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What do you watch on tv nowadays ?

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The best to me is when on these antiques shows they come in with a solid silver small dish and say they are down sizing when you know they are selling it for the money:joy::joy:
 
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Edifi said:
The best to me is when on these antiques shows they come in with a solid silver small dish and say they are down sizing when you know they are selling it for the money:joy::joy:
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I want to keep it really but I'll take the highest bid :joy:
 
Watced a programme on Freeview tonight, on Channel 7 BIRMINGHAM TV. It was called Streets of Birmingham which took us round the streets of Digbeth and Deritend, with a local historian telling us all about the history of buildings and factories in the area. Very interesting.
 
Did anyone see the so called football match on TV last night.
Wonder if the players had Harry Redknaps JAM ROLLY POLLYS at half time:laughing::laughing:
 
Edifi said:
The best to me is when on these antiques shows they come in with a solid silver small dish and say they are down sizing when you know they are selling it for the money:joy::joy:
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But the nice thing about those shows they always go nuts for Birmingham silver, makes a Brumie feel proud. I used to go into the silver and gun quarter all the time to pick up Jaguars for service, some talented folk up that way.
 
On a Saturday nights watching Match of the Day on BBC and ITV Football focus it always gets me thinking ,With all their knowledge on football ,Why have these So called top class players and Pundits never tried to be Managers of a football club. Is it because they don't get the sack so easily from the TV. ;);)
 
Noticed that the hard drive in my TV was nearly full so started thinking about deleting recordings.

I have 58 episodes of Fools and Horses and haven't watched one since recording them some years ago.

25 episodes of 'Top Gear' and since they are repeated continually on 'Dave' they can go because again I haven't watched any of my recordings and now deleted them.

78 episodes of 'Dad's Army' and I haven't watched any of these. They are continually repeated so the delete button can be pressed ... or maybe not ... :rolleyes:

That left 'Fools and Horses' and with nothing worth watching on TV last night I decided to watch the first episode I recorded about 7 years ago.
Rodney decides to date a young police women and says he is bringing her home to the flat ... Del-Boy and granddad panic and start hiding dodgy stuff ... brilliant ...

I'm keeping 'Fools and Horses' ... I had forgotten just how good they were and will now start watching them ...:D
 
You can't beat fools and horses absolutely brilliant, I also love Goodnight Sweetheart with Dervla Kirwan and Nicholas Lyndhurst
 
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YouTube is really good now for showing complete series from years gone, at the moment I'm watching all the prisoner episodes (Patrick McGoohan) the TV now is pretty poor I'm not surprised that people are still turning to the old classics especially the old British comedy shows
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strange i am watching that right now,
 
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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

lyn
 
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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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i came from brum here to see them filming it . never thought then i would be living here.1567021055948.png
 
I remember those spheres that controlled people, weird. I like the Mini-Moke cars, we had then in the Fire Service, except they were usually manufacturers green colour.
Thinking of a Mini Moke car I have never forgotten the show It's A Knockout. I believe it was in Blacpool - the north east anyway - where four team members had to remove the wheels from a Moke and carry the car a short distance. The legs of one of the team, at the front of the car, became totally bowed. It looked so funny; I have never forgotten it.
:eek:Last of The Summer Wine, usually early evenings on Freeview has now been relegated to second place whilst La Vuelta d'Espana takes place. The only other things I may watch are Open All Hours or Porridge which is late in the evening a very relaxing before sleep. I have always been of the opinion that macabre or violent programmes late in the evening are not conducive to a good nights sleep.
I have not been to Port Meirion, in Wales but I have been to the Port Meirion pottery factory in Longton. ;) I have some of their dinner plates.
 
So I read that many like to watch PBS I watch it because it airs English shows here in the states, but along with that are other things worth while, Any shows/series by Ken Burns "The Civil War" along with "Jazz", "Vietnam War", "Prohibition", "Baseball" and "National Parks, So he has a new show coming Country Music" I watched a promo for it over the weekend and can't wait to watch, when one looks back at country music its roots are very English along with others, any one of his series is a good watch, I feel like I have been entertained and edumuchcated, Ha Ha.
 
A few years, over 20 in fact, since I was last in Port Meiron. An interesting architectural experiment, but I much preferred the surrounding countryside to mingling with the hordes of tourists. As for The Prisoner, it's all on YouTube, but looks a bit contrived by todays standards.

Maurice :cool:
 
Well on the principal beaches here, where the visitors want to go, you cannot take dogs from May - September. You can walk then, on a lead on paved areas adjacent (and clean up any deposits). This is principally because little - and some bigger - children like to dig in the sand. There are less sandy beaches, usually less accessible, where you can take dogs.
We took our dogs, we have had many, sometimes as many a four, in past years to a local beach but as there are 110 steps down there and back up again, we go there less now - specially when temperatures high.
 
I'm increasingly finding it difficult to find anything new to watch on TV. I seem to be tuning in to repeats all the time. I stopped watching the Peakies about 2 series ago, didn't like the new Poldark (loved the original until my husband said it was an anagram of Old Krap - am I allowed to say that?) Still watched it though. Had high hopes for Sanditon but found it quite flat and even Who Do You Think You Are seems to have lost its magic. I switched on to watch Heir Hunters the other day and was amazed at how little content and much padding it had. Michael Buerk tries to talk it up but it doesn't work. I started watching repeats of Time Team only to find that it was on a loop and the same episode comes round quickly. Same problem with MASH. I'm trying to think of the last programmes which held my attention - I think it was the one about Richard III and the follow up about the young man with the same deformity who proved that Richard could have done all the things he's supposed to have done. I've now realised that this post is about what I don't watch rather than do so perhaps someone could make some suggestions. Polite ones please!

PS. Frinton has lovely sandy beaches and has a designated dog beach (owners allowed too).
 
I watch a few of the 'Walter presents' programmes mostly foreign with sub-titles, not bad stories although a bit over the top on the sex scenes.
I liked the Swedish 'Wallander' series but Branagh's version doesn't work for me.
 
How about Fawlty Towers that was a must watch, the episode when a good looking Aussie girl stayed and he got caught in the wardrobe, or the time a group of German's stayed and he kept saying don't mention the war, 7.25 Sunday nights Ha Ha.
 
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