Films 11-17 August

[Merton Park]

A few of the offerings:

Avalanche Express - Saturday 11 August Ch 5 at 5:20pm
Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin

Rasputin - Saturday 11 August The Horror Channel, Sky 319 at 10:55pm
Christopher Lee

A Prophet - Saturday 11 August Ch 4 at 11:50pm
compelling French thriller.

Glorious 39 -Sunday 12 August BBC 2at 10pm
Bill Nighy,Jenny Agutter,Jeremy Northam and Julie Christie

The Colditz Story - Monday 13 August Ch 4 at 1:20pm
John Mills etc

The Siege of the Saxons - Tuesday 14 August Ch 4 at 1:30pm
Ronald Lewis and Janette Scott

The Man Who Haunted Himself - Wednesday 15 August The Horror Channel Sky 319 at 4:00pm
Roger Moore

The Nutty Proffesor - Thursday 16 August Ch 4 at 1:05pm
Jerry Lewis

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Friday 17 August at 9pm
Asa Butterfield

There is a season of The Falcon films from Monday 13 August until Friday starting each day at around midday with two consecutive films each day:

The Gay Falcon
A Date With the Falcon

The Falcon Takes Over
The Falcon's Brother

The Falcon Strikes Back
The Falcon In Danger

The Falcon and the Co-Eds
The Falcon Out West

The Falcon in Mexico
The Falcon in Hollywood

[Steve Crook]

Now that the running & jumping has finished we get some decent programmes back on the telly

Steve

[paul kersey]

Now that the running & jumping has finished we get some decent programmes back on the telly

Steve

After the running and jumping overdose, anything seems decent.

[Steve Crook]

A few of the offerings:
...
The Colditz Story - Monday 13 August Ch 4 at 1:20pm
John Mills etc

As well as the film, Channel 4 are showing a documentary about the Colditz glider. They built a glider in an attic room of the castle and were ready to launch it towards the Allied lines if the Germans started causing trouble. But they didn't, so they didn't

Mon 13 August Ch 4 at 9pm

Steve

[Steve Crook]

I see that we are also being treated to a screening of Titanic. Not the Cameron nonsense but the Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck version from 1953. Not as good as A Night to Remember but a lot better than the Cameron fiasco

Titanic (1953)
TMC (UK) Sun 12 August 09:15
Also showing on 8 Sept at 17:05 and 9 Sept at 08:55

Steve

[vanmunchen]

Now that the running & jumping has finished we get some decent programmes back on the telly

Steve

You must be among that 10% who didn't watch the Olympics. I usually hate all sports but I found the Olympics coverage compulsive and watched nothing else.

[paul kersey]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...wing-figs.html

The trouble with statistics of any sort is that they can be manipulated to say whatever you want. How is it that if 51 million people (90% of Population) watched the Olympics, the highest viewing figure was 27 million, and that was for the opening ceremony. Over the course of 17 days, it would have been difficult not to have caught 15 minutes of the Olympic games on TV.
I remember Kelvin Mackenzie, when he ran Talksport radio, had some gizmos made that recorded all of the Radio that people were exposed to. Thus anyone who heard talksport when visiting the petrol station etc was regarded as a Talksport listener. His ideas were soon dismissed. I don't really believe that it is possible to have accurate viewing figures or opinion polls. We have such a large population in Britain, that any sample is pretty worthless really.

[orpheum2]

i am sure that like me the majority of british viewers were not enthralled by having BBC programmes and news swamped with sports they wouldnt go across the road to see.the cover of Private Eye says it exactly/ .There are 6 spoofs of the olympics eg Cameron to Putin "who are you supporting" Putin "Assad".Then at the bottom Fiona Bruce is shown saying "and finally aliens invaded earth today"Thats the point exactly.

[Mark O]

If anyone missed 'The man who haunted himself' as I did, may be pleased to know it's being shown tomorrow Sunday the 19th at 12pm (midday) on the Horror channel.