Bless This House feature film on Talking Pictures TV. With Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott & June Whitfield

I've been watching a documentary about a company that specialises in loans to people with bad credit history and they don't do any credit checks. Instead they go through all the persons finances and outgoings to determine if they can afford the repayments. What I am so amazed at is they loan to people who are not working and on benefits and use the benefits to repay the loan. One woman had an agreement to use her child benefit to repay the loan and someone else got a £1200 loan so she could buy her kids Christmas presents with the repayments coming out of her Universal Credit payments. It should be illegal for loan companies to loan to people who have to repay it out of benefits.

American Horror Story again. It's so sick, but I love it!

I've reached the end of all the seasons of AHS that are free on Netflix and I refuse to pay for Apocalypse on Amazon, so I've just started The Haunting of Hill House. A few minutes into the first episode...there is talk of the 'bent neck lady'. Apparently, so says the father of the poor kids who live in Hill house, whatever nasty things they're seeing are just dreams spilling over. Yeah...right.

I woke up with a stiff achy back, so I'm sitting here waiting for the scares with my tens unit whacked up to max and an electrical current running wild right to the ends of my hair. I have a metal bar behind my front teeth...and now I'm imagining it conducting forked lightning to and fro between the light switches and plug sockets until I'm fried to a crisp. I bought this new coffee. It's very strong. I've had five cups.

Good morning everyone!

Alas smith and jones

The one with Stanley Rogers

MWAHAHAA

I'm watching BBC4 - one of those music documentaries that has probably been repeated many times.

This is an intriguing one about Irish Showbands which I'd been aware of for many years but knew nothing about really. Ardal O'Hanlan narrating.

Just started watching The OA. It's on Netflix and the A isn't written as a proper A, you know the one I mean. Nicely sinister...so far. A blind girl went missing about seven years ago. Now she's back and can see, but seems to want to go back to wherever she's been for all those years. She's just told the Police that she, and others she was with, died several times. It's not funny at all...sorry.

I'm actually watching the very first episode of Timewasters, but will continue this post on the appropriate thread.

I'm watching "April Love" (1957) starring Pat Boone and Shirley Jones.

I'm only eight minutes into it but it seems to be a classic of the genre.

I'd much prefer to be watching something like "The Godfather" or "Goodfellas" but I've seen them several times before so it's back to the 1950s and rural America for me!

I watch a channel on Virgin called Talking Pictures they have loads of classic movies and shows yesterday I watched Two Way Stretch and The Wrong Arm of the Law and I'm Alright Jack was on the other day as well. I also tape Callan at 9pm each night and watch it on my dinner. I was too young to realise how gritty it was

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I watch a channel on Virgin called Talking Pictures they have loads of classic movies and shows yesterday I watched Two Way Stretch and The Wrong Arm of the Law and I'm Alright Jack was on the other day as well. I also tape Callan at 9pm each night and watch it on my dinner. I was too young to realise how gritty it was

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Tick VG Gold Star! Watched Callan every week in the late 60s. In fact, I seem to remember it was the first programme I watched in colour on our new Sony Trinitron.

The recently showed a series called Dangerous Knowledge for the 70's with John Griegson and Patrick Allen and a young Ralph Bates playing a stone cold killer. It was corny but I watched all 6 episodes as I had to see what happened.
It was of the same genre as Callan but not a patch on it in my humble whats it .

I remember the opening sequence had a swinging light fixture with no shade and the bulb shattered, which may not sound much but I always found it quite chilling. Also wasn't there a smelly character (a Scotsman?) that helped Callan with snippets from the underworld?

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Also wasn't there a smelly character (a Scotsman?) that helped Callan with snippets from the underworld?

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That would be "Lonely" played by Scottish actor Russell Hunter.

Harry's Hero's.
Harry Rednap putting a team of ex-England footballers together to play against ex-German footballers.
When I say ex, I mean they are all in their mid to late 50's and very unfit.
They might have lost definition and have pot bellies but the skill is still there.
Neville Southhall is a scream but Harry is very concerned about his 22 1/2 stone weight.