h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi! Great review - you've summed up the appeal of this show nicely. Have you noticed you can now e-mail them at [email protected] or aol.com? The blonde guy's name is Nigel, by the way. I think it's Nigel Buckland and Stef Gardiner. Or it may be the other way around. The new series has been a bit erratic as regards screening times, but if you look hard enough you can find it - sort of like tracking down an underground film club! I like the way they promote off-the-wall / arthouse stuff (the Dogme films) alongside the sub-porn Best of Jerry Springer-type crap too. And for what it's worth, I miss the video-shop set-up of the first series.

Thanks. I spent quite a bit of time on the review. About the video shop setup, yes I also miss it but haven't you notice the simlarity between the two, ie the computer corner just looks like it did in the first series? Haven't you noticed also they seem to be getting more outrageous and trying on more things?

I'm not so sure they're getting more outrageous - they'll find it hard to top Nigel giving a review while getting an anal probe in the last series. They seem to have toned down the nudity too. It's an odd programme, isn't it - there's nothing quite like it. And yes, I had noticed the computer corner, which is why I don't understand why they don't revert to the original video shop set-up.

Well I know what you mean this series shows it is deffiantly studio based while the first "could" have been actually based in a video shop. And about the more outrageous - Just look at this series opening titles and you will see what I mean. The Blond one defiantly is parting about more. If you want weird did you ever see Divine David?

I take your point about the opening credits - though that's another thing I wish they still had - remember the credits with "VIDS" painted on their arses, and End of Part One video-box-in-arse-crack thing? That's what I meant when I said they were LESS outrageous.