What TV Have You Seen?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

16,000 isn't many. The Radio Times one i got had around 24,000 in it.

Without looking, The Radio Times film guide has much shorter reviews than Leonard Maltin's (comparable to those in the Halliwell's film guide), and both of those are shorter than the very lengthy entries in the Virgin Film Guide, one I used to buy every year.

I have no idea how many feature films have ever been made, and the number will be much higher if you include short films and TV shows, but guess the number would be well over 1 million.

[Justin101]

I used to buy the Time Out film guide each year. No idea how many reviews they had in but they were good reviews! Huge books.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

I used to buy the Time Out film guide each year. No idea how many reviews they had in but they were good reviews! Huge books.

I only have one Time Out film guide and it is a brilliant reference book. If you see a copy available at a good price, it would be a good investment.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Having derided Cannibal movies the other day what should i see tonight during the final throes of my Xena Warrior Princess box set run through but the episode The Abyss in which Xena and Gabrielle have to fight a tribe of cannibals.

It was fantastic. There was genuine threat involved, from both the bitter weather and the terrifying cannibals, one of whom stabbed Gabrielle who was close to death until the tribe took her and disinfected the wound. As she was told, the tribe don't want their food to go off.

They looked proper scary. Wearing head dresses and breast plates made from huge wart hog type creatures, they were truly frightening... unlike the cannibals in seventies gut munchers, the majority of whom seem to stand around looking bored and glancing at their watches.

Obviously being Xena there was no Lenzi esq butchering but the cannibals bit Xena and Gabrielle whilst fighting them and both had teeth marks on their flesh throughout, whilst the cannibals were seen eating human flesh off the bone of torsos being cooked.

Love the image below which is reminds of a scene from Prisoner of the Cannibal God as Gabrielle is covered with seasoning ready for the grill.

Season five was extremely disappointing. It was obvious to me from the first moments that Lucy Lawless was pregnant during filming as from her first scenes she was no longer wearing her famed leather outfit but a much longer affair that was reminiscent of watching Steven Seagal in his later films. The whole season up until the last three or four was pretty awful but in those final few it really stepped up several rungs as if everyone had a change of direction and suddenly the jokey bloodless fighting was gone to be replaced by gory swords, blood on breasts, impaled heads, people hung on crosses minus limbs etc and thankfully season six has stayed that way and is excellent. A shame i've only 11 episodes to go.

Weirdly another i've just watched titled Old Ares had a Farm was a fun episode which made me think of Russ Meyer films as Xena, Gabrielle and former God Ares make a farm for themselves. The old style skimpy farm costumes and amount of smut and down cleavage camera angles, well old Russ would have loved it.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I only have one Time Out film guide and it is a brilliant reference book. If you see a copy available at a good price, it would be a good investment.

The last one I bought has George Clooney on the front, I think it was 2011, there are used copies on Amazon for less than a fiver.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Having derided Cannibal movies the other day what should i see tonight during the final throes of my Xena Warrior Princess box set run through but the episode The Abyss in which Xena and Gabrielle have to fight a tribe of cannibals.

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I've only seen the odd Xena episode here and there, never actually sat and watched them through. I'm certainly up for it, but I have just started a second watch of Battlestar Galactica. I watched the entire 3hr miniseries on the train going to Liverpool on Monday evening, and will be starting the series episodes tomorrow

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

The last one I bought has George Clooney on the front, I think it was 2011, there are used copies on Amazon for less than a fiver.

The condition of them puts me off. I have a Halliwells and a Radio Times guide from 2015 by my tv (I like looking at them, it's more of a simple pleasure than online) are both cared for very much but due to the door stop thickness of the paperback books, both have seen better days sadly.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The condition of them puts me off. I have a Halliwells and a Radio Times guide from 2015 by my tv (I like looking at them, it's more of a simple pleasure than online) are both cared for very much but due to the door stop thickness of the paperback books, both have seen better days sadly.

I agree, it's the type of thing I might pick up if I saw a good copy in a charity shop, but not taking a punt on an online used copy from World Books or the like. Due to the thickness of the spine, they will more than likely be broken or creased.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

I've only seen the odd Xena episode here and there, never actually sat and watched them through. I'm certainly up for it, but I have just started a second watch of Battlestar Galactica. I watched the entire 3hr miniseries on the train going to Liverpool on Monday evening, and will be starting the series episodes tomorrow

I have Battlestar Galactica ready to watch next year. When the remake initially came out i bought the first season and thought it was crap.

However years later i bought the complete series and tv movies from Music Magpie for a tenner. I've had that years too but always forget about it. It has stuff on top of it and has become part of the furniture. Haha. But the other day i moved it into the to-watch pile.

To be honest Xena is very hit and miss. For every good episode there's a crap one and in season five waaaay too many comedic episodes.

However any that co-star Bruce Campbell, of which there are many throughout the first five seasons, are always great comedy episodes so they aren't all bad. Like i alluded to the last quarter of series five and all eleven of series six i've seen so far have been excellent.

[gag]

Creeped out.

If you want your kids to watch a kind of Black mirror for kids then this is ideal,

All the stories are based around teenagers and younger generations,

Here a extract ive copied and pasted of how it become about etc and whose behind the making off it

Creeped Out is an anthology series for and starring kids, with a different fantastical topic/setting each episode. The series was created/written by Bede Blake and Robert Butler, directed by Steve Hughes and Bruce McDonald, and is a British-Canadian collaboration.

Blake and Butler were reminiscing about Amazing Stories and agreed there should be something new to get kids talking, and get stuck in their memories,


2 series 23 episode long,

I enjoyed the last episode of series one that was split into 2 halves,

I watched the odd episode here and there when youre busy and only got half a hr to spare, or when you get up in the morning for work and just having a brew and chill before you go, as for a adult only viewing its in between a bit hit and miss, but still a decent watch to pass half hr r so.