HOLY FUCKING SHIT
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On ITV on Spring Bank Holiday 1983, Sunday 12th January 1986 and after that a couple late night regional screenings. First aired on the BBC in 2011.
First Takes - John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
Jeremy watches the documentary about the much-loved actor and comedian who died at the height of his fame aged only 43, directed by Colin Hanks.
youtu.be/sL1lrqrj1_Y?...
Garth Vader.
First Takes - Limelight (1952)
Jeremy watches the melodrama written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce and Sydney Earl Chaplin.
youtu.be/392S57wbEP4?...
See other reply.
I know, but I wanted to focus on the show and ran out of space.
Incredible that no one remembers there was a live-action Terminator series that ran two seasons on network television and it was mostly very good. Some original twists on the concept, clever use of a tight budget and an intriuging arc that was never resolved. youtu.be/gkIyHSitUMc?...
People Like Us, the series ripped off to make The Office.
A reporter follows people around in a different job each week, with fantastic wordplay and characterisation and guest actors like Bill Nighy, Olivia Colman and David Tennant. Hilarious, though the main actor was later cancelled.
There was a billboard for that still up in London (UK) about five years after it aired. I guess no one flashed forward to a time it wasn't on anymore.
Not just seen it, watched it on original broadcast! It's really superb.
The Book Group, a Scottish dramedy from 2001-2 about a reading group in Glasgow composed of soccer players' bored wives, a closeted gay man, a disabled former climber, a heroin addict and an illegal immigrant... from the US.
Brilliantly written and acted, I've never heard anyone else mention it.
The director guests on a podcast that rips the piss out of the movie for a couple of hours. He clearly didn't think much of it either. youtu.be/zxPx6mTG9PY?...
It’s almost like the UK’s right-wing press doesn’t actually reflect public opinion but instead the fevered imaginations of a very small group of sociopaths.
And the results:
1 (N) Hoppers $46m
2 (1) Scream 7 $17.3m
3 (N) The Bride! $7.3m
4 (2) Goat $6.6m
5 (3) Wuthering Heights $3.8m
Protector 12th/$0.7m.
S7 drops sharply, but The Bride crashes.
I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
First Takes - Fast X (2023)
Jeremy watches the action adventure sequel directed by Louis Leterrier and starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, John Cena, Brie Larson, Jason Momoa and Charlize Theron.
youtu.be/pUahz64AdB8
Beautiful.
STERAM NOW
Channel 5 - a quality broadcaster.
It all starts at 40m24s on this:
www.podnose.com/the-sitcom-c...
Not so much a fess as a general statement of fact.
Noting incidents when Jesus did things that Reform gets in a froth about would be a good idea, like trusting foreigners, befriending sex workers and condemning unchecked capitalism.
First Takes - Afterburn (2025)
Jeremy watches the sci-fi action drama directed by JJ Perry and starring Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju and Samuel L Jackson.
youtu.be/t6GIn8PUKlc?...
Suddenly reminded of the alternate theme from Trouble in Mind featured on @thesitcomclub.bsky.social by @tiltaraiza.bsky.social and @mooncatandco.bsky.social and had a giggling fit.
Averages of the weekend's box office forecast:
1 (N) Hoppers $44.9m
2 (1) Scream 7 $22m
3 (N) The Bride! $11.4m
4 (2) Goat $6.4m
5 (3) Wuthering Heights $3.6m
Next week, Undertone and Reminders of Him.
I have been namechecked in two major UK sitcoms.
I have sung on stage at London’s leading gay nightclub, despite being neither a singer nor gay.
I took music lessons with the daughter of the keyboard player from Genesis.
And the results:
1 (N) Scream 7 $63.6m
2 (1) Goat $12m
3 (2) Wuthering Heights $6.7m
4 (N) Twenty-One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined $3.7m
5 (7) EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert $3.5m
S7 overperforms with the series' biggest opening, in line with the adjusted openings of 2 in 1997 and 3 in 2000.
