The Goggle Box Thread

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

Nope never saw it. I never watched TV back when that was out, The Shield got me into watching stuff. I’ll get round to it at some point

The Shield, absolute quality.

 

[Boozad]

The Shield, absolute quality.

Still love it to this day. I really need to rewatch it it’s been years since I’ve seen it but I’ve only got them on DVD and no DVD player. Still probably my favourite show out there.

 

[The Bear]

Still love it to this day. I really need to rewatch it it’s been years since I’ve seen it but I’ve only got them on DVD and no DVD player. Still probably my favourite show out there.

It's on All4 but you have to put up with adverts.

 

[Boozad]

It's on All4 but you have to put up with adverts.

Yeah I tried it but can’t live with the ads.

 

[BillyDee]

All4 have a ridiculous amount of ads, twice what you'd get watching something live.

 

[Stan Hullis]

14 day free trial and then £3.99 to remove ads - probably worth it tbf

 

[Boozad]

£3.99 a month? I doubt even I’d get through 7 seasons of The Shield in two weeks

 

[Stan Hullis]

Yeah, although I checked for The Shield and it's been removed so

 

[leedswolf]

Nope never saw it. I never watched TV back when that was out, The Shield got me into watching stuff. I’ll get round to it at some point

Tou've not missed anything if you haven't watched the X Files mate.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Nothing apart from one of the best shows of the last thirty years.

 

[Tredman]

Fair to say it’s the show (or maybe twin peaks) which kicked off event TV. Not sure you’d have a lot of the great TV we have now without those two at the start. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s influence in undeniable.

 

[Johnny75]

Fair to say it’s the show (or maybe twin peaks) which kicked off event TV. Not sure you’d have a lot of the great TV we have now without those two at the start. Might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s influence in undeniable.

Event TV had been around a fair bit longer than those two.

British TV has run event TV for decades

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I suppose you could class Inspector Morse as event TV of a sort. Two hour episodes, huge audiences.

Actually Quatermass and the Pit is probably event TV!

 

[Johnny75]

I suppose you could class Inspector Morse as event TV of a sort. Two hour episodes, huge audiences.

Actually Quatermass and the Pit is probably event TV!

EastEnders, Bergerac, The Gentle Touch, Cracker, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Star Trek (OK this one isn't British but y'know)

There's quite a list.

 

[Tony Towner]

When Deirdre ditched Mike and stayed with Ken it was watched by over £20m and the 'result' was put up on the scoreboard at OT. That was 1983 and appointment TV.

Morecambe and Wise Xmas Specials being the most obvious in the late 70's and early 80s.

 

[Paul]

Morecambe and Wise Xmas Specials being the most obvious in the late 70's and early 80s.

28 million watched the '77 Christmas special, and rightly so, quality

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I remember really liking Xfiles and everyone talking about it at school - then all of a sudden it went a bit weird and everyone stopped watching it, (might have coincided with discovering beer and clubbing though).

I do remember some of the episodes were amazing at the time, not sure I'd feel the same now watching them back.

 

[Tredman]

EastEnders, Bergerac, The Gentle Touch, Cracker, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, Star Trek (OK this one isn't British but y'know)

There's quite a list.

How many of those really cut across generations though? Event TV is perhaps the wrong term. I’m thinking more of big budget big hype TV.

 

[Paul]

The Xfiles was the age when Gillian Anderson took over from Glynis Barber as my fantasy tv female

 

[The Bear]

Event TV to me is stuff like watching the first man on the moon, when JFK got shot, royal weddings, world cup final, etc.