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- Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:12 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Michael Apted (1941 - 2021)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 359
Re: Michael Apted (1941 - 2021)
a big flaw in the "Up" series is that it needed more girls. And non-whites. I assume the gender/race balance was different when the series started. I have looked at my own primary school group photos There are 28 boys and 11 girls, 31 white 8 non-white in the class and the school was very near Brix...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:10 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273117
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
The screen ratio made 4K seem to be the original format to me.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:25 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Tanya Roberts (1955-2021)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 214
Re: Tanya Roberts (1955-2021)
It is now reported that she is not dead, but very seriously ill in hospital.
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:31 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Misremembered titles
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1838
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:21 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1128
Re: Just published - 'A THRILLER in Every Corner'
The banner is showing now.
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:18 am
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: John le Carré 1931 - 2020
- Replies: 2
- Views: 190
Re: John le Carré 1931 - 2020
Well his cameo in The Night Manager was shown in the news bulletins so he was a TV performer too.
This has been a bad month in a very bad year. RIP John.
This has been a bad month in a very bad year. RIP John.
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:49 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Worst-remembered line in TV?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1077
Re: Worst-remembered line in TV?
Yes it was the character Roger Walker in the 2016 Swallows & Amazons that wanted to be a cabin boy. I wonder if that line was deliberate I don't remember it from the 1974 version.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:30 am
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: Teletext still alive !
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1744
Re: Teletext still alive !
I assume you mean linear broadcast TV as the internet provides distance seeing (Tele - vision).
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:02 am
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: Teletext still alive !
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1744
Re: Teletext still alive !
I'm sure that when the "red button" service started they went on about the improved graphics, but all we get in that respect now are the weather maps.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:38 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - 12 Dec 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 487
Re: Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - 12 Dec 2020
Yes, it always was a bit non-intuitive and this new format makes it even worse. I got to the state when I bookmarked each group when I joined.
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:52 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - 12 Dec 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 487
Re: Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - 12 Dec 2020
It is a private group so I would advise anyone wanting it to search for Kaleidoscope on there to join first. I'll try a link though https://www.facebook.com/groups/kaleidoscopearchive
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 9:54 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Oldest TV advert still running?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1056
Re: Oldest TV advert still running?
I'm sure it has been re-shot, but the Coco Cola "Holidays are coming" advert must have clocked up a good few years.
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:52 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Coming soon on Freeview Channels
- Replies: 255
- Views: 43890
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: Teletext still alive !
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1744
Re: Teletext still alive !
I believe so. I do remember 200 b/sec Datel modems in the early 1970's
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:19 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Coming soon on Freeview Channels
- Replies: 255
- Views: 43890
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:32 am
- Forum: Other Media
- Topic: The "cod dry" - does it still exist?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 591
Re: The "cod dry" - does it still exist?
I have never seen one but I would suspect this sort of thing would be in the scripts for "The xxxx that went wrong" plays/TV shows"/ Farndale plays etc..
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:19 am
- Forum: Radio and Spoken Word
- Topic: The News Quiz
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1702
Re: The News Quiz
I had hoped to go to be in the audience when Angela was presenting (as I was for her "You can't take it with you" series) but, as you say, the present conditions prevented that.
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:06 am
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: Teletext still alive !
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1744
Re: Teletext still alive !
I have a feeling I read that the digital TV system used here, though it could have supported it, unfortunately due to the way it has been implemented it now can't.
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:41 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "The Other One" other ones!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1010
Re: "The Other One" other ones!
If I remember correctly (having watched these at the time of transmission) they seemed too much unlike Hugh & I and we wanted more of those, not what we were given, which didn't seem as funny. I also have a slight memory of seeing them both in Summer season at the Pier Theatre in Southsea, which was...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:03 am
- Forum: Tech Ops
- Topic: Ampex Tape Care - and it cares for you too!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 415
Re: Ampex Tape Care - and it cares for you too!
Very similar to what we were trained to do at the computer centre I worked at in the late '70s to early '90's, only our 1/2" tape (3M not Ampex) was in rigid plastic circular boxes.
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:50 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: "The Other One" other ones!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1010
Re: "The Other One" other ones!
At least with Fawlty Towers it was a case of stop when the ideas the writers were passionate about ran out and not prolonging it with new episodes just written to keep it going and people saying "it's not as good as it used to be".
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The box that says “the adverts are coming”
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1123
Re: The box that says “the adverts are coming”
I have also seen these on the top left of the picture when a film insert is coming up. Both are carry overs from the cues dots at the end of film reels in the days before platters and towers to show the whole film in one, to cue cinema projectionists to change over to the next reel on another projec...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:54 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Top of the Pops "recording over old film" article in the Daily Mail
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1341
Re: Top of the Pops "recording over old film" article in the Daily Mail
Well the BBC have said that Eastenders was restarting "Filming" so they don't seem to mind. Of course they used the term "Telerecording" for both film and VT.
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: Ashes to Ashes
- Topic: Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 782
Re: Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
Watching the Cybernauts trilogy Blu Ray in her memory I was pleased that in the advert break in the New Avengers story Diana appeared in a British Airways advert.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:24 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Talking Pictures - more 'No Hiding Place' episodes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2371
Re: Talking Pictures - more 'No Hiding Place' episodes
As there are no off air sound recordings the audio over jumps can't be fixed as with spliced Dr Who prints and the missing frames interpolated, unfortunately.
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:23 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Talking Pictures - more 'No Hiding Place' episodes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2371
Re: Talking Pictures - more 'No Hiding Place' episodes
The jumps were at the start and just before an advert break. I would suspect damage when the collector was projecting (bad threading of the projector at the start snapping the film and cement splices which lose at least one frame).
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:18 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Question-- Audio quality on film productions vs Videotape productions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 824
Re: Question-- Audio quality on film productions vs Videotape productions
In theory magnetic tape would have a better frequency response and signal to noise ratio to optical film sound which would account for some difference. On the other hand I can tell the difference between location video sound and location film sound on film telerecordings so there must be more to it ...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:11 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Two untraceable tv plays
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1443
Re: Two untraceable tv plays
Thanks for this, very interesting and good to know that ATV archive recovery is in progress. Kal guise doesn’t Even list a strand called A Play for Sunday, but you’re quite right, The Crib was an early evening number. Fellow poster Billy Smart usually knows what the BFI is up to and he brought to t...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:47 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Talking Pictures - more 'No Hiding Place' episodes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2371
Re: Talking Pictures - more 'No Hiding Place' episodes
With that first talk on the recovered body it could almost have been an episode of "Quincy ME".
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:46 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Is it all over....?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 11828
Re: Is it all over....?
I'd buy it!