Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

(xp) Came here to post that!

Theatre of Blood is in my top 3 all time favourites.

the first 5 minutes of One Way Pendulum would make a good post on the office spaces thread (albeit one 30 years too early)

Tons of Corman coming yr way on talking pictures TV later this month - fall of house of usher, bucket of blood, tales of terror, gas s s s, man with the x ray eyes.

"One Way Pendulum" seemed to have Eric Sykes sitting fiddling with a box and not saying anything for about half the film, something of a waste of his talents.

I've just this is on in just over 10 minutes time on London Live:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Night_Long_(1962_film)

Patrick McGoohan, Dickie Attenborough and Charlie Mingus together at last!

... I've just noticed, that is.

... the very first scene is between Dickie and Charlie!

i am watching gassss, but I'm not sure what it what's happening, maybe because i an over 25.

now the football team have turned up in dune buggies and stolen some meat and a floor cleaner

(the hippies are driving a pink '58 edsel)

also features either Laverne or Shirley

Bit disappointed to see TPTV giving work to Mike 'UKIP calypso song' Read

The Bed Sitting Room on tptv next Saturday.

‘Rita, Sue and Bob too’ on tonight.

pretty much the only thing i watch on sky arts, portrait artist of the year, they are repeating the 2013 series. they have 21 artists in this heat, rather than the more usual 9. an episode a day by the look.

i think I've seen the later episodes of this - they mention Sophie Dahl and Hillary Mantel.

Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt! on Forces TV. An incredible parade of familiar Northern character players in one grindingly unfunny package.

the pilot episode of Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt! (written by Roy Clarke, unlike the regular series, different cast aside from Bill Maynard) is fantastic, but none of the other episodes I've seen live up its promise. It's got more of a tragicomic, kitchen-sink mood, Froggitt comes across as less of a Frank Spencer style sitcom bungler and more as someone with a diagnosable condition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLtbP4vKRCQ

Albeit I haven't seen Selwyn Froggitt since I was about 12 but I refuse to believe it's not still hilarious

A lot of Clarke's stuff coarsened over time tho, LotSW another example

That's TV (channel 91, me neither!) are showing monty python, season 3 episodes i don't think i've ever seen, or not for a long time anyway. (some of it's familiar, probably from best-ofs. argument sketch for instance)

every episode has a disclaimer on the front of it for the blackface and yellowface and brownface and the sexism that was ok in the 60s

I watched a few of those when I was visiting my sister. Second series, so 1970, a lot of the sketches ended up in "And Now For Something Completely Different".

every episode has a disclaimer on the front of it for the blackface and yellowface and brownface and the sexism that was ok in the 60s

This is a precautionary measure to avoid ofcom complaints. TPTV gets irate comments about it all the time, as you might imagine.

tptv showing x certificate films on a Saturday afternoon - "not for showing to anyone under 16" it said on the cert at the beginning. The Trollenberg Terror, 1958.

i guess today's kids are made of sterner stuff.

(aka The Crawling Eye!)

i guess it's been reclassified? otherwise that's obviously against ofcom rules

Ofcom rules? TPTV don't need no stinking Ofcom rules.

imdb says it was an A, so maybe the stylised X on the certificate was just decoration?

the tptv bumper said PG

nope, X, looked exactly like this one (others have other letters)

https://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo302/lasermagnetic/Image2-45_zps96ab5124.jpg

haha i see

Reclassified as PG in 2006 according to BBFC https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-trollenberg-terror-film-qxnzzxq6vlgtntyxmza4

Some good classic Hollywood auteur fare coming up on TPTV: Anthony Mann's crime drama The Great Flamarion tomorrow at 10:30 and his "French revolution noir" The Black Book on the 26th at 8:25. Sam Fuller's Korean war film Fixed Bayonets (18:10 on the 21st) and Japan set crime drama House Of Bamboo (16:05 on the 2nd of June; features some awesome footage of 1950's Tokyo). And Edgar G. Ulmer's Bluebeard, which I've heard described as a Poverty Row masterpiece, at 14:35 on the 20th.

the horror channel is going away

(from thursday it's rebranding as Legend. content seems to be the same based on thursday and friday listings, sci fi series, fantasy tvms during the day, horror films at night)

Great! Movies Classic keeps showing Girl On A Motorcycle, which gets 1 star every time (it's better than that)

That's TV currently showing Press Gang (Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher at a school newspaper, written by Stephen Moffat). only it's on at 02:00

having joked that horror is going away i noticed that everything beyond 11 tomorrow morning on Forces TV just says "thanks for watching forces tv". which is a pity because that's the place that's been showing ufo, space 1999, sapphire and steel, Blake's seven, watching and a couple of decent things over the last two years or so.

House of Whipcord on TPTV tonight - "This film is dedicated to those who are disturbed by today's lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital punishment".

Starring (still around at 83), voice of Mr Benn and (at one time) Croydon trams: Ray Brooks!

wow for some reason i thought Brooks had died years back

didn't he spend a bunch of time homeless? or am i thinking of someone else?

He did murder Pauline Fowler, so anything is possible

Sadly Ray does not play the character named Mark E. DeSade in House of Whipcord

the film before that is a William castle joint. I've also set the video for the one after even though i know 1943 zombies are not our zombies

loads of good stuff on That's TV these days but all seems to be taken from low quality 90s digitizations with a 0.2 second delay between audio and video, which is barely watchable imo

lots of aspect ratio errors as well, 4:3 stuff stretched to 16:9

yeah it's all done with the minimal possible care, when they get big name stuff like monty python and do this to it you really have to wonder what's going on there, did they blow their entire budget and can't hire just one person to sort this out?

This listing on the TPTV website has to be a fake right

A Tale Of The Fjords
Filmed in 1955 by the distinguished Swedish Cameraman Arne Sucksdorff, focusing on the Vestland region of Norway. A beautiful presentation of two children hunting for the Valley Of happiness

^ would watch

sky arts (ch11) starts Alfred Hitchcock Presents on Monday which i don't think I've ever seen.

they've been showing Portrait Artist Of The Year from the beginning every day, which I've enjoyed. must be nearing the end now because the episodes are COVID-safe. Landscape version once a week too.

other than that everything seems to be finishing, my days are emptier.

I noticed this morning that That's TV has been added to my Freeview. Don't know when that happened.

it moved around the same time horror got renamed (2 weeks ago?) so maybe you picked it up then. enjoy your Benny hill ..

my pvr handles renumberings for things that clash with old channels by shoving everything above ch 800, but keeping the old versions too. it's confusing but the other option is losing all my season passes

Several hours of the Kenny Everett Video Show this morning. Hasn't really aged very well, you'll not be surprised to hear.

That's TV (UK) has some corkers on tonight:

20:00 MONKEE STAR: DEATH MYSTERY
Apparently the death of Davy Jones was not as straightforward as we had been led to believe - I assume so anyway as they're spending almost an hour on it.

20:55 GEORGE BEST: TURMOIL
Does exactly what it says on the tin.

21:50 JIM MORRISON: FINAL 24 HOURS
Ditto.

22:50 VELVET UNDERGROUND: UNDER REVIEW
This I might actually watch, although it's on till half twelve. Still, sleep? Who am I kidding?