Veronica Mars!!! Best Sitcom On Rte1!!!

GretchenWieners · 20-07-2006 12:23pm #1

Hey just letting everybody know that Veronica Mars which is pretty popular in the USA is on RTE Mon-Fri @ 2:30 and series 2 is on LivingTV @ 8pm on Thursdays. Didn't think I'd like it at all but I'm hooked!! Very modern, a little bit cheesy but still pretty good!!!

AliasFan47 · 20-07-2006 2:28pm

It great you have discovered the greatness of VM but since when did it become a sitcom?

GretchenWieners · 20-07-2006 5:43pm

AliasFan47 wrote:

It great you have discovered the greatness of VM but since when did it become a sitcom?

Since UPN, the American station which airs it calls it a sitcom! It is great, gotta love it!! Do they have DVD box sets for it on sale in Ireland?

Fast_Mover · 20-07-2006 5:53pm

Yes i too have found myself waiting for 2.30pm to come around so i can watch it:o
I like it tho..

GretchenWieners · 20-07-2006 6:00pm

I'm just after my LC and currently unemployed so it's great when I have nothing better to do!! Fits in perfectly with partying and job hunting!! And i just noticed the other thread there, so maybe this should just be an appreciation thread instead of a let's bitch about RTE thread!

herobear · 20-07-2006 6:17pm

im glad that its getting some new fans from the rte showings!

there isnt a dvd available over here of the show yet

but if ye can play region1/american dvd's on your computer/dvd player.

i'd definitely reccomend you import the first season dvd boxset(season 2's is coming out in late august) from somewhere like dvdpacific

can wait till season 3 in october!!

Mossy Monk · 20-07-2006 7:51pm

is the other thread not good enough?

GretchenWieners · 20-07-2006 11:26pm

I didn't notice it when I posted earlier! I actually came across Veronica Mars about a year ago on www.upn.com because I used check out Top Model and it was only a few months ago that I looked @ a scene of it on UPN.com and I was impressed!! Season 3 looks great, especially the storyline in which I become pregnant and give away a spoiler somehow.

ixoy · 21-07-2006 8:36am

GretchenWieners wrote:

Season 3 looks great, especially the USE F**KING SPOILERS!

Jaysus, there's people here who've seen only the first few episodes of Season 1 and you're printing out spoilers - and they are spoilers - for Season 3? Edit your post please!

AliasFan47 · 21-07-2006 4:05pm

GretchenWieners wrote:

I didn't notice it when I posted earlier! I actually came across Veronica Mars about a year ago on www.upn.com because I used check out Top Model and it was only a few months ago that I looked @ a scene of it on UPN.com and I was impressed!! Season 3 looks great, especially the storyline in which some of Neptune's students are outed.

This happens later in season 2. Secondly Veronica graduated Neptune High and will attend Hearst college in season 3.

BTW UPN has always called VM a drama not a sitcom.

S.M.B. · 21-07-2006 4:14pm

The Veronica Mars boxset you can get imported from America uses multi-region disks so anyone can view them. I presume Season 2 will be the same.

GretchenWieners · 21-07-2006 6:52pm

S.M.B. wrote:

The Veronica Mars boxset you can get imported from America uses multi-region disks so anyone can view them. I presume Season 2 will be the same.

My apologies for the spoiler, I really need the box set I love that show so much!!

AliasFan47 · 22-07-2006 2:31pm

Region 2 of season 1 is going to be out in the begining of 2007 according to digitalspy.

GretchenWieners · 22-07-2006 4:00pm

Bah!!! I'll have to download a few eipsodes anyway defo, even if it means brainwashing my sis into loving this show!

AliasFan47 · 22-07-2006 4:38pm

No posts about downloading

sprinkles · 24-07-2006 10:40am

Can it really be classed as a sitcom? Is Buffy a sitcom?

weemcd · 24-07-2006 12:41pm

hmm, will give this a watch since I start work at 5 these days, might break up the drawl of daytime telly.

GretchenWieners · 24-07-2006 4:03pm

Did you watch it and if so what did you think? Today was a good episode actually!

Faerie · 24-07-2006 5:34pm

I watch it on Living TV because they show it (now!) at a reasonable time! Last year they showed season 1 over 3 weeks every day! I think it's one of the best programmes on tv, but unfortunately in the US the audience numbers are quite low, so it's in danger of being cancelled...
And it's not a sitcom, it's a drama. Friends and Will & Grace are sitcoms.

John R · 24-07-2006 7:14pm

Faerie wrote:

I watch it on Living TV because they show it (now!) at a reasonable time! Last year they showed season 1 over 3 weeks every day! I think it's one of the best programmes on tv, but unfortunately in the US the audience numbers are quite low, so it's in danger of being cancelled...
And it's not a sitcom, it's a drama. Friends and Will & Grace are sitcoms.

It has been renewed for a third season. And no, it is definitely not a sitcom.

AliasFan47 · 24-07-2006 7:20pm

13 episodes for season three but if the ratings don't improve they won't get the back order of nine episodes to make 22. So VM is in real danger of cancellation.

BuffyBot · 24-07-2006 9:34pm

It's the other way around..a full series of 22, with an option to reduce to 13 if the ratings don't hold up.

AliasFan47 · 24-07-2006 10:08pm

BuffyBot wrote:

It's the other way around..a full series of 22, with an option to reduce to 13 if the ratings don't hold up.

No they (as in producers nad the network) have confirmed they only have an episode order of 13 and will gget nine more if the hold on to their Gilmore Girls lead in.

nicka · 24-07-2006 10:46pm

veronica mars is great she's a young sassy detective who gets the job done! + her name sounds like a futuristic porno star.. i loves her..

John R · 24-07-2006 11:36pm

AliasFan47 wrote:

No they (as in producers nad the network) have confirmed they only have an episode order of 13 and will gget nine more if the hold on to their Gilmore Girls lead in.

It makes no difference, even with a full order if a programme does badly they will cancel before the order is complete.

GretchenWieners · 25-07-2006 12:19pm

Gilmore Girls is awful!! VM all the way!!

AliasFan47 · 25-07-2006 1:41pm

John R wrote:

It makes no difference, even with a full order if a programme does badly they will cancel before the order is complete.

Veronica Mars has terrible ratings for the last 2 years, its only benn entwork and critics support thats kept it going. VM got 2 million viewers for some episodes last year and the network didn't cancel it. They really have to perform to get more than 13 episodes.

lostexpectation · 25-07-2006 1:54pm

what age is the VM? in rl and on the show?

AliasFan47 · 25-07-2006 1:59pm

lostexpectation wrote:

what age is the VM? in rl and on the show?

Kirsten Bell is 26 in real life and veronica was 17 in season one nad 18 in season 2.

Danakin · 25-07-2006 7:57pm

I have to say that its a travesty that VM is even in danger of being cancelled but it was up against Lost on the schedule last year but on the new channel CW it has beatable opponents. This is the true air to the Buffy school of drama. Joss Whedon himself said as much. But will rte move it to a more attractive time with the end of lost for this year?

GretchenWieners · 26-07-2006 11:55am

I hope they do for Autumn anyway. VM is one of the best shows I've seen in a while and I'm not even into Buffy, Charmed etc but this show has really sold me over!!!

Faerie · 26-07-2006 12:50pm

Danakin wrote:

I have to say that its a travesty that VM is even in danger of being cancelled but it was up against Lost on the schedule last year but on the new channel CW it has beatable opponents. This is the true air to the Buffy school of drama. Joss Whedon himself said as much. But will rte move it to a more attractive time with the end of lost for this year?

Joss Whedon actually made a cameo in season 2, he was really good!
I'm a huge fan of Buffy and Angel, and I think it's the only new programme that can actually tap into the Buffy/Angel fanbase, so it's madness to keep showing it at 2.30 in the afternoon. Even if RTE just pushed it forward to the evening around 7 it would make more sense!

AliasFan47 · 26-07-2006 5:43pm

GretchenWieners wrote:

I hope they do for Autumn anyway. VM is one of the best shows I've seen in a while and I'm not even into Buffy, Charmed etc but this show has really sold me over!!!

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Charmed doesn't even compare to Charmed. WTF????

GretchenWieners · 27-07-2006 12:50am

Loads of people think that fans of Buffy and CHarmed are into VM. I'm not into both of them but Veronica Mars on it's own sold me over.

lostexpectation · 27-07-2006 2:56am

AliasFan47 wrote:

Kirsten Bell is 26 in real life and veronica was 17 in season one nad 18 in season 2.

it just stupid after see those pictures, I can't get her back to being a teenager in the show she seems to settled in herself.

AliasFan47 · 28-07-2006 6:16pm

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news but the idiots at RTE have decided to finish Veronica Mars for the moment with episode 21 (penultimate episode of season one) because the next day Showjumping from the RDS is on instead.

I don't know how long The RDS Event lasts for but hopefully they will show Veronica Mars when Showjumping finishes.

RTE Stupidity®

GretchenWieners · 28-07-2006 9:00pm

Yeah I noticed that too I was like wtf?! They better finish it off @ least. Hopefully season 2 will begin on Network 2 in Autumn or even if they showed series one again @ a good time for more viewers it would be great to get more people into it. My friends started watching it this week and they love it!

Veronica Mars!!! Best Sitcom On Rte1!!!

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