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crispix posted:BBC is putting Battlestar Galactica (2000s) box set on iPlayer and they're showing it on BBC2 tonight from 21:45. Seems like an odd thing for them to do but I like the show. Well, the first 2 seasons before it became wank Yeah, it’s a good series, but I don’t see the point in the BBC buying old US tv to show - they have no reason to exist if they’re not making original, British content.
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wooger posted:Yeah, it’s a good series, but I don’t see the point in the BBC buying old US tv to show - they have no reason to exist if they’re not making original, British content. TV production was shut down for months, and now is still way below what it'd normally be. plus lots of events that'd normally have been televised have been cancelled. so if the BBC buy some cheap filler is that really such a bad thing?
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People poo poo on Battlestar Galactica all the time but its remarkable we got anything remotely good out of it considering its production. They were stuck on a TV station that had no idea how to deal with something that was critically hailed out of the gate, so they constantly found reasons to gently caress around with it and make it worse. They could have stuck with having 13 episodes a season like they started out, but nope, they bumped it up to 20 in 2 and 3 and then started the concept of "minisodes" which led to a writers strike that damaged it further, plus the TV movies which are mostly unnecessary and then they finally just gave up. I will also go to bat for it every single time. Theres no show that was bold enough to set a military occupation during the height of the Iraq war which includes a sympathetic depiction of suicide bombers. It was always political in brilliant ways from the start in a way that most media would shy away from now. The soundtrack completely owns too. I'm glad Bear McCreary has gone on to have a lot of success in his career but his work on BSG is incredible. Gorn Myson fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Sep 5, 2020 23:56
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wooger posted:Yeah, it’s a good series, but I don’t see the point in the BBC buying old US tv to show - they have no reason to exist
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Sep 5, 2020 23:57
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Gorn Myson posted:People poo poo on Battlestar Galactica all the time but its remarkable we got anything remotely good out of it considering its production. They were stuck on a TV station that had no idea how to deal with something that was critically hailed out of the gate, so they constantly found reasons to gently caress around with it and make it worse. They could have stuck with having 13 episodes a season like they started out, but nope, they bumped it up to 20 in 2 and 3 and then started the concept of "minisodes" which led to a writers strike that damaged it further, plus the TV movies which are mostly unnecessary and then they finally just gave up. First 2 (and a bit) series were great. The way battlestar galactica treated it's gay characters was bizarre, not mentioning it at all except in the straight to DVD film that wasn't initially intended to be shown on TV. A real relic of the early 2000s
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Sep 6, 2020 00:01
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Strawman posted:First 2 (and a bit) series were great. The way battlestar galactica treated it's gay characters was bizarre, not mentioning it at all except in the straight to DVD film that wasn't initially intended to be shown on TV. A real relic of the early 2000s
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Sep 6, 2020 00:15
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Gorn Myson posted:
Dude is some kind of mad genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPu3XBSlJyk loving accordions!
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Sep 6, 2020 12:25
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They only showed the pilot last night and apparently they're not showing any more of the series on BBC2 - just iPlayer? Lol what are they doing :/
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Sep 6, 2020 13:12
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wooger posted:Yeah, it’s a good series, but I don’t see the point in the BBC buying old US tv to show - they have no reason to exist if they’re not making original, British content. Then at some point (in the 90s, I think?) it was decided that, for BBC1 at least, everything had to be home-grown. So say hello to Saturday night high-quality hits like Crime Traveller and Bugs! (BBC2 at least still ran US stuff, so we got The X Files and 24 that way. Until Sky inevitably outbid them.)
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Sep 6, 2020 18:18
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The thing that bugs me about BSG on BBC2 is that i'm sure it's doing that typical US show sightly sped up on UK TV thing. As a result everyone sounds slightly higher pitch than they should.
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Kin posted:The thing that bugs me about BSG on BBC2 is that i'm sure it's doing that typical US show sightly sped up on UK TV thing. As a result everyone sounds slightly higher pitch than they should. 4% speed up is pretty much the only way to air film on PAL broadcasts, not much you can do about it. It’s good that more modern delivery methods just output 24p and TVs these days just accept it.
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Sep 6, 2020 20:10
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So is the first episode “28”?
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Sep 6, 2020 20:25
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The_Doctor posted:So is the first episode “28”? Think theres a miniseries before that
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Sep 6, 2020 20:27
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The_Doctor posted:So is the first episode “28”? ...33?
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Sep 6, 2020 20:37
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...it's slightly sped up, you see.
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Sep 6, 2020 20:48
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The_Doctor posted:...it's slightly sped up, you see.
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EL BROMANCE posted:4% speed up is pretty much the only way to air film on PAL broadcasts, not much you can do about it. It’s good that more modern delivery methods just output 24p and TVs these days just accept it. I had never considered that before.
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Kin posted:The thing that bugs me about BSG on BBC2 is that i'm sure it's doing that typical US show sightly sped up on UK TV thing. As a result everyone sounds slightly higher pitch than they should. This hasn't been a thing since terrestrial analogue.
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Sep 6, 2020 21:03
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Payndz posted:When I was a kid, the BBC ran loads of US shows in prime time - the quality was variable, obviously, but it brought us things like Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, MASH, The Rockford Files, Starsky & Hutch and so on. Sometime in the noughties, it became a dumping ground for cheap quiz shows and other tat.
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Sep 6, 2020 21:06
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Khablam posted:When did you last watch TV?!
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Sep 6, 2020 21:08
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Pablo Bluth posted:The need to convert from 30fps to 25fps hasn't gone away with the switch to digital.
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Sep 6, 2020 21:20
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Of course BSG was filmed in 24p not 30p. Looking at BBC specific technical delivery standards document (PDF).,The BBC posted:24p and 24/1.001p to 25p – speed change is the recommended conversion process.
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Sep 6, 2020 21:33
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Pablo Bluth posted:Sometime in the noughties, it became a dumping ground for cheap quiz shows and other tat. Flog it, then The Weakest Link. The hour of the day when you could hear the shout all over the land 'Turn it over to the Simpsons' on channel 4.
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Sep 6, 2020 22:13
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The_Doctor’s gag was excellent
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Sep 6, 2020 22:17
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Pablo Bluth posted:My teenage years were defined by The BBC2 weekday 6PM slot. It was the tv slot that mattered: Fresh Prince, Star Trek TNG, Startrek DS9, Startrek Voyager , Simpsons, Robot Wars, Buffy, Quantum Leap, Malcom in the Middle, Sliders, Roswell, Farscape, ... Yes, agree fully. They wonder why anyone under 30 barely watches TV (which there are obviously other reasons for) but none of the TV that we used to watch is even there any more. Saturday morning kids shows ( the lovely studio ones with cartoons interspersed) don’t exist either as far as I know. In the case of the BBCs latest purchases though, they’re not even going to be shown on TV, iPlayer only. Maybe if they haven’t got any new content, and can’t make any content, they should just not show anything at all, and give us back some license fee. They have decades of never repeated BBC stuff they could repeat, or make available of iPlayer anyway, surely?
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Pablo Bluth posted:My teenage years were defined by The BBC2 weekday 6PM slot. It was the tv slot that mattered: Fresh Prince, Star Trek TNG, Startrek DS9, Startrek Voyager , Simpsons, Robot Wars, Buffy, Quantum Leap, Malcom in the Middle, Sliders, Roswell, Farscape, ... Randall and Hopkirk! And a few years prior to that I think Friday 6pm was home to the Gerry Anderson re-runs. Ridiculous cultural eduction, that. Plus on a Friday you'd only have about an hour and a half to wait before the *actually good* comedy would start...
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Sep 7, 2020 09:59
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Let's also not forget Liquid Television.
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Sep 7, 2020 10:43
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There was also a brief run of a cinematic adventure sports show. It's stuck in my memory because there was a brief nipple shot when a women dived off a waterfall/cliff (ah, the time before we had internet porn overload). Edit: They Who Date. Found it via the BBC's new online search of old Radio Times. Ran for two seasons between 94-95. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Sep 7, 2020 10:56
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crispix posted:BBC is putting Battlestar Galactica (2000s) box set on iPlayer and they're showing it on BBC2 tonight from 21:45. Seems like an odd thing for them to do but I like the show. Well, the first 2 seasons before it became wank Feels like about ten years since they did the same for The Wire just to get people to stop bothering them about it.
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I think I was rewatching it on amazon or Netflix last year until it suddenly got removed, think I got up to the bit where a few characters go off on a side mission on a garbage ship, which I think I remember being a good place to stop. Might resume it though now if it's on iplayer, should complete the series in time for my license fee to expire.
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Sep 7, 2020 11:52
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wooger posted:Yes, agree fully. Saturday night was the first time in years I've made a point of putting the TV for something and I assumed they were going to show an episode or two every Saturday. But nope lol
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Sep 7, 2020 12:57
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I just took a look at the TV guide and it does seem rather pathetic now. I used to love getting up in a morning and watching Going Live or Get Fresh or Live & Kicking or Ghost Train. Hell, i even appreciated Number 73 and Parallel 9 when they were airing. Seems a shame not to have them anymore.
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Sep 7, 2020 14:46
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I remember Motor Mouth having the Batman:TAS premiere.
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Sep 7, 2020 15:05
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Kids will never know the joy of going to school and being part of the large group of people discussing the Knightmare episode yesterday where they actually WON!! That show was drat stressful to a 11 year old.
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Tsietisin posted:Kids will never know the joy of going to school and being part of the large group of people discussing the Knightmare episode yesterday where they actually WON!! Given it was usually broadcast on a Friday, you are correct, most won't have known that joy!
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Sep 7, 2020 15:20
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It was broadcast on Mondays for the first couple of seasons.
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Tsietisin posted:Kids will never know the joy of going to school and being part of the large group of people discussing the Knightmare episode yesterday where they actually WON!! WARNING TEAM 
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Sep 7, 2020 19:33
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Ooooohhhh... Naaaasssty.... The graphics with the face falling apart used to freak me the gently caress out.
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Tsietisin posted:Ooooohhhh... Naaaasssty.... Same, because the speed with which it fell apart when it was visible was way too fast. It meant the player would have been dead in about 20 seconds.
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This is a cool searchable archive of old Radio Times between 1923 and 2009 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/
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