Bavarianbrit
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Am I alone in getting all riled up at the lack of imagination of TV programmers who keep on churning out trite c**p with "Great British" in the title. Soo booooring.
Great British bla bla
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AN DU RU FOX
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If the brain dead masses keep watching the crap they will keep pumping it out! britains got what? no it ain,t matey britains got diddly squat!!
Bavarianbrit
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I feel there is a lot of lost the plot showing here compared to other countries that just get on with things and refrain from naval gazing liberalism, IMHO..
I do despair about British television. Go back a few decades and although there were only 4 channels, the variety of programmes was, it seems much better. We have literally dozens to choose from now depending on who you subscribe to, yet there's still nothing to watch!
Tonight's a perfect example, on the five main Channels around 8pm, three are cookery programs that the people who are watching them are probably eating a Takeaway.
They may have banned the brodcast of Westerns in Turkey but sometimes "movies4men" is you friend!
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McKenzie
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You don't know how lucky you are here. Just back from NZ & even our children gave up watching tv there. Unbelievably awful with no ad-free programmes & if you try to watch a film the frequency & length of the ads increases as it (slowly) draws to a conclusion. Fortunately there was still a video/dvd rental shop where we were so there were occasional trips to it; the whole thing seemed a bit eccentric & quaint.
The film we all enjoyed the most was 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople', which I can highly recommend as a family film with hunting in it. Curiously, it was a buddhist relative who recommended it for the boys & she was right.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016) - Rotten Tomatoes
The film we all enjoyed the most was 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople', which I can highly recommend as a family film with hunting in it. Curiously, it was a buddhist relative who recommended it for the boys & she was right.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016) - Rotten Tomatoes
Speaking of films though, it's obvious that the Hollywood writers have all got mental blocks and can't come up with anything original. There's any amount of super hero films starring Batman, Superman or whoever. Then they combine them with multiple super heroes. Or they'll do a remake of a classic film, usually not half as good as original. It's getting harder and harder to find a good, original movie to watch. Once in a decade you get a Saving Private Ryan or something that's actually worth going to the cinema to watch.
Had to pay my TV license yesterday
I really resent it
I'm not interested in the vast majority of the female centric tripe that comprises much of what is on offer from the BBC
The only reason I paid it it is because failing to do so is a criminal offence which i could do without come renewal time
I really resent it
I'm not interested in the vast majority of the female centric tripe that comprises much of what is on offer from the BBC
The only reason I paid it it is because failing to do so is a criminal offence which i could do without come renewal time
Just watched the trailer
Made me laugh
I work 4 days a week with excluded kids who come to my place to do bushcraft etc
The main child character reminds me of a few of them
Hornet 6
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Tonight's a perfect example, on the five main Channels around 8pm, three are cookery programs that the people who are watching them are probably eating a Takeaway.
Something wrong with the second (of two) documentaries about Steve McQueen
Neil.
Three women that I see on television that I can't abide...Theresa May and bloody Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc aka "Mel and Sue". Stupid gurning faces interspersed with a fixed rictus grins like fibre glass skeletons on a Pirates of the Caribbean ride. And Packham. There used to be so many talented presenters on television in my youth yet the current lot bar some welcome exceptions like Neil Oliver prove the adage that whilst cream rises to the top so does s**t also float.
reloader54
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The solution is pretty simple really isn't it, don't watch it, I haven't watched tv for almost 18 years. give it a try, It will improve your life no end.
I see people addicted to tv drivel and you could be forgiven for thinking they were mentally ill, the more they watch the more they become detached from actual reality.
some would say it's intentional.
I never really found Allo Allo or its topic that funny.
As some know here I work in France. A work colleague in the early 2000s had a elderly client who who asked if whilst he was visiting Paris if his party would pass anywhere near Avenue Foch. As he'd been there once before, as a young man.
He was in his eighties then and wanted to see it, and what would be only for the second time, with his wife who was accompanying him, before he died,
My colleague said that they could if he wanted to drive along it. Certainly. And then asked him if he'd lived there or maybe worked there? What he'd been doing there? What was its significance to him. And his reply, "Allowing the Gestapo to relieve me of my fingernails."
As some know here I work in France. A work colleague in the early 2000s had a elderly client who who asked if whilst he was visiting Paris if his party would pass anywhere near Avenue Foch. As he'd been there once before, as a young man.
He was in his eighties then and wanted to see it, and what would be only for the second time, with his wife who was accompanying him, before he died,
My colleague said that they could if he wanted to drive along it. Certainly. And then asked him if he'd lived there or maybe worked there? What he'd been doing there? What was its significance to him. And his reply, "Allowing the Gestapo to relieve me of my fingernails."
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Years ago I was the Deer Keeper at a property where we did quite a bit of TV/movie filming. One of the producer's once told me that when she started out everything they did had to be 110% or it would never sell, massive sums of money were invested in pilot programmes most of which never made it, now you could film your dog asleep in front of the fire on an iPhone and someone will buy it so there is no point in even trying, it's just a race to the bottom.
I was told that NZ is like the UK was in the 1950s. I hope their weather forecasts are better than ours were then.
John Gryphon
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After reading your replies Gents I have had an Eureka moment
We may need crowd funding to do a pilot programme all about the people and their entwined lives....... of the members of a Hunting Forum.....THE SD FORUM!
So many ORIGINAL scenarios I do envisionage with so many people/trades,professions,colours all in a big stewing pot of humour,knowledge and intrigue with a mix of ******ism of course.
Even the Green Germs will watch it,even the big time hunters will watch it...but would never admit that lol.
Now all we need is a name for the best TV show in the last 50 years (proposed)
Anyone got a catchy name for 'our show'
The winner gets a walk on role ha ha ha
We may need crowd funding to do a pilot programme all about the people and their entwined lives....... of the members of a Hunting Forum.....THE SD FORUM!
So many ORIGINAL scenarios I do envisionage with so many people/trades,professions,colours all in a big stewing pot of humour,knowledge and intrigue with a mix of ******ism of course.
Even the Green Germs will watch it,even the big time hunters will watch it...but would never admit that lol.
Now all we need is a name for the best TV show in the last 50 years (proposed)
Anyone got a catchy name for 'our show'
The winner gets a walk on role ha ha ha
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