Talking Pictures run by a father and daughter from his house and garden shed!
18-04-2018, 02:38
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Talking Pictures run by a father and daughter from his house and garden shed!
On Thursday 12 April there was a radio interview about Talking Pictures with Noel Cronin, the man behind the channel.
He revealed some interesting facts about how it operates when the interviewer said that that she was surprised that it was being run from his home and that there weren't the banks of TV monitors that she had expected. He said that they only had one TV and another in the living room, that most of the technical side had been farmed out to third parties and that acquisitions & scheduling were based in the shed!
He says that material has been sourced from all sorts of places, including EBay, and that a lot of material was bought from the BBC after him pestering them for three years. Apparently, it was no longer suited to today's schedules, some was damaged due to age and cost £200,000, which is a lot more than I would have envisaged. His most prized acquisition was Scrooge. The Southern TV material was obtained from his contacts whilst working for Rank, as they were a shareholder, in fact their studios were housed in a former cinema.
They have over a million viewers and are now making a profit, with some viewers watching from dawn until late night. One lady even rang him to say that she had missed the end of the morning film (he deliberately puts on watchable programming on early mornings when the other channels are showing Teleshopping and it's paid off with the number of viewers), so asked him to play it again in the afternoon! He had to explain that schedules are compiled three months ahead, but sorted something out for her. This reminded me of when Peter Kaye said that his mother didn't like pausing live TV as it wasn't fair on the other people watching
He's a very pleasant and helpful man from my own personal dealings with him.
They make money from selling DVD's as well as advertising and have moved into profit after only three years and are now on a widespread Freeview mux, Freesat, Virgin Media and Sky.
I wonder how many more channels are now run on shoestring as the world of TV has changed? As audiences fragment within a multi channel environment, even the main channels have cut back. A few months ago I remember a fairly famous actress saying that at one time the cast would be placed altogether in a top hotel, but not anymore. A friend went down to London to be interviewed recently, he had envisaged first class rail travel and a limousine to pick him up as it used to be, but he was given a second class rail ticket and had to share a taxi with other participants.
Anyone who would like to listen to the interview can hear it via the iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yfqsr#play
Or via a downloadable BBC podcast. It's called 'The Film Programme' from Radio 4, just search for ''BBC podcasts''.
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18-04-2018, 18:17
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Doesn't surprise me. When I was running my one man campaign ( ) to get VM to take Talking Pictures - i got nowhere with a reply from VM. However Sarah Cronin-Stanley, co-founder of TP, replied personally and kept me updated. Refreshing in these corporate times. It's a channel that deserves to succeed and certainly offers an alternative to the generic unimaginative US sourced crap Sky churn out.
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18-04-2018, 19:17
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Some excellent older films on that channel for this old git to watch..
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18-04-2018, 19:18
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Re: Talking Pictures run by a father and daughter from his house and garden shed!
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Doesn't surprise me. When I was running my one man campaign ( ) to get VM to take Talking Pictures - i got nowhere with a reply from VM. However Sarah Cronin-Stanley, co-founder of TP, replied personally and kept me updated. Refreshing in these corporate times. It's a channel that deserves to succeed and certainly offers an alternative to the generic unimaginative US sourced crap Sky churn out.
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Couldn't agree more.
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23-04-2018, 16:28
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Hmmm running it from home?
Not very surprising really........
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24-04-2018, 01:56
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Re: Talking Pictures run by a father and daughter from his house and garden shed!
What do you mean?
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24-04-2018, 09:52
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Re: Talking Pictures run by a father and daughter from his house and garden shed!
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What do you mean?
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I think he's not a fan of classic cinema !
High school capers and rom coms on Sky is what we people seem to want these days.....
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24-04-2018, 14:31
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Sadly, yes.
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I think he's not a fan of classic cinema !
High school capers and rom coms on Sky is what we people seem to want these days.....
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"We people" as l would not include myself in that as l have a pretty broad taste when it comes to films Mr K as High school capers and rom coms are certainly not my favourite type of films..
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This was a interesting clip that was on the BBC's website yesterday about Talking Pictures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entert...a-lockdown-hit
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It's not all old unheard of movies either (although they are good to see !). Glad to see they've been getting some Hammer horror films and classic Ealing comedies like Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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23-06-2020, 08:00
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It's not all old unheard of movies either (although they are good to see !). Glad to see they've been getting some Hammer horror films and classic Ealing comedies like Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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Those classic Ealing comedies were masterpieces.
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It's not all old unheard of movies either (although they are good to see !). Glad to see they've been getting some Hammer horror films and classic Ealing comedies like Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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I really enjoyed those Hammer horror films back in the day, but they are so dated now. Seen that, got the T-shirt, moved on long ago!
Maybe I will go along with the nostalgia when I’m senile, but for now, I want to keep up to date with life in all its forms, and enjoy the moment.
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I really enjoyed those Hammer horror films back in the day, but they are so dated now. Seen that, got the T-shirt, moved on long ago!
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Well you might have seen that and got the T-shirt OB but not everybody is a streaming freak in this country.
Just because something is dated according to you does not mean that it dated according to others.
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Well you might have seen that and got the T-shirt OB but not everybody is a streaming freak in this country.
Just because something is dated according to you does not mean that it dated according to others.
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And not everything new is brilliant. You don't have to be old to appreciate films that were made long before you were born.
Best to leave OB to his rom coms, high school and made for TV/streaming movies Bet he's older than me too !
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