I was nearly featured in one of Paul McKenna’s hypnosis entertainment shows on ITV; I was the last to get sent back to the audience when they made their selections of punters to do silly stuff under hypnosis back in the mid nineties.

I was wondering if anyone here was on TV and if they did a game show, which one and what did they win?

I had a colleague who was on Supermarket Sweep with his wife when Dale Winton was the host. I don’t recall how well they did because that was also about 30 years ago.

What books would you like to see adapted? What periods of history would you like to see given the Crown treatment? Any events that would make a good companion piece to Mr Bates v the Post office? Or could another videogame adaptation rival The last of us? Or maybe a book that has yet to be adapted for the screen?

So I’ve got to the end of season 5. Binged took me a few weeks.
The show is great entertainment. Is it just me or is the show a little like the A team. I used to love that aswell. It’s all a bit tongue in cheek. Big explosions
U get the rest. Anyway guess I better get on with the next one. Anyone else enjoying.

Here from the Time series 3 thread. If you haven't seen it already, Broken is definitely a drama I don't think I could recommend any higher. I have the DVD, I've seen it several times since buying it and amongst all the great one off and serial dramas by Jimmy McGovern - this is easily the best in my opinion.

There are so many interwoven stories and the acting by the entire cast is just incredible - Sean Bean is simply mesmerising as Father Michael. Each story becomes intertwined as the series progresses and whilst some of it is a difficult watch - the production, the acting and the storytelling simply take you to another place.

For those of you like me who may have found S3 of Time slightly underwhelming, please if you can set an evening aside to watch Broken. You won't be disappointed!

Just watched the first series of the 2011 Channel 4 show, set at the Damson Dene Hotel in the Lake District, and really enjoyed it. Does anyone know anyone that was on the show and could give an update on them?

For example, do any of the staff from back then (like Wayne the manager or chef Kirk) still work there? Did the British guy and the Brazilian girl work out? Did any of the other couples on there, like those who got married or were having a tough time, are they still together?

Would love to get an update!

has anyone watched it? i binged it last night and i thought it was brilliant! i won’t post any spoilers but i don’t know if people will comment any, i think every season has been brilliant and i loved the cast of jo joyner, david tennant and siobhan finnernan. the young lads were all amazing too

So for those who don't know, Major Charles Ingram was convicted of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception in 2003, and had his appeal thrown out shortly after that.

To summarise the story, he was a contestant on the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, where he managed to answer all 15 questions correctly and win the £1 million prize. However, Celador, the company responsible for producing the show, refused to pay out the cheque after they suspected him of cheating.

The case was made that Charles was receiving signals from another contestant seated in the Fastest Finger First area called Tecwen Whittock, and his wife Diana Ingram in the audience that were helping him to answer the questions. The alleged system they used was to have Charles read out the four options for each question, and have Tecwen cough on the correct answer.

I've watched the documentary that was released about this, which showed the actual footage used by the prosecution during the court case, and various other articles detailing what took place, and remain unconvinced that he was guilty.

There are several major flaws with the prosecutions case that I wanted to detail here.

1. Celador, not the police, provided edited footage to be used in the case. They edited it and enhanced what they believed were "significant" coughs. I think this is problematic for a few reasons. First of all the accuser is the one manipulating the footage, not the police. From what I understand forensic scientists were not given the raw unedited footage, at all. This obviously makes the editing heavily based on confirmation bias. The other thing is, we can't hear what Charles would have heard.

While the coughing may sound obvious when you hear it isolated in that way, it's not actually letting us hear what Charles was actually hearing that night.

1. Related to my point above. How was Charles meant to distinguish Tecwen's coughs from all of the other coughs that were going on that night? It's been shown that it is not possible to distinguish one cough from another, i.e. who is actually coughing, just by hearing it. So it seems unlikely that a system like that could work when hearing coughing from an audience is normal, ambient, background noise.

2. Do we even know that Tecwen's coughs were loud enough to be heard to start with? Again, hearing it enhanced and isolated might make it seem obvious. However, what was the volume of the coughing like if you were sitting in the hot seat? Testimony from the host Chris Tarrant suggests it wasn't loud enough to be heard when he says he never heard anything.

3. The final point is that it seems like a crazy plan to start with for several reasons. The Ingrams didn't know Tecwen Whittock. Relying on a total stranger to help you pull off a major fraud, on camera, with severe legal consequences if caught, seems pretty crazy. Tecwen Whittock himself didn't do particularly well when he got into the hot seat after Charles, which makes it doubtful that he'd have known all of the answers. Finally, on all but 2 of the questions, Charles knew the correct answer to start with.

Overall, if I were on the jury, I'd have found him not guilty.

Those are my thoughts. Let me know what you think.

Just watching Mock The Week, which used to be on BBC2 and is now on TLC and I started thinking about other programmes which moved from one broadcaster to another. I know Men Behaving Badly transferred from Thames to BBC2 and The Morecambe & Wise Show went the other way with, shall we say, mixed results. Not including channels like Dave, which basically just shows reruns, are there any other examples of shows switching channels?

Edit : I just remembered Neighbours, which moved from BBC1 to Channel 5 in the UK and, interestingly, from Network 7 to Network 10 in Australia.

Also apologies to Dave, for the unnecessary disparagement!

My favourite I would have to say by far Grace is, she isn't in the job just to arrest people and get paid. She makes connections, sometimes at her own expense, though at other times it allows her to make breakthroughs that policing by the book failed too.

She's one of those social workers who was in the job for the right reasons and transferred a lot of those skills into the police service.

My runner up would be Aisiling, she has similar principles, but lacks experience and often makes situations worse despite her best of intentions.

As an aside, I think Helen does a great job, but that's all, she doesn't make friends, and has her own prerogative.

On the other hand, my least favourite is probably Nicola, the chief superintendent, she's doesn't care about how others view her, and at times shows traits that can be seen as narcissistic.

If we include recurring characters who join later, I would say a certain C3 character is my least favourite as he's very shady, knowingly interacts with dangerous people to try and get information, and undermines the team by keeping them in the dark and he thinks the world revolves sound his specific targets, which often results in a loss of resources for the response policing.

Always wondered about HUtH viewers.

Has anyone ever watched an episode that featured their house?

What did you think?

How did the house turn put after it was transformed?

Would be interested to know.

Binge watching Ann Droid today and I really love every part of this show that doesn't include these two. They've got to be the most unlikeable couple I've ever seen on TV.

There’s plenty of justifiable hatred towards many ads on at the moment, but there must be some good and/or funny ones that you like?

Another one I haven't seen anyone else discuss, what did you think?

It reminded me of Lovesick and Starstruck, not quite as polished but good for an early career writer, with a great side cast.

I live in the states and have a question about the police in Northern Ireland. I've seen on the show multiple occasions of police officers being attacked, their requests being completely ignored and riots where officers get attacked and they seem to just let these people leave right after the situation is contained. Is this normal practice for law enforcement in the area, or just embellishments for the sake of story?

With Amandaland confirming an xmas special, and mrs browns boys confirming NO xmas special (thank god) - What are you hoping has an xmas special this year? I'm holding out on hope for Here We Go and Two Doors Down!

In Shakespeare and Hathaway S05E06 at 36:14 there is a police man that seems incredibly familiar to me. Looks like an actor I've seen in roles in action movies, possible American. No credits, Google Lens has no idea and Googling didn't help. Maybe he just looks like someone, maybe it's a cameo? Please help!

Blue Planet 2 led to a lot of laws combating plastic use in the UK. Do you think this one will have a similar impact?

Does anyone out there ever remember like John Clarke and Bryan Dawe and there weeklybsegment where they made like a satire version of like an interviewer sitting down with a politician with John Clarke acting like the polly and Bryan Dawe the interviewer with John full on taking the piss out of things that were said by the politicians that week pretty much as to me that was purely Aussie humour gold in the best way possible no matter what.

BT is set to relaunch its pay tv service BT TV, after previously rebranding to EE TV in December 2023.

The service offers a recordable BT Pro Box with 600 hours of recording available, giving viewers Freeview channels with the option to bolt on extra pay tv entertainment, movies, sports and childrens channels with flexibility to change these packages each month.

The service is described by BT as "BT TV also reflects BT’s broader strategic commitment of serving different customer needs through its family of brands. With more ways to watch than ever before, many households now juggle multiple apps, subscriptions and devices to access the content they love. BT TV cuts through that complexity by bringing live TV, streaming services and premium content together in one place, making it easier for customers to discover, access and enjoy their favourite entertainment and sport content."

Existing EE TV customers with BT Broadband will be moved over to BT TV on the same date.

BT TV is set to relaunch on 15th October 2026.

For more information visit: BT TV – bringing entertainment and broadband together in one seamless experience for BT customers.

Just spotted BBC has added S1 of The Golden Cobra to their YouTube. Is this the first series they've fully published on YouTube and iPlayer?