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MartynK
Invertebrate
South Africa
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 Posted - 11 July 2006 : 7:20:59 PM
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Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) as the Police psychologist with the addictive personality. I loved this series, and loathed the politically correct US version.
Prime Suspect (Helen Mirren) was another winner for me.
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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 July 2006 : 7:26:36 PM
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My wife liked both. I did my best to ignore them. Different people, different tastes, and I'd rather read a good book than watch TV.
Cheers
John |
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MartynK
Invertebrate
South Africa
116 Posts |
Posted - 11 July 2006 : 7:40:08 PM
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| Yes, OK, I can go along with that and our TV is shocking, but an occaisonal British series makes a change from American tripe. I wondered if they just exported the worst of their programmes, but friends who have risked the journey to that benighted land tell me it's just as bad on the home front. |
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WarrenH
Homosapien
United Kingdom
1778 Posts |
Posted - 11 July 2006 : 7:42:44 PM
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SABC, has always been bad, then came MNET, and that seemed to make a bit of difference, turned out in the end that everyone just pasid more for the same c**p, that SABC was pushing out. I prefered my PC and Doom at the time - 1995/6, and videos.
"Ying tong, ying tong, what a miss mash of cods wallop and gungafof. Never in my life have I had the pleasure of reading a concoction of trype and onions." |
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MartynK
Invertebrate
South Africa
116 Posts |
Posted - 11 July 2006 : 8:00:57 PM
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Well, we've got DSTV (satellite) now - about 40 odd channels in theory, depending where you live - but it's expensive. I havn't bothered. Most of my friends who subscribed reckon it's a bit of a waste of money, unless you're big sports fan and willing to shell out for it.
Things are going to change. DSTV is about R400, and MNet is about R240, but they keep increasing the MNet subscription, hoping people will go for DSTV because there isn't too much difference in price. We've also been told government are going to terminate MNet's land transmission rights one of these days, and force them onto satellite. I doubt if they'll complain, but I'll just cancel my subscription at that point.
A few people have told me the "History Channel" (DSTV) is great, and I got them to tape a couple of programmes for me. Is this really meant for children? |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
13892 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2006 : 6:30:43 PM
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always used to quite like this coltraine was always funny!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 July 2006 : 10:51:48 PM
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Cracker was good in that it introduced to the public the concept of psychological profiling, and the birth of forensic linguistics.
The conference I was at earlier this week was the first time that forensic psychologists and forensic linguists got together to discuss the things they have in common, instead of trying to ignore the existence of the other. We (forensic linguists) need a similar tv series to raise our profile.
"It's hard to work in a group when you're omniscient."
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Legates clerk
Small mammal
United Kingdom
783 Posts |
Posted - 13 July 2006 : 07:22:54 AM
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Cracker - Anyone Remember This?
