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Re: What's for Dinner tonight? (Part 7)
Chilli con carne. (Don't fancy rice, so topping with lots of grated Cheddar, sour cream and eaten with tortilla chips).
Re: Freely - New service from UK PSBs delivering live free TV via IP, coming 2024
Nigel Goodwin wrote: »Sky and Virgin interfaces are both fecking awful to use and the main reason I gave both of them up. Now instead of coming up with something better and easier to use Fredly is going to copy the shit ones and foist it on me.
And I bet I won't be able to record and store live tv for my convenience as I do now either.
Of course you won't, it's a streaming service - a major reason for it's development will be to stop people recording.
To be honest, I don't want a streaming service, I see absolutely no advantage or benefit in it for me at all. So much for 'freedom for the viewer', it's more like it or lump it.
Personally, I think streaming is going to replace satellite television completely. Everything will be FAST/FSST/AVOD/SVOD. They do need to sort the interfaces out though.
Virgin will do well if they keep their PVRs.
Re: The Jeremy Vine Show, Weekdays, Channel 5
What an angle for this story "Which way would you have gone on a bike?"
Anya D
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Re: The Jeremy Vine Show, Weekdays, Channel 5
I completely agree with Nina.
Harry was "sacrificed" to rehabilitate Camilla.
What a father!
Harry was "sacrificed" to rehabilitate Camilla.
What a father!
Anya D
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Re: The Layton Williams & Nikita Kuzmin Appreciation Thread
CorkGirl67 wrote: »
Better photo from the Radio Times, just because!
Also, do think Layton got the biggest spread out of the 5 interviewed - not that I'm biased or anything
I might just have gone found a copy of the radio times to flick through and look and yeah, strictly / Layton got the nicest article. Lovely photos and really nice interview. And the bit about strictly on the other page is good too - talking about same sex partnerships. I unashamedly got in everyone’s way in M&S while I stood and read it 😁
Re: Question Time
Possible question on the latest defection to Labour, more damaging for Sunak or Starmer?
You would imagine for Sunak, but the Red Labour group on Facebook will be imploding about Starmer going further over to the right.
I always think there should be a by-election in circumstances like these, after all, the electorate of Dover didn’t want a Labour MP.
Re: Football Commentators Thread (Part 20)
Steve Williams wrote: »As you say, there is a show on Friday but not on ITV1 as the caption said, on ITV4 at 12.15am, repeated on ITV1 at midnight on Saturday. Not sure of the value of showing highlights of matches that by that point will be up to five days old, while not showing anything from the first leg of Leeds vs Norwich who are quite big teams, but so be it.
I see that the Friday showing of this EFL highlights programme has now been dropped and the Saturday ITV1 screening will now be the first showing, presumably so it can take in Franchise vs Crawley from Saturday night. Hope Bolton fans aren't still trying to avoid finding out the score from Tuesday night.
TheSubaru2012 wrote: »Since when was the analysis sponsored by Turkish Airlines? Never known that before. (Unless you're American TV)
I do remember in the days of ESPN their FA Cup coverage often included a sequence called The Bench, I think, which didn't seem to be that much difference to the rest of the build-up but had its own little title sequence and was sponsored by Budweiser, so I assume it's a bit like that.
Airdrieonians v Partick Thistle (Scottish Premiership Play-Off Quarter-Final, BBC Scotland, 7/5/24) - Alasdair Lamont and Michael Stewart. Presented by Jonathan Sutherland, with Leanne Crichton and James McFadden. Amy Canavan reporting.
Forgot to say, thank you for doing these, I spend enough time watching English football to keep up with the Scottish game (although for work purposes I do end up having to look at the Scottish Championship table most weeks) so I'm pleased these now appear as a supplement to my list at the weekend. I was going to say, seems a bit odd to start the play-offs before one of the teams in them is even known as the SPL season hasn't finished yet, although obviously they don't come into it for a bit. And someone wrote into the Guardian Knowledge this week to point out the play-offs in the NWCL Premier League have had to be delayed because Charnock Richard had umpteen games in hand and promptly won them all to qualify for them.
I must say, I know this is the commentators thread, and I'm one to talk, but it surprises me how much some people seem to have total recall of everything Rio Ferdinand's ever said on TNT, making references to bits of commentary and punditry that I have no recollection of whatsoever. I will also never be able to understand why people are still watching coverage of a match half an hour after the final whistle if they hate all the personnel so much.
Re: The Jeremy Vine Show, Weekdays, Channel 5
I think it's ludicrous Charles couldn't make time to go to Harry's Invictus celebration.
He looks foolish, stubborn and petty to me.
He looks foolish, stubborn and petty to me.
Anya D
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Re: Classic Emmerdale on ITV3 - Repeats Discussion
I know max seems to take a back seat to the other ruthless kings but hes defo a better character than i recall, a normal hard working vet who aint a rotten womaniser like the rest of them
Re: Star Trek: Discovery - S5 (Paramount+)
carl.waring wrote: »I don't care if you don't like it. I care that threads are clogged with people complaining about a programme week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week .HouseStark wrote: »carl.waring wrote: »Yet I bet you're going to watch to the end and come on here and complain every single week 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Yes I will be watching but no I won’t be complaining if it’s a decent episode. Chances of that are remote but we live in hope. I do hope that’s ok with you though.
He’s defensive of every programme he likes. As if anyone is dared to criticise anything he watches. Did the same with The Rookie.
If you don't like a show then just stop watching it and wasting time posting complaints about it in a forum week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week week after week .
That's my only issue.
Well, that's what I would do anyway as I have a lot of things to watch and won't miss watching something I'm not enjoying. Why would you put yourself through that?
And no, "I'm watching it in the hope it will improve" isn't a valid response if you've been saying that since season 1, or for an entire season!
I rarely outright complain about shows for the simple fact that I know I couldn't do any better. That's why they're writing TV shows and I'm not.Not obviously enough, obviously 😁 But fair enough. I disagree.carl.waring wrote: »Except no, it's probably not.carl.waring wrote: »Hmm. I'm sure there's been comment previously about lack of character background and development and now here we are with someone moaning because it's happening 🤦♂️🤷♂️Hmm. Yet another "stop the plot for a deep, meaningful conversation". What is this crap Culber is going through? No, wait. I shouldn't have asked. I don't care. And Tilly outrunning Burnham? Shouldn't they have fixed the other rain towers too? I mean, if you're gonna break the prime directive, you might as well be hung for wolf as a sheep.
I'm sure that's right. What's happening now is an over-correction ...
(Unless you're stating a fact in which case who said so and when? Source please.)
Internet 'debating' 101? Somewhat below your usual standard of defensiveness.
Obviously an (as in my) opinion. Did you really need me to state that?
Oh dear. If only everyone was like you and just saw the good in everything and took every programme at face value, as you’ve commented previously that’s what you do.
But here in the real world, people have differing opinions and are entitled to vent their frustration at a programme they’ve invested time in that is going down the pan. Dosent mean they are going to stop watching it just because they want better, when they’ve followed it this far.
And the last time I checked, this was a public forum. So where do you get off dictating what people can and can’t say.