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Post by xjsarah on Sept 29, 2008 0:16:26 GMT
I like the screencaps, MG. That was quick!  ;D Brilliant show all round. Looking forward to the next episode.  |
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Post by maureen on Sept 29, 2008 5:09:06 GMT
Well, I really enjoyed that immensley. Husband was very excited and chatty the whole time. I'm glad I have it on tape. I need to watch it when he's not around so I can hear all of what James was saying. I can't wait to see James dressed like a Borg next week. YES!!
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Post by lindenchase on Sept 29, 2008 5:51:04 GMT
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Post by wildcathammondette on Sept 29, 2008 7:02:20 GMT
I have to say I did like the episode but a lot of things were missing. Like the Solar Panel car, the car that drives on thin air and what not... That's a pity, it should have been half an hour longer to cover it all really but I am looking forward to the episode of next week.
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Post by lindenchase on Sept 29, 2008 7:06:35 GMT
I have to say I did like the episode but a lot of things were missing. Like the Solar Panel car, the car that drives on thin air and what not... That's a pity, it should have been half an hour longer to cover it all really but I am looking forward to the episode of next week. I think they will show those in the episodes about new forms of energy.  |
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Post by inky on Sept 29, 2008 9:18:09 GMT
Fab review of last nights programme in today's Express;
"I have seen the future and it is a bloke. Caspian Sea monsters that turned out to be ekranoplans, flying cars, strap-on helicopters, jet-powered rocket belts: these are the things that blokes' dreams are made of.
They are also the future (or in some cases, the past) of our transport ysytem and, even for a technophobe like me, made for utterly compelling viewing as that uber-bloke James May led us through the weird and the wonderful in James Mays Big Ideas. The ekranoplan, incidentally, was the old Soviet Union's best-kept secret: a plane with short, stubby wings that flew just above sea level, thus well under enemy radar. There is still a diddy version in use today, it's one design fault being that it is hard to get it to stop.
This was the first of the various marvels May introduced us to last night: the second was a town in Florida, one of about 300 of it's kind, where the streets are runways, garages attached to houses are also hangers, and a substantial number of the inhabitants are qualified pilots, who land their planes nearby and then drive them home.
The undisputed star of the show, though, was the 1956 aerocar that did what it said on the label. An ungainly little motor on the roads, you needed but to attach wings and it was capable of leaving the highways well behind it. 'I've been dreaming about this moment since I was 6 years old,' breathed May, looking about as excited as a 6 year old as he was given the controls of the Fifties automobile now soaring above the clouds. That is the age at which most children see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: that car has a lot to answer for.
May's sheer, breathless enthusiasm, plus the jaw-dropping machines he had on display, couldn't help but draw you in, and whoever would have thought that the non-blokes amongst us would know what VTOL stands for? It means vertical take off and landing and once it's been perfected for all cars, along with in-built self-steerage systems, it's probably going to be the way we'll be travelling in the future. How is a traffic warden going to be able to nab one of those?"
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Post by dutchdiva on Sept 29, 2008 10:18:31 GMT
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Post by beckstar on Sept 29, 2008 10:24:12 GMT
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Post by lindenchase on Sept 29, 2008 11:33:24 GMT
The viewing figures are in! According to the Guardian:
BBC2's new series James May's Big Ideas pulled in 2.9 million and a 12% share in the 9pm hour.
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Post by dutchdiva on Sept 29, 2008 11:34:28 GMT
The viewing figures are in! According to the Guardian: BBC2's new series James May's Big Ideas pulled in 2.9 million and a 12% share in the 9pm hour.is that good?  |
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Post by Wyvern on Sept 29, 2008 11:36:27 GMT
Almost three million viewers for an educational programme on a minority channel? That sounds pretty good to me |
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Post by TheDaisy on Sept 29, 2008 12:04:18 GMT
Just over one in every ten people with the TV on was watching - pretty good, considering 9pm is usually when the TV stations put on their best shows.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 12:08:58 GMT
That is pretty amazing considering Tess of the D'Ubervilles and Poirot were on at the same time.
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Post by beckstar on Sept 29, 2008 13:37:50 GMT
That's excellent! It doesn't sound a lot but for BBC2 it really is superb.
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Post by nobody on Sept 29, 2008 14:35:09 GMT
Thats not bad because it went up against Tess of the D'Ubervilles and Poirot I wonder does anyone know if the BBC keeps a record on how may hits a show gets on iplayer?
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Post by nobody on Sept 29, 2008 14:39:51 GMT
I just read the times review and i can't tell if he likes it or not?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 14:44:46 GMT
That reviewer is quite hard on everything.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Sept 29, 2008 15:19:55 GMT
Well, at last the nation is starting to realise something that we have known for quite some time, James May has serious pulling power!!
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Post by lindenchase on Sept 29, 2008 16:50:29 GMT
Well, this reviewer seems to think James's programme was of interest to dudes only and that all the babes were watching Tess of the D'Ubervilles. How wrong, how very wrong. ;D |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Sept 29, 2008 17:13:21 GMT
Yeah, maybe someone should e-mail him and put him straight!!
What a prat! The reviewer not James, obv!
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Post by lindenchase on Sept 29, 2008 17:29:47 GMT
Aaah, not a prat. Just a bit naieve. It's a very positive review!
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Post by lymaze on Sept 29, 2008 18:03:29 GMT
That's v good 3 million. I think more than 20th Century. Can't wait for next week with the robots. When does Miserable old Tess finish then? ;D
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Post by blackopal on Sept 29, 2008 18:32:57 GMT
4.9 million for the third episode of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I'm hearing it doesn't hold a candle to the Polanski film. However, if we ever get to see it in America (about two years from now, snort) you can bet I'll watch - I'm a pushover for those period dramas.
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Post by lew on Sept 29, 2008 18:47:58 GMT
Dunno not soon enough, can't read the book (I did) it's too sad  .....so May it was ;D |
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Post by beckstar on Sept 29, 2008 18:49:11 GMT
After MUCH faffing: www.megaupload.com/?d=BU7EM9VK700MB .avi Plays fine in VLC. If you use another player you may need an x-vid codec, which can be found not by asking me but by asking Google... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 19:58:19 GMT
Thank you Becks  |
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Post by beckstar on Sept 29, 2008 20:06:50 GMT
No problemo. A note, however, which will be cryptic to most people: If you have come here from Top Gear Totty on LJ to download this: please don't. Get it from up your own arse instead, thanks.  |
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Post by aaurora on Sept 29, 2008 20:37:57 GMT
Watched it last night with the other half and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. James truly shines doing this sort of stuff, and it is completely obvious he had researched extensively and he actually knows what he is reporting - not just reading it from a script. As for the program appealing to men, well I was very entertained! The fact that James was hosting only made it better. Fantastic to see him flying his Decathlon and the Aerocar, he's bloody incredible. I think my other half wants a life like that What man wouldn't? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2008 20:51:02 GMT
What woman wouldn't too? |
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Post by beckstar on Sept 29, 2008 20:56:10 GMT
What woman wouldn't too? Ooh, I dunno... flying in light aircraft doesn't half mess up your hair! ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
.....so May it was ;D
