didn't he spend a bunch of time homeless? or am i thinking of someone else?
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
He did murder Pauline Fowler, so anything is possible
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Friday, 1 July 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Sadly Ray does not play the character named Mark E. DeSade in House of Whipcord
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 July 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
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
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
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
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 July 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
lots of aspect ratio errors as well, 4:3 stuff stretched to 16:9
― koogs, Saturday, 2 July 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
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?
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 July 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
This listing on the TPTV website has to be a fake right
A Tale Of The FjordsFilmed 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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 July 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
^ 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.
― koogs, Saturday, 9 July 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
I noticed this morning that That's TV has been added to my Freeview. Don't know when that happened.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
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
― koogs, Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Several hours of the Kenny Everett Video Show this morning. Hasn't really aged very well, you'll not be surprised to hear.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
That's TV (UK) has some corkers on tonight:
20:00 MONKEE STAR: DEATH MYSTERYApparently 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: TURMOILDoes exactly what it says on the tin.
21:50 JIM MORRISON: FINAL 24 HOURSDitto.
22:50 VELVET UNDERGROUND: UNDER REVIEWThis I might actually watch, although it's on till half twelve. Still, sleep? Who am I kidding?
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
would rather watch MONKEE DEATH STAR MYSTERY
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Monday, 18 July 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 July 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
At least Doug Yule is in this Velvets documentary for a change, and quite a lot of Doug Yule too!
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
Watched Caravan (1946) on TPTV today, utter crap but also very enjoyable.
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 July 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
Someone e-mailed TPTV recently to ask if they'd play Abel Gance's Napoleon. Just slightly outside of their wheelhouse I think.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
lol i'm not buying another two tellys for that
― pasty drunks fuck off (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
Is it not on the BFI player? They released the DVD/Blu-Ray of it not that long ago, after a cinema tour.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
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.
― soref, Friday, 22 July 2022 09:49 (one year ago) link
also learned that the woman who played Linda Perelli in Widows is now called Sara Farouk Ahmed and lives in Cairo teaching Egyptian dance
― soref, Friday, 22 July 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 July 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
Veronica Mars starts from the beginning on itv2 from Tuesday morning
― koogs, Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Amazing - was thinking of rewatching that
― kinder, Sunday, 24 July 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
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.
― koogs, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
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)
― koogs, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
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.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 27 August 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Great movie
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
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.
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
It’s a good one.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
(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)
― koogs, Thursday, 1 September 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
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
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 September 2022 06:59 (one year ago) link
yeah, i notice this every year (actually started last thursday)
they aren't even the good xmas movies...
― koogs, Monday, 12 September 2022 07:49 (one year ago) link
at least ch5 leaves it until after halloween
There aren't enough good Christmas movies for 4 hours television, let alone 4 months
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 08:23 (one year ago) link
christmas carol (alistair sim version)christmas carol (jean luc picard version)christmas carol (kermit version)
― koogs, Monday, 12 September 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link
ScroogedLove & PeaceIt's A Wonderful LifeBad Santa
think that's it
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 September 2022 08:48 (one year ago) link
Holiday Affair!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 September 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link
ppl also really rate Remember The Night but I've not seen, Indicator blu on the way
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 September 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
For those with London Live, "Nico, 1988" om tonight at 11pm. John Gordon Sinclair as her manager!
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 16 September 2022 06:49 (one year ago) link
and my PVR caught Press Gang series 2 on That'sTV at, er, 3am this morning
― koogs, Friday, 16 September 2022 07:59 (one year ago) link
Seems like a good time to be sleeping downstairs due to Covid in Da House. Last night I saw Fry & Laurie and Reggie Perrin.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 16 September 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
(you all okay mike?)
― koogs, Friday, 16 September 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
Tonight at 8:https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-2w6mzj/the-amazing-hattie-jacques-larger-than-life/
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 17 September 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
Koogs - I'm negative, C is positive, so keeping our distance. Thanks for asking :)
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 17 September 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
Phase IV on TPTV tonight, if you can't sleep.
― koogs, Saturday, 17 September 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
stoked for the upcoming british transport films season on tptv
("stoked", do you see!?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
The London Nobody Knows on TPTV in the last couple of weeks. James Mason walks around various public toilets and london markets, watches people selling eels etc
― koogs, Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link