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Great news for fans of the original Doctor Who...

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Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.
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Two whole episodes from the 'lost' William Hartnell story 'The Daleks' Master Plan' have been found on tape.
The BBC wiped dozens of old 1960's episodes in the early 1970's so they could re-use the tapes.

Finds of whole missing episodes are now extremely rare.
Even back in the 1960's there were a handful of video tape pioneers who made private recordings.
And occasionally a tape reel turns up that was sent out to an overseas broadcaster.
 
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Just watched the latest Predator movie on DVD
Predator : Badlands

Not a bad effort. Plenty of slicing & dicing, dismemberments, decapitations and general gore, as would be expected.
Remarkably though it has a 12 certificate.
Not even a 12A.

In fact, is there such a thing as 12A certificate these days?
Certificates on movies have certainly got more relaxed down the years.
 
lardiman said:
Just watched the latest Predator movie on DVD
Predator : Badlands

Not a bad effort. Plenty of slicing & dicing, dismemberments, decapitations and general gore, as would be expected.
Remarkably though it has a 12 certificate.
Not even a 12A.

In fact, is there such a thing as 12A certificate these days?
Certificates on movies have certainly got more relaxed down the years.
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Plenty of kids younger than twelve will be spending hour after hour killing and mutilating on their screens.

Innocence well and truly lost.
 
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I watched the original Predator a few days ago. Still a great film after all these years.

'I ain't got time to bleed.'

Arnie did some superb one-off movies, such as Commando, Running Man and Total Recall.

Highlander is another top film from the 80s. It should have ended there and then. The sequels are laughably bad.

Then Sly Stallone put in some fine shifts with the Rocky and Rambo flicks. First Blood is a masterpiece.
 
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First Blood is a better film than it seems to get credit for.
Made when those sentiments in America (against Vietnam veterans) were still strong.
The sequels are little more than macho action flicks, though watchable sometimes.

The original Rocky was a good movie too. Unvarnished, an uplifting tale about a downtrodden guy with almost nothing in life getting a shot at glory.
The American dream.
 
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Good to know that first-rate investigative journalism is not confined to Private Eye. The BBC expose of asylum seekers' advisors' corruption to wave them through, then the Guardian exposing Milord Mandy failing the vetting process <applause>
 
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Slightly off topic here, but the asylum lawyers corruption scandal is the most open secret in history.
Everybody knows it has been going on for donkey's years.
It's shameful that successive Governments have considered it too trivial to bother tackling.
And I'm embarrassed to see the Home Office behaving as though it is a shock revelation.

Still, it does maybe show what I have always believed - that the BBC tries to be as impartial as it can.
They've done their best to provide evidence, and cast some light on the matter.

So much of thins kind of shady and illegal practice goes on, quietly ignored by those who should be stamping it out.
Not just involving migrants. But all kinds of fraud and cheating (the benefits system for example).
 
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This country without the BBC would be in a much worse state. Interesting to see the first thing on the to do list apparently for the new Hungarian leader is to put a broadcasting agency not dissimilar to the BBC set up to help combat misinformation / state controlled media.
He has a task to do to route out the prolific corruption of the last leadership
 
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Seen in an antique shop in Faversham - a Gary Glitter LP. I informed the lady who worked in the cafe downstairs, and she said that she would tell the boss. She also said that at least there weren't any Rolf Harris records.
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Seen him in concert at Wembley Arena in the mid 90's. Village People were the support band.
It was a fantastic gig.
 
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The Penguin said:
Seen in an antique shop in Faversham - a Gary Glitter LP. I informed the lady who worked in the cafe downstairs, and she said that she would tell the boss. She also said that at least there weren't any Rolf Harris records.
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“Two little boys, had two little toys” :emoticon-0127-lipss
 
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lardiman said:
:emoticon-0153-broke

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Pussycat Dolls cancel US leg of reunion tour following poor ticket sales

The Dolls say the decision was "heartbreaking" but add that the European shows will go ahead as planned.
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Girl band fails to raise any interest <doh>
Name one of their songs anyone?
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Buttons.

Alright, I admit I had to enter your question into google for that answer.

Wasn’t Nicole Scherzinger best known as the muse of Lewis Hamilton at one stage ?

Never listened to any of their music but I did see Scherzinger live as Grizabella in a production of Cats a couple of times, singing Memory on stage. I have to say that she had an utterly fantastic voice when singing that song, so behind the glamour and PR she is genuinely very talented <applause>

Listen to this from about 3.10 onwards and tell me she can’t sing….

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Ubedizzytoo said:
Buttons.

Alright, I admit I had to enter your question into google for that answer.

Wasn’t Nicole Scherzinger best known as the muse of Lewis Hamilton at one stage ?

Never listened to any of their music but I did see Scherzinger live as Grizabella in a production of Cats a couple of times, singing Memory on stage. I have to say that she had an utterly fantastic voice when singing that song, so behind the glamour and PR she is genuinely very talented <applause>

Listen to this from about 3.10 onwards and tell me she can’t sing….

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She may be able to sing, but Andrew Lloyd-Webber can't compose a decent tune.
Memory is cringeworthily awful, like 98% of the rest of his stuff <yikes>

Only in my humble opinion of course :emoticon-0112-wonde
 
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<doh>

I presume you don’t know how many people have been to see his musicals over the last 58 years.
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OK, I'm probably the only person in the World who thinks his tunes are garbage.
But I'm not going to change my mind just because everyone else thinks he's a genius.
To me his material has all the emotional depth of a mid 1970's ABBA song.
But it pretends to be high art - which ABBA's enjoyable tinsel tunes have never done.
 
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