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Post by caroline on Apr 17, 2007 17:29:42 GMT 1
Say what now?
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Post by carolyn on Apr 17, 2007 17:56:43 GMT 1
It was a 60 minute documentary following a guy called Gil who was an Elvis Impersonator. Was brilliant TV if you like laughing at crazy people. Not only was he an Elvis fanatic, he also believed that Elvis' spirit was with him and guided him through life. In a happy coincidence, Gil's son was a medium and was able to take on the spirit of Elvis at will. When Elvis was 'visiting' this teenage boy he liked to do Elvis Karaoke for the whole family and perform blessings on the neighbors.
You may recall that some time last year, Uri Gellor (sp?) tried to buy Elvis' house from Ebay. This documentary was filmed around that time. When Gil hears that Uri is trying to buy his house, Gil becomes convinced that Elvis will put him and Uri in touch with each other, presumably because they have such a shared love of Elvis?? He is in Paris at the time, at an convention I think, anyway, waits in a cafe for about 3 days convinced Uri will call him. The documentary maker feels sorry for him and pulls a few strings and gets Uri to call Gill. Gil is delighted and goes on and on about how this proves he was right about Elvis looking out for him. Uri seems convinced as well that it was Elvis that made him make the phonecall. The film maker tries to make it clear that it was he who got the call made, but they are not having any of it.
The family (Gil, son, wife and step-son are all involved in this) claim that they receive many letters from Elvis. They are always screwed up in a ball and written in Hebrew(the first language in heaven). During the documentary the wife is just sitting in a room talking to camera when someone just off camera throws a screwed up bit of paper into the room. She gets very exited as it is a letter from Elvis saying he will pop by later to see them. The film maker tried to reason with her that it was likely to be one of the children, who were kinda just outside the door, but she was adamant.
The first time the family tried to demonstrate Elvis' spirit entering the son it wasn't really working - they claimed that was because Elvis does a show in heaven every night and he was probably busy doing that.
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Post by caroline on Apr 17, 2007 18:44:04 GMT 1
I did see that previewed, come to think of it. He (well, the whole family) sounds mad as a bag of spiders.
Yay for the entertainingly deluded!
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Post by carrie on May 18, 2007 10:24:59 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on May 18, 2007 12:16:54 GMT 1
Hmm, how about Celebrity Big Brother Hostel?
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Post by carrie on May 18, 2007 14:27:10 GMT 1
from the sound of it stu found the story.
in brief 'lord of the flies reality tv show'
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Post by carrie on May 18, 2007 16:30:45 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on May 19, 2007 12:28:04 GMT 1
Still no Channel 5 in the Old Town!
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Post by bagpuss on May 26, 2007 17:10:02 GMT 1
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Post by stuhuggett on May 29, 2007 12:12:44 GMT 1
BBC4, us? Wake up, you soggy old cloth catpuss.
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Post by carrie on May 29, 2007 12:19:31 GMT 1
oops!
may i suggest watching when 'tis on bbc2 in the near future (for the nonbbc4ed)
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Post by stuhuggett on May 29, 2007 12:20:42 GMT 1
Was it good then? I noticed 'Oliver Postgate' had added some negative comments to the Times Online article you'd linked to.
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Post by carrie on May 29, 2007 12:33:11 GMT 1
some and some. not hugely impartial (bbc vs itv), some interesting (well, different than usual) interviews. there was some direct contradiction between 'tv on trial' and the postgate/firmin programme screened afterward.
tvontrial,postgate talking about clangers 'they said they wanted our next show to be colour, they didn't care what it was, s long as it was in colour'
followingprogramme voiceover ' the bbc asked them to do a space themed show'
oh bugger, well it's better than the sodding apprentice and (somewhat pre-emptively from the mouse in the corner) big bloody brother AND the seven ages of rock...hello here's some old bbc footage of gigs and interviews with musicians and the like, edited together in a way they haven't yet been done, lets see if anyone notices the interview with clapton is from 1989!!!grrr!
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Post by carrie on May 29, 2007 13:00:18 GMT 1
Hmm, how about Celebrity Big Brother Hostel? is that hostel like the film? terrible film, the first half was just bad. the second, horrible. i nearly threw up, i have never been sick watching a film before.
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Post by petra on May 29, 2007 13:38:59 GMT 1
OH my god.
Dutch woman to donate kidney in reality TV show PA Published: 29 May 2007 A terminally-ill Dutch woman will select a recipient for one of her kidneys in the latest production from Endemol, makers of Big Brother. The Big Donor Show will be shown in the Netherlands on Friday despite calls from the Dutch Government for it to be scrapped, according to Newspaper De Telegraaf. Broadcaster BNN said the programme would go ahead in which a 37-year-old, named only as Lisa, would choose a recipient from one of three people with kidney problems. BNN said the programme was designed to highlight the problems facing people needing organ transplants and was also a tribute to BNN founder Bart de Graaff, who died of kidney failure five years ago, despite several transplants. Political critics in the Netherlands have called the show "wretched" and unethical, news reports said. The row comes after Channel 4 was rapped in the UK by broadcasting watchdog Ofcom over the racist bullying in the last series of Celebrity Big Brother involving Jade Goody and Indian actress Shetty.
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Post by stuhuggett on May 29, 2007 22:29:10 GMT 1
'Paedophile Island' anyone?
I never wanted to watch 'Hostel', thanks for confirming it's shit, Carrie.
And yeah 'Seven Ages Of Rock' is awful. The same people who made the excellent 'Dancing In The Streets' tv-series (which focussed on the interplay of ideas & influences between black and white musicians) now being responsible for his Mojo/Uncut/Q-propping piece of canonical trash, gah! Those ancient interviews of which Carrie speaks are all off-cuts from 'Dancing In The Streets' et al! Plus, if you're gonna source original rare archive footage of musicians, don't add a load of visual effects to the raw material! Early Pink Floyd promos and Warhol's Factory shoots don't need modern BBC 'psychedelic' effects overlayed onto them; and the 'Ziggy Stardust' live-footage doesn't need faked 'grainy' alteration. Respect the original camera-operators & directors intentions, and show the footage clearly! Dorks.
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Post by caroline on May 30, 2007 0:20:10 GMT 1
Yeah, I decided not to watch 'Hostel' when Lou (a hardened horror fan) admitted that it was 'a bit gory'..!
Unrelated, we just finished watching series one of 'Life on Mars' (yes, we're a bit slow on the uptake, what of it?), which rocks. Quite hard.
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Post by Michael on May 30, 2007 11:31:24 GMT 1
I made a point to watch the art school episode as there was no band practice and I do like a bit of the old early Floyd/Roxy/Bowie/Velvet action. Half a bottle of wine down and I'm watching Phil Collins and cursing the TV gods.
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Post by stuhuggett on May 30, 2007 11:39:27 GMT 1
Even the visual effects, such as the fade-ins & outs of vinyl albums to reveal the sleeves & contents, were just lifted straight from 'Dancing In The Streets'. Re-heated bones, it is.
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Post by carrie on Jul 11, 2007 11:29:51 GMT 1
we watched channel 4's big new drama cape wrath last night. it was quite good.
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Post by carrie on Jul 23, 2007 20:42:17 GMT 1
tonights panorama 'immigration,where we lost count' is sounding hugely racist.
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 30, 2007 22:41:39 GMT 1
Star Stories repeated tonight, 11:30pm, Channel 4 - they're doing Take That. And on Friday - Tom Cruise & Scientology. Beauty!
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Post by carrie on Jul 30, 2007 23:53:05 GMT 1
ooh, we saw the take that one, it were fab...
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Post by stuhuggett on Jul 31, 2007 7:23:55 GMT 1
Bit reactionary though? Still, nice to see 'Nigel Martin-Smith' played by... young Jim Hawkins from 'Muppetts' Treasure Island'!
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Post by carolyn on Sept 21, 2007 8:57:21 GMT 1
There is a factory documentary on BBC4 tonight at 9.00. Not sure if it a repeat or not though. We do have a digibox but have never really been able to get it to work - will have another try when I get home from work.
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 22, 2007 12:40:00 GMT 1
Yay, I fixed the digibox! Boo, our housemate talked all the way through it ("This is really like that film 'Twenty-Four Hour Party People'" etc)!
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Post by carrie on Oct 4, 2007 21:37:44 GMT 1
not finding peter serafinowincz funny, nor was vivenne vyl because you can't spoof jeremy kyle.
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 5, 2007 13:22:02 GMT 1
Peter Serafinowincz was ok ("Bang! Bang! Bang!"), but I particularly enjoyed the '...Vivienne Vyle' show - Miranda Richardson's always worthwhile. Both better than Mitchell & Webb anyway.
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Post by carolyn on Oct 12, 2007 16:16:17 GMT 1
I cannot remember where this was posted first - but anyone with a Digibox might be interested in this on Sunday night.
Oh, I cannot work technology - well - it's Brighton's Dirty Cakes and Lyrically Scar'd on that Singing with the Enemy, Sunday, 10.00pm on BBC3.
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 16, 2007 13:51:38 GMT 1
Courtney Love on the Graham Norton show the other night was not good.
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