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Author:  Mr Russell [ Mon Sep 21, 2020 16:58 ]
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https://twitter.com/RussAwesome/status/ ... 1511195648



Author:  Kern [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 20:30 ]
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Round 1 five-pointer tonight! This is going to be a good week!

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Searchlights: could only be studio idents

Author:  Mr Russell [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 20:39 ]
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Kern wrote:
Round 1 five-pointer tonight! This is going to be a good week!

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Searchlights: could only be studio idents

I said that too, but I'd never have buzzed if I was in the studio.

Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 20:52 ]
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I got ‘Goitre’ on University Challenge!

Author:  Mimi [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 21:01 ]
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Does it hurt?

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 21:11 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
I got ‘Goitre’ on University Challenge!

Is it because of "Tangled"?

Author:  Malc [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 21:26 ]
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Haven't seen this one yet, but I got a 5 point last week
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(the 2 b oar knot two bee one)

Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 22:43 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Does it hurt?

Being this good? No.

Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 22:43 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
I got ‘Goitre’ on University Challenge!

Is it because of "Tangled"?

No.

Author:  Malc [ Mon Sep 28, 2020 23:04 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
Kern wrote:
Round 1 five-pointer tonight! This is going to be a good week!

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Searchlights: could only be studio idents

I said that too, but I'd never have buzzed if I was in the studio.




I got this one in one as well, but like Russ, might not have done it on one clue, definitely on two though!

Author:  Warhead [ Tue Sep 29, 2020 14:41 ]
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I accidentally started watching 'The Secret History of Writing' on BBC4 last night and, as usual with these things, I was totally hooked after about 5 mins.

I suppose it's pretty obvious that the invention of writing was one of the great leaps forward for mankind, but I hadn't really realised how far behind we were in Europe compared to the Islamic world until the invention of the printing press, nor that the west overtook the east in book production at this point because Arabic cursive writing couldn't be reproduced on a printing press.

Highly recommended.

Author:  Warhead [ Tue Sep 29, 2020 17:08 ]
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I forgot to mention. Right at the beginning of the programme the caligrapher who joint presents it makes a writing implement out of a bit of a Coke can taped to the end of a pencil. This implement can produce a line as fine as a thread of cotton, or about half an inch wide, or anywhere in between. It's hard to describe, but great to watch.

Author:  Mimi [ Tue Sep 29, 2020 17:12 ]
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Warhead wrote:
I accidentally started watching 'The Secret History of Writing' on BBC4 last night and, as usual with these things, I was totally hooked after about 5 mins.

I suppose it's pretty obvious that the invention of writing was one of the great leaps forward for mankind, but I hadn't really realised how far behind we were in Europe compared to the Islamic world until the invention of the printing press, nor that the west overtook the east in book production at this point because Arabic cursive writing couldn't be reproduced on a printing press.

Highly recommended.

This sounds great. Will pop it on the ‘to be watched’ list.

Author:  Kern [ Wed Sep 30, 2020 21:19 ]
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BBC 4:Black Classical Music - a forgotten history

Suzy Klein and Lenny Henry present an overview of black composers who, by not conforming to the stereotype of white, dead, and usually German, seldom appear in the repertoire and concert programme. Some interesting stories and the excerpts are fantastic. Definitely going to start digging for recordings! It's just a shame that it's not accompanied by a fuller performance of some or all of the music featured.

Author:  Warhead [ Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:43 ]
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I'll deffo have to give that a coat of looking at.

Author:  Bamba [ Thu Oct 01, 2020 13:07 ]
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Warhead wrote:
a coat of looking at.


+1 to perception?

Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Oct 01, 2020 13:32 ]
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Bamba wrote:
Warhead wrote:
a coat of looking at.


+1 to perception?


:D

Author:  Grim... [ Fri Oct 02, 2020 10:09 ]
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Or maybe -1, because you're only paying attention to the coat.

Author:  Zardoz [ Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:21 ]
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FAO MaliA:

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme ... ode-guide/

Author:  Kern [ Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:45 ]
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Welcome return of "Taskmaster" now on 4 so I can finally enjoy 1080 lines of it.. Several laugh-out loud moments, especially the vanishing challenge. Nice range of participants too. Daisy May Cooper is absolutely lovely, and Johnny Vegas is surprisingly endearing.

Author:  Kern [ Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:56 ]
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BBC 4: Inside Museums

Another charming wander-round-empty-museums series. Of the two I've seen, Cerys Mathews gives us a personal tour of St Fagan's but doesn't really go into too much detail whilst Emma Dabiri gives an excellent discussion of travel paintings in the Ulster Museum and what they tell us about how people saw the world in the past. Making it more of an essay within the confines of half an hour makes it a much stronger programme as a result. It also contains a stunning 19th century view of the Giant's Causeway.

Whilst these programmes are borne out of necessity, I do hope it's something that continues - wandering round museums with a guide works really well on TV.

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Oct 26, 2020 18:14 ]
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Watch roadkill on iplayer. Hugh Laurie was really good in it. Was an enjoyable 4 parter.

Author:  GazChap [ Mon Oct 26, 2020 18:32 ]
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Jem and I watched "Staged" on iPlayer on Saturday.

Utterly fantastic in every way.

Author:  Warhead [ Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:47 ]
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Did anyone watch The Trump Show on BBC 2?  It was a three part series, last part last night, although it’s on iPlayer as well. Both fascinating and frightening account of his election and time as POTUS, reminding us of some of the crap he’s got away with and how he managed it, despite a lot of people on his staff knowing that a lot of it is wrong, or batshit crazy.

What appalled me most was that his impeachment should have been successful. Everyone knew he broke the law, and his press chief openly admitted it on several occasions, and you could see on the faces of many in the senate that they were uneasy when he was acquitted.

In fact there were many occasions when the expressions of his staff gave away that all was not well.

I may have to watch the whole thing again, to remind me of the huge number of events and executive orders that should have been red flags at the time.

Author:  Kern [ Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:53 ]
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We now break for a public service message:

https://twitter.com/VictoriaCoren/statu ... 1025762304



Author:  Kern [ Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:56 ]
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So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.

Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Nov 09, 2020 19:55 ]
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Kern wrote:
So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.


I was looking to see where that was filmed, expecting somewhere Mediterranean. It's a set in Wales!

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Nov 09, 2020 21:57 ]
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Kern wrote:
So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.


Not had chance to watch it, but looking forward to it.

Author:  MaliA [ Sat Nov 14, 2020 11:40 ]
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Despite being a thinly veiled version of The Shopping Channel, Amazon Prime's "Oh Cook" with James May is quietly entertaining.

Author:  Kern [ Sun Nov 15, 2020 14:37 ]
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BBC 4:Storyville - Pepe the Frog

Feature-length documentary on a famous frog and its creator's troubles as it gets adopted by the far-right, including an in-depth look at the culture of 4chan. The artist, Matt Furie, comes across as charmingly naive and bewildered by it all. The discussions of 4chan and influencers and all the jazz made feel me very old and out of touch. It's one of those documentaries that captures and attempts to explain a piece of recent history and society, and as the Trump era creeps to its end helps in a way to understand how we got here. I don't think the inclusion of an actual wizard added anything to the story or argument, however.

I finished off my evening's Iplayer viewing with another episode of Canada's Drag Race which surprisingly feels so much better by not actually featuring Ru Paul.

Author:  Mr Russell [ Sun Nov 15, 2020 15:31 ]
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We love the main drag race (and the UK series) but couldn't get on with the Canadian version.

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:14 ]
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Watched ‘The Queen’ Gambit’.

I was hooked from the first episode. Really well written, and the lead actress is just brilliant.

Never knew chess could be so exciting

Author:  Kern [ Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:15 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
We love the main drag race (and the UK series) but couldn't get on with the Canadian version.


I've only seen the UK one so perhaps it's a bit of an unfair comparison but without Ru the other regular judges are far more prominent and engaging with audience and contestants alike. Of course, the BBC would want to show off bagging a big name as much as possible, even one sent to the depths of BBC iii .

Author:  Kern [ Mon Nov 16, 2020 9:20 ]
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Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Kern wrote:
So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.


I was looking to see where that was filmed, expecting somewhere Mediterranean. It's a set in Wales!


It seems they've set our reality in Inspector Morse's Oxford. That passage leads to the Turf, not the Observatory. And how deflated I felt when:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
the scholar was said to be at St Peter's but Lyra walks into a building covered in Magdalen crests


Ruth Wilson knocking Mrs Coulter out of the park, again.

And:
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The bench! Oh boy. Those new to the story won't know what a punch to the gut that lovely scene was

Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Mon Nov 16, 2020 12:18 ]
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Are we including Streaming TV in here?

If so, anyone with access to Apple TV+ should watch Ted Lasso.
It’s quite sweary but so good natured without being sickly.

Author:  Kern [ Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:52 ]
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Kern wrote:


Watched the remaining two episodes of this at the weekend. The Scottish one is ok, but the standout episode is the final one, covering the life and work of early 17th Century female artist Artemisia Gentileschi Her fascinating life story is covered allegorically in her paintings. Worth watching.

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:56 ]
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Kern wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Kern wrote:
So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.


I was looking to see where that was filmed, expecting somewhere Mediterranean. It's a set in Wales!


It seems they've set our reality in Inspector Morse's Oxford. That passage leads to the Turf, not the Observatory. And how deflated I felt when:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
the scholar was said to be at St Peter's but Lyra walks into a building covered in Magdalen crests


Ruth Wilson knocking Mrs Coulter out of the park, again.

And:
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
The bench! Oh boy. Those new to the story won't know what a punch to the gut that lovely scene was


We caught up yesterday. Mrs Coulter is on of my fav villains, wither her angry ginger monkey.

Author:  Findus Fop [ Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:11 ]
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KovacsC wrote:
Kern wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Kern wrote:
So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.


I was looking to see where that was filmed, expecting somewhere Mediterranean. It's a set in Wales!


It seems they've set our reality in Inspector Morse's Oxford. That passage leads to the Turf, not the Observatory. And how deflated I felt when:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
the scholar was said to be at St Peter's but Lyra walks into a building covered in Magdalen crests


Ruth Wilson knocking Mrs Coulter out of the park, again.

And:
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
The bench! Oh boy. Those new to the story won't know what a punch to the gut that lovely scene was


We caught up yesterday. Mrs Craster is one of my fav villains, wither her angry ginger monkey.


FEEX

Author:  Warhead [ Mon Nov 23, 2020 14:18 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
KovacsC wrote:
Kern wrote:
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
Kern wrote:
So glad that His Dark Materials is back. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter was as deliciously evil as ever, and Cittagaze is just as I imagined it.


I was looking to see where that was filmed, expecting somewhere Mediterranean. It's a set in Wales!


It seems they've set our reality in Inspector Morse's Oxford. That passage leads to the Turf, not the Observatory. And how deflated I felt when:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
the scholar was said to be at St Peter's but Lyra walks into a building covered in Magdalen crests


Ruth Wilson knocking Mrs Coulter out of the park, again.

And:
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
The bench! Oh boy. Those new to the story won't know what a punch to the gut that lovely scene was


We caught up yesterday. Mrs Craster is one of my fav villains, wither her angry ginger monkey.


FEEX


:hat:

Author:  Mimi [ Tue Dec 01, 2020 0:04 ]
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We’re watching Season 4 of The Crown. Gillian Anderson is Margaret Thatcher. I bet that’d cause confusion in the loins of a few people on here.

Author:  Kern [ Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:25 ]
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I had some concerns with the first series of "His Dark Materials" but am consistently being blown away by the current one.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Last night's scenes with Mrs Coulter and Lyra's daemons fighting, and Mrs Coulter's expression of agony and sense that she deserved it, was staggeringly emotional. Also the meeting between her and Mary, and her gradual realisation about how restrictive the church Magisterium is.

And of course I never thought that road safety is important for daemons too. Loved the shot of the evil golden monkey (who haunted my dreams when I first read the books and still don't like feeling any affection for when watching) strapped in safely.

Author:  KovacsC [ Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:37 ]
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Kern wrote:
I had some concerns with the first series of "His Dark Materials" but am consistently being blown away by the current one.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Last night's scenes with Mrs Coulter and Lyra's daemons fighting, and Mrs Coulter's expression of agony and sense that she deserved it, was staggeringly emotional. Also the meeting between her and Mary, and her gradual realisation about how restrictive the church Magisterium is.

And of course I never thought that road safety is important for daemons too. Loved the shot of the evil golden monkey (who haunted my dreams when I first read the books and still don't like feeling any affection for when watching) strapped in safely.


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I felt sorry for him looking out the window.

Author:  KovacsC [ Sat Dec 12, 2020 22:07 ]
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I am loving the Star Wars and Marvel tv announcements for the next few years.

Author:  Zardoz [ Sat Dec 12, 2020 22:26 ]
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That they’re on UK tv?

Author:  KovacsC [ Sat Dec 12, 2020 23:46 ]
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Disney +. Which is in the uk.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Jan 03, 2021 23:08 ]
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Bridgerton is good. Well shot, very colorful, well written enough, and everyone is beautiful. There's lots of stuff about getting married and things like that, and all super good.

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:28 ]
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One foot in the grave started 31 years ago today. The surprising thing is, Richard Wilson was only 54 when it first started. He always looked like a proper old geezer to me.

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:30 ]
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See also, Patrick Stewart being 47 when Star Trek started.

Guess I see bald guys as older.

Author:  myp [ Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:38 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
See also, Patrick Stewart being 47 when Star Trek started.

Guess I see bald guys as older.

He is really fucking old if that’s the case

Author:  Grim... [ Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:48 ]
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I was surprised to learn that ST:TNG is older than Red Dwarf.

In this country Red Dwarf aired first, but in my head they were around a decade apart.

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