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- Tue May 21, 2019 9:16 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Shows that changed stations
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3856
Re: Shows that changed stations
'Morecambe And Wise' moved from the BBC to ITV after 1977. 'It Takes A Worried Man' - early 80s sitcom by and starring Peter Tilbury - had its first two series on ITV, produced by Thames Television, its third series was on Channel 4. Similar to 'Is It Legal', 90s sitcom about solicitors, which also ...
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 2:30 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104930
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
But given that it's basically illustrating a soundtrack, it's not as if it could go that far off from what's already there, and as there isn't a teleplay available where we could compare camera moves and cuts and the like, any recreation is always going to be a partial compromise. Really? I thought...
- Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:28 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104930
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
It's being released in both black and white and colour, as I understand it, much like Power of the Daleks was, the only difference being you had to get the Blu-ray to get a colour version of the latter, whereas apparently both are intended to be available on each format. My understanding of The Macr...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:30 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Official Hi-de-Hi! Episode Times
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3025
Re: Official Hi-de-Hi! Episode Times
My understanding is that only two episodes of Hi-De-Hi on DVD were edited. Desire In The Mickey Mouse Grotto, Series 1 Episode 1, is, so I'm informed, missing about two and a half minutes' worth of Marty Storm singing a song. On With The Motley, Series 2 Episode 4, is missing about 34 seconds. The o...
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:07 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
Doctor Who was created as a Science Fiction Programme for the BBC Drama Department in 1963. All the paperwork, and notes from Sydney Newman speak of how it must be kept Science Fiction. The average person at the time may not have been able to go into great detail about it, but everyone knew the ess...
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:09 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Thunderbirds (2015) First viewing
- Replies: 110
- Views: 14924
Re: Thunderbirds (2015) First viewing
Is there a broadcast date known for this yet?
- Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:22 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: What was the first television sitcom?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1126
Re: What was the first television sitcom?
'Pinwright's Progress' was first broadcast fortnightly from 29 November 1946 to 16 May 1947. The Radio Times Comedy Guide describes it as "British television's first authentic half-hour comedy series". Don't know whether any other country got there before though.
- Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:02 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
ISTR that the primary reason for so many of the "Earthbound" stories in the 70's was budget-led. It was much easier to set stories on present day Earth, which pleased the bean-counters. I suppose the same argument can be used for the modern era, which might help explain why there are more periphera...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:29 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
These would be the Earth-bound/orientated stories based mostly in the UNIT era and eventually abandoned as being ultimately quite dull... But which lasted in one form or another for several years. Didn't entirely fade out until the mid 1970s, and even after that most companions joined the Doctor vo...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:48 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
For start the part-time companion thing just doesn't interest me... Contrast Clara with Ian and Barbara. Ian and Barbara's first encounter with the Doctor and their subsequent travels had the real feeling of people uprooted from their lives and being exposed to something new and almost impossibly d...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:09 pm
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
I was referring to the original Ninth Doctor. Cornell was the big cheese for the Shalka Doctor, and his planned arcs etc. The webcasts, novels and the comics would all have had to follow his ideas. Had the television show with Davies not emerged when it did, Doctor Who would have been Paul Cornell'...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:56 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
And this man was very nearly the showrunner? No, not as far as I'm aware. Don't think he was ever in the running. Without any prior experience of running a programme, there's no evidence that he would have been a likely candidate. However, Doctor Who's ratings appear to be steadily falling. Of cour...
- Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:59 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
As stated earlier, many people merely go along with what the media tells them, and the media said that this was a major hit, whereas the reality in 2005 was somewhat different. The hype machine and gushing and fawning went into overdrive, and today it's taken as gospel that Davies' relaunch in 2005...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:20 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
There was nothing wrong with the ratings for the old series, Sci-Fi TV was never a massive audience puller, but the ratings for the old series were very good considering, and according to Phillip Hinchcliffe, in a recent interview, the bosses were more than happy with it's performance, as Hinchclif...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:09 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
- Replies: 2174
- Views: 273182
Re: The All-Purpose Current Doctor Who (2005-) Thread
The so-called deeper and more emotional aspect of Nu-Who, seems to consist of The Doctor's loneliness and the companion having family problems or the loss of a family member, not much else really, Only if you concentrate solely on the material that was recorded about nine or ten years ago, and even...
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:08 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: It Ain't Half Un-PC Mum...
- Replies: 98
- Views: 13583
Re: It Ain't Half Un-PC Mum...
It's being denied a repeat because the BBC don't think it's good enough - that seems to be the truth of it As was revealed on Facebook it was planned for a repeat in 1999, after having had some judicious editing done. So 15 years ago it was considered good enough, the more awkwardly of-their-time m...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:55 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Happy birthday to Olaf Pooley! 100 today!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1299
Re: Happy birthday to Olaf Pooley! 100 today!
Here's a short feature and interview with him from American television. Posted by the copyright holder, I think, so there shouldn't be any problems putting a link in here for it. I'll leave it to the mods anyway.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=9467049
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=9467049
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:45 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: Blake's 7 to return on Syfy Channel
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4091
Re: Blake's 7 to return on Syfy Channel
Kate Barnes, the Executive Producer at Microsoft's EMEA TV, denied it was happening about a month ago, and said they had no plans to do any Blake's 7.
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/blakes-7/27 ... ox-rumours
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/blakes-7/27 ... ox-rumours
- Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:29 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Dad's Army turns 45 years old today
- Replies: 58
- Views: 7439
Re: Dad's Army turns 45 years old today
I think that may be being a little unfair. I know Robin can sometimes get somewhat enthusiastic on some of the political issues exemplified in popular culture, but I wouldn't dismiss all of his analysis of it out of hand. If nothing else, it's at least interesting, to me anyway. There probably is a ...
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:33 am
- Forum: Current Television
- Topic: BBC set to end credit squeezing
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3578
BBC set to end credit squeezing
The BBC has announced it's going to stop credit-squeezing its programmes after viewer complaints, and try other systems.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-07- ... r-backlash
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-07- ... r-backlash
- Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:02 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: The Enchanted Castle BBC 1979 DVD Release
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1803
Re: The Enchanted Castle BBC 1979 DVD Release
It was definitely shown around the teatime slot on a weekday, both on its original broadcast in 1979 and on its repeat, which I think was in 1981.
- Thu Jun 27, 2013 11:38 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Timeslip in colour??
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6503
Re: Timeslip in colour??
The three Troughton episodes that exist as 35mm film recordings of 625 video are probably the best-quality 60s DW we've got, and after cleanup and VidFIRE get us as close to the original VT look as it's ever likely to be possible to get. There are more than three, I think. Wheel in Space 6, Dominat...
- Fri May 31, 2013 7:16 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Ronnie Barker/Gerald Wiley
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3064
Re: Ronnie Barker/Gerald Wiley
As well as The Two Ninnies, is it true that NTNOCN did another sketch savaging The Two Ronnies that included the line "I write material under a well-publicized pseudonym"? That was from a deleted section of the same sketch. Although they did also do another Two Ronnies parody, The Three Ronnies, wi...
- Thu May 30, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104930
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Here's a review which has some comparison screen grabs.
http://www.tellytechblog.com/2013/05/do ... n-dvd.html
http://www.tellytechblog.com/2013/05/do ... n-dvd.html
- Thu May 09, 2013 6:19 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 16428
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
The OED 's first example is from the FidoNews bulletin board in 1989. Not sure where Mike's getting his information from. I can't remember where I heard it, but here's a similar/better example: 1917 letter to Winston Churchill uses 'OMG' If you'd used 'OMG' in any drama set before the 1990s, the de...
- Wed May 08, 2013 1:12 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 16428
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
Indeed, because the characters in 'I, Claudius' wouldn't even have been speaking in English historically, so giving them dialogue in that language inevitably means it's effectively a translation, which can allow any kind of expression or figure of speech, as long as it conveys the intended meaning. ...
- Tue May 07, 2013 1:34 pm
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 16428
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
That doesn't alter the fact that they were written to be spoken with the pronunciation of the time, which is why some of Shakespeare's rhymes don't seem to work very well (or at all) to our ears. Pronounced as per Early Modern English, the words *do* rhyme. If it matters that a character in a TV dr...
- Tue May 07, 2013 9:57 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 16428
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
Shakespeare's plays weren't intended to be written or staged as naturalistic recreations of their settings, so the parallels with most TV programmes aren't very strong there.
- Mon May 06, 2013 7:40 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour etc
- Replies: 159
- Views: 16428
Re: How about a Mausoleum Consultancy service - Endeavour et
Shouldn't this be in the Current Television section, as it seems to be more about dramas written now?
I've heard, although don't watch it so couldn't confirm, that Downton Abbey has some very jarring anachronisms in its dialogue, whether terms or figures of speech.
I've heard, although don't watch it so couldn't confirm, that Downton Abbey has some very jarring anachronisms in its dialogue, whether terms or figures of speech.
- Wed May 01, 2013 9:40 am
- Forum: Archive Television
- Topic: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
- Replies: 683
- Views: 104930
Re: Doctor Who Classic Series and DVDs
Bit of news about further releases. The Moonbase, with animated episodes, is due out on 21 October and The Tenth Planet on 18 November.