Get Ready To Do The Time Warp Again!

Shivering with antici..........pation yet?

Hi my name is Garry W and i'm a Rockyholic! I have been a massive fan of The Rocky Horror Picture show since I was 8 years old, and still to this day it is my favourite movie of all-time! Well that's me introducing myself to you all, now onto some exciting news!

Back in September to celebrate the anniversary of everyone's favourite Transvestite from Transexual Transylvania and to celebrate the new UK tour of the original Rocky Horror Show. theatres around the UK and even some places in Europe were treated to a live screening of the show being performed live in London. The show was in aid of Amnesty International which is a charity that show creator Richard O'Brien strongly supports and featured guest appearances from Emma Bunton, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry, Mel Giedroyc and Richard O'Brien himself as guest narrators. I went to the screening at the Odeon Cinema in Birmingham and we had so much fun, an absolutely sinsational and touch-a-touch-a-touching experience.

I know what you are thinking, "If this was back in September and it's now October, i've missed it so what are you rambling on about?", well you haven't missed it, here is the good news. On Halloween Night the same charity event show that we saw in the theater will be on your very own telly boxes! Oh yes Frankie Fans, Frank in glorious HD (and SD) in your very own living room! (Might wanna get the hoover out, he can be a bit picky). Here are the dates of the airings around the Halloween season, so if you see your country and channel listed watch it, you will not regret it.

• BBC AMERICA: 29th October at 2am & 31st October at Midnight 
• SKY ARTS UK: 31st October at 9pm, 2nd November at 11.40pm and the 5th November at 9pm 
• SBS AUSTRALIA: 31st October at 8.30pm and 3rd November at 8.30pm 
• DTS/CANAL + SPAIN: 31st October at 11pm, 7th November at 01.30am, 22nd November at 1.30pm and 26th November at 7pm 
• YLE Finland: 31st October at 7.10pm, 21st November at 4.15pm, 29th November at 11pm and the 14th December at 9.55pm

Alongside this screening there is also an online campaign by some great fans to get this amazing show released onto DVD. No DVD plans have been announced and this great group of people have decided to start a campaign to give us Rocky fans what we really need, the stage show on DVD! "Why the dunkin' donuts wouldn't they release it?" I hear you cry (or that could be the voices in my head), well this is what we don't have a conclusive answer on although it is believed to be at the fault of 20th Century Fox. Possibly money issues or the fact that they have their own TV production of it coming up next year, hey it's FOX it could be anything!

To join the great people over at DontDreamItDVDIt all you have to do is go to their Facebook page, but also make sure to sign the petition so that the DVD release of this great show can be unleashed onto the world and hopefully make some good money for Amnesty International, the petition can be found here . So there you go, Frank is coming... ahem, to a TV screen near you very soon! But that's not all! This year is the 40th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie! The original classic starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and Meatloaf is 40 years old this year, and it doesn't look a day over 21 (that's what happens when you step up the reactor power input 3 more points), and to celebrate FOX are re-releasing the movie again onto BluRay in a special edition.

The "new" set includes the exact same disc as FOX's 35th Anniversary BluRay release (Yep the exact same disc, no blue tint in Brad's bedroom, no blue tint to the Time Warp flashback at the finale and that strange alternate audio track of Susan Sarandon's performance in Over At The Frankenstein Place). But hey you get Rubber Gloves and the soundtrack we Rocky fans already have 200 copies of so it's worth a double dip right? Seriously I personally think FOX could have put a bit more effort into this release and offer us something new or at least correct the mistakes from the previous release. But if you don't have the movie on Blu-Ray yet (and if you don't Frank will whip you) this is definitely a good introduction to Rocky on Blu-ray. The picture and audio is amazing on the release, it's just those couple of technical cock-ups that some fans have trouble getting past, myself included. But all in all, hey it's Rocky and there is always time to do The Time Warp again!

Another thing to keep an eye out for is the re-release of the original movie to cinemas this November! Check your local listings to see if it's showing near you because at a recent event at the Royal Albert Hall Patricia Quinn and Little Nell filmed a special Q&A with the fans (with a couple of surprises) that will air before the movie in the cinema, so keep an eye out for that!

So there we have it, a good year to be a Regular Frankie Fan huh? Well it would be even better if we could get the live show on DVD too but hey at least we have the TV broadcast ones to look forward to while we wait, hope and pray that the Rocky Horror Gods will shine down on us mere mortals and give us what we so desperately crave (this is the moment where you can shout any Audience Participation line of your choice). Get out there and buy the Bluray! If you already have the Bluray stay in and watch the live show this Halloween! And when you have done that get your cute stockinged self off to sign the petition! Now if you will excuse me I must return to the moon drenched shores of my beloved planet where I will do the Time Warp again! Happy Birthday Rocky!