LewieP wrote:
Surely Netflix is going to buy one of the mega conglomerates before long.
Impressively sized 'underdog', aren't they?
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:13 ] |
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LewieP wrote: Surely one of the mega conglomerates is going to buy Netflix before long. Easier said than done. Netflix are huge. Time Warner market cap - $61.2bn Netflix market cap - $42.6bn |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:14 ] |
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Surely Netflix is going to buy one of the mega conglomerates before long. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:15 ] |
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LewieP wrote: Surely Netflix is going to buy one of the mega conglomerates before long. No doubt they will merge to exploit synergies and pursue innovative ideas. And that. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:17 ] |
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That's some real blue-sky thinking, they'd better touch base before they miss their window of opportunity. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:17 ] |
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LewieP wrote: Surely Netflix is going to buy one of the mega conglomerates before long. Impressively sized 'underdog', aren't they? |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Sep 14, 2016 19:40 ] |
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Netflix runs largely on Amazon infrastructure already, so it might be a bit weird if they buy them. |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Sep 14, 2016 19:41 ] |
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Or a really good idea for Amazon. Not sure which. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Sep 14, 2016 19:49 ] |
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Mr Russell wrote: That's some real blue-sky thinking, they'd better touch base before they miss their window of opportunity. Let's run this up the flagpole and see who salutes |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 23:59 ] |
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Just finished Stranger Things. That was a bit fucking good! |
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| Author: | asfish [ Fri Sep 16, 2016 7:18 ] |
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Not watched it yet but Atlanta is getting very good reviews. Was also surprised to see that Limitless has been cancelled  Thought that was a good show, especially compared to some of the weaker stuff like Lucifer and Quantico which have been renewed.
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| Author: | devilman [ Sun Sep 18, 2016 22:27 ] |
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Since August, I've gone through the four seasons of Person Of Interest on Netflix three times  Hopefully they'll add the fifth and final one soon. I noticed it was mentioned earlier in this thread, but it's definitely worth a look if you've not tried it yet. I find it makes good background TV too as there is so much talking done into earpieces and phones, you can follow an episode without actually watching it. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Sun Sep 18, 2016 22:54 ] |
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You've watched them all three times? In a month? Wow! |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Mon Sep 19, 2016 13:41 ] |
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I've seen Halt and Catch Fire mentioned a couple of times. I wanted to check, as sometimes my judgement is way off. I'm 4 episodes in. Joe MacMillan. Clearly meant to be a flawed character, perhaps like Don Draper. But is he also meant to be a complete joke? Because Draper = usually awesome, often nasty, occasionally stupid. But MacMillan = usually nasty, often giving the illusion of awesome off the back of speeches which are, in fact, pompous nonsense. Because if he is meant to be a bit of a joke, and these 'visionary' speeches are, in fact, knowing, then me and this show are on the same level and we'll get along fine. But if he's actually meant to be someone who should be rooted for and venerated as some visionary genius, we're going to struggle. Also, the closeness of his eyebrows doesn't help. Nor does the fact he sounds like Peter peter Serafinowicz playing an Ameroocarn. |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Sep 19, 2016 17:39 ] |
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Nope, joe is definitely a bullshitting arse at times, but sometimes has great ideas. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 14:19 ] |
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New series of Lucifer started today, which seems remarkably fast. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 14:22 ] |
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Grim... wrote: New series of Lucifer started today, which seems remarkably fast. You may have accidentally pressed the fast forward button. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 14:36 ] |
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MY SIDES |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 14:39 ] |
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What is Lucifer? I tried Googling it but just keep finding descriptions of evil in Christianity, on film (?) Also, where is it shown? (Say Netflix, because I don't have the other one. Amazon thing.) |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 14:51 ] |
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Amazon prime in the uk. Or pirate it. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 14:59 ] |
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Mimi wrote: What is Lucifer? I tried Googling it but just keep finding descriptions of evil in Christianity, on film Turns out the hot dude from Miranda is Satan, and he's solving murders in Chicago. As you do. Mimi wrote: Also, where is it shown? (Say Netflix, because I don't have the other one. Amazon thing.) You can watch it in the same place you watched series 3 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:01 ] |
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Ha, you mean Miranda the British comedy series? Brill. I'll keep an eye out for it or see if Russell can find a way to obtain it perfectly legally - Ed. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:08 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Russell can find a way to obtain it perfectly legally - Ed. I'm fairly confident that's possible. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:17 ] |
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I'm glad you revealed that one of the things we watched was Brooklyn Nine Nine, rather than the Fifty Shades film, Dirty Dancing and Footloose. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:18 ] |
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I mean, thanks for keeping that on the down low. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:20 ] |
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Ah, I hadn't seen that. Awesome-most awesome. Did we actually watch all of the 50 shades film? It was awful. I thought we turned it off. Also, there's no sex in it, which is good because if the fusligue is that cringey, can you imagine the sec scenes? |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:32 ] |
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Mr Russell snuck back down after you went to sleep and watched the rest. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:32 ] |
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I hate cringey fusligue - really ruins a good BDSM film for me. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:37 ] |
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Squirt wrote: Mr Russell snuck back down after you went to sleep and watched the rest.  Did you even try to read the book? It was unreadably bad. The fusiglue (dialogue) is more stunted than a 6 year old's report of the day the went to the park. At least in the film she didn't keep saying 'oh my' (nobody says that) and telling me about the limestone interior of the office block for 30 pages. It makes Belinda Blinked read like Milton. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:46 ] |
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The sequel where it's written from his point of view is apparently even worse. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:55 ] |
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Heh. On a list of "People's point of view I have no interest in seeing things from"... |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 15:56 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Squirt wrote: Mr Russell snuck back down after you went to sleep and watched the rest. Did you even try to read the book? It was unreadably bad. The fusiglue (dialogue) is more stunted than a 6 year old's report of the day the went to the park. At least in the film she didn't keep saying 'oh my' (nobody says that) and telling me about the limestone interior of the office block for 30 pages. It makes Belinda Blinked read like Milton. I've never read any of it, but it's one of the two books that Mrs Squirt has hurled across the room in a rage at it's awfulness ( the oher being The Notebook ). |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 16:00 ] |
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I remember once listening to a group of three women discussing the books after they'd all read what I think was the third in the series. They each declared that they were actually in love with the character, and how he made them feel all giddy, and how well written it was (even though there was a pretty open consensus between every other human on earth that it was awfully written). A couple of weeks previously I'd been chatting to one of these girls and she said how much she loved reading. I recommended One Hundred Years Of Solitude and The Name Of The Rose. She described 50 Shades as the best book she'd ever read, so I think we just liked different genres. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 16:02 ] |
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Squirt wrote: Mimi wrote: Squirt wrote: Mr Russell snuck back down after you went to sleep and watched the rest. Did you even try to read the book? It was unreadably bad. The fusiglue (dialogue) is more stunted than a 6 year old's report of the day the went to the park. At least in the film she didn't keep saying 'oh my' (nobody says that) and telling me about the limestone interior of the office block for 30 pages. It makes Belinda Blinked read like Milton. I've never read any of it, but it's one of the two books that Mrs Squirt has hurled across the room in a rage at it's awfulness ( the oher being The Notebook ). It's one if only two books I've thrown away (the other being The Lovely Bones, which I just hated). |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 16:36 ] |
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The UK's fastest and best selling paperback of all time, folks. Let's not forget that the UK also thinks that Mrs Brown's Boys is the best sitcom of the 20th Century. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 16:53 ] |
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Worse than that they thought it was good idea to vote Tory and leave the EU. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 17:40 ] |
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markg wrote: Worse than that they thought it was good idea to vote Tory and leave the EU. Nah, Mrs Browns Boys is worse. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 17:49 ] |
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Grim... wrote: The UK's fastest and best selling paperback of all time, folks. Let's not forget that the UK also thinks that Mrs Brown's Boys is the best sitcom of the 20th Century. I know the publisher, not well, but I have met her a few times. She is a good friend of one of my good friends. Boy, has she made a lot of money. Last I heard it was somewhere in the region of £50m
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 18:01 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: markg wrote: Worse than that they thought it was good idea to vote Tory and leave the EU. Nah, Mrs Browns Boys is worse. Well I suppose I can't really comment since I haven't ever watched an episode of Mrs Brown's Boys and for that matter we haven't actually left the EU yet so for all I know they might all be right. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 22:00 ] |
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Hooten and the Lady clunked a bit but was OK. |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 22:10 ] |
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Just downloaded that for tomorrow night. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Tue Sep 20, 2016 22:13 ] |
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I think it has legs. You won't feel let down |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:39 ] |
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Watched an episode of Lucifer last night and really enjoyed it. Not sure if it was the first episode or pilot that we watched, but it was great all the same. Gary from Miranda as Lucifer was a bit slow to settle in my head as I kept expecting him to dance badly or something. Also he's not as attractive in this, I think because he's supposed to be a bit more edgy and less lovely. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 16:38 ] |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back today whoooooo |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 16:47 ] |
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Whoooo Terry! |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 19:36 ] |
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Grim..., What happened to season 6 of GoT on Plex? |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 19:39 ] |
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MrChris wrote: Grim..., What happened to season 6 of GoT on Plex? Hang on, it's there on PC but not Xbox. Odd |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 19:58 ] |
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MrChris wrote: Grim..., What happened to season 6 of GoT on Plex? I have no idea what you are talking about. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Sep 21, 2016 23:28 ] |
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MrChris wrote: MrChris wrote: Grim..., What happened to season 6 of GoT on Plex? Hang on, it's there on PC but not Xbox. Odd Xbox? You have a PS4... |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:53 ] |
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MaliA wrote: I think it has legs. You won't feel let down It's light, fairly forgettable entertainment that hit the spot. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Thu Sep 22, 2016 20:53 ] |
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Mrs K: "Theon will be crowned king by Colin the octopus" |
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