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Looking at TV series on Amazon to stream. What are your favorites ?

Hi! Could someone explain the weird robotic chirping sound in the background of some Australian serials like Tangle and Dr Blake Mysteries? I forgot the other show. Sometimes it is subtle but other times it is incessant and loud. Thanks!

im 55 mins behind rn

Having lived in the UK for an extended period and moved back home to Oz, I see there are three UK adverts shown on Australian TV.

The Cadbury petrol station ad (the attendant says "you forgot this...love you Dad"), is broadcast exactly as in the UK. The ClearScore ad with Moose the dog ("What doin?... I love you, I love you too Moose") has been redubbed with Australian actors, although I don't think Moose has been. Finally, the Tena sanitary pad advert with the Irish actress sitting on the toilet has been slightly censored so that you can't see her bare legs, like in the UK version.

While I was in the UK, I don't think I saw any Australian adverts shown on TV. There aren't many Aussie products on general sale in the UK. The only two I can think of are Fosters and Castlemaine XXXX, both of which are brewed in the UK. The only ads I saw for these were UK made.

Sometimes products other than Vegemite popped up in supermarkets. Tim Tams were quite common for a while. My local Tesco used to get in about a dozen Bundaberg Ginger Beer 4 packs, which lasted several months, as I think I was the only person buying it.

Hi everyone!! I’m a massive fan of Offspring the show. I have all the dvds but they’re packed away and I no longer have a dvd player :( I’m wondering if anyone knows where I could possibly stream the series or download somewhere without having to pay?? Been looking to no avail

I caught a few minutes of a documentary late at night but never saw what it was called. It was about a woman who believed in outlandish conspiracy theories and lived alone in a trailer in America. She was a chain smoker sick with cancer that would record herself on cassette tapes documenting her journey.

She was a devout Christian who believed Jesus was keeping her alive.

The tapes have apparently received a cult following by individuals suspicious of the US government despite how ludicrous her beliefs actually were.

If anyone knows what I am talking about I’d be grateful. Been bugging me for years.

Thank you one and all!

With the passing of Simon Townsend, does anybody else remember the the time he popped up on the ABC to talk about Australian copyright law and the illegality (which it was, at the time) of using a VCR to tape a show to watch later?

It would have been during the summer holidays, because we weren't allowed to watch TV during the week in term-time. It was also hot as fuck outside, and the awning had been pulled down over the windows to block out the westering sun.

It displaced either The Goodies or Monkey, because I was a bit miffed at my heroes being replaced by this guy I vaguely knew in a grey suit just standing there talking. It might have been post-1979, because I might vaguely remember being disappointed that there was no Woodrow.

But then he said something that just stuck with me forever after. He said, after pointing out how the law was making a criminal out of everyone who owned a VCR and used it for half of its intended purpose (the memory fades in about here) something along the lines of "...then the law is an ass, and it is the duty of every citizen to break that law at every opportunity." It was delivered...pretty emphatically.

I've searched on and off over the years, but to no avail. Just a favorite memory of mine, of him. Yarrr!

With the seemingly endless number of fake "celebrity" programs on (Real Housewives, I'm A Celebrity..., etc), does the panel think the time is right for a home grown celebrity chat show like Don Lane used to host? We have Graham Norton, but why do we have to import celebrity chat shows?

I have a big fan of Colin carpenter and I was watching the show on YouTube but what I noticed is that not all of the episodes are on YouTube. Especially the season 3 episode the long goodbye part 2. I want to know where to find it or to but the whole series. Thanks!

I remember there use to be 3 or 4 movies on Friday/Saturday nights on all channels from 7 through to 10, now I check the TV guid and it's Saturday night and not a single movie is on the TV. Did they do away with free to air movies?

Just saw an ad for Madpaws, which starts with the guy dancing naked and his neighbour walks in, "Aw, yucky, Arnold!" And he sheepishly replies, "Hi Carol."

Then we see Carol looking up a new pet-sitter... took me a few moments but I realise where I've seen her before. It's Carol from the eBay ad, where her colleague yells, "WE SHOULD GET SUSHI, CAROL!" And if I'm not mistaken... Arnold is the colleague in that eBay ad.

Maybe instead of noise-cancelling headphones, Carol needs sight-cancelling goggles...

This always was broadcast on SBS and/or ABC. Now, it seems as though the only way to watch it in Australia is to stream it for a fee. Both stations show programs broadcast by the BBC, so why not this? It is time to bring it back to free to air TV. Luckily I can spell VPN and BBC.

u/StanAus - Dropping an episode per week is frustrating and irritating If we wanted to watch an episode a week that’s what the FTA networks are for....... Cant wait for your 2025 price jack up...... Yiu might as well telecast it on Ch9 so others can watch it

As we come towards the end up of the year I'm curious to know what everyone's favourite new shows have been.

Some of my favourites included High Country, Return to Paradise, Plum, Thou Shalt Not Steal and Human Error

Hi,

A few years ago there was a crime docuseries/documentary that aired on tv about someone getting killed due to a hit in the head by an object, (think of a hammer or something heavier)

This show makes me grateful I never did jury duty. 2 men understanding not what “beyond reasonable doubt” means has me shaking my head in frustration.

God this is some next level wank about one's self.

I need to know the name of the actor in the Australian ad/commercial for Agl energy and netflix. It's driving me crazy.

https://youtu.be/KrDnrAAonOA?si=kByPbnRlpUeYhw-K

Not sure any anyone can assist me.

Looking for other channel 11 ads that ran during (I want to say) 2011-2014

There was another one, a captain Janeway one I am desperately trying to find.

Thanks

How can I watch sky news Australia on an LG smart TV?

Has anyone else binge watched Plum on iview? It was fantastic and I need to discuss the relationships and the ending!

This show primarily based in australia, aired in the early 2000's in India and it revolved around this couple whose kids all leave the house as they were adults and the couple was excited to find some alone time but due to certain circumstances all of them came back and loved with them. The husband I think had a construction business or carpentry something like that.

I have been looking and searching all Australian TV show databases but couldn't find it. May be this community can help.

It was a reality show, I think it was primarily set in Sydney. I remember an episode in the Manly Quarantine Station and one in a rural NSW prison. I think it ran sometime around 2005.

The premise was that contestants would be locked within a closed space in a location famous for hauntings.

Cameras set on them and they needed to stay put overnight without asking to be let out. The production crew would have a few faked phenomenons but would also capture some "real" ones.

I cant remember the title at all, but any help would be really appreciated.