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
For those with London Live, I forgot to mention "Cul-de-sac" was on last night but, worry not, it's on again tomorrow night. Tonight we have "Radio On", which I've never seen, followed by "Twisted Nerve", which I haven't seen since I was about 12.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
Blaze (ch64) is shoing Blown Away from 10 on sunday, which is Sewing Bee / Pottery Throwdown / Wordwork Challenge but with (american) glass blowing. which sounds interesting. only it's 30 minute episodes and i'm not sure how that can possibly work.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
blown away is good, it's like the anti bake off / throw down - strong American vibe, an emphasis on how hardcore it all is and most of the contestants are extremely lacking in modesty. there's only one challenge per episode, 30 mins is fine - bake off is too long imo.
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
i have been watching Forged In Fire (also on blaze, but recently picked up on 5 Select, ch56, 2 a night from 22:00) for years and that's the same or heavier given that the focus is bladed weapons of various kinds. is fascinating and i've learnt a lot.
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
(mostly how to kill ballistics dummies)
― koogs, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
> Blown Away
lol at repeated mentions of 'glory hole'
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
maybe too fast for me though. would like to know the people more, and watch them work. and see the finished pieces in more detail than the fly-past the camera crew does. reminds me of the repeats of GBBO on Food Network where they've edited them down to an hour long and made them frenetic.
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
RADIO ON is overrated.
I've still not seen THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS, but have read the book.
― the pinefox, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
London is on again on Wednesday, 5 past midnight. and they have a catch-up service now, but it's patchy
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
worth watching for the people drinking meths outside a church
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
film noir season on sky arts from Sunday. 3 part documentary and accompanying films. first up seems to be The Glass Key which I'm not familiar with.
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
ooh thanks for that heads up!
Glass Key is a Chandler adaptation, prob less known due to not having a famous director and Alan Ladd instead of Bogey or Mitchum
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
Good tip, Koogs.
THE GLASS KEY is not by Raymond Chandler.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
Sorry, Hammett! Got confused because Bogart is Sam Spade in Maltese Falcon but also Marlowe in Big Sleep.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
I read The Maltese Falcon just recently and was struck by a) the extreme faithfulness of the Bogart/Huston film and b) that there are no other Sam Spade novels (just a couple of short stories).
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I read the audiobook of that and it did v much feel like listening to a radio version of the film.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Legend are showing The Twilight Zone (the original) from the beginning. times seem to be all over the shop though.
― koogs, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
"Vanishing Point", Talking Pictures, 9.30pm tonight.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
Watching a Twilight Zone on Legend and it feels...motion smoothed? Even though I have that turned off and no other channels are?
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 5 February 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
has been mentioned before, i think, but kenny everett video show is on channel 65 if you need blackface and cartoon breasts and Hot Gossip in the wrong aspect ratio at 12:30 of an afternoon.
bowie was on, smoking between lines, and chasing a man in a bowler hat and suspenders with a violin bow whilst trying to keep a straight face.
― koogs, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
I remember enjoying the first couple series, not the stuff that gets repeated in highlights (the Toyah and Rod S takeoffs weren't funny the first time but Toyah introducing hers while dressed as Kenny was, for instance) but the Sid Snot, etc .
But the last few series were painfully unfunny.
― Mark G, Monday, 13 February 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
they used to repeat episodes of the Kenny Everett Video/Television Show on Paramount Comedy in the late 90s and I was obsessed with it. Sarah Squirm on snl sometimes reminds me a bit of TKEV/TSthe 'spiderman needing a piss' sketch will forever be one of the most perfect pieces of television ever made
― soref, Monday, 13 February 2023 08:44 (one year ago) link
this is series 3, 1980
― koogs, Monday, 13 February 2023 09:30 (one year ago) link
Always kinds liked Captain Kremmen.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 13 February 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
in about 10 minutes talking pictures is showing the episode of Maigret with Pauline Boty in it
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
> Watching a Twilight Zone on Legend and it feels...motion smoothed?
yeah, something looks off but then going from 60s usa series on film(?) to 2020 digital has probably had multiple things done to it
― koogs, Sunday, 19 February 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
feels like every night the only thing on TV that I want to watch is Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? on That's TV.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 23 February 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
Annika on drama, sometime at the weekend. it's Nicola Walker in Scottish marine homicide unit but actually some kind of Scandinavian so she's always dropping in references to Norse mythology (her boat is called mimir for instance) and salty licorice. she talks to the camera as well, displaying its radio 4 roots.
― koogs, Monday, 10 April 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
tried the first episode of that cos I loved walker in unforgotten but it was v much not my thing. from what I can remember she has a v annoying child in it.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 10 April 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
and astrid, murder in Paris is back. i find out painful to watch at times. it's like Monk but she struggles more with day to day life. but they've got young Astrid pretty much perfect.
and Happy Valley season 1. it's like from 15 years ago but Ryan is the same Ryan. it's brutal and has some great ptsd acting.
― koogs, Monday, 10 April 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
Wait, is this a channel called Drama, showing a programme (new?) called Annika? With an English actress playing a Scandinavian in Scotland? And it's all taken from Radio 4 ?!?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 09:40 (one year ago) link
Channel 20 yes. mostly old episodes of the bill and to the manor born and stuff of that ilk. also handy for repeats of dickens adaptations.
Annika is not new, but is new to me (oh, 2021 it says). if i'm unsure it's because Drama is all repeats so it's been shown somewhere before (oh, Alibi (uktv / Sky) and Masterpiece in the US).
https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/news/article/uktv-tv-adaptation-radio-4-drama-annika-alibi/
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 10:09 (one year ago) link
For anyone who fancies staying up till 2.45am on Wednesday, Talking Pictures is showing "Thomasine and Bushrod", a Blaxploitation Western from 1974... with music by Arthur Lee!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
^ that's not showing up in the epg yet (or in my listings mag for this week or next)
they missed a trick by not calling the new Vic Reeves And His Wife Paint Birds show on sky arts Paint Along With Nancy (and Jim)
it's multiple episodes and has special guests (including edwin collins) so i'm sold.
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 12:34 (eleven months ago) link
i don't enjoy celeb stuff but god bless Nancy Kaminsky
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 12:36 (eleven months ago) link
the Architecture of Railways show on Yesterday continues to be little gem of a thing. always something interesting on it, like the brutalist, analog electronic signal box in birmingham the other week.
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 12:38 (eleven months ago) link
is that the one with the Icelandic presenter i have a sad crush on because yeah it's good and largely annoyance-free
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 12:45 (eleven months ago) link
the main presenter is tim dunn, but he does a london underground spin-off with a woman who could possibly be icelandic and has a name that's almost but not quite sidney. (googles... siddy, Sigurbjörg Alma Ingólfsdóttir)
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:42 (eleven months ago) link
(that signalbox in full - https://www.birminghamworld.uk/news/birmingham-new-street-signal-box-tour-4087955 )
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:43 (eleven months ago) link