What are you watching?

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Love Trek. Up until a few months ago I could get my daily dose on channels 36 and 41 from 5pm. Star Trek, Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise over a 3 hour period.

Voyager is the spiritual successor, with all the flaws of the original that I list. But yes, have the box set of that too...!

 

[plastic penguin]

Currently watching on 'Talking Pictures' "British Rock" documentary about How Punk evolved into various off-shoots, with live performances and interviews with the likes of The Jam, The Police, The Clash, Ian Drury, The Specials, Boomtown Rats, Madness etc etc... some wonderful memories.

 

[plastic penguin]

Get Carter on ITV4, probably one of Caine's best films, along with the Italian Job and Educating Rita.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Recorded rather than watched, but Mortimer and Whitehouse - Gone Fishing is back on again. Great TV.

 

[Dave_]

Recorded rather than watched, but Mortimer and Whitehouse - Gone Fishing is back on again. Great TV.

Yep. Grabbed it off iPlayer this morning.

Pretty much the only BBC output I watch these days.

 

[DCarmi]

That said, the Enterprise looks better than I would have expected for something so old

Saw the original model in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington many years ago, One of those unexpected "Wow!" moments.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Yep. Grabbed it off iPlayer this morning.

Pretty much the only BBC output I watch these days.

The Beeb 2 HD recording looked decidedly SD. Uncharacteristically, for the series.

 

[Dave_]

The Beeb 2 HD recording looked decidedly SD. Uncharacteristically, for the series.

The iPlayer version I downloaded certainly didn't.

Perhaps there was a issue with the series link and it recorded the wrong version?

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The iPlayer version I downloaded certainly didn't.

Perhaps there was a issue with the series link and it recorded the wrong version?

I'm going to delete the 'series record' and set it up again. Can't believe how much of a difference it made to the experience!

 

[plastic penguin]

BBC Sessions: Amy Winehouse on BBC2

Still a sad loss for such a talented individual.

 

[plastic penguin]

Classic movies: The Ladykillers on Sky Arts. Still one of my fav films.

Very good documentary.

 

[ianb]

From,season 2

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake on C5. He seems an engaging enough guy, and no doubt he's suitably clever - you don't get to be an astronaut if you're a dullard after all - but as with just about everything I've seen on C5 (admittedly not a lot!), the phrase 'dumbed down' doesn't do it justice. A pity, if not a surprise.

(Tim also had to do the voiceover for their twice-plugged competition - a long way down, in every sense, from being on the ISS...)

 

[Gray]

Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake on C5. He seems an engaging enough guy, and no doubt he's suitably clever - you don't get to be an astronaut if you're a dullard after all - but as with just about everything I've seen on C5 (admittedly not a lot!), the phrase 'dumbed down' doesn't do it justice. A pity, if not a surprise.

(Tim also had to do the voiceover for their twice-plugged competition - a long way down, in every sense, from being on the ISS...)

You probably saw 'Voyage to Mars: The Longest Goodbye' on BBC4.
If not, it's probably worth a look for you.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

You probably saw 'Voyage to Mars: The Longest Goodbye' on BBC4.
If not, it's probably worth a look for you.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that before - it was a repeat, wasn't it?

 

[Friesiansam]

Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake on C5. He seems an engaging enough guy, and no doubt he's suitably clever - you don't get to be an astronaut if you're a dullard after all - but as with just about everything I've seen on C5 (admittedly not a lot!), the phrase 'dumbed down' doesn't do it justice. A pity, if not a surprise.

(Tim also had to do the voiceover for their twice-plugged competition - a long way down, in every sense, from being on the ISS...)

Good quality science programmes, that are not dumbed down/condescending, are becoming a rare sight. BBC4 being repurposed as a BBC archive recycler, isn't going to help.

 

[Gray]

I'm pretty sure I've seen that before - it was a repeat, wasn't it?

It's the sort of thing that would get repeated (if not before now, it certainly will be in the future) - but I hadn't seen it before.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

It's the sort of thing that would get repeated (if not before now, it certainly will be in the future) - but I hadn't seen it before.

I appreciate you flagging it up though!

 

[BlakeHoobs]

Even if it's not a TV show, I watched Oppenheimer. It's so good better than I expected.

 

[James105]

Just treated myself to the box set of the original Star Trek - not seen it for years. Shonky sets, poor acting, plot holes (and we're only two episodes in) but loving it! (That said, the Enterprise looks better than I would have expected for something so old).

I think it's like a lot of things that I watched with my mum as a kid and therefore have innate fondness for.

You're right I just watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, then the TOS episode Balance of Terror thats inc' the old Enterprise doesn't look too bad.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

You're right I just watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, then the TOS episode Balance of Terror thats inc' the old Enterprise doesn't look too bad.

Are you watching the versions with 'enhanced' special effects? I am, and suspect that these shots have been given a sympathetic makeover (i.e. NOT like Lucas did with Star Wars) - the Enterprise in the opening credits looks no better than I remember!

 

[James105]

Are you watching the versions with 'enhanced' special effects? I am, and suspect that these shots have been given a sympathetic makeover (i.e. NOT like Lucas did with Star Wars) - the Enterprise in the opening credits looks no better than I remember!

It was just one episode that can with the strange new worlds box set, the video screen was pants, maybe its just been cleaned up for blu ray but it did look good.

Is the enhanced version named as a remaster or in anyway, I'll look it up on Amazon

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

It was just one episode that can with the strange new worlds box set, the video screen was pants, maybe its just been cleaned up for blu ray but it did look good.

Is the enhanced version named as a remaster or in anyway, I'll look it up on Amazon

Looks like this one, not easy to find:

Star Trek - The Original Series- Blu Ray box set - The Complete Series 1-3 | eBay

<p>Star Trek - The Original Series- Blu Ray box set - The Complete Series 1-3</p><br /><p>Used but box set and discs are in great condition.</p>

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[James105]

Looks like this one, not easy to find:

Star Trek - The Original Series- Blu Ray box set - The Complete Series 1-3 | eBay

<p>Star Trek - The Original Series- Blu Ray box set - The Complete Series 1-3</p><br /><p>Used but box set and discs are in great condition.</p>

www.ebay.co.uk

Amazon have a German issue for £70, so maybe. It lists English twice in languages

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Amazon have a German issue for £70, so maybe. It lists English twice in languages

Might be worth keeping looking - mine was £45.