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Post by Pinwig on Jun 28, 2024 22:26:49 GMT
Et tu, Ayres?
I am deeply saddened by this.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2024 19:26:32 GMT
Quality restored in this week's VAN DER VALK. It appears the bad incidental music last week was a one-off.
What a cast in this episode: Julia "The Brothers" Goodman, Freddie Jones, Patrick Troughton and William Russell!!!!!
Nigel Stock needs to bugger off though. I had hoped he was in just last week's episode.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2024 21:48:52 GMT
Lots of intense staring from guest star Joss "The Apple" Ackland in this week's ENEMY AT THE DOOR.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2024 18:48:45 GMT
Constant 'join the navy' ads on TPTV at the moment. I'm not sure the channel's audience is the target market...
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 18, 2024 14:23:51 GMT
App may be coming. Source: this week's channel email:
"Due to overwhelming requests to provide a service without adverts and better functions, we are looking into the possibility of launching an Encore mobile and connected TV app. The launch will come with a lot of new features like; fast forwarding and rewinding content, bookmarking your films for future viewing (i.e. if you decide to stop watching a film, you can pick it up from the place you left when you log back in), no advertising before or during films & much easier user accessibility on televisions and mobile devices. This new version of the service could be available via a small monthly subscription fee of £5."
They'll get my money!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 18, 2024 18:28:07 GMT
Interesting, interesting. But I doubt I'd watch TV through an app unless it was an app that appeared on the tv itself, or the virgin box or a Playstation or something. I don't want TV on a phone or tablet.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 18, 2024 18:41:31 GMT
It will be an app on the TV. Like all the other apps. On the tv.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 18, 2024 20:11:37 GMT
That'll depend on whether the device you're watching on is updated with it or able to run it at all. Plenty of incompatibility issues with this kind of thing and older devices.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 18, 2024 21:45:13 GMT
Brave heart, Pinwig.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2024 12:38:19 GMT
SPACE PATROL has been on my list of shows to see but never got round to it. Hooray for TPTV! -Ralph Surprised by the very high production values for the time. I was expecting sub-Anderson quality in that respect, but it's not. The stories and characters leave me cold though. -Ralph 5 episodes and I am out. Of historical interest, but the characters and stories are too bland and dull to keep me watching. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2024 19:48:44 GMT
Bob Hoskins as a dodgy criminal and Glyn Houston as a randy copper under stern examination from the Demon Headmaster in the current CROWN COURT!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2024 20:13:17 GMT
The Demon Headmaster as an evil Prussian in this week's ENEMY AT THE DOOR!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2024 18:31:45 GMT
Pinwig: Z CARS starting on the 28th of September!!!! Like Dixon, this is one of those famous shows I have never seen (what is left of it) so very much looking forward to seeing it. -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 6, 2024 19:15:52 GMT
That's interesting. There's a hell of a lot more of Z-Cars existing than Dixon, I wonder how much of it they'll show and from what era.
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Post by legios on Aug 6, 2024 20:34:06 GMT
I need to try and remember this, I've not actually seen any of the surviving Z-Cars in full.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2024 21:01:14 GMT
Same. I've just seen clips.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2024 21:51:30 GMT
I hate to say it, but as it has continued I am coming to the conclusion that VAN DER VALK S3 is not a patch on seasons 1 and 2.
It is not just because of Nigel Stock. The show has lost a lot of its' bite. Valk himself grows ever more cuddly. Previously, he felt like a proper mad bastard who could do anything....anything! He was mesmerising to watch. Now he is...nice.
The weird dark quirky stories have given way to ones which are...ok. Was there a change in creative staff?
S1 and S2 were outstanding slices of tv though. Truly original.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 21, 2024 7:59:48 GMT
VAN DER VALK continues its Frieberger-like descent into shite in s3. The last one was a 'comedy' episode. Even Barry Foster looked like he couldn't be bothered.
Hopefully it will pick up in s4.
TPTV also showing HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE. Not as good as HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR. Each episode seems to end with a ludicrous twist that makes no ******* sense. Shame. Nice to see Bernard Kay in the most recent one.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 25, 2024 18:48:08 GMT
'The Professor' was a return to form for VAN DER VALK. Now that is the weird quickly style I have been missing. Broton, Garok, Jeff Rawle and Geoffrey Palmer in the guest cast! Barry Foster noticeably perked up.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2024 17:31:15 GMT
Only two more episodes of s3 of THE BROTHERS to go.
Then...season 4 and COLIN BAKER!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2024 21:07:07 GMT
Is it indeed. Have we got that far already? Hmm.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 29, 2024 18:46:15 GMT
This week's case in the CROWN COURT is called...THE DEATH OF DRACULA.
!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 29, 2024 21:16:34 GMT
High stakes!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 5, 2024 20:40:21 GMT
Unlike the first two seasons, which ended in ways that the show could have concluded satisfactorily there, season 3 of THE BROTHERS ends on a cliffhanger. I suspect the producers knew they were on to a good thing by then.
Season 4 starts next week and...COLIN BAKER.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 5, 2024 20:49:17 GMT
I'm in!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2024 21:06:17 GMT
Derek Griffiths in the dock in this week's case in the CROWN COURT!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2024 21:46:03 GMT
Did Humpty set him up?
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 6, 2024 23:02:53 GMT
WHAT.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2024 23:06:28 GMT
A joke, based on Lord Griffith previously appearing on Play School with said Humpty
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 7, 2024 6:33:57 GMT
No no, I mean Derek in the dock? How, just how? He should never play a villain! He is The Derek!
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