Forces TV, Rewind TV and That's TV

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by cutback73

Dark Skies is being shown at 00:55 Tuesday 22 April (overnight Monday night) and 01:05 Wednesday 23 April (overnight Tuesday night) - I think these must be the last 2 episodes, although it says episode 19 for both, rather than 19 and 20

Had a look on the Sky TV listings later on last night, and saw that it's the same episode that was shown late last night that is being repeated late tonight (if you count the pilot as a feature-length episode, it was episode 18 "Strangers in the Night"). They have the same synopsis.

And have had a look through Rewind's listings for next Saturday to a week on Friday, and I can't see any sign yet of the last episode of the show (episode 19 "Bloodlines").

[OceanBlue]

Don't know if these series have been shown on Rewind before, but in the new issue of the listings magazine I spotted that starting a week on Thursday (1st May) are Please Sir!, Carry On Laughing and The Cuckoo Waltz:

Thursday 1st May:

8 pm - 8.50 pm: Please Sir!
9 pm - 9.30 pm: Carry On Laughing
9.30 pm - 10 pm: The Cuckoo Waltz.

The above is the same for a week on Friday (2nd May).

On a separate note, Soap has disappeared from the channel's listings for Saturday 28th April to Friday 2nd May.

Source: TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 26th April to Friday 2nd May, 2025).

[OceanBlue]

Coming soon to Rewind:

- nineties medical drama series Bramwell (beginning tomorrow (Thursday 1st May)
- comedy series Lucky Feller (the cast including Sir David Jason), beginning a week today (Wednesday 7th May)
- comedy series You're Only Young Twice, beginning on Monday 12th May.

Source: Rewind's Facebook page, Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 3rd to Friday 9th May, 2025).

[OceanBlue]

Starting next week on Rewind TV:

In Loving Memory - starting on Tuesday 20th May at 12.30 pm - 1 pm and 9 pm - 9.30 pm
The Strange World of Gurney Slade - starting on Tuesday 20th May at 9.30 pm - 10.05 pm
Brass - starting on Friday 23rd May at 7 pm - 7.30 pm.

Source: Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 17th to Friday 23rd May, 2025).

[OceanBlue]

Looks like Rewind will be showing again the episodes of Soap that they aired several weeks ago, based on the listings (starting again next Wednesday night (28th May) at 9.30 pm - 10 pm). Have set the first episode to record.

Was quite surprised when after contacting Via Vision last month to ask about the availability of their DVD release of Soap: The Complete Series (it stated "out of stock"), they replied saying it had already sold out (at the time it had only been a week since the DVD set had been released). I had also asked them if the hour-long specials would be included (in previous DVD releases they were split into half-hour versions), and was told the hour-long specials would not be included.

[OceanBlue]

Starting on Rewind TV a week today (Wednesday 4th June) is early-nineties comedy series Haggard (the cast including Keith Barron and Reece Dinsdale). Airing next Wednesday to Friday (5th June) at 2.30 pm - 3 pm and 7.30 pm - 8 pm.

Source: Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 31st May to Friday 6th June, 2025).

[OceanBlue]

Rewind recently posted on their Facebook page that starting on the channel in July is another documentary series that Jack Hargreaves presented called Old Country (have done a web search and it originally aired on Channel 4 after Out of Town ended when Southern Television closed). Starts on Sunday 20th July at 4.30 pm.

[OceanBlue]

Rewind posted on their Facebook page this past weekend an update on which TV series and films will now have subtitles on the channel:

Fantasy Island
The Monkees
Police Woman
Soap
and all Norman Wisdom films.

The above is in addition to Bramwell, Lucky Feller, Mapp & Lucia and Thick as Thieves.

[OceanBlue]

Rewind posted on their Facebook page earlier today that they will start showing soon another Sir David Jason-starring comedy series, A Sharp Intake of Breath.

Update: It starts on Tuesday 24th June, airing at 2.30 pm - 3 pm and 7.30 pm - 8 pm (ending a week on Wednesday (2nd July). Seven episodes in total.

Source: Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 21st to Friday 27th June, 2025).

[OceanBlue]

Starting on Rewind a week on Thursday (3rd July) is comedy gameshow Jokers Wild (hosted by Barry Cryer). Airing twice a day at 11 am - 11.30 am and 7 pm - 7.30 pm.

Network released the first two series of the show on DVD (sadly the rest of the series didn't get released).

[OceanBlue]

Couple of new posts by Rewind on their Facebook page this week which are interesting:

1.) A new series in the works that you may be interested in DTSBOY as it will be about British motoring history. It will be shown later in the summer.

2.) A post called "Should classic TV be censored?"

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Couple of new posts by Rewind on their Facebook page this week which are interesting:

1.) A new series in the works that you may be interested in DTSBOY as it will be about British motoring history. It will be shown later in the summer.

2.) A post called "Should classic TV be censored?"

Cool, always pleased to see a new car show appear. Their current one Auto Rewind is good but needs to be on for longer.

And, "Should classic TV be censored?". Definitely not but I'll watch that too.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by DTSBOY

Cool, always pleased to see a new car show appear. Their current one Auto Rewind is good but needs to be on for longer.

And, "Should classic TV be censored?". Definitely not but I'll watch that too.

I might have been confusing with the second one. Not a new show in the works by Rewind but a question they asked, starting a discussion. And I agree, classic TV shouldn't be censored.

Have checked the Sky TV listings and Rewind will be showing the first series of Joker's Wild. Hopefully, they'll show the third series, but based on other shows they've been airing, Rewind are probably waiting to see how it will do in the ratings (eg: Diff'rent Strokes, Police Woman and Soap).

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

I might have been confusing with the second one. Not a new show in the works by Rewind but a question they asked, starting a discussion. And I agree, classic TV shouldn't be censored.

It should be a show. I'll take a producers credit.

As mentioned in our chat - that optical censorship in The Fall Guy was poorly done.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by DTSBOY

It should be a show. I'll take a producers credit.

As mentioned in our chat - that optical censorship in The Fall Guy was poorly done.

With how things have gone in the last few years, it would make for a good discussion show (television censorship). They should at least make a pilot.

Forgot the name but there is a railways-based TV series Rewind have showing that I wanted to check out. Out of Town on Talking Pictures has been a good watch (it ends on Sunday 13th July, but Rewind will start showing the Sunday after another Jack Hargreaves series called Old Country). One of the segments I especially liked recently (about charcoal making). It can be a good show to have on in the background (and that's not a criticism).

I think there might have been some censorship with The Dukes of Hazzard as well.

It was a shame that Forces TV ended as they showed some Warner Brothers series. Who knows if Midnight Caller will eventually get a DVD and/or Blu-ray release (a lot of music was played in it).

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Forgot the name but there is a railways-based TV series Rewind have showing that I wanted to check out.

After checking the listings earlier this week to find out the name of this railway-themed programme, it's called Tracing the Rails. I started watching it, but found the camerawork and framing of the screen a bit jarring (like Talking Pictures, Rewind seem to broadcast only in standard definition). I turned it off after a few minutes.

[OceanBlue]

Premiering on Rewind this coming Saturday night (12th July) is new programme My TV Rewind, where "Sir Michael Aspel chats about his long career in TV". Airing at 8.30 pm - 9.30 pm.

Source: Sky TV listings and TV & Satellite Week (Saturday 12th to Friday 18th July, 2025).

[OceanBlue]

First of all, forgot to post last week that I very much enjoyed the Sir Michael Aspel interview programme first shown on Rewind the Saturday before last. Sounds like Strange But True? came to an end because someone wanted to take the show to the US but not with Aspel as the host.

Onto yesterday afternoon's first edition of Old Country. I'm going to be virtually positive about this, unlike a bunch of trolls on Rewind's Facebook page. The one bit where the end credits were partly obscured along the bottom of the screen during some of the end credits aside, you wouldn't have thought this documentary series presented by Jack Hargreaves was being shown on another channel. I could be cynical and question why Rewind chose to start showing Old Country a week after Talking Pictures finished showing Out of Town (the editions made for the eighties video market) and in the exact same timeslot). The year this edition shown yesterday afternoon was the year after Out of Town ended. I enjoyed watching it and that's it really.

[OceanBlue]

Spotted this past Sunday night that there will be a timeslot change for Old Country on Rewind next Sunday afternoon (3rd August). It's moving back half an hour to 4 pm - 4.30 pm.

Secondly, Rewind recently started showing again Dark Skies. Hopefully, they'll show the last episode this time (episode 19 "Bloodlines").

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Spotted this past Sunday night that there will be a timeslot change for Old Country on Rewind next Sunday afternoon (3rd August). It's moving back half an hour to 4 pm - 4.30 pm.

Next Sunday afternoon (10th August) sees Old Country go back to the 4.30 pm - 5 pm timeslot it began with on the channel.

That banner along the bottom of the screen at the beginning of the end credits is still annoying. At the beginning of both parts of each edition is a disclaimer about possible language etc. (Talking Pictures would put a disclaimer before an edition of Out of Town started (if there was anything in the edition that would cause offence, compared to Rewind who are putting it before every edition of Old Country they've shown so far).