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I've only watched the first ten episodes so far. I'll be watching some more when I go offline.
I found the one with the "crying woman" (the Halloween episode) to be quite creepy. I loved the fact that none of the Grimms throughout history could figure out exactly what she was (was she a ghost? She certainly didn't seem to be a Wesen.).
I watched this the other night.
A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards
Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden host the sixth annual awards ceremony to recognise the excellence and sacrifice made by Britain's Armed Forces in A Night Of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards.
The Millies, as they've come to be known, which are organised and sponsored by The Sun newspaper, are an emotional evening in which leading celebrities get together to honour the achievements of British Servicemen and women spanning over decades (in this year's ceremony, some members of the Arctic Convoys of WWII were honoured).
All the awards have been judged by a panel of celebrity judges including Jeremy Clarkson (above), former SAS soldier Andy McNab, Holly Willoughby and Lorraine Kelly, alongside four former military chiefs.
The winners were announced at a glittering ceremony last week and now we'll get the chance to see the event televised, as the men and women who make us proud get their opportunity to shine.
This year's Millies were held at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, in front of an audience of service personnel and their families, celebrities, the Prime Minister and Prince Charles and Camilla.
UTV Player | Watch A Night of Heroes: the Sun Military Awards (2013)
A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards
Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden host the sixth annual awards ceremony to recognise the excellence and sacrifice made by Britain's Armed Forces in A Night Of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards.
The Millies, as they've come to be known, which are organised and sponsored by The Sun newspaper, are an emotional evening in which leading celebrities get together to honour the achievements of British Servicemen and women spanning over decades (in this year's ceremony, some members of the Arctic Convoys of WWII were honoured).
All the awards have been judged by a panel of celebrity judges including Jeremy Clarkson (above), former SAS soldier Andy McNab, Holly Willoughby and Lorraine Kelly, alongside four former military chiefs.
The winners were announced at a glittering ceremony last week and now we'll get the chance to see the event televised, as the men and women who make us proud get their opportunity to shine.
This year's Millies were held at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, in front of an audience of service personnel and their families, celebrities, the Prime Minister and Prince Charles and Camilla.
UTV Player | Watch A Night of Heroes: the Sun Military Awards (2013)
Now that I've mentioned it on another thread, I may as well mention it on here.
Last night I watched a celebrity Christmas special of the brilliant BBC1 gameshow Pointless. It is hosted by comedian and actor Alexander Armstrong (aka Xander) and by his old friend Richard Osman (whose brother is the bassist in the band Suede). Richard Osman is the brainy man with the facts, the second-cleverest man on television after Stephen Fry.
Pointless is a a gameshow where, unlike the others, it is the lowest scoring teams who proceed into the subsequent rounds. Before an episode is recorded 100 people are given questions which can have multiple answers (e.g: Name countries beginning with D). When each contestant answers the question the points their team receives is equal to how many of the 100 people said it. So the fewer of the 100 people who gave a constestant's answer, the better for the contestant and his team. The fewer points each team receives, the better. If none of the 100 said an answer that a contestant gives, then that contestant's team gets 0 points. This is known as Pointless and £250 is added to the jackpot. If a wrong answer is given, they are given a massive 100 points - which, of course, is not good. The game is played with four teams of two contestants. After each round - which comes to an end when both players in each team have given their answer - then the team with the highest total score goes out.
One of the things that fans of Pointless like about the show is its witty banter between the two presenters and the laughs they also have with the contestants.
Last night's Christmas special
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman (both wearing those Christmas jumpers which suddenly seem to be fashionable) present a special celebrity Christmas edition of the quiz that tests the depths of your general knowledge. The celebrity pairs trying to come up with the answers that no-one else could think of are the Chuckle Brothers, Keith Harris and Orville, Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane, and Roy Wood (of Wizzard, famous for their 1973 hit I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday) and Father Christmas.
BBC iPlayer - Pointless Celebrities: Christmas Special
Last night I watched a celebrity Christmas special of the brilliant BBC1 gameshow Pointless. It is hosted by comedian and actor Alexander Armstrong (aka Xander) and by his old friend Richard Osman (whose brother is the bassist in the band Suede). Richard Osman is the brainy man with the facts, the second-cleverest man on television after Stephen Fry.
Pointless is a a gameshow where, unlike the others, it is the lowest scoring teams who proceed into the subsequent rounds. Before an episode is recorded 100 people are given questions which can have multiple answers (e.g: Name countries beginning with D). When each contestant answers the question the points their team receives is equal to how many of the 100 people said it. So the fewer of the 100 people who gave a constestant's answer, the better for the contestant and his team. The fewer points each team receives, the better. If none of the 100 said an answer that a contestant gives, then that contestant's team gets 0 points. This is known as Pointless and £250 is added to the jackpot. If a wrong answer is given, they are given a massive 100 points - which, of course, is not good. The game is played with four teams of two contestants. After each round - which comes to an end when both players in each team have given their answer - then the team with the highest total score goes out.
One of the things that fans of Pointless like about the show is its witty banter between the two presenters and the laughs they also have with the contestants.
Last night's Christmas special
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman (both wearing those Christmas jumpers which suddenly seem to be fashionable) present a special celebrity Christmas edition of the quiz that tests the depths of your general knowledge. The celebrity pairs trying to come up with the answers that no-one else could think of are the Chuckle Brothers, Keith Harris and Orville, Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane, and Roy Wood (of Wizzard, famous for their 1973 hit I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday) and Father Christmas.
BBC iPlayer - Pointless Celebrities: Christmas Special
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Am watching local nightly news.
Earlier, watched the NY Giants defeat Detroit in NFL football.
Earlier, watched the NY Giants defeat Detroit in NFL football.
PBS special documentary on Liberace - this is a site which features the music presented on the show:
Legendary Liberace: Musical Highlights of the PBS Special - Liberace | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic
Legendary Liberace: Musical Highlights of the PBS Special - Liberace | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic
NFL football.
This being the final week of the regular season, you can tell the teams are intensifying their efforts to win playoff spots. Very good football being played and the best is yet to come as the wildcard matches are played next week.
This being the final week of the regular season, you can tell the teams are intensifying their efforts to win playoff spots. Very good football being played and the best is yet to come as the wildcard matches are played next week.
I watched these classics on telly last night. I was in hysterics, even though I've seen them all umpteen times:
Blackadder II - Bells (1986): Blackadder falls in love... with a boy called Bob
Blackadder Season 02 Episode 01 - Bells - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder The Third - Nob and Nobility (1987): The Revolution is raging over the Channel and Blackadder decides to rescue a French nobleman from the revolutionaries - but only for a bet and a handsome reward
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 03 - Nob and Nobility - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder Goes Forth - Goodbyeee (featuring one of the greatest moments in TV history) (1989) - WWI is raging. Millions have died but the troops have advanced no further than "an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping". Now, at last, the 'final' big push looms, and Blackadder is willing to try anything to avoid it. Will putting a pair of underpants on his head and shoving two pencils up his nose get Blackadder invalided back to Blighty?
Blackadder Season 04 Episode 06 - Goodbyeee - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder II - Bells (1986): Blackadder falls in love... with a boy called Bob
Blackadder Season 02 Episode 01 - Bells - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder The Third - Nob and Nobility (1987): The Revolution is raging over the Channel and Blackadder decides to rescue a French nobleman from the revolutionaries - but only for a bet and a handsome reward
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 03 - Nob and Nobility - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder Goes Forth - Goodbyeee (featuring one of the greatest moments in TV history) (1989) - WWI is raging. Millions have died but the troops have advanced no further than "an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping". Now, at last, the 'final' big push looms, and Blackadder is willing to try anything to avoid it. Will putting a pair of underpants on his head and shoving two pencils up his nose get Blackadder invalided back to Blighty?
Blackadder Season 04 Episode 06 - Goodbyeee - Dailymotion-Video
Here's something else I watched a few nights ago.
Tudor Monastery Farm is a BBC documentary series that ran for six episodes, from 13th November 2013 to the 18th December 2013.
The series stars archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold, and freelance historian Ruth Goodman (who's very good preparing and cooking foods that our ancestors, such as the Anglo-Saxons, Tudors or Victorians, enjoyed). The team discover what farming was like during the Tudor period at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex.
They run a farm exactly as farms in Tudor England were run, even dressing up as Tudors, and even visiting the local "village" (which is actually a selection of 50 genuine historic buildings - including houses, shops, sheds, cattle sheds, cottages, farmhouses, barns, smithies, halls, kitchens etc - dating from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries which were threatened with destruction but which, instead, were dismantled and transported to the open air museum where they were reassembled) in which all the "villagers" are all dessed as Tudors.
The series follows on from previous similar BBC series -Victorian Farm, Victorian Pharmacy, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm - all of which starred Ruth Goodman and two other historians or archaeologists.
A few nights ago, there was a special Christmas episode called Tudor Monastery Farm Christmas, in which Ginn, Pinfold and Goodman rediscover how the farms of Tudor England celebrated the twelve days of Christmas.
Today we think of Christmas as a relatively modern, post-Victorian celebration, but the Tudors took it very seriously indeed. For a start, they celebrated for the whole Twelve Days of Christmas, with many manorial rules stipulating that “villeins are to do no work” on the Lord’s land for the 12 days.
Although Christmas was celebrated very differently in Tudor times, if anything the celebrations were even bigger. All work stopped on Christmas Eve for 12 days of revelry and feasting. While Peter and Tom decorate the farmhouse with holly and ivy, Ruth prepares grand banquets for the farmworkers. The Christmas Day feast was particularly special and featured a pig's head rather than a turkey as its centrepiece.
Ruth shows us how the Tudors de-skulled, pickled, stuffed and cooked a pig's head for the Christmas feast
Most farmers could not afford to feast every day but the monasteries held a special mass and banquet on each of the 12 days of Christmas. The fifth day, the Feast of Thomas Becket, was particularly important. Red meat was thought to stimulate virility, so monks ate poultry such as swan and game. Tom and Ruth learn the art of falconry - the main way of catching game birds. The team also indulge in archery, the most popular sport of the era, whilst Tom learns how to make bagpipes, the most widely played instrument of the day.
The culmination of Christmas was marked by a frenzy of music, food and alcohol. The main treat was Twelfth Night Cake. A dried pea was hidden in the cake - the precursor to the sixpence in a Christmas pudding - and whoever found it would be appointed the 'Lord of Misrule' for the night, leading the celebrations. Tudor life was hierarchical and strictly organised but, at Christmas, the rules were relaxed and the roles reversed, so that the Lord of Misrule had, for one night, authority over his boss and social betters and everyone else at the festivity. He was a figure so popular that even the King himself had one at Court.
Finally the revellers head out 'wassailing' - an early version of carol singing which originated many songs still sung today such as 'We wish you a Merry Christmas' and 'Ding Dong Merrily on High'.
WATCH HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03ndb8c/Tudor_Monastery_Farm_Christmas/
Tudor Monastery Farm is a BBC documentary series that ran for six episodes, from 13th November 2013 to the 18th December 2013.
The series stars archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold, and freelance historian Ruth Goodman (who's very good preparing and cooking foods that our ancestors, such as the Anglo-Saxons, Tudors or Victorians, enjoyed). The team discover what farming was like during the Tudor period at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex.
They run a farm exactly as farms in Tudor England were run, even dressing up as Tudors, and even visiting the local "village" (which is actually a selection of 50 genuine historic buildings - including houses, shops, sheds, cattle sheds, cottages, farmhouses, barns, smithies, halls, kitchens etc - dating from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries which were threatened with destruction but which, instead, were dismantled and transported to the open air museum where they were reassembled) in which all the "villagers" are all dessed as Tudors.
The series follows on from previous similar BBC series -Victorian Farm, Victorian Pharmacy, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm - all of which starred Ruth Goodman and two other historians or archaeologists.
A few nights ago, there was a special Christmas episode called Tudor Monastery Farm Christmas, in which Ginn, Pinfold and Goodman rediscover how the farms of Tudor England celebrated the twelve days of Christmas.
Today we think of Christmas as a relatively modern, post-Victorian celebration, but the Tudors took it very seriously indeed. For a start, they celebrated for the whole Twelve Days of Christmas, with many manorial rules stipulating that “villeins are to do no work” on the Lord’s land for the 12 days.
Although Christmas was celebrated very differently in Tudor times, if anything the celebrations were even bigger. All work stopped on Christmas Eve for 12 days of revelry and feasting. While Peter and Tom decorate the farmhouse with holly and ivy, Ruth prepares grand banquets for the farmworkers. The Christmas Day feast was particularly special and featured a pig's head rather than a turkey as its centrepiece.
Ruth shows us how the Tudors de-skulled, pickled, stuffed and cooked a pig's head for the Christmas feast
Most farmers could not afford to feast every day but the monasteries held a special mass and banquet on each of the 12 days of Christmas. The fifth day, the Feast of Thomas Becket, was particularly important. Red meat was thought to stimulate virility, so monks ate poultry such as swan and game. Tom and Ruth learn the art of falconry - the main way of catching game birds. The team also indulge in archery, the most popular sport of the era, whilst Tom learns how to make bagpipes, the most widely played instrument of the day.
The culmination of Christmas was marked by a frenzy of music, food and alcohol. The main treat was Twelfth Night Cake. A dried pea was hidden in the cake - the precursor to the sixpence in a Christmas pudding - and whoever found it would be appointed the 'Lord of Misrule' for the night, leading the celebrations. Tudor life was hierarchical and strictly organised but, at Christmas, the rules were relaxed and the roles reversed, so that the Lord of Misrule had, for one night, authority over his boss and social betters and everyone else at the festivity. He was a figure so popular that even the King himself had one at Court.
Finally the revellers head out 'wassailing' - an early version of carol singing which originated many songs still sung today such as 'We wish you a Merry Christmas' and 'Ding Dong Merrily on High'.
WATCH HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03ndb8c/Tudor_Monastery_Farm_Christmas/
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Blackadder the Third - Dish and Dishonesty
The newly elected Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, plans to bankrupt Prince George by striking him from the Civil List. With Parliament deadlocked, Blackadder devises a plan to have Baldrick elected as an MP in the rotten borough of Dunny-on-the-Wold. With TV journalist Vincent Hanna, who covered UK elections for the BBC
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 01 - Dish and Dishonesty - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder the Third - Ink and Incapability
To increase his intellectual standing, the prince decides to become patron of Dr. Johnson's new English dictionary (which took him ten years to write), much to Blackadder's disgust. However, Johnson is also planning to publish a novel written by Blackadder under a pseudonym, thus making him a millionaire. Matters are complicated, however, when Baldrick destroys the manuscript of the dictionary by burning it - leaving Blackadder to have to re-write it in one night.
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 02 - Ink and Incapability - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder the Third - Amy and Amiability
On discovering that the prince has lost his money playing cards, Edmund attempts to marry him off to Amy Hardwood, the daughter of a rich northern industrialist.
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 05 - Amy and Amiability - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder Goes Forth - General Hospital
A game of "I Spy" goes terribly wrong when a bomb strikes Blackadder's bunker and injures George, leaving him in the care of the kindly Nurse Mary at the field hospital. After General Melchett and Captain Darling inform Blackadder that there is a German spy in the hospital giving away their battle plans, Blackadder and Darling are sent undercover.
Blackadder Season 04 Episode 05 - General Hospital - Video Dailymotion
Blackadder Goes Forth - Private Plane
Despite Blackadder's loathing of the arrogant flying ace Lord Flashheart, Blackadder, Baldrick and George volunteer to join the Royal Flying Corps unaware that their nickname the "Twenty Minuters" refers to their average life expectancy.
Blackadder Season 04 Episode 04 - Private Plane - Video Dailymotion
The newly elected Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, plans to bankrupt Prince George by striking him from the Civil List. With Parliament deadlocked, Blackadder devises a plan to have Baldrick elected as an MP in the rotten borough of Dunny-on-the-Wold. With TV journalist Vincent Hanna, who covered UK elections for the BBC
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 01 - Dish and Dishonesty - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder the Third - Ink and Incapability
To increase his intellectual standing, the prince decides to become patron of Dr. Johnson's new English dictionary (which took him ten years to write), much to Blackadder's disgust. However, Johnson is also planning to publish a novel written by Blackadder under a pseudonym, thus making him a millionaire. Matters are complicated, however, when Baldrick destroys the manuscript of the dictionary by burning it - leaving Blackadder to have to re-write it in one night.
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 02 - Ink and Incapability - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder the Third - Amy and Amiability
On discovering that the prince has lost his money playing cards, Edmund attempts to marry him off to Amy Hardwood, the daughter of a rich northern industrialist.
Blackadder Season 03 Episode 05 - Amy and Amiability - Dailymotion-Video
Blackadder Goes Forth - General Hospital
A game of "I Spy" goes terribly wrong when a bomb strikes Blackadder's bunker and injures George, leaving him in the care of the kindly Nurse Mary at the field hospital. After General Melchett and Captain Darling inform Blackadder that there is a German spy in the hospital giving away their battle plans, Blackadder and Darling are sent undercover.
Blackadder Season 04 Episode 05 - General Hospital - Video Dailymotion
Blackadder Goes Forth - Private Plane
Despite Blackadder's loathing of the arrogant flying ace Lord Flashheart, Blackadder, Baldrick and George volunteer to join the Royal Flying Corps unaware that their nickname the "Twenty Minuters" refers to their average life expectancy.
Blackadder Season 04 Episode 04 - Private Plane - Video Dailymotion
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Gothard sisters. Lovely girls & very talented.
For some reason I had trouble inserting the video from YT. Hopefully, you can view it on your screen.
Gothard sisters. Lovely girls & very talented.
For some reason I had trouble inserting the video from YT. Hopefully, you can view it on your screen.
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