(laser sounds)
- Hello Gerry Anderson fans.
I'm Jamie Anderson, Director
of Anderson Entertainment,
and this is your weekly
Gerry Anderson news briefing.
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First up, we've had some
rather cool warehouse finds,
courtesy of our friends
at Network Distributing,
those behind all those
amazing HD restorations
of your favourite Gerry Anderson shows.
Well, a few years ago, they
produced some very special
editions of TV21 and some postcards
for the Supermarionation box set.
We found a lot of spares of those,
so if you want to pick up a
little TV21 Supermarionation
gift set for yourself or
a loved one at Christmas,
there's a bundle going right now.
We've also found an amazing
double-sided UFO poster
with art on one side by Gerry Embleton
and the other side is a
mosaic of bubblegum cards
by Ron Embleton.
This was originally part
of the UFO HD Blu-ray set
and was presented folded in
a little shadow envelope.
Well, these are unfolded, rolled.
They were produced as spares
and have been recently
discovered and they're now available
from the Gerry Anderson store.
This Monday, we've got fab LIVE coming up.
That's the 4th of November.
You can join me and Richard
James on YouTube, Facebook,
Periscope and Twitch,
and you can join us for about 90 minutes
of Gerry Anderson-related chat,
games, all sorts of stuff.
And we might even have
a few giveaways too.
The Gerry Anderson World
Cup, over on Twitter,
is approaching its conclusion.
And I think it's a bit of a surprise
about who's made the final actually.
I was expecting it to
be a run-down between
Thunderbirds and Space 1999,
but would you believe it,
in the final it's Thunderbirds versus UFO.
Of course Thunderbirds seems
to be taking the lead right now
but it's all to play for.
So if you want to find that and vote,
then head over to the Gerry
Anderson Twitter account,
Gerry Anderson TV, or
just search GA World Cup.
This week on the Gerry Anderson podcast,
Richard James and I took a
road trip to Elstree Studios
for the ITC two event which
celebrates all things ITC
at the notorious studios associated
with so many of the shows.
We did all sorts of stuff,
had a chat with Matt Zimmerman on stage,
and we even ambushed
Nick Briggs in the gents.
You'll want to listen in to find out more.
If you are a fan of QI,
that fantastic BBC show,
then you may be interested
in next week's interviewee,
Alex Bell.
Alex is one of the elves from QI
and as a younger viewer he
has some completely different
insights to many of our
interviewees about what makes
Gerry Anderson shows so special.
So tune in on Monday to listen to that.
As I mentioned, on YouTube
this coming Monday,
you'll be able to watch fab LIVE,
but also we've had more recently
of Chris Dale's fantastic
primer series including Four
for the Fours and Stingray.
There's a few more of those to come.
They've been a fantastic way
for people to learn about
Gerry Anderson shows and get
a bit of a dose of nostalgia,
as plenty of people are coming
to shows for the first time,
which is really exciting to see.
So thanks to Chris for
doing such an awesome job.
And we've also got some
really interesting clips
and excerpts from documentaries
and more coming very soon.
And finally, coming at
the end of this month
is Captain Black Friday.
It's our annual Black Friday
event so if you want to
pick up some bargains from
the Gerry Anderson store
ahead of Christmas, that
is the time to do it.
And if you want to get extra discounts,
extra free shipping
and some special offers
that nobody else will get,
then head over to Gerry Anderson's website
to join our Captain Black
Friday priority list.
Just head over to gerryanderson.co.uk.
And as I leave you for the
end of this week's briefing,
I want to know from
you if you could choose
one Gerry Anderson show
for a live action reboot,
be it series or feature,
which one would it be and why?
I have to say I'd probably
pick Captain Scarlet.
There's just such amazing
potential for a real grown up,
gritty, dark reboot there.
Maybe it'll happen one day.
But what's your choice?
Let me know in the comments below.
