https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/first-photos-of-skins-star-jack-oconnell-playing-ards-born-blair-mayne-in-bbcs-sas-rogue-heroes-41025494.html

Looking forward to watching this. @erskblue and @Munkworth should be interesting. Paddy Mayne is a legend in the Regiment.

3 hours ago, Boyne said:

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/first-photos-of-skins-star-jack-oconnell-playing-ards-born-blair-mayne-in-bbcs-sas-rogue-heroes-41025494.html

Looking forward to watching this. @erskblue and @Munkworth should be interesting. Paddy Mayne is a legend in the Regiment.

Next bloody year? Why’d you tell me now! Got to bloody wait for it now haven’t I!

57 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Next bloody year? Why’d you tell me now! Got to bloody wait for it now haven’t I!

Sorry sir, I can be a cruel sod some of the time. Or should that be all of the time?

On the subject of WW2 history am on way to listen to some lectures about General Bill Slim. Should be good.

Tiger King Part 2 out today!

Just seen the new Ghostbusters movie. Critics gave it sh*tty reviews so obviously it’s actually a really good movie. 

I know that I am not the first person to post this, but I am too lazy to go back a few pages on this thread, but "Dark" is tremendous.  Such an intelligent show.

Watching an episode of Secret Army. I watched the programme- there were there series - when it was broadcast in the late seventies and I can't recall watching it since then. A fine series with a great cast about the resistance and escape lines in Belgium in WW2.

 

Yellowstone is the bomb!   Like a soap opera for Men!   And Kelly Reilly is nice eye candy.

Last night I watched some episodes of Top Gear, after what probably were a couple of years. I mean the real Top Gear, with the great trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May, not this reconstructed one. Even though I was never particularly into car-related stuff, I used to watch it regularly when I was younger, their sense of humor and that crazy energy were something completely new for me at the time. I still think of it as a masterpiece.

But just out of curiosity, how do you think they were able to sustain the popularity over the years, while being the subject of controversy so many times? How did they manage to last until 2015 and Clarkson's sacking? Arguably there were situations when they went really too far with the jokes. Now, imagine the old Top Gear in today's society, where everything you see in the media is so politically correct, people are becoming more and more sensitive, and some things are probably going waaay too far. Hypothetically speaking, could Top Gear survive for at least one episode in 2021, without having to issue apologies on a daily basis? Do you think, in the end, the mainstream culture in the whole world is rapidly changing during the last couple of years?

Edited December 24, 20214 yr by wizardous

11 hours ago, wizardous said:

Last night I watched some episodes of Top Gear, after what probably were a couple of years. I mean the real Top Gear, with the great trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May, not this reconstructed one. Even though I was never particularly into car-related stuff, I used to watch it regularly when I was younger, their sense of humor and that crazy energy were something completely new for me at the time. I still think of it as a masterpiece.

But just out of curiosity, how do you think they were able to sustain the popularity over the years, while being the subject of controversy so many times? How did they manage to last until 2015 and Clarkson's sacking? Arguably there were situations when they went really too far with the jokes. Now, imagine the old Top Gear in today's society, where everything you see in the media is so politically correct, people are becoming more and more sensitive, and some things are probably going waaay too far. Hypothetically speaking, could Top Gear survive for at least one episode in 2021, without having to issue apologies on a daily basis? Do you think, in the end, the mainstream culture in the whole world is rapidly changing during the last couple of years?

I never really got into it, just the occasional watch so difficult to explain their enduring popularity, though I'll take a punt,

I noticed they tested the cars so added an air of independence aside from the makers claims and Clarkson always seemed to take a dismissive and anti-authoritarian look at things and do it in a humorous way.

They gave the feel of school chums larking around and stuck a finger up to health and safety with some of their pranks, again anti-authority.

My brother watched it slightly more than me yet he had fiddled around with cars for a few years. 

One program I did enjoy was when they drove through Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries that certainly had an edge and raised my admiration towards them, like in Iraq when they were stopped by armed soldiers with assault rifles. 

They also made it interesting by taking on challenges with older cars knowing higher chances of breaking down and needing off-road skills to compensate or find a local they could communicate with to get the job done. 

You are right they would experience a harder a ride today with the prevailing media attention to political correctness.

 

 

Bob Dylan 30th anniversary tribute concert. A host of performers doing covers of the great man's songs. Tracy Chapman did a superb cover of The Times They Are A Changin'. Stevie Wonder's cover of Blowing in the Wind is brilliant.

Toast of Tinseltown starts tonight on BBC2 for all you Matt Berry fans. 

Toast of Tinseltown starts tonight on BBC2 for all you Matt Berry fans. 

It’s back…

I know I'm a bit late, but I finally managed to watch the Sunderland documentary, precisely its first season. Not particularly impressed to say the least, I'd even call it average...

Spurs' documentary by Amazon was much much better.

Dopesick is excellent

10 hours ago, wizardous said:

I know I'm a bit late, but I finally managed to watch the Sunderland documentary, precisely its first season. Not particularly impressed to say the least, I'd even call it average...

Spurs' documentary by Amazon was much much better.

I've never seen the spurs documentary but isn't it more focused on the team rather then the management/board?

57 minutes ago, seveN said:

I've never seen the spurs documentary but isn't it more focused on the team rather then the management/board?

I would say so. But it is a good balance of the two that made it an interesting watch. Of course, along with Jose, who is the genuine definition of box office.

Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park. They did some great stuff.

Watched The Responder with Martin Freeman yesterday - even though I find the Scouse accent like a form of torture (Gerard’s ‘errrrrrmmmm’ is nails on a chalk board) it’s really good!

On 27/01/2022 at 14:56, wizardous said:

I know I'm a bit late, but I finally managed to watch the Sunderland documentary, precisely its first season. Not particularly impressed to say the least, I'd even call it average...

Spurs' documentary by Amazon was much much better.

@Blueblur is it your mate who works on this and if so any news on any more of it?

13 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Watched The Responder with Martin Freeman yesterday - even though I find the Scouse accent like a form of torture (Gerard’s ‘errrrrrmmmm’ is nails on a chalk board) it’s really good!

@Blueblur is it your mate who works on this and if so any news on any more of it?

I don't think there will be any more of it for now. He told me recently he worked on the Amazon Prime Juventus one that came out last year, and some NASA thing that was on Disney+. 

2 hours ago, Blueblur said:

I don't think there will be any more of it for now. He told me recently he worked on the Amazon Prime Juventus one that came out last year, and some NASA thing that was on Disney+. 

That’s a shame, I quite enjoyed it but thought it might die a death with the new owner. 

 

For Jack Reacher fans the tv series is out, Cruise has gone and a 6'2 muscle chap is in, peek preview looks neat

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9288030/