and still going. And since the
official site is dead we're the place to be. It's where all the cool
d2b fans* hang out :)

jim




*oxymoron?

Thank God there's another D2B site up and running! I don't know what
it is with D2B sites but they never seem to last long, hopefully this
one will be different though!

nice work on the new site, I just had a look at it, and its looking
very impressive, I especially like the fact that you have two episodes
on the site so that people who haven't actually seen the show will get
a taster from both series.

it looks very smart aswell.

nice work

Ric

I'm pleased to announce the relaunch of agua-moose.com - the original
Dare to Believe fansite, made by people from this group. Not only
that but Dare to Believe is now available to download from UKNova!
Detail below.

What I want you to do now is to tell the world. Tell your friends,
tell anyone you think may be interested, tell everyone on the
internet. And all you would have to do is cut and paste the message
below.

Go!

jim

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Hello fellow Dare to Believe fan!

Remember the surreal sketches and trippy visuals? Remember Twarb
coffee, Recognising Things, the otter survey? Do you remember the
agua moose?

I'm here to announce the relaunch of agua-moose.com - the original
Dare to Believe fansite, with its spangly new look at http://www.agua-
moose.com

And I'm also here to announce that Dare to Believe is now available
to download on the BitTorrent site UKNova http://www.uknova.com

You will need to a UKNova account, and places are limited. But new
places become available everyday so keep trying.

You may also be interested in the Dare to Believe Yahoo group at
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/dtbgroup/ where you can discuss Dare
to Believe and anything else you fancy.

Finally, you might be interested in our petition to re-air Dare to
Believe. Have a look at it here
http://www.petitiononline.com/RichardF/petition.html

Be the small bookcase,

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ric" <richardthomasfoames@...> wrote:
>

> Thanks to everyone for responding to the petition and offering their
> support, hopefully we will be watching dare to believe some time in
> the near future.

We'll be releasing the videos and launching the new agua-moose.com
later this week. If you wait a little longer we'll get some more
support.

jim

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ric" <richardthomasfoames@...> wrote:
>
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Just wondering what all you out there are watching nowadays.


My favourite comedy at the moment is American, it's called the Colbert
Report. It's a spoof of a right-wing opinion programme, the sort they
have in america. Colbert is the man, watch it. Look on YouTube,
particularly here http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=rayato

jim

The final votes are in and I think it went very well, 202 people
signed the online petition, I received 90 e-mails from fan's
requesting DtB be re-aired and 12 people left messages on "Myspace"
offering their support.

Thanks to everyone for responding to the petition and offering their
support, hopefully we will be watching dare to believe some time in
the near future.

Much obliged to everyone

Ric

> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just wondering what all you out there are watching nowadays.
> >
> > Sadly there's no Top Gear, Look Around You, The Thick Of It,
Dare To
> > Believe (obviously), Grumpy Old Men/Women, Mark Steel Lectures
or much
> > else that tickles my fancy out there at the moment. The only
reasons I
> > still have a telly in my house is for the football, repeats of
Frasier
> > & Cheers and World Wildest Police Videos and as my girlfriend
feels
> > the need to watch Most Haunted 6 days a week.
> >
> > Let me know if there are any little gems out there that have
passed me
> > by. It's all too possible with Sky!
> >
> > Hope you're all well. New site's well on the path to completeion
now
> > so keep an eye out.
> >
> > Scott.


have you see That Mitchell And Webb Look its quite surreal and very
fuuny

My favourites on at the moment are Time Trumpet (BBC2), Dream On (ITV4),
Swinging and Respectable on Five are a bit rude but still make me laugh.
I've also been reliving Not The Nine O Clock News on Paramount 2 and even
George & Mildred which I am not quite old enough to remember first time
round!  Its all very easy to set the Telewest TV Drive box and within a few
days there is 80 hours of stuff to watch!!

More D2B would be even better though!


Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Brown" <tuestunim@...>
To: <dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:23 PM
Subject: [dtbgroup] Other Television Shows


> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering what all you out there are watching nowadays.
>
> Sadly there's no Top Gear, Look Around You, The Thick Of It, Dare To
> Believe (obviously), Grumpy Old Men/Women, Mark Steel Lectures or much
> else that tickles my fancy out there at the moment. The only reasons I
> still have a telly in my house is for the football, repeats of Frasier
> & Cheers and World Wildest Police Videos and as my girlfriend feels
> the need to watch Most Haunted 6 days a week.
>
> Let me know if there are any little gems out there that have passed me
> by. It's all too possible with Sky!
>
> Hope you're all well. New site's well on the path to completeion now
> so keep an eye out.
>
> Scott.
>
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>
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>
>
>
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>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "James Grime" <j_grime@...> wrote:
>
> --- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ric" <richardthomasfoames@> wrote:
>
> > any news on the new agua moose web page jim?
>
>
> Only that it's looking good. I'm loving the new agua-moose.com. Scott
> thought it might be finished by the weekend. As you know I intend to
> launch the new website and release my videos at the same time. My
> videos are done, sat here on my desktop waiting to be uploaded. I'm
> moving later this week, but if I get my internet set up quickly, you
> can expect thing to happen soon.
>
> jim
>

Ta for the praise Jimbob :-)

It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside and that's no bad thing.

Scott.

Hi all,

Just wondering what all you out there are watching nowadays.

Sadly there's no Top Gear, Look Around You, The Thick Of It, Dare To
Believe (obviously), Grumpy Old Men/Women, Mark Steel Lectures or much
else that tickles my fancy out there at the moment. The only reasons I
still have a telly in my house is for the football, repeats of Frasier
& Cheers and World Wildest Police Videos and as my girlfriend feels
the need to watch Most Haunted 6 days a week.

Let me know if there are any little gems out there that have passed me
by. It's all too possible with Sky!

Hope you're all well. New site's well on the path to completeion now
so keep an eye out.

Scott.

Have you ever unexpectedly found a D2B fan... ie. it was debatable whether
to attempt to bring up the subject of D2B to someone and you did do, and
were pleasantly surprised to find they are/were a fan??

I was at a football match a couple of weeks ago - Leigh RMI v Lancaster City
and was chatting to a newspaper reporter who was there, and it was a pretty
low quality match, even for the Conference North, and I said to him that I
hoped that they had someone better than the football coach who just said
"play football better in the 2nd half" - not expecting him to have any idea
what I was talking about, I was surprised to hear him reply that he
remembered Dare To Believe and he managed to quote some of the sketches
"Agua Moose" etc

I was impressed!!


Simon

The Children's Company are selling the Dare to Believe dvd again on
ebay, see http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dare-To-Believe-Exclusive-Cult-Comedy-
DVD_W0QQitemZ120032694013QQihZ002QQcategoryZ80025QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1
QQcmdZViewItem

If it has timed out check the seller to see if it's been relisted.
However it's still expensive, and I hear someone's going to release the
episodes on the internet soon. Some people have bought the dvds though,
that's a good sign.

jim

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ric" <richardthomasfoames@...> wrote:

> any news on the new agua moose web page jim?


Only that it's looking good. I'm loving the new agua-moose.com. Scott
thought it might be finished by the weekend. As you know I intend to
launch the new website and release my videos at the same time. My
videos are done, sat here on my desktop waiting to be uploaded. I'm
moving later this week, but if I get my internet set up quickly, you
can expect thing to happen soon.

jim

another quick update on the dare to believe petition thanks currently
going on, 156 people have signed the petition so far and i've had over
40 e-mails from fans of the show, its looking pretty good, and only
nine days left till i pass it on, to go to ITV.

any news on the new agua moose web page jim?

Ric

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "ric" <richardthomasfoames@...> wrote:
>
> I agree, james is doing a bang up job with the release of the dare
to
> believe episodes, i can't wait to see them.


They are now ready. We're now finishing off a new agua-moose.com to be
launched at the same time. Look out for the announcement.

But in the meantime, there are now twice as many clips on YouTube as
I've now added clips from series 2. Look see
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=308F573AECCE2F52

Be the small bookcase,

jim

I agree, james is doing a bang up job with the release of the dare to
believe episodes, i can't wait to see them.

i got a little taster on my tube, quality clips and the picture and
sound quality is superb considering they are off vhs.

it will be good to see a decent dare to believe web site aswell, i was
really disappointed when the official web site shut down and sold out.

aguamoose should be awesome.

keep it up jim

and dare to believe!

Ric

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, Rachel Fisher <pffrt@...> wrote:
>
> I'm getting the internet hopefully at the start of October.

The videos may still be hanging around by that time, ask me when
you're set up.

> As for my lady problems, funny you should mention those!  When I
spoke in passing about them with my landlord

Whoah there! Do you often drop your lady parts into casual
conversation?


> he informed me he's also a trained obseo-gynacologist,

Oh that old line. Who hasn't used that one! I always go to clubs
with a pair of stirrups.

jim

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, "futtock100" <spoonherring@...> wrote:
>
>
> > As a taster I've put some clips on YouTube
> > http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=308F573AECCE2F52
> >

> People, Jim has really gone to a massive effort here for DTB fans.
You
> cannot afford to miss this - it will not last forever.
>

I'm glad someone said it! :)

There will be more clips added to YouTube soon, and expect the d2b
video announcement by the end of the week.

Much Obliged,

jim.

> As a taster I've put some clips on YouTube
> http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=308F573AECCE2F52
>
> Be the small bookcase,
>


James, thanks to you I am now the small bookcase. What an fantastic
collection. You've done yourself, and us, and the small bookcase, proud.

People, Jim has really gone to a massive effort here for DTB fans. You
cannot afford to miss this - it will not last forever.

Smokey Bacon

--- In dtbgroup@yahoogroups.com, Rachel Fisher <pffrt@...> wrote:

> But when I do eventually get the internet at home, all I have to
upload is a few albums, a couple of Dr. Who episode and one film.
Would that be a problem?
>


Is this for UKNova? What happens is while you're downloading a
programme from UKNova (like d2b for example), you'll also be uploading
that programme to someone else at the same time. So you don't have to
upload anything new at all. All UKNova ask is for you to keep your
upload/download ratio at about 1.0 (or more).

When are you getting teh internets? I don't want anyone to miss out,
let me know if you have any problems. Unless it's female problems
because you should probably talk to someone else about that.

jim