RIP thread for people involved in TV - Mod warning, see OP (21/08/25)

RabbleRouser2k

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

Hands was a simple show about skilled and complex work. I remember watching it avidly when I was a teenager and I'd love to see it again. I'll always remember the episode on coopering. My grandfather was a cooper from the 1920s to the 1960s and I imagine he worked much like the cooper featured in Hands. Unfortunately the trade is nearly extinct in Ireland these days.

They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


Case in point, the cooper episode.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

Sir Oxman

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


Case in point, the cooper episode.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

I have a huge urge to watch them again now.

The slow pace, narration, skills and lifestyles shown are a great antidote to crap!
R.I.P.

RabbleRouser2k

Sir Oxman wrote: »

I have a huge urge to watch them again now.

The slow pace, narration, skills and lifestyles shown are a great antidote to crap!
R.I.P.

There was an episode on making Porcelain figures of birds, by a very talented artist.

I remember being absolutely fascinated with how he created those pieces. Some of those hands episodes are on different channels. It's pretty easy to find them on youtube.

A-Train

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

There was an episode on making Porcelain figures of birds, by a very talented artist.

I remember being absolutely fascinated with how he created those pieces. Some of those hands episodes are on different channels. It's pretty easy to find them on youtube.

I had never heard of this show until reading this today and it reminded me of a show my recently passed away uncle use to always say he was on.

Sure enough a bit of digging today and it is the same show and thanks to your tip about YouTube I have found the episode that my uncle featured in. I had never seen it and it’s great to now have it.

Harry Palmr

David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

The Inbetween is mine

Harry Palmr wrote: »

David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

I actually went googling for Gerrit last night after the David Shaw Smith announcement on here..

Harry Palmr

It's a reminder of how social history is created - recording ordinary people doing their work.

Right now you could do this for say the back-street mechanic. Soon their skills will be lost because in a generation their role will have been rendered obsolete by the end of the internal combustion engine with traditional geared transmission.

Nigel Fairservice

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

They were digitally remastered and reshown not that long ago.

As for the series itself, they're all up on youtube. You can buy the boxset from hands.ie.


Case in point, the cooper episode.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs7ZWB5m0I

Many thanks, that is tonight's viewing sorted.

corks finest

Harry Palmr wrote: »

David Shaw-Smith, Gerrit Van Gelderen, Éamon de Buitléar, the holy trinity of RTE's 70s/80s slow TV subgenre all gone now.

They were all fab, especially those introducing us to our natural world

JP Liz V1

Mick Norcross has died aged 57 (Kirk's dad, both were on TOWIE)

GerardKeating

Irish Olympian Jerry Kiernan Died today. He also worked with RTÉ covering many Olympic Games' television coverage

Dtp1979

GerardKeating wrote: »

Irish Olympian Jerry Kiernan Died today. He also worked with RTÉ covering many Olympic Games' television coverage

What happened him?

GerardKeating

Mira Furlan (of Babylon 5/Lost) has passed away.

The article has a touching In Memorium from the great maker.

JP Liz V1

Mira Furlan (Babylon 5 and Lost) dead at 65

Agent Coulson

RIP.

That's most to the B5 main cast now dead

odyssey06

Agent Coulson wrote: »

RIP.

That's most to the B5 main cast now dead

It's hard to believe... think only Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman and Bill Mumy of the core cast still with us.
RIP Mira, Andreas, Stephen, Michael, Richard, Zack, Peter, Jerry ... gone before their time:(

GerardKeating

odyssey06 wrote: »

It's hard to believe... think only Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman and Bill Mumy of the core cast still with us.
RIP Mira, Andreas, Stephen, Michael, Richard, Zack, Peter, Jerry ... gone before their time:(

Peter Jurasik, Andrea Thomson, Julie Catlin Brown, Jason Carter, Tracey Scroggins were all main cast at some point and are still alive and well.

Wikipedia list 18 "main cast" and 11 of them are still alive.

GerardKeating

Agent Coulson wrote: »

RIP.

That's most to the B5 main cast now dead

Not quite most

5 out of 11 of the regular cast for Season one are still with us.
6 out of 12 of the regular cast for Season two are still with us.

Agent Coulson

odyssey06 wrote: »

It's hard to believe... think only Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Patricia Tallman and Bill Mumy of the core cast still with us.
RIP Mira, Andreas, Stephen, Michael, Richard, Zack, Peter, Jerry ... gone before their time:(

Peter Jurasik is still alive as well.

A lot of them died so young as well so sad

6541

Am just after hearing that Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has passed, can anyone confirm ?

RabbleRouser2k

6541 wrote: »

Am just after hearing that Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has passed, can anyone confirm ?

Her twitter's active, so no.

brian_t

6541 wrote: »

Am just after hearing that Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh has passed, can anyone confirm ?

6541 wrote: »

This reminds me of the 2020 story about Carrie Crowley. Some ppl on here claimed she was deceased when in fact she was very much alive !

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AndrewJRenko

One of the giants

https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/1352962124918751232?s=19

igCorcaigh

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

One of the giants

https://twitter.com/Rubberbandits/status/1352962124918751232?s=19

He had Covid recently.
I thought he had got better though

RIP Larry.

RabbleRouser2k

AWWww... Not Larry King... Jesus.

Bloody Covid.

RabbleRouser2k

Larry King made a cameo on the Muppets many moons ago, and he was hilarious.

Skip to the 1:40 mark, and 4:30 mark.

There's a great ending joke to that episode that makes a great zinger to his whole appearance.

RIP

RobbingBandit

****

Larry King what a legend

Who's next from this ****ing virus

bnt

igCorcaigh wrote: »

He had Covid recently.
I thought he had got better though

RIP Larry.

He was 87, at that age "better" is a moving target.

corkie

GerardKeating wrote: »

Mira Furlan (of Babylon 5/Lost) has passed away.

The article has a touching In Memorium from the great maker.

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Mira Furlan (Babylon 5 and Lost) dead at 65

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Mira Furlan (Babylon 5 and Lost) dead at 65

I had only been watching this last week. The "Why not?" and "Be somewhere else" were delivered wonderfully. A pure "pfft off with ya and your paper ships"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtNtw2HTFtA