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  • #1852
    nomdeboardie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭nomdeboardie


    Dub on News news complaining about inner-city council flats issues “We’re just lost in this silicone (sic) valley they’re building around us” I thought that’s what you got between a pair of implants :eek:


  • #1853
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Digitalspy forums are in uproar, Hearst have closed some of the most popular ones including General Discussion and are making more changes soon. Cue exodus to AV forums.


  • #1854
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    I'm running another TV Based game over in Forum Games if anyone is interested in flexing some of their TV knowledge...

    It's a Name That TV Character Picture PEEHS (PEEHS is essentially like the TV Show Pointless if you're familiar with that)

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058172374


  • #1855
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,511 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    20 years ago this November Jack Bauer first graced our screens.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1856
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Yikes. I wonder how that has aged; not well I suspect. It was already pretty sketchy with its unilateral, post 911 attitudes during broadcast.


  • #1857
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    "CTU Almeida!"
    Got to the point where I'm sure some people thought Tony's first name was actually CTU.


  • #1858
    Need a Username
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    Was Sleepy Hollow cancelled or did it end?

    I enjoyed the first season but never got to see anymore.


  • #1859
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,673 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Need a Username wrote: »
    Was Sleepy Hollow cancelled or did it end?

    I enjoyed the first season but never got to see anymore.

    Did a reboot in S4 then got cancelled


  • #1860
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Need a Username wrote: »
    Was Sleepy Hollow cancelled or did it end?

    I enjoyed the first season but never got to see anymore.

    It went on for 4 seasons IIRC; however, you did well. There was a huge decline in quality from season 2 onwards: it was a show that really struggled to move past its limited "mini-series" premise. By way of example, the headless horseman was given a head :rolleyes:, while became a whiny, spurned lover type. Apparently, the lead was also treated really shabbily by the studio, and was sacked in Season 4 for having health problems IIRC; would have to dig out the dirt there however.


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  • #1861
    Need a Username
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    pixelburp wrote: »
    It went on for 4 seasons IIRC; however, you did well. There was a huge decline in quality from season 2 onwards: it was a show that really struggled to move past its limited "mini-series" premise. By way of example, the headless horseman was given a head :rolleyes:, while became a whiny, spurned lover type. Apparently, the lead was also treated really shabbily by the studio, and was sacked in Season 4 for having health problems IIRC; would have to dig out the dirt there however.

    The mention of a whingey head is familiar and then I remember John Noble joining the cast and me being very disappointed by the role he was given.

    So I saw more than just the first season. It could be that I just stopped watching rather than just didn’t get the chance.

    I will will push it further down the watchlist.

    Thanks.


  • #1862
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Nicole Beharie was also sacked after season 3 due to an illness she speaks about it here and then blackballed in Hollywood by the producers etc.

    Tom Mison who was also ill at the time was treated differently.

    https://deadline.com/2020/06/nicole-beharie-sleepy-hollow-exit-controversy-impact-career-1202965074/


  • #1863
    Need a Username
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Nicole Beharie was also sacked after season 3 due to an illness she speaks about it here and then blackballed in Hollywood by the producers etc.

    Tom Mison who was also ill at the time was treated differently.

    https://deadline.com/2020/06/nicole-beharie-sleepy-hollow-exit-controversy-impact-career-1202965074/

    I could understand why the producers would remove the character if the actress’ health would seriously affect the schedule in the future but to badmouth her to other people is pretty lousy.


  • #1864
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,151 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Did anyone watch the new one on after the news on rte 1.


  • #1865
    The Black Oil
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    pixelburp wrote: »
    Yikes. I wonder how that has aged; not well I suspect. It was already pretty sketchy with its unilateral, post 911 attitudes during broadcast.

    24 had a pretty loyal online fanbase. One of its producers, Joel Surnow, was a self-confessed 'right-wing nut job', I think that's fine, whatever you're into, but equally, some of its political characters were leaning that way too, so I dunno if the show was partly a critique on that (felt like that a few times), given some of the writers then worked on Homeland and they're more liberal leaning, afaik. Not that I'm keen to review its politics as such. Side note: there's something in my memory about its ratings success in the UK being why it stuck around for a while, think another producer Jon Cassar mentioned this some years back. It just landed around the right time to be zeitgeisty.
    CastorTroy wrote: »
    "CTU Almeida!"
    Got to the point where I'm sure some people thought Tony's first name was actually CTU.

    Well, it's like this: Either fire me, or get out of my chair.

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    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1866
    Need a Username
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    beertons wrote: »
    Did anyone watch the new one on after the news on rte 1.

    What one?


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  • #1867
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,151 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Deadwater Fell.

    I saw there was a thread on it already, being shown on channel 4, so didn't go in there or start a new thread.

    I liked it. After the first episode, I have no idea who the killer is. Strange that they all have puncture wounds from a syringe, or epi pen.


  • #1868
    Need a Username
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    beertons wrote: »
    Deadwater Fell.

    I saw there was a thread on it already, being shown on channel 4, so didn't go in there or start a new thread.

    I liked it. After the first episode, I have no idea who the killer is. Strange that they all have puncture wounds from a syringe, or epi pen.

    Okay

    You dropped it in among posts on Sleepy Hollow so I thought “new one” was a new series based on the Headless Horseman.


  • #1869
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    David Simon got into it with Piers Morgan on Twitter.

    https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1379173045005389825?s=20


  • #1870
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan. Good lord. Maybe the critical mass of their respective abject vulgarity will cancel each other out, they'll both instantly wink out of existence.


  • #1871
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

    BBC and ITV shelved their entire schedules (BBC1 and 2!!) for rolling coverage of reaction to Prince Phillip's death. Needless to say the viewership dropped as a result, BBC2 losing 2/3s of its audience that day. Crazy stuff, even online feeds were shut down. Begs the question what the reaction will be when Liz pops her clogs.


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  • #1872
    The Black Oil
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    Watched the first episode of The Outsider, Stephen King adaptation. Pretty sobering and devastating.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1873
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,516 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    pixelburp wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

    BBC and ITV shelved their entire schedules (BBC1 and 2!!) for rolling coverage of reaction to Prince Phillip's death. Needless to say the viewership dropped as a result, BBC2 losing 2/3s of its audience that day. Crazy stuff, even online feeds were shut down. Begs the question what the reaction will be when Liz pops her clogs.

    Reminiscent of when Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko or Kim-Jong Il popped their clogs.

    Sombre music is playing on Radio Moscow... :rolleyes: It wasn't just BBC 1 & 2 but BBC4 was off too, plus all of the radio channels (about 40)

    Ridiculous. What a joke

    Scrap the cap!



  • #1874
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭trashcan


    pixelburp wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

    BBC and ITV shelved their entire schedules (BBC1 and 2!!) for rolling coverage of reaction to Prince Phillip's death. Needless to say the viewership dropped as a result, BBC2 losing 2/3s of its audience that day. Crazy stuff, even online feeds were shut down. Begs the question what the reaction will be when Liz pops her clogs.

    That’s exactly what I was thinking. You can forget about tuning into BBC for at least a week when the time comes.

    Nice to see that they had a lot of complaints about it. I mean, paying respects is all very well, but it was Ott. BBC1 wouldn’t have been enough ?


  • #1875
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    pixelburp wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

    BBC and ITV shelved their entire schedules (BBC1 and 2!!) for rolling coverage of reaction to Prince Phillip's death. Needless to say the viewership dropped as a result, BBC2 losing 2/3s of its audience that day. Crazy stuff, even online feeds were shut down. Begs the question what the reaction will be when Liz pops her clogs.
    Endless interviews with anyone and everyone who so much as shook her hand. They will probably be interviewing the corgis by the end of it!


  • #1876
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    pixelburp wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

    BBC and ITV shelved their entire schedules (BBC1 and 2!!) for rolling coverage of reaction to Prince Phillip's death. Needless to say the viewership dropped as a result, BBC2 losing 2/3s of its audience that day. Crazy stuff, even online feeds were shut down. Begs the question what the reaction will be when Liz pops her clogs.

    i reckon ol'Philio himself would be embarrassed by the OTT coverage of it all..."is there anything better on??"


  • #1877
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,176 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    fryup wrote: »
    i reckon ol'Philio himself would be embarrassed by the OTT coverage of it all..."is there anything better on??"

    Its not even inventive... how about a documentary about his naval career from a historian in otherwise normal schedules instead of constant chatter the man himself would think ghastly. I think the man himself would prefer that.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #1878
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,673 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Is the Orville ever coming back?


  • #1879
    Bredabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Is there a repeat of the great British sewing bee? Had recorder fall and got minutes of the new series��

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • #1880
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,034 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Bredabe wrote: »
    Is there a repeat of the great British sewing bee? Had recorder fall and got minutes of the new series��
    Looks to be repeated on Sunday at 1pm on BBC Two?

    Screenshot-2021-04-15-at-23-38-26.png


  • #1881
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87,518 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Sun Hill reopening as The Bill returns
    https://forumofgames.com/




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  • #1882
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Paramount+ look's to launch in Europe by the end of the year it wants to be the first of the new big US Network streamers to get a foothold into the world market.

    HBO's contracts with Sky Europe don't end till at least 2025 so now HBO Max here till at least then.

    No news on Peacock if they are to launch worldwide. Peacock's owner Comcast/NBC Universal own Sky in Europe.

    https://deadline.com/2021/04/paramount-starts-spanning-the-globe-as-u-s-streamers-try-not-to-get-lost-in-translation-1234732517/


  • #1883
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Wonder what that might mean for the Star Trek shows currently on Netflix (Discovery) and Amazon (Lower Decks and Picard); presumably they'll disappear first chance Paramount can get.


  • #1884
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I think that's the main problem with those streamers coming here. So many of their shows are licensed to local channels.


  • #1885
    scrumqueen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭scrumqueen


    Anyone know what has happened to the RTE Player? Home page normally full of box sets, Line of Duty, The West Wing, The Good Wife, Love Hate and now they're all gone? Not in the A-Z or Box set, found an old link to one series I was watching and the page is dead?


  • #1886
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    scrumqueen wrote: »
    Anyone know what has happened to the RTE Player? Home page normally full of box sets, Line of Duty, The West Wing, The Good Wife, Love Hate and now they're all gone? Not in the A-Z or Box set, found an old link to one series I was watching and the page is dead?

    Box sets still all there for me.


  • #1887
    scrumqueen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭scrumqueen


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Box sets still all there for me.

    Good grief, I switched browser and they're there, WTF!
    :o:o:o


  • #1888
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Jim Caviezel is bat sh1t crazy.

    https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1383421963104788489?s=20


  • #1889
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,176 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Jim Caviezel is bat sh1t crazy

    Method acting The Prisoner has consequences...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #1890
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Method acting The Prisoner has consequences...

    He is no Patrick McGoohan


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  • #1891
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I had literally never heard of adrenochroming before and I wish I still hadn't. What insanity. Among all the other sins of the internet, I hate how it exposes crazy to the rest of the world, if even vicariously. Had wondered what happened Caviezel, there's the answer. Shame, Person of Interest remains one of the best shows of the 2010s.


  • #1892
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,511 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    He is no Patrick McGoohan

    ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNZR58ysUUI

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

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  • #1893
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    McGoohan & Falk worked so well together I also only learned recently that he directed quiet a few episodes of Columbo.


  • #1894
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,511 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Turns out Whoopi Goldberg was supposed to be in Deadwood. HBO said no.

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  • #1895
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Imagine her in a role what she tends bar and gives out advice. Would never work


  • #1896
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Deadwood is one of those Prestige shows I have somehow failed to get around to watching. That and The Sopranos or The West Wing (should I be demodded for that alone? :pac: )


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  • #1897
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Whoopi as one of Al's working girls would have been class.


  • #1898
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,176 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Deadwood is one of those Prestige shows I have somehow failed to get around to watching. That and The Sopranos or The West Wing (should I be demodded for that alone? :pac: )

    I loved the West Wing but it might seem a bit dated now.
    Watch Deadwood with subtitles!

    Sopranos is still on my list too.
    Think I picked The Wire over it for boxset binge one soccer free summer.

    The Claim is a good western movie in Deadwood style.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #1899
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I planned on rewatching Deadwood before the film was released as I've forgotten nearly everything from it. Never happened, so still on the list along with the film.


  • #1900
    EoinMcLovin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,107 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    2 SNL cast members slam the decision for Elon Musk to host the show on May 8th
    https://tvline.com/2021/04/26/elon-musk-snl-host-controversy-bowen-yang/


  • #1901
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    SNL is one of those shows I have never, ever "got". It seems to be a cherished institution of American TV but any time I watch a sketch, the material is just really weak. Generally weak comedians, constantly mugging at the camera, while monologuing (or just ramming into the ground) the most asinine, obvious jokes.


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