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Post by Del Boy on Jun 23, 2017 13:21:50 GMT
Cheers Sam I only have the gypo package so only get the news and discovery..
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jun 23, 2017 14:20:51 GMT
It's an interesting channel with some (not all) decent things on it. I wonder if they'll widen things up to more obscure 80's/90's films too. Even if there isn't anything on Talking Pictures which interests me sooner see it on TV and be successful than most of the other tosh channels on there at the moment.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 23, 2017 20:06:35 GMT
The wikipedia page gives some background on the channel. Run by a film distributor's daughter, they also have a site selling dvds ( renownfilms.co.uk ), they have an event coming up at Elstree Studios where the 1962 film 'The Boys' is being screened with stars Jess Conrad, Dudley Sutton & Tony Garnett making an appearance. Garnett went on to be a producer, he produced 'Law And Order' amoungst other things. Not sure how long lived the channel will be, these independent channels do tend to come & go. I remember a channel several years ago that a businessman set up to promote his young wife's singing career, all it showed was promo videos of this not very good singer! I seem to recall that the channel cost him £1,000 a week ( or was it a day? ) to broadcast. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Pictures_TV
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jun 24, 2017 20:48:55 GMT
I'm pretty sure Talking Pictures has been going for at least three years now. I do hope it lasts a lot longer. They seem to show thirties films in the early morning, then 50's and 60's films later on. In the evenings they tend to show late sixtie and seventies colour films.
My favourites are the late 50's and early 60's crime films. If not for Talking Pictures we probably wouldn't see these films again. The main channels don't appear to have any interest in showing them again.
I would love to have gone to that Elstree event. I I lived down south I would try to attend it.
Charles.
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Post by Batgirl on Jun 25, 2017 6:52:07 GMT
Another rare film was on a week or two back called Sky west and crooked, Ian McShane and Hayley mills were in it and it was filmed in Gloucestershire in the late 60s, during a beautiful summer. It was about a young girl and a gypsy who ended up together, the story wasn't much but it was beautifully filmed. I remember this film being replayed on tv a lot in Australia. It was renamed 'Gypsy Girl' here. I saw it years ago. I can't remember the plot but I remember quite liking Ian McShane. Actually he might have been my first movie/tv star crush. Lol Also the film 'The Trap' with Oliver Reed that Arthur Pringle mentioned was another one much repeated on tv. I think tv stock of films much have been very limited back in the 1970s/early 1980s as the same films were on every Sunday !
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Post by Cartman on Jun 28, 2017 9:45:44 GMT
Tell you something else that's on this channel, every week night at 9.45, Dick Barton Special Agent. I remember this when it was first on, early in 79 and I haven't seen it since. James Cosmo is in it, and its one of those things that's so bad its good!
Its obviously done very much on the cheap, but that I think adds to it
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 28, 2017 13:43:45 GMT
Also featuring Anthony 'Billy Medhurst' Heaton, a Southern TV production as is 'Family At War' showing at the moment.
Tomorrow at 10pm they're showing a 4 part Armchair Thriller serial from 1980 repackaged into a feature film, 'High Tide' with Ian McShane. Not seen it so can't comment on it. McShane appears again on Friday at 10pm in 'Yesterday's Hero', 1979 film where he's a George Best type football player, it's pretty crap stuff written by Jackie Collins. On Saturday at 6pm there's the atmospheric low budget sci fi film 'Invasion' with Edward Judd & at 10pm is 'Dulcima' starring John Mills, Carol White & The Sweeney's Stuart Wilson, I have seen it but it was some time ago, written by H.E. Bates of 'Darling Buds Of May' fame.
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Post by Cartman on Jun 28, 2017 13:50:07 GMT
Yes I've seen Dulcima, again, beautifully filmed.
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Post by Cartman on Jun 30, 2017 10:42:54 GMT
Also featuring Anthony 'Billy Medhurst' Heaton, a Southern TV production as is 'Family At War' showing at the moment. Tomorrow at 10pm they're showing a 4 part Armchair Thriller serial from 1980 repackaged into a feature film, 'High Tide' with Ian McShane. Not seen it so can't comment on it. McShane appears again on Friday at 10pm in 'Yesterday's Hero', 1979 film where he's a George Best type football player, it's pretty crap stuff written by Jackie Collins. On Saturday at 6pm there's the atmospheric low budget sci fi film 'Invasion' with Edward Judd & at 10pm is 'Dulcima' starring John Mills, Carol White & The Sweeney's Stuart Wilson, I have seen it but it was some time ago, written by H.E. Bates of 'Darling Buds Of May' fame. I saw the Armchair Thriller with Ian McShane. Terence Rigby was in it too, plus some big guy who I vaguely remember from a Sweeney episode in a small part. It wasn't great, but I like the era and there was a Mark 4 Cortina in it, so not a total waste!
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 2, 2017 17:20:13 GMT
10pm tonight, TPTV are showing Two Way Stretch, a comedy starring Peter Sellers and featuring David Lodge (Pop Garrett from Chalk & Cheese) with a preview by the lovely Liz Fraser. Well worth a watch and one of my favourites.
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