Anything worth watching this year?
I tried looking up the schedules/magazines but they seem to be filled with pointless celebs :-\
I quite like Pointless Celeb editions...
Apparently the new series of Black Mirror will be on Netflix from December 28th.
It's a shame that top class Christmas telly isn't a thing any more - probably because you can find great stuff anytime now. Back in the day it was the only time you'd get great recent(ish) films and the rest of the year was so crap, this period felt like... well, Christmas . We used to get the double-size Radio Times (which was BBC only back then) and TV Times at Christmas only and the family would spend ages marking out their must-sees.
I haven't got a scooby what's on this year - scheduled TV is dying
If you like a ghost story this time of year, there's a one-off half hour spooky tale called The Dead Room on Christmas Eve, BBC 4, written by Mark Gatiss and starring Simon Callow.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-04/the-dead-room-christmas-2018-mark-gatiss-bbc4-ghost-story-cast-plot-trailer-maida-vale-filming-location/ (https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-04/the-dead-room-christmas-2018-mark-gatiss-bbc4-ghost-story-cast-plot-trailer-maida-vale-filming-location/)
The new adaptation of Watership Down for BBC One/Netfilx is due to start airing/streaming December 22nd.
Quote from: von Boom on 04 December, 2018, 04:23:11 PM
The new adaptation of Watership Down for BBC One/Netfilx is due to start airing/streaming December 22nd.
saw trailer for that - top cast involved.
WD is a great one for freaking out kids - hey little ones, wanna see a cartoon about bunny rabbits? well strap in!
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 December, 2018, 04:32:34 PM
Quote from: von Boom on 04 December, 2018, 04:23:11 PM
The new adaptation of Watership Down for BBC One/Netfilx is due to start airing/streaming December 22nd.
saw trailer for that - top cast involved.
WD is a great one for freaking out kids - hey little ones, wanna see a cartoon about bunny rabbits? well strap in!
If it doesn't have that fucking awful song in it, it'll have one up on the old version.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 December, 2018, 04:10:00 PM
It's a shame that top class Christmas telly isn't a thing any more - probably because you can find great stuff anytime now. Back in the day it was the only time you'd get great recent(ish) films and the rest of the year was so crap, this period felt like... well, Christmas . We used to get the double-size Radio Times (which was BBC only back then) and TV Times at Christmas only and the family would spend ages marking out their must-sees.
I haven't got a scooby what's on this year - scheduled TV is dying
Another take on TV scheduling of times gone past...
They'd put some half decent stuff on in the summer months, to try to tempt people back inside instead of spending their days getting fresh air outside.
During the late autumn, winter and early (wet) spring they'd bung on all the stuff they couldn't face scheduling during the summer, knowing they had a captive audience.
Come christmas, they'd suddenly remember there were competing channels and rush to make a grab for all those viewers.
From the sounds of it, things have changed a bit since then?
Quote from: Andy Lambert on 04 December, 2018, 04:13:55 PM
If you like a ghost story this time of year, there's a one-off half hour spooky tale called The Dead Room on Christmas Eve, BBC 4, written by Mark Gatiss and starring Simon Callow.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-04/the-dead-room-christmas-2018-mark-gatiss-bbc4-ghost-story-cast-plot-trailer-maida-vale-filming-location/ (https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-04/the-dead-room-christmas-2018-mark-gatiss-bbc4-ghost-story-cast-plot-trailer-maida-vale-filming-location/)
That is very welcome news indeed.
I thought 2013's
The Tractate Middoth was the last time we'd ever get A ghost Story for Christmas.
Yeah, I really do hope A Ghost Story For Christmas becomes a regular thing again...
Quote from: Dandontdare on 04 December, 2018, 04:10:00 PM
It's a shame that top class Christmas telly isn't a thing any more - probably because you can find great stuff anytime now. Back in the day it was the only time you'd get great recent(ish) films and the rest of the year was so crap, this period felt like... well, Christmas . We used to get the double-size Radio Times (which was BBC only back then) and TV Times at Christmas only and the family would spend ages marking out their must-sees.
Same. Those bumper Radio Times were a sure sign the school holidays were just around the corner. VHS rentals gradually killed the thrill of the big Christmas Day movie (although I relied on a Christmas taping of
Back to the Future for many years before buying a proper version), and nowadays, everyone throws their gifted DVD's into the mix and we decide between us what'll be the best thing to watch while the food goes down.
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 04 December, 2018, 03:34:07 PM
I quite like Pointless Celeb editions...
I watched it, but didn't recognise anyone, except AA, which confirms the pointless bit...
Quote from: JamesC on 04 December, 2018, 04:02:10 PM
Apparently the new series of Black Mirror will be on Netflix from December 28th.
yea!!! :D
War of the Worlds is supposed to be on but there hasn't been many updates for a while.
Orville s2 also starts on the 28th.
Quote from: Smith on 09 December, 2018, 06:43:51 AM
Orville s2 also starts on the 28th.
Not knowing what you're actually talking about, I now have images relating to this in my head:
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/4/28/1430233611311/Keith-Harris-and-Orville--009.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f88ac17cd73e12ed5668eccc35ebd71f)
Season 2 of Orville,which is...never mind...
Quote from: Smith on 09 December, 2018, 10:12:43 PM
Season 2 of Orville,which is...never mind...
Oh no - I got that you were talking about a programme called Orville, which had gone into its second series - it's just the only Orvilles I'm aware of are the green duck that couldn't fly and the USA brothers who could!
There's got to be at least one Star wars film on though, right? It's not Xmas without a Star Wars film.
Back in the day it was only the thought of watching ESB that got me through the festive season. And Raiders.
When I say in work 'it's not Xmas unless Star Wars is involved somehow' they look at me blankly. For the youngsters its all about how much tat they can get for their cash. The true meaning of Xmas (ie our lord and saviour Ben Kenobi) has truly been lost.
You know its Xmass when you see Kevin on tv. 😊
Quote from: Smith on 09 December, 2018, 06:43:51 AM
Orville s2 also starts on the 28th.
Surprised they could raise the budget for a second season- McFarlane's hair and teeth alone cost the same as 26 episodes of Voyager.
*Glad to hear that its back, I quite enjoyed the first season.
Quote from: Link Prime on 11 December, 2018, 01:35:04 PMSurprised they could raise the budget for a second season- McFarlane's hair and teeth alone cost the same as 26 episodes of Voyager.
But they suppply warmth and renewable energy for millions.
Quote from: ABCwarBOT on 08 December, 2018, 05:03:42 AM
War of the Worlds is supposed to be on but there hasn't been many updates for a while.
A proper one? not a Scientology one?... I've been listening to this on Audible and enjoying the unabridgedness (word?) of it.
Meantime... looks like there's not much else (Black Mirror aside)unless Netflix is holding out on us >:(
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 10 December, 2018, 05:17:17 PM
When I say in work 'it's not Xmas unless Star Wars is involved somehow' they look at me blankly. For the youngsters its all about how much tat they can get for their cash. The true meaning of Xmas (ie our lord and saviour Ben Kenobi) has truly been lost.
Have to say I'm with your colleagues here. Don't remember Star Wars being a notable part of Christmas telly (obviously it was a key component of Christmas presents right up until I was oh, 43.)
And let's be honest, Christmas telly has always been crap. Yes, you used to get a couple of decent films but at the price of all your favourite normal programmes being displaced by Festive Shite for ten days. God I hate Christmas University Challenge.
Pointless Celebrities is fine because it's the only quiz show that doesn't seem to water things down compared to the normal version.
I hate watered down celebrity versions of quizzes. On Celebrity Mastermind, Mylene Klass's specialist subject was 'Sex In The City - Season 2'!
I was surprised as she's not an airhead by any means.
Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 December, 2018, 02:51:25 PM
Have to say I'm with your colleagues here. Don't remember Star Wars being a notable part of Christmas telly (obviously it was a key component of Christmas presents right up until I was oh, 43.)
Did teaser adverts like this not send you into a frenzy of excitement in the days leading up to Xmas?
https://youtu.be/uq60Mj51nw4
Yep, and Star Wars toys. Every Xmas since the release of the first film. Not nativity toys, not baby Jesus toys - Star Wars toys.
Xmas is about Star Wars. :D
Otherwise, yes - TV at Xmas is pants. But that was ok when all three films had come out, and TV stations were fighting between them about when to show Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. Best Xmasses ever!!! :D
The Betamax copy of Star Wars I taped off the telly* featured the old STV logo with a bit of holly in the corner of the picture that flashed up to signify adverts were about to happen/had just happened.
Don't think anyone at Cowcaddens thought Wookies were especially Christmassy; the two big channels just rinsed the hell out of any films they bought and they saved the newest/biggest ones for Christmas. For around six or seven years**, a Star Wars film would have qualified as at least one of those.
* Which we watched 120 times - official!
** As TordelBack's discussed a few times, by around 1990, Star Wars was old hat. Couldn't give the shit away. It took a conversation with one of my brother's friends - the first hardcore Star Wars fan I ever knew - to make me realise it was actually a great film, rather than just another stupid thing I remembered fondly from a time when I couldn't be completely trusted to go to the toilet by myself. That and Alan Martin's memorable re-christening of the slacker demographic as Generation X-Wing, in Planet Swerve, positing that George Lucas had at least as much influence on the developing psychology of our 3-year-old selves as Kurt Cobain had on our 16-year-old selves.
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 11 December, 2018, 04:22:01 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 11 December, 2018, 02:51:25 PM
Have to say I'm with your colleagues here. Don't remember Star Wars being a notable part of Christmas telly (obviously it was a key component of Christmas presents right up until I was oh, 43.)
Did teaser adverts like this not send you into a frenzy of excitement in the days leading up to Xmas?
https://youtu.be/uq60Mj51nw4 (https://youtu.be/uq60Mj51nw4)
Yep, and Star Wars toys. Every Xmas since the release of the first film. Not nativity toys, not baby Jesus toys - Star Wars toys.
Xmas is about Star Wars. :D
Otherwise, yes - TV at Xmas is pants. But that was ok when all three films had come out, and TV stations were fighting between them about when to show Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi. Best Xmasses ever!!! :D
I certainly associate
Raiders with Christmas TV, but not
Star Wars. I'm sure I would have received Palitoy / Kenner toys for christmas, but the earliest presents I can recall right now are a computer-compatible tape player, the 1985 2000AD and Judge Dredd annuals and the Titan editions of the Ballad of Halo Jones (not all in the same year).
Christmas – a time for quality Star Wars content.
(https://i.imgur.com/bzYMDhd.jpg)
I have never seen the Star Wars holiday special, apart from clips. I didnt even know about it back in the day.
(Oh, I never saw the two Ewoks films either, although I do remember reading about the first in a magazine.)
From what I've read, that may be a good thing. But ... I'm still curious.
Quote from: Frank on 11 December, 2018, 06:53:01 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 11 December, 2018, 06:42:03 PM
Christmas
The Holidays, you racist bigot.
(https://thecoggintoboggan.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/fest.jpg?w=620)
Zog is on Christmas Day! 👍
Quote from: Mardroid on 11 December, 2018, 06:46:30 PM
I have never seen the Star Wars holiday special, apart from clips. I didnt even know about it back in the day.
(Oh, I never saw the two Ewoks films either, although I do remember reading about the first in a magazine.)
From what I've read, that may be a good thing. But ... I'm still curious.
I wanted to see Caravan of Courage when it came out (though don't think it actually made it to any cinema I could have gone to). In the decades since I've seen the Holiday Special and both Ewok films. Possibly worth seeing. Once. And never again.
I do believe Return of the Jedi is being shown on Christmas Day
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 December, 2018, 08:27:02 AM
I do believe Return of the Jedi is being shown on Christmas Day
YEEESSSSSS!!! :D
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 11 December, 2018, 06:42:03 PM
Christmas – a time for quality Star Wars content.
(https://i.imgur.com/bzYMDhd.jpg)
No, what have you done? I'm melting! MEEEELLLLTTTIIIINNNGGG!!!
reference to another awesome xmas film of bygone days
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 11 December, 2018, 06:42:03 PM
Christmas – a time for quality Star Wars content.
I'd quite go for that lineup this year!
Clambake is a great Elvis (secret shame: I love Elvis movies), we could have Christmas Dinner during the Holiday Special (
never again), then
Just William, out for a stroll during Rod'n'Dusty and back in time for
Dick Barton and Cartoons, then boardgames, cans and a snooze until
Only When I Laugh, which I loved ("I am H-A-P-P-Y, I am H-A-P-P-Y, I know I am, I'm sure I am, I am H-A-P-P, H-A-P-P...").
Ah for a whole day to play with my Imperial Troop Transporter behind the couch... "There's one, set for stun!".
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 December, 2018, 12:52:59 PM
I'd quite go for that lineup this year! Clambake is a great Elvis (secret shame: I love Elvis movies), we could have Christmas Dinner during the Holiday Special (never again),
In the words of Tomas de Torquemada, Grand Master of Termite: "Never forget, never forgive, never for fun"
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/77/e7/3577e7034282272a70c430f01cfe0b4e.jpg)
You missed out Top of the Poops... with DLT and Mike Reid, neither of whom are dodgy in anyway, no sir, not while the lawyers are reading this.
I did, and I meant to include it! Christmas Day (pre-recorded) TotP was great, especially when fronted by half of D-Wing!
That Troop Transporter said "Send for Stan!"
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 12 December, 2018, 04:23:20 PM
That Troop Transporter said "Send for Stan!"
It really did. Amazing piece of kit though - could carry at least 9 figures (depending on how many you jammed in the back, but still rather more than I had at the time...), opening doors, swivelling turret and so many sounds! Albeit largely unintelligible. If only it had been in the bloody movie!
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 December, 2018, 05:51:21 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 12 December, 2018, 04:23:20 PM
That Troop Transporter said "Send for Stan!"
It really did. Amazing piece of kit though - could carry at least 9 figures (depending on how many you jammed in the back, but still rather more than I had at the time...), opening doors, swivelling turret and so many sounds! Albeit largely unintelligible. If only it had been in the bloody movie!
Didn't immediately know what you were talking about, but I think I recognise it now I've had a look (http://4lomkuss.com/the-itt-history-and-restoration/).