Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

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...)

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...

a lot of the previous winners doing Judy Dench

Who says tv has become sexless!

tptv has 'rich and strange' on 9th of november - a pre-war hitchcock i've not seen before (or, indeed, heard of)

It's great and important and jazz

think there's an early brian de palma on tptv next Friday that I've never seen.

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

Small Films documentary on bbc4 tonight. prior to that a couple of episodes of bagpuss including one i don't recognise, Owls Of Athens

didn't make the connection until the documentary that professor yaffle from bagpuss is basically cliff clavin from cheers

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.

(oh, it's called She'll Have To Go in the UK at least, 1962)

Bob's Burgers from the beginning on itv2 from Monday

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

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