Watched Caravan (1946) on TPTV today, utter crap but also very enjoyable.
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 July 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
Someone e-mailed TPTV recently to ask if they'd play Abel Gance's Napoleon. Just slightly outside of their wheelhouse I think.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
lol i'm not buying another two tellys for that
― pasty drunks fuck off (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Is it not on the BFI player? They released the DVD/Blu-Ray of it not that long ago, after a cinema tour.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
I was watching the first episode of Lynda La Plante's Widows on Talking Pictures TV and this bizarre show presented by Mike Read came on afterwards:
https://www.heritagechart.co.uk/hc-tv-shows/heritage-chart-tv-show-ep19
it's (mostly) new tracks by old bands with ultra-cheap videos, and a strange interlude where they play a popular song from 1777 while three Mike Reads float around the screen playing banjos. (mostly because there's also stuff like a 2008 song by the late Robin Gibb about Alan 'Fluff' Freeman and Everlasting Love by Love Affair from 1968, I guess because it was in the Kenneth Branagh Belfast film last year?) Here's the most recent chart to give you a feel for it
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600d7e223c156d341b5493e5/64d55626-cc75-4ece-b62a-415cf69b21e8/Heritage+Chart+-+Week+104+-+17+July+2022.jpg?format=1000w
I didn't know which thread to post it to, this one, Things that have to be Tim and Eric skits or The last famous person you were surprised to find out is still alive, but it's very strange. You can watch all the previous episodes on the website, the quality varies from actually alright to genuinely some of the worst stuff I've ever heard.
― soref, Friday, 22 July 2022 09:49 (two years ago) link
also learned that the woman who played Linda Perelli in Widows is now called Sara Farouk Ahmed and lives in Cairo teaching Egyptian dance
― soref, Friday, 22 July 2022 09:54 (two years ago) link
AH, yeah I saw the one where The Rubettes were playing their latest single.
A few bits in common with their first/biggest hit, but.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 July 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
Veronica Mars starts from the beginning on itv2 from Tuesday morning
― koogs, Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
Amazing - was thinking of rewatching that
― kinder, Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
the jordan peele-related-somehow twilight zone reboot has started on Pick on monday nights. not sure of his involvement beyond being a rod serling for the 2020s but... hour long epiodes though...
enjoying veronica mars, even though i still have trouble telling the male teenagers apart.
― koogs, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
Synth night on Sky Arts (ch11) tonight including TD documentary and I Dream OF Wires, that documentary on modular synths that i've still not seen. more tomorrow (including one focussed on women)
― koogs, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
probably most have seen it, although i haven't, but excited to catch 'In A Lonely Place' on one of the Great Movies channels next thursday at 9pm.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 27 August 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
Great movie
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
It's so good it could convert anyone to Cahiers auteurism, even if they're not called Noodle Vague. Hope it's the same print that Criterion had access to for their gorgeous looking blu-ray.
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
It’s a good one.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
today on TPTV
British Rails Are Long and Fast (1969)
Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production, installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on British Railways.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 September 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
(i am learning a lot - 20 or 30 miles without a joint in the track, but that also means 20 or 30 miles without an expansion gap, hence the recent heat-related problems)
― koogs, Thursday, 1 September 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
Great Movies has been showing rolling Christmas films since the beginning of September. I bet they think they're so funny and random. Cunts. Revoke their broadcast licence
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 September 2022 06:59 (two years ago) link
yeah, i notice this every year (actually started last thursday)
they aren't even the good xmas movies...
― koogs, Monday, 12 September 2022 07:49 (two years ago) link
at least ch5 leaves it until after halloween
There aren't enough good Christmas movies for 4 hours television, let alone 4 months
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 08:23 (two years ago) link
christmas carol (alistair sim version)christmas carol (jean luc picard version)christmas carol (kermit version)
― koogs, Monday, 12 September 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
ScroogedLove & PeaceIt's A Wonderful LifeBad Santa
think that's it
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 September 2022 08:48 (two years ago) link
Holiday Affair!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 September 2022 10:10 (two years ago) link
ppl also really rate Remember The Night but I've not seen, Indicator blu on the way
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 September 2022 10:11 (two years ago) link
For those with London Live, "Nico, 1988" om tonight at 11pm. John Gordon Sinclair as her manager!
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 16 September 2022 06:49 (two years ago) link
and my PVR caught Press Gang series 2 on That'sTV at, er, 3am this morning
― koogs, Friday, 16 September 2022 07:59 (two years ago) link
Seems like a good time to be sleeping downstairs due to Covid in Da House. Last night I saw Fry & Laurie and Reggie Perrin.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 16 September 2022 11:07 (two years ago) link
(you all okay mike?)
― koogs, Friday, 16 September 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
Tonight at 8:https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-2w6mzj/the-amazing-hattie-jacques-larger-than-life/
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 17 September 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link
Koogs - I'm negative, C is positive, so keeping our distance. Thanks for asking :)
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 17 September 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
Phase IV on TPTV tonight, if you can't sleep.
― koogs, Saturday, 17 September 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
stoked for the upcoming british transport films season on tptv
("stoked", do you see!?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
The London Nobody Knows on TPTV in the last couple of weeks. James Mason walks around various public toilets and london markets, watches people selling eels etc
― koogs, Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
For those with London Live, I forgot to mention "Cul-de-sac" was on last night but, worry not, it's on again tomorrow night. Tonight we have "Radio On", which I've never seen, followed by "Twisted Nerve", which I haven't seen since I was about 12.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
Blaze (ch64) is shoing Blown Away from 10 on sunday, which is Sewing Bee / Pottery Throwdown / Wordwork Challenge but with (american) glass blowing. which sounds interesting. only it's 30 minute episodes and i'm not sure how that can possibly work.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
blown away is good, it's like the anti bake off / throw down - strong American vibe, an emphasis on how hardcore it all is and most of the contestants are extremely lacking in modesty. there's only one challenge per episode, 30 mins is fine - bake off is too long imo.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
i have been watching Forged In Fire (also on blaze, but recently picked up on 5 Select, ch56, 2 a night from 22:00) for years and that's the same or heavier given that the focus is bladed weapons of various kinds. is fascinating and i've learnt a lot.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
(mostly how to kill ballistics dummies)
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
> Blown Away
lol at repeated mentions of 'glory hole'
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
maybe too fast for me though. would like to know the people more, and watch them work. and see the finished pieces in more detail than the fly-past the camera crew does. reminds me of the repeats of GBBO on Food Network where they've edited them down to an hour long and made them frenetic.
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
RADIO ON is overrated.
I've still not seen THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS, but have read the book.
― the pinefox, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
London is on again on Wednesday, 5 past midnight. and they have a catch-up service now, but it's patchy
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
worth watching for the people drinking meths outside a church
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
film noir season on sky arts from Sunday. 3 part documentary and accompanying films. first up seems to be The Glass Key which I'm not familiar with.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
ooh thanks for that heads up!
Glass Key is a Chandler adaptation, prob less known due to not having a famous director and Alan Ladd instead of Bogey or Mitchum
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
Good tip, Koogs.
THE GLASS KEY is not by Raymond Chandler.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Sorry, Hammett! Got confused because Bogart is Sam Spade in Maltese Falcon but also Marlowe in Big Sleep.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
I read The Maltese Falcon just recently and was struck by a) the extreme faithfulness of the Bogart/Huston film and b) that there are no other Sam Spade novels (just a couple of short stories).
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I read the audiobook of that and it did v much feel like listening to a radio version of the film.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link