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CBB 2017
Baz I think that unless they go back to basics the programme has had its day Rawky [ more ]
Rawky-Roo Channel 5 has the rights to BB until the end of 2018. Expect next year to be the last on Channel 5... and perhaps the whole show. Not sure which channel would want to pick it up. [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities I'm not so sure, just like the 'civvie' version, the numbers don't look good. Slow, lingering death. It's all about advertising and if the viewing figures go down, so does the advertising revenue. August 26th. Celebrity Big Brother 2017 ends with least watched final to date The live show averaged 1.6 million between 9PM and 10:45PM live on Channel 5, peaking with an audience of 1.9 million as the winner was revealed. A bumper edition of Bit On The Side straight after averaged 600,000... [ more ]
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The Handmaid's Tale - Series Finale
Kaffs Thanks, Eugene. I will get the book, I think (although I don't seem to have the same time to read as I used to - might finish it before Season 2) Let's just hope that the writers do it justice in the next series now they'll be left to their own devices. [ more ]
Eugene's Lair * Warning - The following contains potential spoilers for both the final episode and the book. * The very end of the TV series is essentially the same as the book, i.e. Offred being driven away by the "Secret Police". Offred's last speech as she steps into the van is lifted directly from the book. One slight difference in the book is that as well as telling Offred to trust him, Nick also tells her that the men are with "Mayday", i.e. the resistance. However Nick's intentions and affiliations... [ more ]
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BBC2 The Sweet Makers
Baz It was a great series EC....I throughly enjoyed it [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities I'm just watching the repeat. I have to say this is a great programme, except for the bit where they are poisoning people with arsenic laced sweets !!! I wonder if they will mention Thorntons started here in Sheffield. Although they are more famous for chocolate, they do a wide range of toffee products. WOW - that egg, fish and other molds. [ more ]
Baz Thanks for the company ladies ...now from the sublime to the ridiculous [ more ]
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CH 5's penultimate Big Brother under current Endomol contract.
Eugene's Lair I haven't seen the last two "regular" series now, and I reckon it would take most of these "tweaks" to make me watch again. The thing is, I suspect BB have had a nasty shock from the recent success of "Love Island", and they're probably going to continue a competitive "race to the bottom". If anything, it's even less likely now that we'll ever see BB return to anything remotely like the show we once enjoyed. [ more ]
Baz Re: CH 5's penultimate Big Brother under current Endomol contract. [ more ]
Baz Yes ...I think we only got lucky with the winners this year because they switched to vote to evict halfway through ....if it had been Save then I'm guessing the results would have been pretty dire !! [ more ]
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Every railway station in England, Scotland and Wales
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Saint https://www.youtube.com/channe...xUeXZ0aoD4Q5g/videos Day 74 - so we're all on catch up Enjoy [ more ]
Saint My favourite station - St. Pancreas Was reading it's history - at one point (1960s) there was talk of demolition!!! It's such a beautiful building - an awe inspiring building - to demolish would be nothing more than state sponsored vandalism. Thank God it was saved. [ more ]
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Mission: Impossible star Martin Landau dies aged 89 ...and also Living Dead director.
Eugene's Lair I certainly can't argue that Romero's oeuvre can be a difficult watch for many ("intense" and "realistic" are descriptions you hear a lot), but he is unquestionably an important figure in horror cinema. I think I would summarize his contribution as: 1) He essentially created the modern zombie movie (although I believe he never actually used that term himself); 2) He pioneered a documentary-style approach to horror; 3) He also helped develop the horror movie as social-political satire (his... [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Yes Eugene, I must say that for me too it was MI: repeats as I would have been in nappies in 1969. Space 1999 was definitely my real first programme I saw him in. I don't think I have ever seen Ed Wood. Can't recall anyway. [ more ]
Eugene's Lair Been meaning to comment on this thread for a while.... Martin Landau: I just about remember him in "Mission: Impossible", but I was too young to see him in it first time round and so only really saw him in repeats. He left the show in 1969 and was replaced by Leonard Nimoy (just off of "Star Trek"), who I remember better. For me, however, Landau was "Space 1999" - loved that show! Film-wise, I remember him best as the bad guy in "North by Northwest", and as a memorable Bela Lugosi in "Ed... [ more ]
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John Heard - 71, has died
Yogi19 I loved him in Home Alone and Home Alone 2. By all accounts, he was a lovely man. RIP John [ more ]
Baz Ditto ....I never saw Home Alone .....but have seen him in lots of things ...I particularly enjoyed him in the TV programme about a New Orleans lawyer. RIP [ more ]
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing Because, to me, that wasn't that big a part and I've seen him more in other stuff. Vin Makazian - The Sopranos [ more ]
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Spoilers: New Doctor Who!
Carnelian Much the same, although she grew on me. That series opener with those little bits of fat (the Adipose) was utterly dire but over the series she improved considerably. I also thought Jenna Coleman's Clara Oswald character was quite annoying at first only for her character to blossom when working with Peter Capaldi. [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Re: Spoilers: New Doctor Who! [ more ]
Baz Yes [ more ]
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Jupiter great red spot
Saint http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/...PRmx&ocid=SMSDHP interesting https://www.theguardian.com/sc...fter-almost-40-years Fascinating [ more ]
Carnelian yes, there's bucket loads of theories on the universe and its origins. IMO, if you put every new born in an isolated room and taught them a language so they could articulate their thoughts and told them about the world, every single one of them would come up with different creation myth. [ more ]
El Loro I think I think, therefore maybe I am [ more ]
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I WAS RIGHT . . .
Baz Re: I WAS RIGHT . . . [ more ]
Saint On the subject of disability (which I believe my memory is) I also have very poor eyesight. With glasses and contacts i'm 20:20 - so completely fine - but without and if it couldn't be improved I would be registered blind. [ more ]
Moonie Awwwwww In that case, you do extremely well Sainty [ more ]
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Domestic etiquette
Saint We do laundry It has a washer and a separate drier and a kitchen (kinda bench with cupboards) which contains soap powder and conditioners and gardening bits n bobs. A hoover and steam cleaner and where we keep our gardening shoes [ more ]
Former Member But what do you do in your extra room.....that you call the laundry? [ more ]
Saint Oh - we keep all sundries like that in our garage Lawnmower, gardening tools etc ... we also have large, former coal depository used as a store [ more ]
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Does this not ring a bell?
Saint There was a young lady called May "Brexit means Brexit", she'd say To do her a favour They stole ideas from Labour And hoped it would all go away. Bimbles [ more ]
Former Member I hope they tell her to get stuffed! What was it she said......she got us in to this mess, and she'll get us out. Errrrm, that didn't mean with the help of other parties who she's denegrated and called alsorts at the first chance to [ more ]
Dame_Ann_Average not mine but it made me laugh.... Dear Jeremy Corbyn. Although the principle Tory aim of the last 60 years, which accelerated when Margaret Thatcher came to power, has been to discredit, abuse and villify poor people that the Labour party champion, I could really do with your help to stay in power. it seems that since the election, which I WON AND YOU LOST, I have become a tad disliked by my subjects, I mean the general public....who I HATE....I mean love...I mean tolerate...I mean like. For... [ more ]
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Pitch Battle
Eugene's Lair I saw the adverts for this, and although I've always had a bit of a soft spot for a cappella, I'm not a big fan of TV talent shows, so I haven't bothered. I have to say though that the show's "food chain" is unusually weird even by TV standards: it's a singing competition inspired by a film ("Pitch Perfect"), which was adapted from a non-fiction book ("Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory") about a real life singing competition (the International Championship of... [ more ]
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing Nope. Not my cup of tea. [ more ]
Saint Re: Pitch Battle [ more ]
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"Has anybody got any Veras?"
Carnelian Apparently Jerry Sadowitz was pissed off when he realised the video was about rave drug culture. Sadovitch being teetotal and against drugs. FFS, really? How could he not know? [ more ]
Carnelian Indeed, The Shaman, Ebeneezer Goode, Vera Lynnes = Skins, as in roll up paper for joints. Laaarvly! Got any Salmon, = Salmon and Trout= snout [ more ]
Eugene's Lair and *ahem* also: [ more ]
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Barry Norman has died
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities I remember as a lad Film .... was required watching. I loved his style of presenting and his interviews. I was pretty miffed when he went to the evil empire. Will be missed. RIP Barry. [ more ]
El Loro Billy Taylor performing his "I wish I knew how to be free" which is the theme music for Film ... [ more ]
Yogi19 I liked Barry's film reviews and his laid back presenting style. RIP Barry. [ more ]
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