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yomvi

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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yomvi
Apparently I’ve had access to YOMVI ever since I subscribed to Canal+ (after moving house in February 2011). Thing is, I’ve never worked out exactly how it works, though recently I found out that in order to get it to work I need to have my Canal+ decoder box plugged into my internet modem. Which is across the room. So fuck. In order to that I can either buy some widgety connecting thingies that will do this through the air, or I can get Telefónica to install a phone jack next to the television. Either of which will cost about 90 euros. But then I will – apparently – be able to download entire series even before they’ve been shown on TV and watch them at my leisure on any of my devices that have internet access. Is it worth doing this? What if I move next year? Anyone out there have YOMVI?

let’s dance!

13 Thursday Mar 2014

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This is so much fun! Music by Chris Montez – the sixties TV show clips include:

  • The Avengers (Diana Rigg, Patrick Macnee)
  • The Andy Griffith Show (Don Knotts)
  • The Addams Family (Carolyn Jones, John Astin)
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show (Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore)
  • Gomer Pyle USMC (Jim Nabors)
  • The Patty Duke Show (Patty Duke)
  • The Doris Day Show (Doris Day)
  • Gidget (Sally Field)
  • Batman (Adam West, Victor Buono, Ziva Rodann)
  • Bewitched (Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Joy Harmon)
  • Gilligan’s Island (Tina Louise, Bob Denver)
  • I Dream of Jeannie (Barbara Eden)
  • Mr. Ed (Alan Young)
  • The Beverly Hillbillies (Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Bea Benaderet, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs)
  • That Girl (Marlo Thomas, Slim Pickens)

swiped from Nag on the Lake

the newsroom

14 Wednesday Aug 2013

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the newsroom
It’s been a long while since a television programme just blew me away like this one. Got it delivered by Amazon on Monday afternoon and I am just about to watch episode 8. Great writing, acting, characters… am loving it. Okay, it helps that I am on “semi-hols” so I can watch up to four episodes at a time… but I also don’t want it to end. This is right up there with The Wire, The Sopranos and a few others I can’t think of at the moment. Okay, gotta go…

The famous opening scene, pilot episode, The Newsroom.