What are you watching tonight?

[TANGODANCER]

That's the one Tango. Believe it or not, he is the brother of ex-Boro player Joseph-Desire Job and owns a Cameroonian takeaway on Bolton Market called Nkono! I took Bruce and LE there on a lunch 'date' last summer. The two of them seemed to hit it off!

Btw it's Beyoncé, rather than 'The Baseballs'!

Not so my friend. Apparently, there was a copyright on the Beyonce one if used for commercial purposes (which the show was considered to be) so a cover version had to be used, ie The Baseballs. Check it out. Gee, I almost don't want tomorrow to come because the great adventure will finally be all over. Ah well, the B.B.C have promised us all a D.V.D of the whole thing. I'd do it all over again.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q= ... +baseballs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Burnden Paddock]

That's the one Tango. Believe it or not, he is the brother of ex-Boro player Joseph-Desire Job and owns a Cameroonian takeaway on Bolton Market called Nkono! I took Bruce and LE there on a lunch 'date' last summer. The two of them seemed to hit it off!

Btw it's Beyoncé, rather than 'The Baseballs'!

Not so my friend. Apparently, there was a copyright on the Beyonce one if used for commercial purposes (which the show was considered to be) so a cover version had to be used, ie The Baseballs. Check it out. Gee, I almost don't want tomorrow to come because the great adventure will finally be all over. Ah well, the B.B.C have promised us all a D.V.D of the whole thing. I'd do it all over again.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q= ... +baseballs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ahh my apologies Tango. I misread your original comment.

[jonnycooper]

Looking forward to part2 tonight! Have had all the family watching it on catch up.Was hoping to see that Ikon frontage gone in part2,but I realise it won,t..Can't the owners of the building see the value of it back in its original state? Pardon the pun,but that is one Ikon ic looking building!

[Bruce Rioja]

Can I just point out that the song in question isn't called 'Crazy in Love' this is a common misconception. It's actually called 'The Sami Hyypia Song' as it repeatedly features the line "Sami Hyypia's crazy right now". Check it out for yourselves on this incorrectly named piece.

[LeverEnd]

A bit like 'The John McGinlay Song' (aka It's My Life) by breakfast cereal-inspired 90s dance group Dr Allbran.

[LeverEnd]

Btw it's Beyoncé, rather than 'The Baseballs'!

Not so my friend. Apparently, there was a copyright on the Beyonce one if used for commercial purposes (which the show was considered to be) so a cover version had to be used, ie The Baseballs. Check it out. Gee, I almost don't want tomorrow to come because the great adventure will finally be all over. Ah well, the B.B.C have promised us all a D.V.D of the whole thing. I'd do it all over again.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q= ... +baseballs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ahh my apologies Tango. I misread your original comment.

These naysayers are the price of fame, Tango.
You aren't posh enough for fine wine and you know nothing about pop music apparently. How dare they!!

[TANGODANCER]

One thing I really don't get is the owners reluctance to remove the dreadful 'Ikon' façade. Fair enough, they'd have to spend some money on removing it and shoring up the original façade, but surely they'd have a damn sight better chance of selling/renting it looking like that, than how it currently looks!

See this is where Bolton council are so myopic about their own town. Okay, it's 2016 and we all accept that the Palais will never return to its glory days as a ballroom dance venue in the past sense : It's just too big and costly to maintain for that. Time has moved on and, much though I'd love to see it different, the once proud and glorious town that was Bolton is now a shadow of what it was. It would need filling three or four nights a week as of old.

That said, the BBC make two programmes about our town for national TV, shown at prime evening time, the Bolton News get the date wrong and miss a chance to really headline the town and I'm betting half the council members don't even know about any of it. What a glorious opportunity to showcase Bolton as a thriving multu-cultural northern town! If that happens it will be thanks to the B.B.C and not the town council. Return the Palais fascade to its former glory, open it as a museum to Ballroom dance, let dance schools operate from it, promote enterprise and publicise social events. What other town outside London and Blackpool has a ballroom as glorious as this? Not Manchester, Rochdale, Liverpool or anywhere else.

But no, the Palais site will eventually become yet another hotel, block of flats, skateboard park, trampoline venue or student accomodation. We apply to be a city and don't even have a swimming baths any more and Bury makes our market look Jurassic. Why we need yet multi-million pound interchange when the main entrance to the town is a one-way street going out of Bolton is beyond explanation.

You make me feel like Dancing? Glenn Miller might, Bolton council, you sure don't.

ps: I know the council don't own the Palais, but they could.

[Bijou Bob]

Season one of Fargo. Loved the film, found the series to be even better!

[clapton is god]

What the blithering crin is Bobby George wearing at the darts?

[Harry Genshaw]

Just finished Peaky Blinders. Excellent. A British version of Boardwalk empire but better imo

[KeyserSoze]

Watched 'The Big Short' last night.

enjoyed it. had the issue that all films about opaque topics have in that it has to stop and explain the plot to the audience at some junctures, but this was done in a clearly knowing way and it was fun.

Brad Pitt doing his standard 'in it for five minutes but will be a poster star' thing.

Have read the book and would recommend that as well.

[johnadams]

Experimenter (2015)

[thebish]

am working my way through the first series of Jessica Jones on Netflix...

it's holding its own! in fact - quite entertaining!

[Bruce Rioja]

It mentioned ont' wireless this morning that this evening is the premiere for the new Rocky film. Oh, for feck's sake. They did this to death 30 years ago. Let me have a stab at guessing the plot. Boxer overcomes adversity - becomes heavyweight champion of the world - gets the girl - the end!

[Beefheart]

Watched 'The Big Short' last night.

enjoyed it. had the issue that all films about opaque topics have in that it has to stop and explain the plot to the audience at some junctures, but this was done in a clearly knowing way and it was fun.

Brad Pitt doing his standard 'in it for five minutes but will be a poster star' thing.

Have read the book and would recommend that as well.

One of the things I found annoying with Wolf of Wall Street was the way they knowingly skipped over the boring details of how some of the stuff was done. Being a geek I was interested in that. I'll have to go and watch this now.

[Il Pirate]

Season one of Fargo. Loved the film, found the series to be even better!

...............Season two will play with your head then! Great stuff. Yaa.......

[TANGODANCER]

It mentioned ont' wireless this morning that this evening is the premiere for the new Rocky film. Oh, for feck's sake. They did this to death 30 years ago. Let me have a stab at guessing the plot. Boxer overcomes adversity - becomes heavyweight champion of the world - gets the girl - the end!

Agree. One Rocky ( so was one Rambo) film was enough. Paradise Alley was better than anything that followed. Half the problem now is about overdoing everything. Too many films on the same themes and plots become uninteresting, as do too many books of the same. It's a well known fact that for years there have been only thirty nine possible plot variations, They knock that many out in a week now.

[Bruce Rioja]

Half the problem now is about overdoing everything.

Lord of the Rings. They made three x three hour films out of a book that's a centimeter thick comprising nothing other than - big fight, on to the next place - big fight, on to the next place ad infinitum.

[Beefheart]

Half the problem now is about overdoing everything.

Lord of the Rings. They made three x three hour films out of a book that's a centimeter thick comprising nothing other than - big fight, on to the next place - big fight, on to the next place ad infinitum.

I think you're thinking of The Hobbit. The Lord of The Rings was 3 x 3 hour films out of 3 books.

[Bruce Rioja]

Half the problem now is about overdoing everything.

Lord of the Rings. They made three x three hour films out of a book that's a centimeter thick comprising nothing other than - big fight, on to the next place - big fight, on to the next place ad infinitum.

I think you're thinking of The Hobbit. The Lord of The Rings was 3 x 3 hour films out of 3 books.

That'll be the badger, but Lord of the Rings was still shit (Well, the first one was, I ignored the other two).