The TV Thread

[Padge]

Timing is everything, the great James Burke, watch to the end.

 

[Futtocks]

13 hours ago, glemiln said:

Thanks - they are great, finishing the programme with a cracker!   Full feature now on BBC Iplayer.

PS. Rock &Indie    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09bkm3v

The full "Beat Club" live set from 1971 is on YouTube. Really good!

[HawkMan]

OMG! OMG! what the hell happened on Inside number 9 last week?

If you've never seen Inside no.9 don't bother with this, it'll mean naff all.

If you're a fan but  you've still not seen it and intend to spoilers ahead,  so stay away.

But here's an early review of  ahem..Hold on Tight, I  actually thought at first Reg Varney's estate or whoever had put a legal challenge to stop it being aired.

 

Edited May 29, 2023 by HawkMan

[Liverpool Rover]

On 21/05/2023 at 22:42, HawkMan said:

OMG! OMG! what the hell happened on Inside number 9 last week?

If you've never seen Inside no.9 don't bother with this, it'll mean naff all.

If you're a fan but  you've still not seen it and intend to spoilers ahead,  so stay away.

But here's an early review of  ahem..Hold on Tight, I  actually thought at first Reg Varney's estate or whoever had put a legal challenge to stop it being aired.

 

 

Afterwards I was thinking about people flicking through the channels and coming across a new game show hosted by Lee Mack and watching it until the end.

[HawkMan]

On 23/05/2023 at 11:10, Liverpool Rover said:

Afterwards I was thinking about people flicking through the channels and coming across a new game show hosted by Lee Mack and watching it until the end.

When I next see my brother and his family I intend putting it on and tell them it's a new quiz show, and see their reactions. They no nothing of Inside no.9

Sort of disappointed that the On The Buses homage was phoney.

I imagined it might end up like the Peter Cushing film,  Dr Terror's  House of Horrors, a bus journeying into hell with  Robin Askwith as the Devil ! I wouldn't put it past them to spring Hold On Tight next series.

 

 

Edited May 25, 2023 by HawkMan

[Futtocks]

Yes, the vote will be split between the two documentaries, but vote anyway. What harm can it do?

 

[hindle xiii]

Here's an oddity. I started watching Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy on the BBC iPlayer, I also put on subtitles so I can focus on the programme more. Episode 1 was great, I start episode 2 in Rome and his narration is missing, however there are subtitles for this missing narration. Strange, it helps fill in the gaps though as the people and places he encountered are via subtitles, perhaps this changes later as I am only a few minutes in. However, I'm enjoying it thoroughly.

[HawkMan]

Death at the end of Lee Mack quiz show 3 by 3

 

Edited May 29, 2023 by HawkMan

[Maximus Decimus]

Anyone watch Succession? The finale was last night and I'm a little gutted it's over.

[Moose]

Gyles Brandreth comes across as an annoying, knowing all prat. Can’t stand the man.

[Futtocks]

31 minutes ago, Moose said:

Gyles Brandreth comes across as an annoying, knowing all prat. Can’t stand the man.

He likes to do the harmless eccentric act, but was a very enthusiastic recruit into the Tories' "dirty tricks" department during his brief stint as an MP.

[hindle xiii]

There are already more episodes of the writer's room "Ghosts" aired than there will ever be of the proper version.

[Futtocks]

Tonight was Paxo's last ever University Challenge. Well done, Mrs Doubtfire.

Not sure I can stomach watching the show with his replacement, the bumptious Lebedev shill Amol Rajan.

[The Masked Poster]

8 hours ago, HawkMan said:

Death at the end of Lee Mack quiz show 3 by 3

 

I think that was based on a film called Scanners, (which had aliens who could make peoples head explode) And although not it's  massively famous, I took a then girlfriend to see at the cinema (ABC if anyone remembers that chain) so it wasn't exactly underground. 

[Futtocks]

8 minutes ago, The Masked Poster said:

I think that was based on a film called Scanners, (which had aliens who could make peoples head explode) And although not it's  massively famous, I took a then girlfriend to see at the cinema (ABC if anyone remembers that chain) so it wasn't exactly underground. 

Scanners was not on the famous "video nasties" list, but was on an addendum list, so it still carried a whiff of notoriety at the time.

It was also the film that started Michael Ironside on his career playing people you really do not want to mess with.

[jacksy]

Wasn't about Aliens either as far as i can remember.

Wasn't the special power gained by giving pregnant mothers a drug?

[The Masked Poster]

5 hours ago, jacksy said:

Wasn't about Aliens either as far as i can remember.

Wasn't the special power gained by giving pregnant mothers a drug?

Yeah I could be misremembering that bit. Either way, it was something bizarre. 

[gingerjon]

11 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Tonight was Paxo's last ever University Challenge. Well done, Mrs Doubtfire.

Not sure I can stomach watching the show with his replacement, the bumptious Lebedev shill Amol Rajan.

Bamber Gascoigne, I was reminded yesterday, was a key member (often the key member) of the question setting team during his time on University Challenge.

I doubt Amol Rajan is quite on the same level.

What with him being thick as mince.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

9 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Scanners was not on the famous "video nasties" list, but was on an addendum list, so it still carried a whiff of notoriety at the time.

It was also the film that started Michael Ironside on his career playing people you really do not want to mess with.

It was also the film that really kickstarted the career of director David Cronenberg who would go on to make classics like Videodrome, The Dead Zone and The Fly, and in more recent times a couple of brilliant crime dramas with Viggo Mortenson called A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, the latter being my personal favourite Cronenberg film and one of my favourite crime films. 

If you've never seen Eastern Promises, do. It's about a driver who works for the Russian mafia in London. It was written by Steven Knight before he became more famous for creating Peaky Blinders. Mortenson was nominated for the Academy Award for his performance. 

[DI Keith Fowler]

On 30/05/2023 at 09:00, The Hallucinating Goose said:

It was also the film that really kickstarted the career of director David Cronenberg who would go on to make classics like Videodrome, The Dead Zone and The Fly, and in more recent times a couple of brilliant crime dramas with Viggo Mortenson called A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, the latter being my personal favourite Cronenberg film and one of my favourite crime films. 

If you've never seen Eastern Promises, do. It's about a driver who works for the Russian mafia in London. It was written by Steven Knight before he became more famous for creating Peaky Blinders. Mortenson was nominated for the Academy Award for his performance. 

Don't forget Crash, or as it's known in my house, the sexy car crash film. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

3 hours ago, DI Keith Fowler said:

Don't forget Crash, or as it's known in my house, the sexy car crash film. 

I try my best to forget that film! 

[Josef K]

On 19/05/2023 at 23:43, Futtocks said:

The full "Beat Club" live set from 1971 is on YouTube. Really good!

I’ll have to have a look at that Futtocks there are some cracking bands. ive only looked up to page two but i’ll definitely watch “Siouxsie And The Banshees”.

[Josef K]

I have just watched episode two of (America and the Taliban - PBS). Martin Smith is an excellent war correspondent/ reporter. 

The first two episodes have been horrendous going from one cockup to another. 
So many thousands (could be hundreds of thousands) of innocent Afghanistan people who lost their lives. 
I do love PBS but why does it only start at 1pm nowadays ?. Do they have a free app on the smart tv ?. 

[Josef K]

On Monday (i think) i watched Buster Keaton on Sky Arts. Wow what a guy he must’ve been amazingly fit. The likes of Harold Lloyd & Keaton didn’t seem to have any fear. I love watching documentaries on  the lives of silent/talking movie stars up to about 1960. 

[DI Keith Fowler]

15 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I try my best to forget that film! 

I think when Roger Ebert reviewed it he said that while he admired it but he couldn't say he liked it.