Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

(blake's seven was rather good, i thought. not reliant on explosions or running around or unbelievable future tech (yes, future guns and teleporting but not much else) and instead you got previous beef and people using the enemies earlier tactics against them. and that eyepatch used to really creep me out)

been watching Bergerac. banging theme tune

Written by avant skronk (among other things) guitar hero, Ray Russell.

I thought it was BBC stalwart George Fenton - found an episode with the credits which says Bergerac theme by George Fenton, musical associate Ray Russell.

Maybe Russell was the Derbyshire to Fenton's Grainer.

Yep, Russell did the incidental music for individual episodes of Bergerac, not the main theme. I've yet to detect 'Stained Angel Morning' burbling in the background of any Bergerac shows, mind.

Talking Pictures, 12.10pm, "British Rock" (aka "Punk and Its Aftershocks") documentary, 1980. Mostly about mod and ska apparently.

... that's on today.

they've been showing a northern soul documentary recently, i caught the same 10 minutes of it twice

It's, like, NOW

Spizz Energi! Unfortunately there's been an overabundance of Bob Geldof so far though. I'd forgotten that he was always unbearable.

he was always available

is this the same german crew that did the punk documentary?

ha, yes, Punk In London

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368936/?

Talking Pictures has "The Quatermass Xperiment" on in about 15 minutes, followed by Curtis Harrington/Dennis Hooper cult movie, "Night Tide".

Night Tide is worth seeing for the Majorie Cameron cameo alone

That "British Rock" was worth it for the two Pretenders songs from the practice room. Also, Spizz. And various other bits that aren't cut short.

Also, I wondered about the Kinks inclusion, but he was throwing himself around like he was JimmyPursey!

A low point was the interminable dub/improv middle section Sting and the lads insisted on inserting into "The Bed's Too Big".

I mean, they were entitled to do it but why film it and show it in its entirety, inflicting it on a new audience beyond the unfortuntates who were at the gig in the first place. "Night Tide" was great.

As I mentioned on another thread, London Live seems to have bought a job lot of Jean Rollin films, which they're slipping out late at night.

Talking Pictures has "The Quatermass Xperiment" on in about 15 minutes, followed by Curtis Harrington/Dennis Hooper cult movie, "Night Tide".

This is part of the new Cellar Club feature on Friday nights, Caroline Munro introduces three films. Lots of cool Hammer and 50's American sci-fi coming up in that spot, as well as some 80's shlock.

Barbara Rubin documentary on Sky Arts at 9pm tonight

Thanks watching it now

caught Kiss of Death on talking pictures last week. richard widmark was quite smthg in it, almost a prototype for joe pesci in goodfellas with added psychotic giggle.

Dirk Bogarde camping it up mercilessly as the most unconvincing Mexican bandit in cinematic history in "The Singer Not the Song", Talking Pictures, today 12.10pm (yes, I am off work at the moment).

This could be great if the content is there.

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— Tony Paley (@tpaleyfilm) November 15, 2021

Oh, ok..

Oops just noticed that Pontecorvo's "Burn!" is on London Live (Freeview Channel 8) in about 15 minutes time.

One of the all time Morricone scores, that.

Yes, brilliant. I really liked the film too, Brando was great, if you could get past the accent, and the guy who played the leader of the slaves had amazing screen presence.

TPTV is showing The Outer Limits starting at 8 on friday (classic, more sci-fi focussed version of Twilight Zone)

Great, love Outer Limits.

my freeview pvr does this odd (but perhaps understandable) thing of putting new channels at the very bottom when you rescan. hence my Sky Arts is channel 800 rather than 11 and i always forget about it.

i think it'd all clear up if i did a full rescan but it would lose all my season passes so...

(good thing i checked sky arts - episode of celeb portrait artist i'd not seen before, josie, jupitus, lycett, moir, and trails for new landscape artist of the year on wednesday)

as well as outer limits, London Live is showing Monkey at the exact same time. even then i thought it was a bit hoaky, but am prepared to give it a go.

Also on Talking Pictures tonight, at 10.50, Orson Welles' version of "The Trial".

Monkey is terrible btw, it's like Power Rangers voiced by the goons.

is the alistair sim film 'The Green Man' any good? it's on talking pictures tonight?

Yes.

thank you. will watch.

Monkey is great btw but the dubbing actors can fuck off yes

margoyles famously(?) did the princess.

i always confuse Green Man with Green For Danger, but both worth watching.

(and Andrew Sachs and the guy who played Silver in Sapphire and Steel also did monkey voices)

Too fast too underproduced and too hard to make out, but the series is surprisingly faithful to the source and the real actors are great

taped Honey West on tptv last night on a whim and it feels like an American Cathy Gale-era Avengers if Cathy were in charge

Seven Days To Noon on TPTV at 6 this evening, boulting brothers.

TPTV changes channel next week btw, it'll move to... 82

i guess i sort of know why i have to retune the TV once a month but ffs

forces tv are showing classic doctor who, the tom baker years, genesis of daleks tonight, zygons next, robots of death, city of death. oh this is weekend catch-up, in reality there are two every morning at 8am

(it appears I've missed the pertwee daemons series, curses)

kind of wild that RT is still broadcasting the russian state point of view on my freeview box.

Forces TV also showing Watching from wednesday. i have fond memories of this, Emma Wray and Lisa Tarbuck sitcom from 87-93. will be interesting to see if it is as i remember it.

(given the rest of the dross they show in their comedy strands then probably not - Sorry, Brittas Empire, Surgical Spirit, No PLace Like Home, Dear John, Time After Time - but i live in hope)

Nice to see Lovejoy possessed by an energy-hungry ball of light on London Live last night. Do like the ultra-wide angles, lighting, incidental music and set design of that first season of Space: 1999. More comical are the moments when Barry Morse explains science to Martin Landau with the help of graphs with irregular blue blobs on.

I think there's a fair amount of Wirral location shooting in Watching, so some interest there :)

yesterday saw doctor who bring chased by the loch Ness monster and meeting shuhie macphee. LNM looked utterly unconvincing, like it was made by a child.