Chimes At Midnight was on TPTV too on Saturday night(?)
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 12:22 (eleven months ago) link
haha yes I reviewed that on the last podcast (I review Picnic on the current one)
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 13:26 (eleven months ago) link
i semi-watched Chimes on Saturday night, it deserves its rep imo
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 14:25 (eleven months ago) link
A friend asked me if TPTV were showing a restored version of Chimes, but I didn't know. My memory is that it was the sound recording that was in most of need of fixing, rather than the image quality.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 14:31 (eleven months ago) link
it looked and sounded fine to me
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 14:33 (eleven months ago) link
Looked and sounded good.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 14:39 (eleven months ago) link
probably the best place to note that Network DVD have just gone into administration. 😞
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 17:32 (eleven months ago) link
that sky arts documentary about female electronic artists is on again tonight, quarter past midnight.
― koogs, Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:05 (ten months ago) link
fireball xl5 was a bit hokey and sexist but the things that were always good, like the vehicle designs and general model making, were already there.
― koogs, Sunday, 4 June 2023 17:10 (ten months ago) link
M Hulot's Holiday on Talking Pictures TV at 19:00 on the 9th of July. Also, for the Umberto Lenzi completists in the house, Sandokan: Pirate Of Malaysia at 14:50 on the 8th.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 13:52 (ten months ago) link
july!?
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:18 (ten months ago) link
Yes. Bit early to set your DVRs I realise, but I received the spreadsheet today and it's unlikely I would remember to give the heads up closer to the date.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:57 (ten months ago) link
That gives me enough time to decide if I'm an Umberto Lenzi completist or not.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 15:13 (ten months ago) link
I've never got to see The Sailor Who Feel from Grace with the Sea tho it's a book I'm very fond of, thanks Talking Pictures
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
Fell, either way spellcheck
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:43 (ten months ago) link
i figured sky arts was just endlessly repeating the first 4 seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents but noticed today that it's s06e04 so I've missed a truckload (which they will repeat, endlessly)
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:23 (ten months ago) link
Started watching it but the Sailor took forever to show up and when he did it was an almost comatose Kris Kristoffersen.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:25 (ten months ago) link
i was maybe a bit drunker and more distractable than i'd realised but i'll try to stick it out on demand or something
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
it's on again tomorrow at 9
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:42 (ten months ago) link
Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter is quite a juxtaposition
― koogs, Saturday, 17 June 2023 19:23 (ten months ago) link
mudlarking on the thames. London Live. does what it says on the tin really. cheap tv, head-mounted camera, first person view, often of nothing but the ground. lots of buttons, lots of coins, lots of broken clay pipes*, the odd foot high Nkondi in the shape of a dog...
*all these clay pipes still hanging around after hundreds of years - the disposable vapes of their time.
― koogs, Friday, 23 June 2023 11:11 (ten months ago) link
(pipes were 1700-1770 apparently)
― koogs, Friday, 23 June 2023 11:49 (ten months ago) link
Secrets of the London Underground is back, and about camden this week. hadn't realised it was bombed during the war.
TPTV just showed the episode of The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, "Strangler's Web", which had Pauline Boty, the pop artist in it. much bigger role than the Maigret episode they showed around christmas.
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:53 (nine months ago) link
TPTV have had a couple of screenings of Sam Fuller's Underworld USA this week - would recommend if it comes round again.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 09:21 (nine months ago) link
Saw on Monday night (I think).
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 09:24 (nine months ago) link
repeats of repeats of the Twilight Zone on legend has just shown the one in the first series where it breaks the 4th wall and it's probably the most effective version of that i've ever seen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_of_Difference (oh, richard matheson)
(although probably the highlight of the entire first season happens in episode 1...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH2S4kg2tY8
― koogs, Friday, 4 August 2023 16:02 (eight months ago) link
forgot to mention that I saw a film on tp the other week I think was called " the day the world caught fire" about the west and Russia conducting nuclear tests at exactly the same time unbeknownst to each other causing environmental changes that lead to the end of the world. told from the pov of a British newspaper. p enjoyable dialogue.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 4 August 2023 19:45 (eight months ago) link
Excellent film.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2023 19:52 (eight months ago) link
Edward Judd's crack at film stardom!
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
iirc there's an early michael caine uncredited walk-on part in that
― koogs, Friday, 4 August 2023 19:57 (eight months ago) link
val guest as well
― koogs, Friday, 4 August 2023 20:00 (eight months ago) link
Down to the Sea in Ships, on very early this morning, like 3am, hadn't heard of it but taped it on spec. Whaling drama about a grandad and his grandson, full-sized boat, full-sized whales. an example of what TPTV does the best, i think.
(i'll now look it up on imdb and it'll have 6 oscars)(oh, lionel barrymore, dean stockwell as the grandson...)
― koogs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 10:16 (eight months ago) link
Portrait Artist of the Year back on sky arts (ch11) from today. there was a special beforehand as well - PAotDecade which was a lot of the previous winners doing Judy Dench
Legend has just finished its second run of Twilight Zone series 1 and started on series 1 again. come on...
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:25 (six months ago) link
a lot of the previous winners doing Judy Dench
Who says tv has become sexless!
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 21:27 (six months ago) link
tptv has 'rich and strange' on 9th of november - a pre-war hitchcock i've not seen before (or, indeed, heard of)
― koogs, Friday, 3 November 2023 16:20 (five months ago) link
It's great and important and jazz
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 November 2023 16:41 (five months ago) link
think there's an early brian de palma on tptv next Friday that I've never seen.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 3 November 2023 20:50 (five months ago) link
funny things:
kes is on tptv and then on film4 the following night.
a kiss before dying also on twice, on tptv and somewhere else
― koogs, Friday, 3 November 2023 21:08 (five months ago) link
Small Films documentary on bbc4 tonight. prior to that a couple of episodes of bagpuss including one i don't recognise, Owls Of Athens
― koogs, Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:07 (two months ago) link
didn't make the connection until the documentary that professor yaffle from bagpuss is basically cliff clavin from cheers
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:02 (two months ago) link
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0056478/
this was on tptv this morning. Anna Karina talking English in a comedy starring Bob Monkhouse and Hattie Jacques. it's after A Woman is a Woman but before pretty much everything else. it's quite bad, she's just about saving it.
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:14 (one month ago) link
(oh, it's called She'll Have To Go in the UK at least, 1962)
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:15 (one month ago) link
Bob's Burgers from the beginning on itv2 from Monday
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:08 (two weeks ago) link
my 12-yr-old freeview box has taken to turning itself off when i'm using it and turning itself on when i'm not
i'd upgrade obviously except there's a whole bunch of stuff recorded on it that i want to salvage if possible (no clue how tho)
the hitachi problems chatbot just laughed when i asked them abt it
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:20 (two weeks ago) link
some pvrs have an "export" feature that'll let you move stuff off the internal disk onto a random usb drive. mine needs a disk specially formulated and will only do sd recordings, not hd. takes stupidly long and you end up with raw .ts files but...
i fear my humax will eventually die and there won't be a decent replacement
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:42 (two weeks ago) link