Author Topic: A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread.. (Read 286914 times)

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #775 on:** 17 September, 2016, 01:47:51 am »

Naked Attraction: a new nadir in broadcasting.

T42 · « **Reply #776 on:** 17 September, 2016, 10:56:42 am »

Designer stubble in a series set in times when Arafat was taken as a misspelling of Ararat. Tut tut. And on a diplomat's chin, no less. No worse than 60's make-up on Cleopatra, I suppose, but daft all the same.

Bledlow · « **Reply #777 on:** 17 September, 2016, 10:34:18 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 16 September, 2016, 02:12:10 pm

Quote from: Bledlow on 16 September, 2016, 12:41:31 pm
Quote from: PeteB99 on 13 September, 2016, 02:55:32 pm
From Saturday night

Oh no, not Gunvald
He was worried about being typecast, & wanted to do more of other things.

So . . . what about Steinar?

PeteB99 · « **Reply #778 on:** 19 September, 2016, 11:21:22 am »

Quote from: Bledlow on 17 September, 2016, 10:34:18 pm

Quote from: rafletcher on 16 September, 2016, 02:12:10 pm
Quote from: Bledlow on 16 September, 2016, 12:41:31 pm
Quote from: PeteB99 on 13 September, 2016, 02:55:32 pm
From Saturday night

Oh no, not Gunvald
He was worried about being typecast, & wanted to do more of other things.

So . . . what about Steinar?

Tormund Giantsbane as a copper.

Maybe Jon Snow will be next.

Andrew · « **Reply #779 on:** 19 September, 2016, 07:52:56 pm »

Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)

Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references

On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight' thread or summat.

geraldc · « **Reply #780 on:** 19 September, 2016, 08:34:06 pm »

Tonight's University Challenge climax was awesome. Total drama.

citoyen · « **Reply #781 on:** 26 September, 2016, 12:15:16 am »

Just seen a teaser trailer for the new series of Humans on C4.

Squee!

T42 · « **Reply #782 on:** 26 September, 2016, 09:26:33 am »

Quote from: Andrew on 19 September, 2016, 07:52:56 pm

Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)

Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references

On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight' thread or summat.

Didn't think much of it. "Homages" there might have been but most of it was derivative and a lot of it just tired. The monster was plain daft - and why should there have been just one? Maybe if they do a second series the buggers'll come popping out of the wall like bed-bugs.

One funny bit: why did the kids' bike headlamps have thick orange filters? Did they maybe use LEDS in triplets - you could see 3 separate glowing points in there - and put the filter on to make them look more 1980s?

Ruthie · « **Reply #783 on:** 10 October, 2016, 10:05:45 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 26 September, 2016, 09:26:33 am

Quote from: Andrew on 19 September, 2016, 07:52:56 pm
Stranger Things IS very good. Quite excellent TV. Superb soundtrack (as mentioned, though Joy Division perhaps not quite right) - the synth stuff is very evocative. Some of it's references/ homages are name checked (Risky Business, the soundtrack, Tangerine Dream - check) others obvious (Stand By Me, Goonies) and others just visual (80s electronics - the walkie talkies are SO cool!, ape hangers, banana seats... and those lights!!)

Edit: and Altered States sensory depravation, ET... it's loaded with references

On top of that, it really is accomplished tele. Deserves a mention in the 'what's on tonight' thread or summat.

Didn't think much of it. "Homages" there might have been but most of it was derivative and a lot of it just tired. The monster was plain daft - and why should there have been just one? Maybe if they do a second series the buggers'll come popping out of the wall like bed-bugs.

One funny bit: why did the kids' bike headlamps have thick orange filters? Did they maybe use LEDS in triplets - you could see 3 separate glowing points in there - and put the filter on to make them look more 1980s?

I just watched the first episode of this. I'm hooked!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #784 on:** 12 October, 2016, 09:06:00 pm »

Ringo Starr has tweeted that he did an online personality test thing to see which Beatle he is - and it said he was John.

Someone tweeted him back to say "could be worse, you could be Ringo."

T42 · « **Reply #785 on:** 13 October, 2016, 08:21:22 am »

Tim Hall · « **Reply #786 on:** 13 October, 2016, 02:03:42 pm »

I've finally got round to listening to Val McDermid's reworking of The Kraken Wakes, which was broadcast under the Dangerous Visions banner on R4 a few weeks back. It's quite good. Anyhoo, our heroes are holed up in a flat in London, floodwater rising all around, gangs of marauders roaming the streets. There is a threatening knock at the door, accompanied by gruff threatening voices. "Put the chain on" says Phyl (played by ~~Debbie Aldridge~~Tamsin Greig) and cocks her shot gun, much to the amazement of her partner.

For some reason an image of Charlotte floated into my mind.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #787 on:** 13 October, 2016, 04:33:58 pm »

Someone on R4 has just been introduced as an "astrobiologist".

Nice work - if you can get it.

T42 · « **Reply #788 on:** 13 October, 2016, 05:06:43 pm »

He must study all those rams, bulls, twins, virgins, etc.

Legs · « **Reply #789 on:** 13 October, 2016, 05:08:09 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 October, 2016, 04:33:58 pm

Someone on R4 has just been introduced as an "astrobiologist".

Nice work - if you can get it.

Was that Dr Lewis Dartnell? (an old school friend of mine)

Salvatore · « **Reply #790 on:** 13 October, 2016, 05:48:01 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 13 October, 2016, 05:08:09 pm

Quote from: Wowbagger on 13 October, 2016, 04:33:58 pm
Someone on R4 has just been introduced as an "astrobiologist".

Nice work - if you can get it.
Was that Dr Lewis Dartnell? (an old school friend of mine)

I don't know who Wowbagger heard, but the one I heard on R4 recently was Zita Martins.

Pingu · « **Reply #791 on:** 14 October, 2016, 10:36:31 pm »

1979: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1nP3HK2GhNPsDJ5zjlKMMH5/10-iconic-album-sleeves-of-1979

Ruthie · « **Reply #792 on:** 14 October, 2016, 10:46:23 pm »

Blimey. Hilda Ogden's died $:-\$

T42 · « **Reply #793 on:** 15 October, 2016, 08:31:24 am »

It's OK, she's allowed to.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #794 on:** 15 October, 2016, 09:15:53 am »

Quote from: Ruthie on 14 October, 2016, 10:46:23 pm

Blimey. Hilda Ogden's died $:-\$

I thought that happened over thirty years ago, which is the price you pay for taking Notsensibles lyrics as gospel.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #795 on:** 15 October, 2016, 05:39:20 pm »

No,she went to be housekeeper for Dr Lowther.

Legs · « **Reply #796 on:** 18 October, 2016, 02:40:28 pm »

Life imitating art

citoyen · « **Reply #797 on:** 18 October, 2016, 03:14:59 pm »

My son has developed an interest in The Wire and is currently working his way through the box set.

Watched a bit of it last night with him. Bloody hell, it's good though, isn't it? I mean, I'd forgotten just how good it is.

The episode I saw last night was the one where Omar testifies against Bird. Just brilliant...

https://youtu.be/oYj7q_by_2E

T42 · « **Reply #798 on:** 18 October, 2016, 05:22:20 pm »

Funny, that. We were given the boxed set, but after the first episode - a bunch of people we couldn't identify with and larded with vile language - we dumped it. We'd probably give it more of a chance now, but back then it

Legs · « **Reply #799 on:** 18 October, 2016, 05:38:21 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 18 October, 2016, 05:22:20 pm

Funny, that. We were given the boxed set, but after the first episode - a bunch of people we couldn't identify with and larded with vile language - we dumped it. We'd probably give it more of a chance now, but back then it

Wot, The Wire or Still Game?