On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 4:53 PM Kevin M. wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 8:08 AM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure that JK Rowling used "JK" rather than "Joanne" simply
>> because her publisher thought it was expedient for sales. Boys
I'm pretty sure that JK Rowling used "JK" rather than "Joanne" simply
because her publisher thought it was expedient for sales. Boys aren't (or
weren't) as likely to buy a fantasy book written by a female as written by
a male. I'm sure that as a largely unpublished author, she relied heavily
on her
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 3:13 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
>
> "DWTS" has been going through some cast changes recently--Cranky Brit
> judge Len Goodman announced last fall that he was retiring from the US
> version (with no hint if he will continue on the UK parent "Strictly Come
> Dancing") ...
>
Le
I picked up a Blu Ray set of the complete Miami Vice a few months ago, but
stalled in my planned re-watch. While the lighting might be a bit basic,
and the scripts not always amazing, the location still looks wonderful. I
guess it made such a difference actually having a series not being shot in
ei
just a faster-paced version of "QI" without the joke
> answers. (I'm only sort of kidding.)
>
> On Feb 27, 2023, at 2:18 AM, Adam Bowie wrote:
>
> There have been a couple of attempts in the past to bring Jeopardy to UK
> audiences, although I confess that
The Feb 23rd episode of The Town podcast with Matt Belloni is worth a
listen for a deep dive into this.
I come away wondering how on earth Disney managed to get as much as it did
when it was forced to sell the Fox regional sports networks as part of
their deal to take over other Fox assets. The wr
There have been a couple of attempts in the past to bring Jeopardy to UK
audiences, although I confess that they have all completely passed me by.
This feels like a significantly bigger play with Fry taking on hosting
duties. Beyond the odd presenting stint on Have I Got News For You, I can't
reca
I'm going support Phil Davis on this one.
I didn't watch all the BAFTAs but watched enough to know that even though
they shook it up this year, and finally, well into an age of socal media,
presented at least some of the awards live on TV, the awards were another
mess this year.
Davis didn't like
In the UK, ITC who made loads of action adventure series in the 1960s did
the same sort of thing. Here's a compilation of clips of two cars going
over cliffs that we use repeatedly. The shows they're from are in the
YouTube description.
https://youtu.be/V4S7WDhMlDI
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, 00:05 Kevi
I'm getting very jealous about this show which I'm keen to see.
Sadly, the Comcast-owned Sky seems to have lost interest in the
Comcast-owned Peacock here in the UK. Peacock has only ever been a tile in
the Sky service and not a stand-alone streamer. But if I go in today, they
seem to have a grand
My daughter chooses to believe the whole thing is an empty threat, like a
>> liquor store that puts up a broken video camera in an attempt to deter
>> shoplifting. I’m not convinced, but would like to start reading stories
>> about how many subscribers in Peru (or wherever the
I agree that it might be complicated to legislate.
On the one hand, you might just use an IP address and allow
hotel/rental/remote watching for finite amounts of time (say 30 days),
before you assume that the viewer was actually "resident" at this
non-"primary" address. But I easily think of insta
x27;s time to bring Michigan J. Frog out of retirement and use him
>>>> as a brand ambassador? (Although maybe make him a little less of a
>>>> stereotype than the WB did back in the day...)
>>>> On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 12:00:29 PM UTC-5 Adam Bowie wrot
I think that this was announced back on 12 January.
'“This price increase of one dollar will allow us to continue to invest in
providing even more culture-defining programming and improving our customer
experience for all users,” the company said in a statement.'
I guess that a $1 increase is sma
For what it's worth, the BBC showed the Peacock version of Traitors in the
UK too. So both parties are getting everything...
Adam
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 3:39 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
> The first reality comp in some time to get any sort of traction (as can be
> figured out since the streamers w
I suspect that I've read the same Puck pieces on Andrea Riseborough and "To
Leslie" that PGage has. I believe the film got a very limited UK release
back in October, but it completely passed me by at the time. But
Riseborough isn't an unknown in any way, at least in the UK. For instance,
she has a
Defy" era is
> over at the C-Dub and they're going after the older audiences on the
> smaller network stations that watch the talk shows and reruns.
>
> Mark Jeffries
> spotligh...@gmail.com
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:34 AM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
&
Now confirmed as being on the CW.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-cw-liv-golf-official-tv-deal-1235303963/
Reports suggest that the tournament is not paying for access, but it seems
unlikely that this was a big money deal, since basically every other
network has a relationship wi
It sounds like everyone's doing the contractual minimum with Clarkson right
now. Amazon had already ordered a third series of Clarkson's Farm, and I
suspect that'll go ahead. The Grand Tour just isn't what it once was, and
now it's reported that a celebrity run of Who Wants to be a Millionaire
whic
kept my
> disbelief unsuspended was that no one lost power during the storm.
>
> — Dave Sikula
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 16, 2023, at 5:08 AM, Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>
> I thought it was fine. But only really fine.
>
> The trouble is that I
I thought it was fine. But only really fine.
The trouble is that I don't think the structure works. Theoretically you
can watch the episodes in any order, with only the final episode being
necessarily watched last.
I watched them in the order that Netflix served them up, and frankly I
don't think
The charts in the UK have become largely meaningless in recent years. As
others have noted, there are relatively few actual sales, with most of the
chart positions driven by streaming.
The UK charts have a complicated set of algorithms to attempt to keep
things changing. One sale = 1, but you need
Michael McIntyre has a pretty decent following in the UK. His big Saturday
night show was filmed in large theatres like the London Palladium and
featured various bits like "Text All" where he took a celebrity guest's
phone and sent a bizarre message (designed to elicit a response) from all
that cel
ts that the explanation lies in Zas
>> wanting to use Westworld to start his own FAST (Free Ad Supported Streaming
>> Television) outlet. Of course FAST is a natural for the Discovery brand,
>> but Westworld, especially Season 1, seems less well suited for that than,
>> say
I think the key thing here is not just that they were cancelling a
previously renewed show, but that they'd just been about to wrap the second
season - so essentially everything's in the can already. Although the
studio that made it, Lionsgate, can shop the series around, you've got to
imagine that
Not available in the UK sadly.
And not the original British TV-movie, *Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the
Future* even though the ABC series basically remakes this in the first
episode. At the time, I was just excited that there was a TV show with some
proper production budgets doing grungy future-
As Kevin said, Paramount basically screwed up massively by selling the
rights for Yellowstone exclusively to Peacock. And however much Paramount
would like the rights back for its streaming service, Peacock is not about
to give up on having the streaming rights for the #1 cable show. It's
probably
>From what I can see, Zaslav should be directing his ire towards his own
executives who made the deals with Netflix if he's not happy with the
payment terms. It's not as though deficit financing is unusual in the TV
industry!
Under the old network model, a TV network would only pay a licencing fee
I loved S1 and am possibly even enjoying S2 more.
Objectively, it doesn't feel that a lot is happening, and yet it is. Every
character is well drawn, and there are laugh out loud moments. Are they
mostly all awful people? Certainly. But you're invested in them. It's all
obviously going to kick-off
I know this is normally a Kevin line, but Lucas blocked me on Twitter years
ago...
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 4:32 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
> Matt Lucas, the comedian who helped create the once-acclaimed, now
> attacked for racist, sexist and general "punching down" humor UK series
> "Little Britain,
I was convinced they'd just go with "HBO Discovery" or "Discovery HBO" -
simply on the basis of brand recognition alone.
While I'm sure someone somewhere has done some research that says that HBO
is considered too premium/male/old-skewing for some consumers, I'm not sure
I'd buy that. It just take
I see that they've come to an agreement...
https://deadline.com/2022/12/fox-directv-carriage-deal-nfl-world-cup-1235187833/
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 8:10 PM PGage wrote:
> I did not mean to suggest these should be of value to you, just that they
> do represent products of very high value to Fox
We are now reaching the edge of my knowledge in the arcane world of
televised darts.*
Premier League darts is a weekly tournament that airs on Sky Sports in the
UK. So no Jackie Oatley. Sky and ITV share PDC darts rights in the UK, with
Sky getting the really big World Championship.
Weird that it
at, 3 Dec 2022, 01:23 PGage, wrote:
> And now I am searching for how to watch UK Darts coverage…
>
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 5:14 PM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>> A lot of our commentators are effectively freelance and do different
>> things for different channels. Jacqui Oatley
A lot of our commentators are effectively freelance and do different things
for different channels. Jacqui Oatley used to do a lot of radio for BBC
Radio Five Live. These days she’s lead commentator on Sky Sports for the
Women’s Premier League. She sometimes covers the men’s Championship (level
bel
It would take quite a bit to persuade me that Shatner is actually that easy
to get along with...
Takei has been doing a bit of media in the UK to promote his musical which
is getting a London run in the New Year.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:49 PM Tom Wolper wrote:
> There has to be some lesson h
up.
Adam
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022, 15:29 Adam Bowie, wrote:
> I thought this was an interesting piece, on the World Cup facing off
> against the NFL. There's no competition of course, but there's also barely
> any overlap.
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/football/
The Athletic has a piece on Sunday Ticket rights agreements with Apple
dragging on:
https://theathletic.com/3907524/2022/11/18/nfl-sunday-ticket-apple-directv/?redirected=1
(for those who have access)
In essence, it sounds like Apple is after additional rights beyond those
which Direct TV had pre
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> (links)
> IYC.
> B
>
> Adam Bowie, in part, Nov 22nd:
>
>> These days, there are loads of good books and docume
yet to see any notice taken by Fox commentators of human
>> rights abuses in Qatar, the announcers in the England Match did note that
>> many Iranian fans booed the Iranian national anthem (unlike last WC, which
>> in my memory did show the anthems at the start, so far I am not
I note that the BBC, also a rights holder, didn't show the opening ceremony
on Sunday, instead explaining the background to the tournament and the
issues of migrant worker deaths and lack of human rights in the country.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening
I suspect that using a stenographer is exactly what they did. But I've got
to question why.
The entire concert's setlist will have been known up front, so they could
have pre-loaded all the lyrics to all the songs in advance.
Then the captioner just needs to do the equivalent of "copy and paste"
For the record he did indeed "shred" the money... Except he didn't.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63703831
He streamed himself appearing to shred the cash yesterday in a live video.
But in fact, the money was given to charity before he even sent his first
Tweet as he explains in a
This is easily my favourite Star Wars show. Yes - ahead of The Mandolorian.
It's quite possibly my favourite Disney+ show yet. Indeed it's easily one
of my best shows of the year.
I love the pacing of it, which absolutely is slower than usual. And it
takes time to reveal its plot. But this is what
I always tend to give writers the benefit of the doubt in these things.
Twitter being called a Town Square is a widely used (and bad) analogy. But
the "guitar lessons" bit is just too on the nose to be an accident, so yes,
it was probably "borrowed" from Gervais. Now whether the writer knowingly
re
Of note - ESPN branding has now gone away from the UK.
While we still see ESPN and ESPN+ bugs in the corners of screens when
ESPN-originated sports are rebroadcast here, "BT Sport ESPN" has now
rebranded as "BT Sport 4" (1-3 already existed).
An unsurprising move considering the channel's upcomin
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 3:41 PM M-D November wrote:
>
> Also, WHO THE F**K WAS ASKING FOR TWO AVATAR SEQUELS?!?
>
Not me!
https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/avatar-day-the-gambit-that-set-up-avatars-success.html
Read on to find out why :-)
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As someone who doesn't watch them, does this leave *any* of the DC shows on
the CW still in production after this season? Or are the new owners getting
out of them entirely?
I'm curious because of the news that James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking
over the DC Extended Universe, and whether this
I didn't mind the tip of the head to older Whovians. Tegan was very in "my"
Doctor's era.
Of note, all new episodes of Doctor Who outside the UK are now going to be
exclusively airing on Disney+ under a new BBC/Disney deal unveiled today.
No more BBC America for new episodes then. The return of Ru
2022 at 3:44 PM Steve Timko wrote:
>
>> I follow Cleese on Twitter and he is highly critical of the established
>> newspapers, especially over their lack of coverage of snooping into privacy
>> of celebrities. That must be a factor in this.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2
Cleese has sadly become something a caricature of his former self, so this
doesn't surprise me especially. And I'm sure the money is useful too...
That said, GB News is almost certainly still hemorrhaging cash, a bit like
their rival TalkTV (home of Piers Morgan in the UK). UK broadcasting rules
m
ack to the masters. I can't
remember if the show was made in an era where they shot on film but edited
on tape or not. If it was 100% film, then I think it's easier to remaster
instead of rebuilding episodes from scratch from the negatives.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 12:08 AM Adam Bowie wrote:
2 at 3:29 PM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>> By the sounds of things, Moonlighting could be coming to streaming soon…
>>
>>
>> https://twitter.com/glenngcaron/status/1577026664852176896?s=21&t=KyTLS52jDGCIaC8_fBcgKQ
>>
>> All will be revealed on Wednesday.
>>
By the sounds of things, Moonlighting could be coming to streaming soon…
https://twitter.com/glenngcaron/status/1577026664852176896?s=21&t=KyTLS52jDGCIaC8_fBcgKQ
All will be revealed on Wednesday.
(I’m hanging onto those DVDs though…)
On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 10:45, Adam Bowie wrote:
&g
They all showed up for the charity Zoom table read of an episode during
lockdown, so I suspect it'll just be a scheduling issue as much as anything.
I would be amazed if there aren't at least cameos.
The table read is well worth watching if you've not seen it. Pretty sure
Kevin did at the time.
Yeah - I was going to highlight the fact that the BBC (and other public
service broadcasters running the format) have managed for years without
commercial breaks. I'm sure that the BBC Studios team in LA who make the
show have UK folk there who can help with the structure.
The BBC durations do var
Not sure about ITV's reasoning for simulcasting the funeral on CITV - the
BBC's kids channels, CBeebies (pre-school) and CBBC are both running as
normal. These days of course, many kids will avoid coverage by going onto
YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ and so on...
You can see how Newsround (the BBC's lo
I see that it's now a Deadline "Exclusive" that Sky cut John Oliver on the
Queen.
Never let it be said that we don't break entertainment news here first...!
https://deadline.com/2022/09/sky-queen-elizabeth-ii-john-oliver-last-week-tonight-1235117174/
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at
ereof... *stiff upper lip*), so here'tis again:
> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/watch-america-john-oliver-is-officially-a-us-citizen-now-1273984/
> (link)
> B
>
> PGage, to Adam Bowie, in part, Sept 12th:
>
>> Maybe the most notable thing was that Oliver did not make
I'm curious. In the UK, Sky made a clear edit to remove the section where
Oliver talked about the death of the Queen. Although I suspect it was
removed due to cautiousness rather than anything Oliver said.
(Side note: On Thursday evening I was walking around the side of
Broadcasting House in Londo
I wish I could get Premier League football for $20 for the year! :-)
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 6:26 PM Tom Wolper wrote:
> True. The thing that makes me want to subscribe to Peacock is Premier
> League football and there are no commercials during game play. I set a
> timer and turn off the TV durin
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> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 7:56 AM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>> I'm curious about where people are watching this? Is it buried away on
>> Bri
I'm curious about where people are watching this? Is it buried away on
Britbox or something in North America? It didn't strike me as having
widespread international appeal.
That said, it's usually one of the most watched shows on BBC2. Looking at
yesterday's overnights, it was the most watched BBC
I've not had a great deal of experience with ad-supported services since I
tend to have workarounds for all the major ones in the UK. For example, I
use my Sky box to "download" ITV Hub shows rather than stream them -
allowing me to fastforward ad-breaks as it's old technology on a hard drive!
All
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 4:48 PM Brad Beam wrote:
> *From:* tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark Jeffries
>
> *>*Not directly related to Remarkable Television, another division of the
> French format factory Banijay that produces "Pointless," the BBC1
This move would surely highlight the beginning of the end of network
television. Sure, NBC saves some money on not having to produce five hours
of television a week, but they're basically saying that they can't make
anything worth watching any more for those five hours.
In the short term, maybe th
I think I've suggested before that there's no real money changing hands for
these UK NFL deals. I don't think the BBC paid for anything beyond the UK
production costs of their NFL coverage, and now I suspect the same is true
for ITV. I wouldn't even be surprised if Osi Umenyiora and Jason Bell's
sa
Surely Fred and Ginger!
https://youtu.be/Vk5HaWx_GcI
On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, 19:36 Tom Wolper, wrote:
> When I see “The Continental “ all I can think about is the Christopher
> Walken sketch on SNL.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:48 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <
> tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wro
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:46 PM Mark Jeffries wrote:
> However, I saw an Irish TV commercial for Disney+ featuring "Only Murders
> in the Building," which is not exactly family fare. I would guess that
> Disney+ in foreign markets is running "Dopesick," "Pen15" and "The
> Dropout," so they're al
7;s young demo channel.
>
> Mark Jeffries
> spotligh...@gmail.com
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:10 PM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, 17:42 Mark Jeffries, wrote:
>>
>>> Can I assume that "Love Island" is now on th
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, 17:42 Mark Jeffries, wrote:
> Can I assume that "Love Island" is now on the mainline ITV instead of ITV2?
>
> Mark Jeffries
> spotligh...@gmail.com
>
Nope!
It only goes out on ITV2 and is a big hit for the channel.
Instead this evening ITV has a conservative party leaders
Really enjoying this season with the alternative history feeling reasonably
believable with some smart contemporary parallels to today. Even the
occasional Apple product placement is fun.
Quite the cliffhanger in this week’s episode!
Adam
On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 05:50, Kevin M. wrote:
> Season
Amazon has just acquired one game a week in the UK for the Champions
League. This is the pan-European club soccer competition that airs on
Paramount+ (and occasionally CBS) in the US.
Prior to this deal, BT Sport was the home of all games. It's essentially
the second sports channel to Sky Sports i
An interesting piece from CNBC suggesting that the NFL is being slow in
finalising bids for the Sunday Ticket rights:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/24/disney-apple-and-amazon-keep-waiting-as-nfl-considers-sunday-ticket-offers.html
Disney, Apple and Amazon are all in the mix, but the NFL wants the
On Wed, 22 Jun 2022, 16:32 Marti Lawrence, wrote:
>
> I am looking forward to the one set in the Depression with Harrison Ford
> and Helen Mirren. The numbers are transposed in some of these posts - is
> the new show going to be called *1923*, or *1932*?
>
They've just decided to shift it to 192
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:52 PM PGage wrote:
> I’m not a follower of MLS, but I am interested in this model for
> presenting a sports league. My interest is in a couple of things:
>
> 1. Pricing: NBA League Pass is $30/Month, which is about $180 for the
> season. This is the premium package (no a
As I mentioned before, the excellent podcast series Running from COPS (As
much about Live PD as it is about Cops) may not on its own have any impact
on either Live PD or Cops' respective cancellations, but it concert with
other events it does highlight the injustice of these shows which despite
any
According to some recent Edison Research data they published, Conan's
podcast was the #26 biggest podcast in the US in Q1 2022.
That means that it should be very profitable in advertising terms. The
podcast industry broke $1bn in North America last year and is now projected
to reach $4bn by 2024.
Scientology?
Obviously there'd ordinarily be corporate synergy with a CBS show promoting
a Paramount movie, but my guess is that Cruise steers away from the Late
Show because of the platform that Colbert has given to those who speak
against scientology - from having Lawrence Wright talk about his
I think the issue here is that game shows don't really travel. Well - the
formats do, but they require localisation.
While "Bullsh!t the Game Show" may be *available* on Netflix in the UK,
whether viewers are actually watching it is another question altogether.
Howie Mandel may be a massively kno
eks won't be finalized till close to when they are...
>
> https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/nfl-schedule/creating-the-nfl-schedule/
> (link)
>B
>
> Adam Bowie, to David Bruggeman, Tom Wolper, Greg Diener and moi, in part,
> May 13th:
>
>> One small thing was
What I find amazing in all this is that surely most viewers are tuning in
for the game. I know when I decide to watch a sports event, it's on the
basis of the fixture/match-up/event/whatever. Certainly I might prefer one
commentary team over another. Indeed, I might actively dislike some
commentato
Bertie Carvel is probably better known as a stage actor and he is currently
appearing in the West End playing... Donald Trump no less... in a play
called The 47th. I am slightly tempted to go.
Adam
On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 3:39 AM PGage wrote:
> I also binged the season recently, and loved it. I
No spoilers, but "The Staircase" documentary series was one of the earliest
(in their current iteration) compelling true-crime documentary series to
air. I found it to be exceptionally good because so many of the
protagonists agreed to take part and give interviews over the years.
It's interesting
As others have intimated, and I've mentioned before, in the UK and much of
the rest of the world, there is only a single app - Disney+. They've age
gated their user profiles and while the fairly meaningless (to me) "Star"
brand sits alongside Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National
Geographic
The new Warner Media Discovery CEO David Zaslov has told his board that
he's making $3 billion in savings. Only so much of that will be
centralising accounts, HR and IT or whatever. And even cancelling
CNN+ probably didn't save that much since the cash will have been spent. So
a whole lot of progra
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 11:44 PM Tom Wolper wrote:
>
> Arlo, Lee, and Graeme Le Saux seem to get the marquee matchup each week
> whether it’s on NBC, USA, or Peacock. I’ve been hearing a lot more from
> Peter Drury and Jim Proudfoot recently.
>
>
Both Peter Drury and Jim Proudfoot are decent. Jim
I still remember a visit to New York in '00s which clashed with the North
London Derby - Arsenal v Spurs. I had to do a fair bit of searching to find
a bar that was showing the game live and was open at 7.30am since it was a
12.30pm k/o in the UK! It being New York, there was such an establishment.
ly CNN news summaries on a loop. I access television through
> YoutubeTV, mostly through my Fire at TV stick, so it feels just like
> streaming anyway, so I forget that is accessing cable, not true streaming.
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 12:21 PM Adam Bowie wrote:
>
>> The
The primary problem that CNN is facing is that what everyone would really
want from a streaming CNN (if they want it at all) would be - well -
regular CNN.
But right now, they just can't deliver that - not without you first buying
a cable bundle. The $1.01 (according to Variety back in 2020 -
http
Going off on a tangent about Netflix's "woes" I think there are a couple of
things worth considering:
- While password sharing isn't a new thing, I think that what Netflix has
come to realise is that once you top-out in a territory, as it basically
has in the US, then to continue to grow the marke
"Freevee" isn't the best name ever IMHO, and in the UK is only a couple of
letters away from "Freeview" which is the way quite a lot of people watch
TV (Digital Terrestrial - i.e. via digital from masts via rooftop
antennas). I foresee some confusion and bad jokes.
But I'll forgive them a lot beca
Like Kevin, I wanted a DVD set of this series a few years ago. It was
already long out of print in the UK, but I found a used set of the complete
series on DVD, actually traveling across London to the shop that had it.
Unlike Kevin I have yet to rip my DVDs for Plex/VLC purposes - but that is
on my
were prestige. But for some years now Netflix has been
> churning out a high number of really schlocky shows, as they don’t really
> want to be a boutique operation catering to the elite (though maybe Apple+
> does); Netflix wants everybody. If you had the next NCIS Netflix would be
> fight
There's a really interesting question now about what ends up on networks
versus their corporate parent's streaming service. Does anything deemed as
"good" make it to network TV anymore - at least outside of news and sport?
Perhaps the best comedies are still on network rather than streamers? But
i
There's basically nobody in the UK TV sector who thinks that this is a good
idea. The widely held belief it's politically motivated because the
government doesn't like the hard hitting news agenda of Channel 4 News.
In essence, Channel 4 costs the UK taxpayer nothing. It's not funded by the
Licenc
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 3:10 PM PGage wrote:
> He is selling out dates on his Euro-tour, but that is not quite the same
> as being back to where he was 5 years ago, which was close to the very top
> of his field.
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> I wouldn’t buy a ticket to see him, especially since he is apparently
> using h
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 3:10 PM PGage wrote:
> [I think I’m using that British term correctly]
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Very much so...
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I've got to admit that I love 'Would I Lie to You.' Both it and Taskmaster
are the only two comedy panel shows I watch religiously.
The key is in the casting of the teams, and not being solely reliant on
comedians. The UK version has actors, singers, presenters, newsreaders and
so on. It's always
I have to concur with Tom that this makes little to no sense.
I know that they have cinemas in New York and Los Angeles, so could it be
that they need MPAA certificates to get into even just those theatres? In
the UK, a few Netflix films get short cinema runs in some of the arthouse
chains (and I
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