RIP thread for people involved in TV

Nigel Fairservice · 20-01-2021 2:11am

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.

RabbleRouser2k · 20-01-2021 3:41am

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 · 20-01-2021 9:38am

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 · 20-01-2021 11:50am

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 · 20-01-2021 2:36pm

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 · 20-01-2021 3:11pm

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 · 20-01-2021 3:25pm

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 · 20-01-2021 4:05pm

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 · 20-01-2021 8:12pm

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 · 21-01-2021 1:04am

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 · 21-01-2021 10:50pm

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

GerardKeating · 21-01-2021 11:41pm

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

Dtp1979 · 21-01-2021 11:58pm

GerardKeating wrote: »

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

What happened him?

GerardKeating · 22-01-2021 9:04am

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

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

JP Liz V1 · 22-01-2021 4:28pm

Mira Furlan (Babylon 5 and Lost) dead at 65

Agent Coulson · 22-01-2021 4:29pm

RIP.

That's most to the B5 main cast now dead

odyssey06 · 22-01-2021 4:36pm

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 · 22-01-2021 6:13pm

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 · 22-01-2021 6:26pm

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 · 22-01-2021 6:31pm

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

23-01-2021 1:22am

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

RabbleRouser2k · 23-01-2021 1:27am

6541 wrote: »

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

Her twitter's active, so no.

brian_t · 23-01-2021 2:18am

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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