My TV station of the PanicDemic - wonderful ITV3. First lockdown Poirot and Downton. Second lockdown; Downton again. Now Maigret (Gambon is superb).

Talking Pictures for me.
I am looking forward to Michael Caine in "Jack the Ripper" at nine.

Honey wrote:
Talking Pictures for me.
I am looking forward to Michael Caine in "Jack the Ripper" at nine.

I love the history of Talking Pictures. It started of with a bloke in a shed who worked for an ITV franchise back in the day, and he kept some of their archives. He has a passion for old movies and non of the mainstream channels show them much unless it's a classic. He saw gap in the market and took it.

I think his children and in-laws now do most of the operation. My partner always has it on when I go to her house, I like their horror slot on Friday nights. Of course I am also happy to sit down and watch a B-Western or smile at Laurel & Hardy; never found them hilarious but they were very amusing. I love the Marx Bros however trying to find someone who gets their jokes are hard to find.

I think we have about 30 free to air TV stations in Oz but they infuriatingly show repeats often within days.

I've seen every frigging renovated house in Britain and every god damned "move to the country" (where they never buy a house)or Spain and I'm sick of it

I would also give the award to Talking Pictures Tv. In a case of synchronicity, it showed a Charlie Chang movie last night just two days after the fictitious Hawaiian detective’s name cropped up on the Ultra quiz video appearing on this board!

Honey wrote:
Talking Pictures for me.
I am looking forward to Michael Caine in "Jack the Ripper" at nine.
I remember seeing that film in 1988, the hundredth anniversary of the killings. Following on from reading all the gory details in the newspaper, accompanied by the old black-and-white photos of the victims, which seemed timeless, without anything to make them look any more dated than current B&W photos in the newspaper, almost making the crimes seem current, the film terrified me. I didn't sleep a wink the night after I saw it. Hope you had a good viewing experience!

Green Man wrote:
Of course I am also happy to sit down and watch a B-Western or smile at Laurel & Hardy; never found them hilarious but they were very amusing. I love the Marx Bros however trying to find someone who gets their jokes are hard to find.
I like Laurel and Hardy too, their humour doesn't seem to date, and Groucho Marx jokes (e.g. "Don't point that beard at me. It might go off.")

For anyone who likes oldish films, there's a YouTube channel called Flick Vault that you might want to explore. Some of the films don't seem all that great, probably not the quality of Talking Pictures, but it has the occasional good one, like Walkabout, or Charade.

Huge Talking Pictures fan for years; before that it was Drama.

Jo wrote:
Honey wrote:
Talking Pictures for me.
I am looking forward to Michael Caine in "Jack the Ripper" at nine.
I remember seeing that film in 1988, the hundredth anniversary of the killings. Following on from reading all the gory details in the newspaper, accompanied by the old black-and-white photos of the victims, which seemed timeless, without anything to make them look any more dated than current B&W photos in the newspaper, almost making the crimes seem current, the film terrified me. I didn't sleep a wink the night after I saw it. Hope you had a good viewing experience!

Green Man wrote:
Of course I am also happy to sit down and watch a B-Western or smile at Laurel & Hardy; never found them hilarious but they were very amusing. I love the Marx Bros however trying to find someone who gets their jokes are hard to find.
I like Laurel and Hardy too, their humour doesn't seem to date, and Groucho Marx jokes (e.g. "Don't point that beard at me. It might go off.")

For anyone who likes oldish films, there's a YouTube channel called Flick Vault that you might want to explore. Some of the films don't seem all that great, probably not the quality of Talking Pictures, but it has the occasional good one, like Walkabout, or Charade.

Walkabout is a classic.

Look at The Silent Comedy Watch Party on YouTube. A friend of mine is a co-founder.

Actually Jo, Pardon Us by Laurel and Hardy is dated due to blackface and and theirs a reference to Amos and Andy.