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Tuesday 31/07/18 at 6pm
Week 31
6pm Dragon Ball  Episode 8
6:20 Batman The Animated Series - Robins Reckoning
6:45 X-Men The Animated Series - Phoenix Saga part 4
7Pm King Of The Hill - Peggy the Boggle Champ
7:20 Cheers - Endless Stumper
7:45 The Twilight Zone - Perchance To Dream
8pm A Bit Of Fry And Laurie - Series 2 Episode 6 (last of series 2, next week a new series begins)
8:30 Monty Python - The War Against Pornography
9Pm  Seinfeld - The Suicide
9:25 Quantum Leap - The Leap Home Part 2

The Film
Delets never seen pick
Blow Up (1966)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJ9U75OZOw

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Bonus pages.....


Rowan Atkinson and Sean Hughes:

 


That Sean Hughes piece was awkwardly buried in the crease, so here's a closer go at that:




 

 

 

 


Cover story, and this year Comic Relief are not asking for money:

 

 




Cilla Black:

   


Imelda Staunton and Janet McTeer:

 


Julian Clary:

 




Films:

 


Harry Secombe's Kind of Day:




Adverts:

   

   


Letters and Next Week:

 

[Spoon of Ploff]

Too much football on television!?! Ageism on Top Gear!?!!? Rage at the synth music intro to Young Musician of The Year???!!!  Inaccuracies about the origins of the electric guitar!?!?! Muslims tho?!?!?!?!?!?

Two intense pages of BBC feedback by people with nothing better to do in their spare time.


Blow Up is a great choice Delete. Several scenes in that film got me interested in photography... and no, not those scenes.

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If I remember will join you for KitH as I do love Peggy. (Plus, Seasons 2 and 3 are just relentlessly brilliant, really - some of my favourite ever comedy).

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Reminder this is on tonight from 6pm.

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Starting with another decent into balls, its Dragon Ball up first. https://live.fc2.com/6162694/

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Batman on now.

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X men on now.

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King of the hill now.

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/cheers time now.

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Darn it! I forgot! Hope you enjoyed Peggy's boggling

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WE did, it was a very funny episode.

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Twilight Zone time.

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Last episode of A Bit Of Fry And Laurie for now.

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Monty Python time now.

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Seinfeld now.

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Quantum leap now.

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Next week's Radio Times follows a gap of three weeks since the previous episode of Quantum Leap.  And we have Loyd Grossman; a man without two Ls in his name, performing a trademarked routine that apparently signifies "turning the tables" on the Masterchef judges rather than "lifting the lid" on them.  But look at it:




Contents:




Quantum Leap is half an hour earlier next week.  And at 10pm is 'The Comic Book Presents...'

 




Bonus pages to follow in a few days....

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Film time, its Blow Up.

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Film time, its Bow Up.

Bow down to Blow-Up.

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Film time, its Blow Up.

A nugget of interesting trivia I dug up today was that the 'Chinese Eye' Rolls drophead coupe that Thomas drives in the film was bought off Jimmy Savile

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Careful there.  Propeller, that.

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I only got to half-watch Quantum Leap due to life and a poor internet connection getting in the way.

After leaping into Al's life and doing the right thing by not trying to save his marriage, then leaping into Sam's life and doing the right thing by not staying, was the end of last night's show the leap controller fixing it so the female journalist took Al's POW picture (thus leading to his wife seeing it and not running off) and Sam getting to save his brother as payback?

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Yes his brother was saved, the fate of Al was left ambgious. I think the fact that AL said he was be repatriated in 5 years time would mean that it didn;t really change anything for Al.

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I did soem more reading up on blow Up - the mystery and ambiguity of the film is largely a result of the filming  process. The shooting script is a lot more specific about what is going on and has a lot more backstory regarding Jane, her sugar daddy and the murderer. If it was completed it would have been more straightforward, like Brian DePalma's 1981 remake Blow Out.

Antonioni's producer was detained working on another film in Italy, and when he finally arrived in London he found most of the budget had already been spunked away (on things like painting the grass in the park green, the paths dark grey and building a 100ft high temporary neon advert outside the park that was never turned on) with loads of scenes still unshot. He shut down the production and packed Antonioni back off to Italy to try and edit together what footage he had into a film.

It's a bit like Blade Runner in that it's ambiguity is more a result of the film being unfinished rather than an intentional choice.

There are a couple of fragments of the unfinished story around Jane still in the film though - she wears a man's watch, which was supposed to have been bought for her by her sugar daddy at the start of the film on thier way to the park. Her real boyfriend, the murderer(played by Jeremy Glover, who was almost completely excised from the finished film and goes uncredited) was driving a Rover P6 and we got a brief glimpse of it tailing Thomas' Rolls at one point. In the scene with Thomas and Jane in the cafe where a man goes to approach her but runs off when he sees she's with Thomas, that was her boyfriend. He was also supposed to have some kind of link with Patricia, Bill's (the artist) girlfriend, but those scenes were excised or unfinished too (apparently Sarah Miles, who played Patricia, tried to have her name taken off the film as her role was cut down that much).

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I definitely think I prefer it the way it ended up.

I bet he was going to do something supremely banal with that propeller.

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I too liked how it ended up. We follow the film through Thomas and its more relastic in that situation that you would never get all the pieces, knowing information that Thomas dosn;t know would of really taken me out of the flow of the film, plus I don't think he was that bothered about the why the man was murdered, more that he wanted a Photo of a dead Human for his book. If he was concerned about solving hte murder he would of reported it to the police, plus Thomas is a prick. Those bloody Bitches.

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And it was funny how for ages we followed him sitting down, standing up and walking, then sitting down and standing up and walking from place to place, not doing anything obvious yet behaving as if he couldn't be busier.  I wouldn't want that to be filled in to make more sense.

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I think its a great way to show how frusted he is phtographing these vapid beutiful women, he'd rather be doing anything else, only everything else is just a soul draining for him. So when he switches tracks, he immeditly wants to switch again.

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Just read this from the wiki.

Janet Street-Porter can be seen dancing in a silver coat and red/yellow striped Carnaby Street trousers during the scene inside the nightclub.[16] A pre-Python Michael Palin can also be seen in the motionless crowd watching the Yardbirds.

and of course this homage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWfQD72nNB8