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What do you watch on tv nowadays ?

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Astoness said:
ahh the prisoner...watched it when it first came out and could not understand it..then watched it again many years later and still couldnt get to grips with it and if i watched it now i would most likely still be none the wiser:Dhaving said that i was fascinated by it and about 4 years ago i visited portmeiron where it was filmed...totally surreal.... i kept imagining that great ball coming out of the sea to get me lol a programme well before its time and all i can say is "i am not a number":D

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One of the best TV programmes we ever watched was the original "All creatures great and small". Loved the programme and recognized many of the scenes from numerous Yorkshire Dales holidays. Particularly memorable was the scene in the round cow shed - been in it when we stayed on the farm.

Completely new remake now showing on channel 5 on Tuesdays at 9.00. Totally different from the original but just as brilliant
 
I was an avid Prisoner viewer never missed an episode when it was on . One of my sons bought me the box set years ago , I can't watch them though because I don't own a VCR player now or I would get the converted to disc
 
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I was an avid Prisoner viewer never missed an episode when it was on . One of my sons bought me the box set years ago , I can't watch them though because I don't own a VCR player now or I would get the converted to disc
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Loved it when it was first shown when I was a lot younger but now watching now doesn't have the same sense of surrealism.
 
its called progress and tv has changed an awful lot since we were kids...when i think of some of the programmes i watched that at the time was the bees knees i could cringe...such as man in a suitcase..at the time it did not register but years later when i watched re runs i realised that richard bradford who had many punch ups in the series always came out of them with a ciggie still in his mouth :D :D :D happy days though
 
Astoness said:
thanks for the reminder i missed tuesdays episode so will watch it on catch up and RIP dame diana rigg who passed away this month...she was my hero in the avengers

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I didn't know she'd died Lyn ! Another one bites the dust :pensive: Yes I agree, she was great in the avengers.
 
yes lynn died 10th of this month i think her part in the new all creatures great and small must have been her last

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I have been watching “All Creatures Great and Small” to look at the cars!

My mates and I are still trying to work out exactly which model that Riley is.

The only -ve point to me is that “Mrs Hall” is about 100 years too young, and far too attractive.

If you know the old BBC series, it is very difficult to depart from their version of Mrs Pumphrey, but I suppose that’s just me. I do think that all of the cast should get a pat on the back, purely for having the intestinal fortitude to take on stepping into such well known and loved parts. 10/10 so far, but don’t expect intellectual challenges, it’s not for that.

Also, I must add the archeological programme based on the work done for HS2, although Alice Roberts’ tortured vowel sounds are a bit annoying. The state of some of the remains exhumed shows just how hard life was for our ancestors in the jewellery quarter.

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BBC Two - Britain's Biggest Dig

In preparation for HS2, two massive digs uncover fascinating burials.
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Whilst watching tv programmes that interrupt all the advertisements I have noticed for some while how the adverts are transmitted with a louder volume than the programmes maybe it to wake you up?
Another peculiarity is new car adverts. Car sales are down it seems, maybe I see why. Most adverts feature cars that are left hand drive,the UK- apart from the odd moron who should not be in control of any vehicle anyway -drive on the left hand side of the road with right hand drive vehicles.
Another thing crossed my mid when watching a car ad and that was who on earth takes kids too school at four thirty in the morning?
 
Radiorails said:
Whilst watching tv programmes that interrupt all the advertisements I have noticed for some while how the adverts are transmitted with a louder volume than the programmes maybe it to wake you up?
Another peculiarity is new car adverts. Car sales are down it seems, maybe I see why. Most adverts feature cars that are left hand drive,the UK- apart from the odd moron who should not be in control of any vehicle anyway -drive on the left hand side of the road with right hand drive vehicles.
Another thing crossed my mid when watching a car ad and that was who on earth takes kids too school at four thirty in the morning?
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i am getting %^%$^&$&* fed up now of these insurance adds and delmeo bed toppers, every ten mins.
 
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I recently watched part of episode one of `The Duchess` on Netflix & it was appalling. You expect the odd f word on tv these days but this programme took swearing to a new level. Loads of f words plus a few c & t words thrown in. Why? This show was written by a woman, Katherine Ryan. Whatever happened to the `gentle sex` !
 
One of the reasons why I haven't watched TV for over 16 years and not much before then, Smudger. The quality of the productions is now rubbish. Kids no longer go to bed at 9:00pm nowadays. Is it any wonder why schools can no longer maintain discipline?

Maurice :cool:
 
Johnfromstaffs said:
I have been watching “All Creatures Great and Small” to look at the cars!

My mates and I are still trying to work out exactly which model that Riley is.

The only -ve point to me is that “Mrs Hall” is about 100 years too young, and far too attractive.

If you know the old BBC series, it is very difficult to depart from their version of Mrs Pumphrey, but I suppose that’s just me. I do think that all of the cast should get a pat on the back, purely for having the intestinal fortitude to take on stepping into such well known and loved parts. 10/10 so far, but don’t expect intellectual challenges, it’s not for that.

Also, I must add the archeological programme based on the work done for HS2, although Alice Roberts’ tortured vowel sounds are a bit annoying. The state of some of the remains exhumed shows just how hard life was for our ancestors in the jewellery quarter.

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Two - Britain's Biggest Dig

In preparation for HS2, two massive digs uncover fascinating burials.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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John, I watch many of the shows to look at the cars and scenery!
 
combat dealers. i love the swag. he buys and sells i once bought a cossack x amy combo. what a machine wish i still had it.
 
Bob Davis said:
I just wish that they would stop spoiling my enjoyment of the adverts with the odd pieces of programme.

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Ray T said:
Probably all of the antiques programmes (though the voice-overs are quite annoying), ufos, supernatural stuff -- but not the phony ghost hunt things, good movie thrillers, ancient Egypt and Agatha Christie, especially Poirot.
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me too i like buy it fix it flog it. but that womans voice-over grrrrr
 
I like Ghosts at 8.30 BBC1 (especially the caveman). It's much wittier than it first appears.

We've also been watching Frank Skinner and ? friend following Johnstone & Boswell's journey to the Western Isles. The scenery is magnificent and Johnstone's quotes memorable. It's on Sky Arts which we've just started receiving on our Freeview.
 
Anyone know the name of the show that was televised in black and white and started with the shot of a bus going round Piccadilly Circus in London ?
 
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