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.
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 ?
Wasn't there 11 untill Moses dropped one, when he was carrying them down the mountain? Now that was funny.
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
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.
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.
.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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