Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

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?

would rather watch MONKEE DEATH STAR MYSTERY

A few nights ago TPTV screened HENNESSY (1975), a sort of poor-man's DAY OF THE JACKAL, wherein Rod Steiger and Lee Remick do their best Irish accents and there's a plot to blow up the State Opening of Parliament. Worth watching for the moment (SPOILER) Stanley Lebor shoots Peter Egan - a glimpse of the Ever Decreasing Circles finale that could have been.

At least Doug Yule is in this Velvets documentary for a change, and quite a lot of Doug Yule too!

Watched Caravan (1946) on TPTV today, utter crap but also very enjoyable.

Someone e-mailed TPTV recently to ask if they'd play Abel Gance's Napoleon. Just slightly outside of their wheelhouse I think.

lol i'm not buying another two tellys for that

Is it not on the BFI player? They released the DVD/Blu-Ray of it not that long ago, after a cinema tour.

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.

also learned that the woman who played Linda Perelli in Widows is now called Sara Farouk Ahmed and lives in Cairo teaching Egyptian dance

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.

Veronica Mars starts from the beginning on itv2 from Tuesday morning

Amazing - was thinking of rewatching that

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.

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)

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.

Great movie

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.

It’s a good one.

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.

(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)

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

yeah, i notice this every year (actually started last thursday)

they aren't even the good xmas movies...