I assume the presenters of shows are only that but I feel your annoyance CP. I'm peeved she's put her name to this grossly titled show I mentioned above.
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
MM is now a patron of the company so that's why I think she had some input into it - I think the general idea is good, and that's why MM probably liked them. my wife was not too happy about the people running it, which also colours my opinion of it.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
The Govt need to start putting people on Newsnight again. Jeremy Hunt basically undermining the govt line there
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
Newsnight is very good though. Just putting experts on air and letting them talk for as long as they need. Miles away from the Farage ep
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
Yes Newsnight finally remembering what it’s for tonight
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
fucking hell, need to get drug testing kits on the set if true!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
Five Live: well, there's no sport to cover, what would make a good replacement for a Saturday afternoon? I know! Hours of cunts wittering on about the coronavirus, that'll make a change
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Folk on Sportsound optimistically discussing the opportunity to bring in summer football in Scotland. No-one quite accepting that summer is probably written off too.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 14 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
for another thread but it seems to me like the best option as far as running competitions fairly is concerned is to write off next season, suspend all competitions for at least 6 months and then finish off this season next year if feasible
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
That LRB article is p good
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 14 March 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
Finsbury Park pic.twitter.com/RSKxGQ5Pl2— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) March 14, 2020
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
shit chat
― ||||||||, Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51979654
Continuing to ask the important questions like ‘what if most of the people who die from coronavirus would have died anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?’.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 21 March 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
I was just thinking of how the BBC might be able to make itself a bit more popular if eg: it put BBC4 on for longer (at least say 12 noon on) showing nothing but classic old black & white British films.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 March 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
I woke up to the immodest and tiresome voice of Bob Geldof on R4. He could bore a virus to death.
― calzino, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link
Xpost I think the problem with that is BBC4 shares the bandwidth with CBeebies. There’d be riots on the streets if parents couldn’t leave their kids stuck in front of Peppa Pig at this time.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link
showing nothing but classic old black & white British films.
We've got Talking Pictures for that - and there aren't that many good old black & white British films anyway.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
:o
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:41 (four years ago) link
I've inherited my mother's dislike of the British - or English, as she called them - films of her youth tbh.
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
*john laurie's ghost weeps*
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
He's on Talking Pictures every day!
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
now i want to watch "bees on the boat-deck" (1939 tv drama)
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
"old films" good, "old Mr Cholmondley-Warner films" bad but thanks Dan for explaining why BBC4 has those weird hours
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
(xp) A 'TV movie' - from 1939!
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:54 (four years ago) link
i'd happily watch old movies from almost anywhere rather than rolling quota quickies tbh
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
Peppa fucking Pig isn’t on CBeebies! I know the whole point of this thread is to rag on the bbc but that’s going too far.
― JimD, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
BBC plans include more educational stuff for kids during the day, given that they are all off school. There's a lot on the web as well, always has been, but a lot of it is still in flash and hard to play (but that's being worked on)
Also more box sets and stuff available for longer.
Tony was talking about it on the radio the other day.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
Xpost you can tell I’m not one of CBeebies core demographic.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
the educational broadcasts begin 20 April, divvied up by age groupYes tons of stuff already on BBC Teach, Bitesize, Tiny Happy People (ugh) and moreI listened to last night’s Coronavirus Newscast (formerly Brexitcast) and I gotta say it was very good. no Laura K providing most of the basis for that granted.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
(Tracer, are you BC5?)
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:20 (four years ago) link
NBH but now WFH :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
(ah, ok. Your insider sounds knowledge made me think you were in bc5 because there's a big team over there. I'm on the team that'll be transcoding the bitesize flash video into something more modern - we've done 10s of thousands of clips already, but bitesize were a low priority, before Wednesday...)
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
(And I think we've met a couple of times irl, at the swimmer fap before a clientele gig when fortunate hazel was over? The Lexington perhaps?)
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
YES! We did! That was..... wow quite some time ago. We should fix that.... at er, some point!Funny how all this low-priority stuff like, you know, education, basic salaries, the NHS, “suddenly” becomes important
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
BBC WS obit of Kenny Rogers: ".. he was known for such hits as Coward of the Century"
― calzino, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
LOL. Lots of possible nominations for that title tbh.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
I don't know what Talking Pictures is, unless you mean a BBC programme that's on on Saturday afternoons sometimes.
The thread then became too technical for me.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
Channel 81 on Freeview. Mostly old, terrible British movies with the occasional cracker.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
Also some British TV shows from the 60s/70s like the genuinely entertaining Human Jungle with Herbert Lom.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/
TV channel dedicated to old, mainly British, films and TV. Available on Freeview, Youview, Sky, Virgin etc
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
xpost to Tom D
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
Today's highlights:
Selected highlights 21-March #TPTV10:25 THE LARGE ROPE (1953)11:50 CARLTON BROWN OF THE F.O. (1959)13:40 NEUTRAL PORT (1940) Premiere15:30 THE BLACK ROSE (1950)17:50 ABOVE US THE WAVES (1955)19:50 TURN THE KEY SOFTLY (1953) Premiere21:30 THE SEEKERS (1954) Premiere pic.twitter.com/l6DezV1syr— Talking Pictures TV (@TalkingPicsTV) March 20, 2020
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
bees on the boat-deck conspicuous by its absence
― mark s, Saturday, 21 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
I need to investigate some of these channels. Maybe more films are on that I realise.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
(I don't have anything more advanced that Freeview or Freesat.)
... Channel 81, Freeview.
If you're into spaghetti westerns and are an early riser I noticed recently that Channel 40 seems to show (usually pretty bad) spag westerns every morning.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
It's channel 81 on Freeview assuming your tuning is up to date. It's one of the half dozen channels I always check if I'm looking for something that might be watchable. The quality of the movies is wildly variable but there's a lot on there that you don't see anywhere else.
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Ah sorry Tom beat me to it.
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
There are multiple other movie channels that show good things from time to time. You know about London Live and Film 4 obv, but there's also Sony Movies (32, modern stuff), Sony Movies Action (40, war films), Sony movies classic (50, showing African Queen and Big Heat later today). Horror Channel (70) often has decent films on too, along with a lot of terrible ones.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
These elderly people would have just died anyway | me for the BBC news website pic.twitter.com/LhGNopAC4X— Je téléphone à la police (@je_police) March 21, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 21 March 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link