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James Spader is always electric. The writing for The Practice gave him full reign.
This is a powerful clip on how Ice Hockey brawls (could have) been instantly cleaned up.

 
Watched "Me and My Tourette's" on SBS last night.

Eye opening and educational in the best sense of the word. Key takeaway of Tourettes is that when words lose their meaning they become meaningless. When people use random repeated swear words as a tic but with no conscious intent to abuse they are no longer seen as abusive.
They are just living with a very quirky neurological disorder.

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Watch Me and My Tourette's

Follows three young people who, diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, are about to embark on a life-changing journey at a specialised camp.
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I'm watching "Time" on ABC I view. Story focuses on British jails seen through the experience of 50 year teacher in jail for dangerous driving.
Powerful, "difficult to watch" work by Jimmy McGovern and outstanding actors in Sean Bean and Stephan Graham.
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Time

Mark Cobden is sentenced to prison after accidentally killing a man. Consumed by his guilt, he accepts his sentence but is quickly confronted with the ruthless realities of life inside prison.
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Why Jimmy McGovern's prison drama Time is 'difficult to watch'​

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    • 6 June 2021


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Sean Bean and Stephen Graham star in the three-part prison drama
By Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

Sean Bean and Stephen Graham star in BBC One's new prison drama Time, which begins on Sunday. The three-part series has been written by Jimmy McGovern, who says he hopes it shines a light on the reality of the British penal system.

McGovern, a renowned screenwriter who was also behind Hillsborough, Broken and Accused, says he initially had the idea of setting a drama in a cell block nearly four decades ago.

"From about 1982 onwards, I did a fair bit of work in prisons," he recalls. "I was always popping in there, doing the writer's workshop, popping out again. And I was always fascinated by it for all kinds of reasons.

"But I think the main reason is I always felt 'there but for the grace of God go I'. Because I was young and skint once, and I did a few naughty things, but I was extremely lucky." (McGovern has admitted committing non-violent crimes in his youth.) "And I'm always looking for stories, and the thing about a British prison is it's full of stories."

Liverpool-born McGovern's latest drama Time follows Mark Cobden (played by Bean), a former teacher who has been sentenced to four years inside for drink-driving, after a road accident he was involved in left a cyclist dead.

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Why Jimmy McGovern's prison drama Time is 'difficult to watch'

Actor Stephen Graham stars in the brutally violent prison drama Time, written by Jimmy McGovern.
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Just watched The Cleaning Company on SBS. It's the story of a trauma cleaning company in Melbourne set up by Sarah Pankhurst whose life was essentially one long trauma. Offers great insight into the people and situations dealt with by trauma cleaners. Deaths, suicides, hoarding, neglect.

Through the program we also understand the life of Sarah Pankhurst. Something else again.

The Cleaning Company​

Special, Documentary, Factual, Culture & Society
1h 28m2022English

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Watch The Cleaning Company

Explores the world of trauma cleaning through the work of business owner Sandra Pankhurst and her employees at Melbourne's Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services.
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basilio said:
Just watched The Cleaning Company on SBS. It's the story of a trauma cleaning company in Melbourne set up by Sarah Pankhurst whose life was essentially one long trauma. Offers great insight into the people and situations dealt with by trauma cleaners. Deaths, suicides, hoarding, neglect.

Through the program we also understand the life of Sarah Pankhurst. Something else again.

The Cleaning Company​

Special, Documentary, Factual, Culture & Society
1h 28m2022English

www.sbs.com.au

Watch The Cleaning Company

Explores the world of trauma cleaning through the work of business owner Sandra Pankhurst and her employees at Melbourne's Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services.
www.sbs.com.au www.sbs.com.au
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Yuk. You would want to be paid well.

I have started watching Monkey again which I watched as a teenager. Stands up!!!!
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Blood of the Clans. SBS on Demand 4 days left.

Just finished watching this three part story on the Scottish uprisings of the 17th Century.
Absolutely fascinating. Narrated in his typically deadpan style by Neil Oliver.

The stories of the these wars, the characters and the politics are riveting. If you have any interest in UK history and the legends of the Highland Clans this is a must see.

These programs will only be be for 4 more days. Set aside 3 hours . Crack open a decent Scotch. This weekend will be your last chance to marvel at these stories.

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Blood of the Clans

The story of Scotland's 17th-century civil war of the Campbells against the MacDonalds, as clans rose up in rebellion.
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For an edgy view on popular music, art and the whole damn thing, circa 30 years ago.

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Watch Who Killed the KLF?

The KLF was one of the biggest British music acts of the '90s and for a period the biggest selling singles act in the world. They achieved global success but self-destructed in a legendary act of nihilism on a remote Scottish island.
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Cunk on Earth

A mockumentary thattakes a unique perspective of world history through the eyes of Philomena Cunk.

Drop dead brilliantly funny, and dark, 5 part series. Currently on netflix. If you clever you can see it on you tube if can beat the block.

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What you need to know about Cunk on Earth, the Pump Up the Jam-blasting mockumentary baffling experts

From wondering if Beyonce's Single Ladies is more culturally significant than the Renaissance, to pondering if Jesus was the first victim of cancel culture, Cunk on Earth is baffling experts while blasting Pump Up the Jam.
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basilio said:
Cunk on Earth

A mockumentary thattakes a unique perspective of world history through the eyes of Philomena Cunk.

Drop dead brilliantly funny, and dark, 5 part series. Currently on netflix. If you clever you can see it on you tube if can beat the block.

www.abc.net.au

What you need to know about Cunk on Earth, the Pump Up the Jam-blasting mockumentary baffling experts

From wondering if Beyonce's Single Ladies is more culturally significant than the Renaissance, to pondering if Jesus was the first victim of cancel culture, Cunk on Earth is baffling experts while blasting Pump Up the Jam.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

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It's pretty good.
I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once again on a stream but saw it originally in the cinema. My favourite movie for the last few years Love it.

James Hong is 94. His first movie was with Clark Gable! He has range. People who have been in Hollywood forever and now getting major parts. Also Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis. Fabulous.

Key Huy Quon was in Indiana Jones and has not got much work.

Mainly Asian cast but set in the modern US diaspora. The world is getting better.
 
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Old classic.
Also "Devils" on SBS, an insight into modern banking and trading desks.


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The Big Short

Four outsiders in the world of high-finance, who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, decide to take on the big banks for their lack of foresight and greed.
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