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The BBC Four Thread

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    #122
    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    Series 9 of Only Connect begins next Monday night, April 14 at 8.30pm on BBC Four/HD.


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    #123
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Hinterland is coming to BBC4 at the end of the month. Enjoyed it on BBC Wales, fairly humourless and grim though. I thought it would merit the Saturday night slot but still, it will get a wider audience on BBC4, even on a Monday night. Starts 28th.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/17/hinterland.html


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    #124
    Skid X
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    There is another showing of the feature length Morecambe and Wise Bio-pic, 'Eric and Ernie' on Sunday at 10pm. I thought it was decent.
    Drama charting the early years of one of Britain's best comedy double acts, focusing on the influence of Eric Morecambe's mother Sadie (Victoria Wood). A chance meeting on the children's variety circuit sees the start of an unlikely friendship and Eric soon becomes the funnyman to Ernie Wise's `feed'. But as they grow older, the duo struggle to make their way in mainstream entertainment with a few dubious tours and an ill-advised TV series that has the critics gunning for them. Daniel Rigby and Bryan Dick star as Eric and Ernie, with Jim Moir (better known to comedy fans as Vic Reeves) and Reece Shearsmith as their fathers


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    #125
    mike65
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    Its been a bit quiet here lately as the channel has been in a bit of slow spell, however there is a decent looking doc on at 9 pm
    Documentary recalling events that occurred 50 years ago this bank holiday weekend, when large groups of young people who identified with two disparate subcultures descended upon seaside resorts on motorbikes and scooters - sparking violent confrontations. The programme considers how their repeated clashes created widespread moral panic about the state of British youth, the notion of which was undergoing a vast transformation due to greater prosperity and freedom


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    #126
    Skid X
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    Danny Baker is back on BBC Four next Monday at 9pm with a new four part World Cup themed new series of his excellent 'Brush Up' shows.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045q1dd
    Some sanctuary from the World Cup on BBC FOUR? Not a chance.

    But wait, there is actually very little football in this archive romp around the periphery of the four-yearly global jamboree. Danny Baker mulls over all the attendant hoopla, rigmarole, folderol and palaver that comes with this most mammoth of modern circuses.

    Mascots! Managers! Fans! Tickets! Endless hours of TV padding! Creepy Kevin Keegan dolls! The tragic death of Pickles the Dog! That sort of thing.


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    #127
    Ol' Donie
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    Excellent. I'll have a bit of that!


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    #128
    ElNino
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    Sounds promising. I am currently enjoying Road to Rio with Mark Watson and Henning Wehn on Dave. They are touring every South American country in advance of the World Cup.
    http://dave.uktv.co.uk/shows/road-rio/episodes/


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    #129
    padders67
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    wehn is pretty funny - Watson kind of gets on my nerves tho


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    #130
    evilivor
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    padders67 wrote: »
    wehn is pretty funny - Watson kind of gets on my nerves tho

    Amber is starting on BBC Four next week, Tuesday, I believe.


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    #131
    padders67
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    oh good , will keep any eye for that thanks


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    #132
    mike65
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    Bump for Danny Bakers Brushing up on the World Cup 9-10 pm Monday.


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    #133
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Jimmy greaves lol the 1966 build up clips are comedy gold


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    #134
    padders67
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    found the Danny Baker show hard to watch - know it was meant to be " offbeat " but it was pretty poor viewing


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    #135
    evilivor
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    padders67 wrote: »
    found the Danny Baker show hard to watch - know it was meant to be " offbeat " but it was pretty poor viewing

    Same here.


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    #136
    Skid X
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    Danny Baker's World Cup Brush Up was worth it just for the Panda of Peace losing the plot on Kilroy.

    It turns out he is the bloke who has written the 'You Are The Ref' strip in various publications for years

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/aug/07/football.ref


    Edit: And Jimmy Greaves ranting on TV-am about the diabolical standard of Weather Forecasts. And Jack Charlton losing the plot on the ITV World Cup Panel.

    Hit and Miss but some Marvellous moments.


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    #137
    mike65
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    The last really epic documentary series made by the BBC (15 hours) - Simon Shamas History of Britain is starting on 4 tonight at 9 pm.


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    #138
    evilivor
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    BBC Four showing Edge of Darkness again - started last night and continues on following Sundays.


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    #139
    mike65
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    Ah ****! :mad: BBC4 has been so quiet this summer I'd stopped routinely checking the listings

    EDIT - where? I have scanned the schedule and cannot see it.

    So a reminder for this on Thursday at 11pm
    Holy Flying Circus
    Comedy drama, based on the controversy that surrounded Monty Python's Life of Brian on its release in 1979. As a campaign to ban the film gathered momentum, John Cleese and Michael Palin defended their work by participating in a live TV debate against Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark - but the programme did not go according to plan. Darren Boyd and Charles Edwards star alongside Steve Punt, Rufus Jones, Tom Fisher, Phil Nichol and Stephen Fry
    Category General Movie/Drama


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    #140
    brian_t
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    evilivor wrote: »
    BBC Four showing Edge of Darkness again - started last night and continues on following Sundays.

    Starts next Monday (30th June) at 10pm

    Looking forward to it.

    http://tvlistings.theguardian.com/text-only/?tvgBroadcaster=UKFreeview&tvgRegion=West&tvgFlagFilter=&tvgDayOffset=7f&tvgChannelName=BBC+4


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    #141
    mike65
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    /mops brow :)


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    #142
    evilivor
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    brian_t wrote: »
    Starts next Monday (30th June) at 10pm

    Looking forward to it.

    http://tvlistings.theguardian.com/text-only/?tvgBroadcaster=UKFreeview&tvgRegion=West&tvgFlagFilter=&tvgDayOffset=7f&tvgChannelName=BBC+4

    I spotted it on my EPG so went to the BBC site and got the details there

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00t726b/broadcasts/2003/06

    - after your post I re-looked at it and noticed the date - June 2003.

    So apologies for the info being slightly out of date.

    Anyway, yeah for Edge of Darkness being back!


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    #143
    evilivor
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    Storyville is back next Sunday night at 9 with two new cycling films

    The Lance Armstrong Story - Stop at Nothing

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048wq0z

    Then

    Velorama

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048wqcc

    and, the following Sunday, a repeat of the classic film about Paris–Roubaix.

    "A Sunday in Hell"


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    #144
    Harry Palmr
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    Edge of Darkness tonight :).


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    #145
    PeterDuggan
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Edge of Darkness tonight :).

    Anyone else think the picture is out of proportion? ...slightly "flattened"?


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    #146
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    PeterDuggan wrote: »
    Anyone else think the picture is out of proportion? ...slightly "flattened"?

    Thought that was just in my head! I couldn't really describe it any better. Just slightly flattened.


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    #147
    brian_t
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    PeterDuggan wrote: »
    Anyone else think the picture is out of proportion? ...slightly "flattened"?

    I watched it on HD and it didn't look flattened to me.

    It was a square picture though not widescreen. (don't ask me to be more technical :o)


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    #148
    Harry Palmr
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    It was made in 1985 shot on 16mm in standard 4:3 mono format. No bias one way or the other. Were you watching on UPC by any chance, or is your tv setting wrong so the image gets stretched?


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    #149
    PeterDuggan
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    It was made in 1985 shot on 16mm in standard 4:3 mono format. No bias one way or the other. Were you watching on UPC by any chance, or is your tv setting wrong so the image gets stretched?

    Thanks. No not UPC. It was a satellite SD broadcast and I don't think the tv is wrongly set cos I haven't noticed the problem with other programmes.

    What do you mean "No bias one way or the other"?


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    #150
    Harry Palmr
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    Well its not distorted in any way, the 16mm camera lens used are completely neutral, some systems did introduce slight distortion - like Techniscope due to its spherical lens.

    I mentioned UPC as on some channels like Dave, GOLD which show 4:3 ratio programmes the image is re-framed so it fills more of the 16:9 screen space. It looks terrible.


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    #151
    Harry Angstrom
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    Enjoying Rebels of Oz. Just goes to show what a cultural backwater Australia has always been.


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