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Was watching Compass recently. They have just completed a series of programs on 6 young people who are very religious - and then sway lives with a person of another religion for 2 weeks. Think about a young (20 ish) Jewish girl swapping lives with a young Muslim girl.

Eye opening . well worth a look on Iview
 
We watched The Bible last night on Channel 9 and thought it was very good and well done for a first episode, will be watching again next Tuesday.
 
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Tink said:
We watched The Bible last night on Channel 9 and thought it was very good and well done for a first episode, will be watching again next Tuesday.
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Yes I thought that was good also Tink, about time someone did a remake of the 10 Commandments

Wonder how it would go these days ?
 
MrBurns said:
Yes I thought that was good also Tink, about time someone did a remake of the 10 Commandments

Wonder how it would go these days ?
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Wasn't there 11 untill Moses dropped one, when he was carrying them down the mountain? Now that was funny.:D

Thanks for the clip, it looks well done, might have to tune in.:xyxthumbs
 
Quality production. Enjoyed the first one. Tough project though. They had to skip over so much to fit it in.

Particularly looking forward to King David, Daniel and Jesus.
 
sptrawler said:
Wasn't there 11 untill Moses dropped one, when he was carrying them down the mountain? Now that was funny.:D
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So visualise poor ol Moses standing on a mountain getting his instructions when he has to ask the obvious question
"Run this by me again Lord, you call us the chosen people but you want us to cut the tips off our what ?" :eek:ld:
 
Agree, Mr Burns :xyxthumbs

I think they are repeating it on Saturday night, sptrawler.

Yes, Pav, would be a tough job but they have done well, excellent reviews.
They have just passed to do the second series.
 
Was watching The Midwives on ABC Iview . This is the real program rather than the historical series (which was also excellent).

Great reality TV without the commercial cloying sentiment and dramatics (but it certainly was dramatic). I saw the episode on dangerous births
 
basilio said:
Was watching The Midwives on ABC Iview . This is the real program rather than the historical series (which was also excellent).

Great reality TV without the commercial cloying sentiment and dramatics (but it certainly was dramatic). I saw the episode on dangerous births
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I watched the series when it aired originally, and found it well worth the watch. It alternatively caused me to cry, laugh and feel quite exasperated at times. I have an aunt who used to run a large maternity ward and was reminded of some of the cases she'd tell me about.

I wonder what effect it may have if it were made compulsory viewing for high school students?:D
 
I find Iview dangerously addictive. Currently watching "Growing up and going home". Story of a 3 young eithopian children adopted by Australians.
 
Saw a terrifying/fascinating film last night on Iview last night

It was called The Cyberbully. Basically set in the bedroom of a teenage schoolgirl whose computer is taken over(controlled) by someone else. All the events are based on events that have happened to people.

Certainly an eye opener if you have teenage children/grandchildren. And it also opens the discussion on the effects of trolling, trashing or ridiculing people on the net.

After I watched the movie I discovered that it was also on You Tube . There is even a Europen version which incorporated a discussion session with young people

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/cyberbully/?WT.mc_id=Innovation_TV-Cyberbully|Cyberbully_FBP|abc
Told through webcam and screen activity, a teenage girl is targeted by an unseen cyber-stalker and plunges into a nightmarish scenario of control, deceit and retribution. CAST: Maisie Williams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBRjJzWviY (You tube version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeK0ErDC22c (You tube European version with discussion)
 
Something I just saw that was relevant to The Cyber Bully

You might have heard of Revenge pr0n sites. Essentially a site to post pics of ex lovers or people you want to embarrass.

One such site went even further . It posted the full details of the people involved. Names address facebook the lot.
Finally the guy who ran the site has been jailed for 18 years.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...site-jailed-for-18-years-20150404-1mepv8.html

SAN DIEGO - A US man sobbed as he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for operating a "revenge pr0n" website.

Kevin Bollaert, from San Diego, ran the website ugotposted.com which featured more than 10,000 sexually explicit photos of people, mostly women, which had been submitted by their ex-lovers.

Unlike other revenge pr0n websites where photos are anonymous, ugotposted.com required the person posting the image to include full details of the subject, Sky News reported.

These included their full name, location, age and Facebook profile link. There was also an option to include the victim's phone number.

The web developer posted the pictures and then charged women from $300 to $350 to have the pictures removed, according to the The Los Angeles Times. Prosecutors say Bollaert earned about $30,000 from people who paid to remove the images.

Prosecutors said the victims included teachers, wives and professionals.

The compromising photos cost people their jobs, damaged relationships and led to one attempted suicide.
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"Good Kill

Focus on the US drone programme and its efforts in (our?) war on terror.

Having seen "American Sniper", this is quite a brave story that tries to balance why the US have to do what it does as well as some moral and legal objections.
 
Junior said:
Here are some great TV series for anyone with some spare time:

Boardwalk Empire
Almost up there with the Sopranos, Buscemi is excellent. Must have a glass of scotch in hand whilst watching this.

Homeland
Best series of 2011. Claire Danes awesome.

Louie
Featuring the dark humour of Louis CK. Watch some of his stand up on youtube, if you like that, you'll like the show.

Breaking Bad
I'm jealous of anyone who hasn't watched this yet, you have 4 and a half seasons to catch up on.

The League
If you are into fantasy football and/or giving your mates a hard time, you will like this one.

The Newsroom
A brand new show, currently airing season 1 in the US.
I think a lot of people on this forum will like this. Starring Jeff Daniels (dumb and dumber!) as TV's most watched news anchor. He decides to do news the way it should be done, free of bias, no gossip, and no pandering to the audience, sponsors or stakeholders. A simple reporting of the facts and asking the tough questions. This creates waves with the network execs as ratings suffer. In various episodes they cover stories such as BHPs oil disaster in the gulf and the debt ceiling in the US.


OK...now maybe I should do something productive with my day.
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i watched newsroom on Netflix today..i am loving it thanks :)
 
On Iview (ABC) naturally.

Liberty or Death. Great Irish/Tasmanian co production on the range of Chartists, Young Irelanders and other people who attempted to improve their life in Ireland and Wales. The British government sent them to Van Diemans land rather than create even more strife with execution.

Didn't work out that way though.

Really filled in my understanding of early Australian convict history. Well worth checking out.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/death-or-liberty/DO1408T001S00
 
Marco Polo - Netflix

Marco must have written several tomes in his lifetime to support the series plot, but nonetheless it's a an engaging series with plenty of eye candy for the fellas too.

With productions like this and "Better Call Saul" I can see why the commercial stations are feeling the pinch with their endless offerings of hachneyed Crime solving genres and domestic lifestyle shows.
 
Havn't seen this yet but it is a total jaw dropper.

War Dogs is an astounding story about arms dealing - just don't call it a war movie

Andrew Purcell

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Does a film about war need to do more than entertain?

"I don't know. We didn't make a war movie," director Todd Phillips says. "There have been a lot of movies about war and a lot of movies about soldiers. This is not one of them."

War Dogs is based on a tale so incredible that star Miles Teller is prompted to reach for that hoariest of cliches: "Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction." So there's war in the title, but in fairness to Phillips, it is true that the killing takes place outside the frame, as an indirect result of events on screen.

Teller plays David Packouz, a 25-year-old Jewish kid from Miami Beach recruited into the arms trade by his even younger friend, Efraim Diveroli. When their two-man company, AEY Inc, scores a $300 million contract with the US government to arm the Afghan military, they must scramble to supply millions of rocket-propelled grenades and more than a hundred million rounds of AK-47 ammunition. This really happened.

Phillips bought the rights to Guy Lawson's Rolling Stone story about the two would-be lords of war soon after it was published in 2011 (a book followed four years later). Actor Jonah Hill also read the article and tried to buy it, intending to direct. "I was late to the party," he says. He settled for playing Diveroli, a manipulative charmer with boundless ambition and a helium balloon laugh
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Truly. Read the rest of the review

http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/movies/war-dogs-20160816-gqtmkh.html
 
John Howard currently talking a lot of sense on ABC = his opinions very much like mine about a lot of things, except Menzies
 
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