Channel 4 Suck At Showing Movies!

[1stas]

name='DB7']What's a "camp queenie"?

Somebody that talks like say... Sean in Coronation Street - I'm not trying to be cliched but I know lots of gay people and nobody talks like that anymore!

[Steve Crook]

name='1stas']Somebody that talks like say... Sean in Coronation Street - I'm not trying to be cliched but I know lots of gay people and nobody talks like that anymore!

You don't know enough gay people, or the wrong ones, some of them are very camp.

But I also know someone that talks like that - even though he's straight



However, I often watch BBC3 & BBC4 and I don't think I've ever heard an announcer that I'd describe as having a voice that is close to camp.



Steve

[Harleybloke]

name='Moor Larkin']Film Four are promising two weeks of British movies in their ad-breaks at the moment. Not sure when it starts.

Sure it's not 2 weeks of ad breaks.......................?

[julian_craster]

If you like the film so much that you want a perfect copy - buy the DVD !

[IAN P]

name='julian_craster']If you like the film so much that you want a perfect copy - buy the DVD !

Yeah,thanks for the input

[aphra]

name='ProfMarcus']I have heard it suggested that TV companies do that to stop viewers recording movies and keeping them till kingdom come, thus avoiding buying DVDs and starving the makers of royalites. 7 Days To Noon is available on DVD. Worth every penny, too.

Channel 4 showed SEVEN DAYS TO NOON in an aspect ratio of 16:9. Anybody knows it was made in Academy ratio of 4:3. Their reaction when a friend of mine rang them afterwards was to express surprise and say that nobody else had complained! No apology, of course.

[blacknorth]

name='aphra']Channel 4 showed SEVEN DAYS TO NOON in an aspect ratio of 16:9. Anybody knows it was made in Academy ratio of 4:3. Their reaction when a friend of mine rang them afterwards was to express surprise and say that nobody else had complained! No apology, of course.

I wondered about that, was tempted to ask them, but when I saw the banner popping up at the bottom of the screen I knew it would have been pointless. Anyone who can do that to ruin your enjoyment of a film... is capable of anything.



As for the idea that C4 are good for showing films, if you watch their schedules from year to year they have a core selection of about 200 films which they rotate. Only rarely does a new title crop up. I've been waiting for almost 20 years to see some films - only the intervention of ebay and the internet means I've been able to track a few of them down at last.



Does anyone have any insight into how and where TV companies buy their film packages? I read somewhere their buyers just go to a trade fair, buy a bulk lot and if they find they have, say, a lot of Dirk Bogarde films, they have a Bogarde season. Sounds very cynical and I'd like to believe it isn't true.