TWINE tonight on Aussie TV
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Which makes me wonder.
Who watches Bond on the television, even though most of us have the DVDs now?
I do but then the imprint channel logo or running captions advertising other shows at the bottom of the screen piss me off so much that I end up putting the disc in and watch the film uninterrupted.
Inevitably I finish up way earlier too, due to no ad breaks, just the odd pause for a cuppa or a toilet break.
What about the rest of you 007philes? :007) -{
Who watches Bond on the television, even though most of us have the DVDs now?
I do but then the imprint channel logo or running captions advertising other shows at the bottom of the screen piss me off so much that I end up putting the disc in and watch the film uninterrupted.
Inevitably I finish up way earlier too, due to no ad breaks, just the odd pause for a cuppa or a toilet break.
What about the rest of you 007philes? :007) -{
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
If there's a Bond playing, marathon or singlewise, I'll leave the station on, and fiddle around the house. Having one fill the silence equates comfort-zone to me. Regardless of whether it's edited, (AMC and USA do chop a LOT), I'll sit back and watch the good bits.
More often then not, I'm too lazy to get up and dig out a dvd.
At the moment, STV are showing the Bond films on Sunday nights in yet another opt-out from the main ITV network output in an effort to, in their words, "promote programming more relevant to the Scottish audience" (keeping a straight face here). To cut a long story short, the real reason is that STV doesn't have any money to show ITV favourites such as The Bill, Doc Martin, Benidorm (that's an OUTRAGE), Midsomer Murders et al, so instead force feeds us oodles of repeats, old films and cringe-cum-spasm inducing "Scottish programming" made on an £16.35 budget fronted by Greggs-loving Michelle McManus or that bloke off Taggart. I won't go into my anti-STV "I hope it goes bust and very soon" rant, but I decided on Sunday night to flick it over from Sky Channel 993 (ITV1 London, which I watch out of protest even when the schedules line up with STV) for You Only Live Twice and could not believe that, in the digital age, they were showing a copy that had the film's original opening United Artists card - not the silver UA with the slashes across it, or even the one with the Transamerica logo; I mean the blue and red and yellow boxes with United Artists written in a very 60s script. So I decided to keep watching in more detail to see if it might be a slightly different cut. Unfortunately, it wasn't, but I did get an hour of so of Bond before it was interrupted by News At Ten...
I don't know about the rest of you, but the reception for Channel 7 through my Foxtel is disgraceful! Blurred images, or just the dreaded F106 No Reception error message.
I called Foxtel and after 45 minutes (and at 8.20PM) the signal was restored, just in time for the movie. Oh yeah!
My 17-month old daughter watched the first 20 minutes (sitting on my knee with a warm bottle of milk) before I put her into bed, and my wife got up to M's attempted prison escape before she fell asleep on the couch.
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