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Does anyone else watch Talking Pictures Channel?

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Housewife2010 · 16/06/2019 21:13

It's channel 81 on Freeview and I love it. There's lots of ancient TV and films and I've discovered some gems. I love that it's a tiny family run channel and after a couple of years it's now in some of the main TV listing guides.

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Processedpea · 16/06/2019 21:15

Yes quite a bit. Love watching shadows from the 70s at the moment

Quintella · 16/06/2019 21:16

Yes. Love catching some long forgotten 1940s gem.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 16/06/2019 21:18

It's my Saturday afternoon treat. It's lovely.

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Housewife2010 · 16/06/2019 21:28

Processedpea My DD and I love watching Shadows.
There's a great Talking Pictures Discussion Group on FB. I love it. It's very friendly and I find out about programmes that are coming on.

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Processedpea · 16/06/2019 21:33

I'm on that too 😁

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Housewife2010 · 16/06/2019 21:39

It's great isn't it? I love some of the short films they show. There was a great early 70s one recently about how to use the telephone at work. I loved it.

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Processedpea · 16/06/2019 22:07

They're showing armchair thriller from tomorrow am looking forward to that

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Housewife2010 · 16/06/2019 22:17

I fancy that. I'm not sure what time it's on. I can never record anything because it involves moving wires from the X box and harddrive recorder at the back of our TV.

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Processedpea · 17/06/2019 09:31

It's on 23.30 tonight part 1 A dogs ransom

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Housewife2010 · 17/06/2019 10:47

I'll have a look on YouTube. I wish there was a talking pictures iPlayer - maybe in a few years.

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MinesaPinot · 17/06/2019 13:24

Oh yes, I love it. They have some fantastic old films on there. For instance, I watched 'Yield to the Night' not overly long ago - a film with Diana Dors giving a sterling performance which was very influenced by the Ruth Ellis story. A friend of ours put me on to this channel knowing how much I like old films - it's a great discovery.

Greyhoundsaregreyt · 17/06/2019 13:28

Yes. I love the random short information clips, like a day in the life of a greengrocer in Edgeware Road in 1950, etc. Grin

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Housewife2010 · 17/06/2019 15:14

Yes, the information clips are great. Yield to the Night is a very good film and Diana Dors was great in it. They recently showed A Kind of Loving which I hadn't seen for years and it was still so good ( I was disappointed when I recently saw Georgie Girl. I'd loved it many years ago and now I really didn't think much of it.)

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tobee · 17/06/2019 15:46

Omg yes! I have it on now!

I started a thread on the film board a year or so ago. Nobody replied! Marked myself down as a weirdo!

There are some quite crappy 1970s tv stuff on sometimes with low production values. Some of the old British films have great scenes of 50s/60s etc Britain even if the plots might be a bit ropey. Grin

Like the future presentation trailers also.

tobee · 17/06/2019 15:49

Not a fan of Dirk Bogarde but there was a good one on about a criminal and little boy on the run this morning called Hunted. With amazing child actor John Whitely.

tobee · 17/06/2019 15:49

Here

Does anyone else watch Talking Pictures Channel?
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Housewife2010 · 17/06/2019 16:29

tobee
I never go on the film board. We had rubbish reception of TPTV until about a year ago. I enjoyed the Robin's Nest repeats recently. Shadows in half an hour !

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Processedpea · 17/06/2019 18:31

I like the 70s crappy stuff the best Grin

PrivateIsles · 17/06/2019 18:38

Yes it's fab! Love it - they show some absolute gems on there - some that I've never heard of but sound great from the description, and then turn out to be brilliant.

I follow them on twitter but didn't know there was an FB group!

PS if you like old films we have a classic films thread running on the films board and we post a fair bit about Talking Pics...

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Housewife2010 · 17/06/2019 22:18

PrivateIsles Come and join us on the Talking Pictures TV Discussion Group . I'll have a look at the film board.

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tobee · 18/06/2019 01:08

I do like some crappy 70s tv stuff on Talking Pictures (although Armchair Theatre was the same plot every night. A middle aged man has an affair Grin)

It used to be mostly films I think but maybe they're are running out of the back catalogue?

Really enjoyed some of the interviews eg Tyler Butterworth and also Sid James's daughter. They also had Liz Frazer on talking about her career. She sadly died not long after it was broadcast.

Susiesoap7 · 18/06/2019 10:51

I love it, put it on when all the other channels are rubbish, love the sixties ones!

IrmaFayLear · 18/06/2019 10:57

I discovered this a while ago. The short films are fascinating. We all enjoyed one about making a pie out of vegetable peelings. It wasn't a straightforward information film about wastage, but was distinctly artistically eerie.

Try to catch And Soon the Darkness when it next comes round. It was really scary! Two girls on a cycling holiday in France.

tobee · 18/06/2019 11:15

Grand National Night on now! That's a good one. Smile

Susiesoap7 · 18/06/2019 16:48

And soon the darkness is good, I've watched it twice and missed the ending! Had to look it up lol
Watched the Family way the other night, really enjoyed it

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