Tuesday 30 June 2015

Video Update - 30 June 2015

Global National News - 20150629
Horizon - The Lost World Of Lake Vostok 
Love Your Garden - 6x01 - Episode #6.1
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150629
The Whispers - 1x05 - What Lies Beneath
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150629
Zoo - 1x01 - First Blood

Monday 29 June 2015

Video Update - 29 June 2015

Burning Zone - 1x13 - Death Song(poor fm VHS)
Cobra - 1x18 - A Few Dead Men (poor from VHS)
Global National News - 20150628
Homeboys From Outer Space - An Officer and a Homeboy or Full Metal Jackass(poor fm VHS)
Psi Factor - 1x13 - The Undead & Stalker
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150628
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) - 20150628
Unexplained - Mysteries of Egypt(Beginning cut, from VHS)
Xena Warrior Princess - The Quest(poor fm VHS)

Sunday 28 June 2015

Video Update - 28 June 2015

Beauty and the Beast (2012) - 3x04 - Heart of the Matter
Falling Skies - 5x01 - Find Your Warrior
Global National News - 20150627
Penny Dreadful - 2x09 - And Hell Itself My Only Foe
Salem - 2x13 - The Witching Hour
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150627
The Last Ship - 2x02 - Fight the Ship
The Last Ship - 2x03 - It's Not a Rumour
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150627

Saturday 27 June 2015

Video Update - 27 June 2015

Global National News - 20150626
Humans - 1x03 - Episode #1.3
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x07 - Chapter Seven: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Knights of God - Ep 3
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150626
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150626
X-Files - 4x13 - Never Again

Friday 26 June 2015

Video Update - 26 June 2015

Dark Matter - 1x03 - Episode #1.3
Defiance - 3x04 - Dead Air
Doctor Who - 098-3 - The Ribos Operation
Doctor Who - 098-4 - The Ribos Operation
Global National News - 20150625
Killjoys - 1x02 - The Sugar Point Run
Knights (Part 3) - Last of Their Kind
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150625
Treasures Decoded(UK) - 1x03 - The Nefertiti Bust
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150625

Thursday 25 June 2015

Video Update - 25 June 2015

Adventures of Superboy - 3x11 - Superboy……..Lost
Between - 1x06 - War
Doctor Who - 098-1 - The Ribos Operation
Doctor Who - 098-2 - The Ribos Operation
Global National News - 20150624
Life Below Zero - 5x12 - Aftermath
Olympus - 1x12 - Door to Olympus
Super Force - 1x15 - Water Mania
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150623
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150624
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150624
Under the Dome - 3x01,02 - Move On, But I'm Not

Wednesday 24 June 2015

Video Update - 24 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150624
Global National News - 20150623
Muppet Show - 3x09 - Pearl Bailey
Not of This Earth (1957)
Not of This Earth (1988)
Sun Trap - 1x05 - The Usual Suspects
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150621
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150622
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150623

Tuesday 23 June 2015

Video Update - 23 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150623
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150623
Global Early News (500pm Vancouver) - 20150623
Global National News - 20150621
Global National News - 20150622
Global News Hour (600pm Vancouver) - 20150623
Knights (Part 1) - Men In Iron
Knights (Part 2) - For Fame And Honour
Mork and Mindy - 4x22 - The Mork Report
Refuge of Fear(poor from VHS-1974)
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150619
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150620
Treasures Decoded(UK) - 1x01 - Easter Island Heads

Monday 22 June 2015

Video Update - 22 June 2015

CBS Evening News 4 June 2015 
CBS Evening News 7 June 2015
CTV National News - 20150622
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150622
Global National News - 20150619
Global National News - 20150620
Small Wonder - 1x02 - Money Money Money
Small Wonder - 1x07 - The Lie Season
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150617
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150618
The Whispers - 1x04 - Meltdown

Sunday 21 June 2015

Video Update - 21 June 2015

Beauty and the Beast (2012) - 3x03 - Bob & Carol & Vincent & Cat
CTV National News - 20150621
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150621
Global National News - 20150617
Global National News - 20150618
Penny Dreadful - 2x08 - Memento Mori
Salem - 2x12 - Midnight Never Come
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150616
The Last Ship - 2x01 - Unreal City
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) - 20150621

Saturday 20 June 2015

Video Update - 20 June 2015

CBS Evening News 28 May 2015 
Global National News - 20150615
Global National News - 20150616
Humans - 1x02 - Episode #1.2
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x06 - Chapter Six The Black Tower
Orphan Black - 3x10 - History Yet to Be Written
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150614
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150615
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150620

Friday 19 June 2015

Video Update - 19 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150619
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150619
Dark Matter - 1x02 - Pilot (Part 2)
Defiance - 3x03 - The Broken Bough
Fat Guys in the Woods - 2x02 - Lumberjack 101
Killjoys - 1x01 - Bangarang
Thunderbirds Are Go - 1x13 - Heavy Metal
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150619

Movie Releases - 19 June 2015

Inside Out (2015)

Stars: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling
Directors: Pete Docter | Ronaldo Del Carmen
Genre: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Time: 94 min
Rating: PG

Plot
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
           
Dope (2015)

Stars: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Forest Whitaker's Significant Productions, IamOTHER Entertainment, Revolt Films
Time: 103 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighbourhood in Inglewood, CA filled gangsters and drugs dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. His dream is to attend Harvard. A chance invitation to a big underground party leads Malcolm and his friends into a, only in Los Angeles, gritty adventure filed with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he'll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
           
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide
Director: Maya Forbes
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Paper Street Films, Bad Robot, KGB Media
Time: 90 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
           
Manglehorn (2014)

Stars: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine, Chris Messina
Director: David Gordon Green
Genre: Drama
Worldview Entertainment, Dreambridge Films, Muskat Filmed Properties
Time: 97 min
Rating:: PG-13

Plot
Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, Manglehorn, an eccentric small-town locksmith, tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend.

Eden (2014)

Stars: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Hugo Conzelmann
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Country: France
Genre: Drama | Music
CG Cinéma, France 2 Cinéma, Blue Film Production
Time: 131 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
           
Gabriel (2014)

Stars: Rory Culkin, David Call, Deirdre O'Connell, Lynn Cohen
Director: Lou Howe
Genre: Drama | Family | Thriller
AgX
Time: 85 min
Rating:

Plot
A troubled young man searches obsessively for his first love, risking everything in an increasingly desperate pursuit.

The Overnight (2015)

Stars: Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman, Judith Godrèche
Director: Patrick Brice
Genre: Comedy
Duplass Brothers Productions, Gettin' Rad Productions
Time: 79 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family "playdate" becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
           
The Tribe (2014)

Stars: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Country: Ukraine | Netherlands
Language: Sign Languages
Genre: Crime | Drama
Ukrainian State Film Agency, Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation "Development of Ukraine", Garmata Film Production
Time: 132 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot

A deaf teenager enters a specialized boarding school where, to survive, he becomes part of a wild organization - the tribe. His love for one of the concubines will unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the Tribe's hierarchy.

Thursday 18 June 2015

Video Update - 18 June 2015

Between - 1x05 - End of the Rope
Bigger Than T-Rex
CTV National News - 20150618
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150618
Life Below Zero - 5x11 - The Crash
Olympus - 1x11 - The Speed of Time
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150618

Wednesday 17 June 2015

Video Update - 17 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150617
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150617
Fat Guys in the Woods - 2x01 - Operation Desert Patrol
Sun Trap - 1x04 - Casino
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150616
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150617
Vancouver 4th annual Canada Day Parade - 2012
Vancouver 5th annual Canada Day Parade - 2013
Vancouver 6th annual Canada Day Parade - 2014
Wayward Pines - 1x06 - Choices

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Video Update - 16 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150616
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150616
Dark Matter - 1x01 - Pilot (Part 1)
Humans - 1x01 - Episode #1.1
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x05 - Chapter 5 Arabella
Penny Dreadful - 2x07 - Little Scorpion
Secrets of the Bible - 1x10 - The Tower of Babel
Secrets of the Bible - 1x13 - Sodom and Gomorrah
Secrets of the Dead - 13x04 - The Lost Gardens of Babylon
Solving History with Olly Steeds - 1x05 - Nazi Treasure
Solving History with Olly Steeds - 1x06 - Hitlers Mummies
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150615

Monday 15 June 2015

Video Update - 15 June 2015

Airshow - 1x11 - Too Close for Comfort
Beauty and the Beast (2012) - 3x02 - Primal Fear
CTV National News - 20150614
CTV National News - 20150615
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150614
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150615
Global National News - 20150614
Secrets of the Dead - 13x02 - The Lost Diary of Dr Livingstone
The Whispers - 1x03 - Collision
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) - 20150614

Sunday 14 June 2015

Video Update - 14 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150613
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150613
Global National News - 20150613
Orphan Black - 3x09 - Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow
Salem - 2x11 - Earth as in Hell
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150612
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150613
Trooping The Colour - 20150613
Trooping The Colour (4:26 minutes-1934) 
Trooping The Colour Techniscope Version (8:18 minutes-1964)
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150613

Saturday 13 June 2015

Video Update - 13 June 2015

Global National News - 20150612
Kolchak The Night Stalker - The Ripper
Kolchak The Night Stalker - The Zombie
Kolchak The Night Stalker - They Have Been They Will Be 
Rome's Invisible City (BBC-2015)
Sweden - Royal Wedding of Prince Carl Phili & Sofia Hellqvist(20150613)
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150609
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150610
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150611
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150612

Friday 12 June 2015

Video Update - 12 June 2015

Between - 1x04 - Episode 1.4
Canada at War(NFB) - 5 of 13 - Ebbtide
Car 54 Where are you? - Remember St Petersburg 
CTV National News - 20150611
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150611
Defiance - 3x01,02 - The World We Seize, The Last Unicorns
Donna Reed Show - 1x01 - Weekend Trip
Global National News - 20150611
Life Below Zero - 5x06 - Darkness Falls
Life Below Zero - 5x10 - Bent and Broken
My Sister Sam Season - 1x22 - Fog Bound
Sun Trap - 1x03 - The Big Sleep
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150607
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150608
Thunderbirds are Go - 1x11 - Skyhook
Thunderbirds are Go - 1x12 - Under Pressure
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150610
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150611

Movie Releases – 12 June 2015

Jurassic World (2015)

Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Amblin Entertainment, China Film Co., Legendary Pictures
Time: 124 min
Rating: PG-13

Plot
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor's interest, which backfires horribly.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Genre: Drama
Indian Paintbrush
Time: 105 min
Rating: PG-13

Plot
High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

The Wolfpack (2015)

Stars: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Krsna Angulo
Director: Crystal Moselle
Genre: Documentary | Biography | Drama | Family
Kotva Films, Verisimilitude
Time: 80 min
Rating: R

Plot
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed, 'The Wolfpack,' the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

Set Fire to the Stars (2014)

Stars: Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones, Kelly Reilly, Steven Mackintosh
Director: Andy Goddard
Genre: Biography | Drama
Mad As Birds, Masnomis
Time: 97 min
Rating:

Plot
SET FIRE TO THE STARS is a playful, humorous and moving snapshot of one of the world's most beloved poets. In 1950, John Brinnan invited the highly acclaimed and infamous Dylan Thomas to New York for a series of poetry readings. Ignoring rumours of Thomas' frivolities back home, Brinnan has his hands full when the poet arrives. Desperate to get his watchful university chaplains off his back, Brinnan takes Thomas to his family retreat in the woods of Connecticut. But even in the middle of nowhere, the resourceful and cantankerous Thomas finds an audience for his art, passion, love and aggression...

Soaked in Bleach (2015)

Stars: Kurt Cobain, Sarah Scott, Daniel Roebuck, Tyler Bryan
Director: Benjamin Statler
Genre: Documentary | Crime | Drama | Music | Mystery
Montani Productions, Daredevil Films
Time: 100 min
Rating: PG

Plot
Reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator that was hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband (Kurt Cobain) only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling, especially due to the work of Mr. Grant, a former L.A. County Sheriff's detective, who did his own investigation and determined there was significant empirical and circumstantial evidence to conclude that foul play could very well have occurred. The film develops as a narrative mystery with cinematic re-creations, interviews with key experts and witnesses and the examination of official artifacts from the 1994 case.

The 11th Hour (2014)

Stars: Kim Basinger, Jordan Prentice, Sebastian Schipper, Peter Stormare
Director: Anders Morgenthaler
Genre: Drama
Zentropa Entertainments, ONE TWO Films, Zentropa International Berlin
Time: 97 min
Rating:

Plot

Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true.

Thursday 11 June 2015

Video Update - 11 June 2015

Bless This House - 2x09 - Never Again On Sunday
Bless This House - 2x10 - People In Glass Houses
Bless This House - 2x11 - A Rolls By Any Other Name
Bless This House - 2x12 - A Touch Of The Unknown
Bless This House - 3x01 - It Comes To Us All In The End
CTV National News - 20150610
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150610
Dinah Shore Chevy Show - 11 December 1960
Global National News - 20150610
This Week In History - 3x05 – Spiny-eared Assfish 
This Week In History - 3x06 - Fossils
This Week in History - 3x07 – Humboldt Squid
This Week in History - 3x08 – Royal Engineers
This Week In History - 3x09 - Hope Princeton Highway 
Wayward Pines - 1x05 - The Truth

Christopher Lee, Dies at 93

   Christopher Lee, the second most famous Dracula of the 20th century — an impressive feat — and a memorably irrepressible villain in James Bond film “The Man With the Golden Gun,” in the Star Wars films and in “The Lord of the Rings” pics, has died. He was 93.
   Lee appeared in 10 films as Count Dracula (nine if his uncredited role in the comedy “One More Time” is excluded).
   His first role for famed British horror factory Hammer Films was not the Transylvanian vampire, however, but Frankenstein’s Monster in 1957’s “The Curse of Frankenstein.” His close friend Peter Cushing, with whom he would co-star in horror films frequently, starred as the Baron.
   Lee made his first appearance as the sharp-toothed Count in 1958’s “Horror of Dracula.”
   For reasons not quite certain, he skipped the 1960 sequel “Brides of Dracula,” but he returned to the role for 1965’s “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” — a movie in which he hissed a lot but had no dialogue, because the dialogue was so bad, Lee later claimed.
   Lee said later that he was reluctant to continue in the role but appeared in “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave” (1968), “Taste the Blood of Dracula” (1969) and “Scars of Dracula” (1970), hit films that are all now considered classics of the genre. In his last Dracula films for Hammer, Lee starred in the less-successful
“Dracula A.D. 1972” and “Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride” (1973), which brought the character into a contemporary setting. (Lee also starred in “Count Dracula,” a film by cult exploitation director Jess Franco that was made in 1970 and released in 1973; in 1976, the multilingual Lee appeared as Dracula in a French film called “Dracula and Son.”)
   Lee made horror films for Hammer that were not vampire-centered. He was the title character in 1959’s “The Mummy” and 1966’s Rasputin, the Mad Monk.” He also brought Dennis Wheatley, an acclaimed author of occult thriller, to Hammer, where two adaptations were produced, both starring Lee: “The Devil Rides Out” (1967) and “To the Devil a Daughter” (1976) The first is considered among Hammer’s best work. The second, although financially successful, was something of a disaster, with the author disowning the film, which was the studio’s last horror pic.
   He also appeared in a number of non-Hammer horror films, including the “Fu Manchu” series of the late 1960s; “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” adaptation “I, Monster” (1970); “The Creeping Flesh,” with Cushing; and Lee’s favorite horror effort, “The Wicker Man,” in which he played Lord Summerisle.
   After 1977’s wretched “Meatcleaver Massacre,” for which, Lee claimed, the filmmakers had slapped on voiceover narration the actor had recorded for an entirely different movie, he largely steered clear of horror films, though Lee did appear, along with Cushing and Vincent Price, in 1983’s “House of the Long Shadows,” an American-produced horror comedy that in many ways brought the era of British horror pics to an end.
   Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in Belgravia, Westminster, England, the son of a career military man and his wife, a famous beauty and contessa who was part Italian. They separated when Lee and his sister were still young, and their mother took the children to live in Switzerland.
   Lee volunteered to serve with Finnish forces against the Soviet Union in 1939 and then served with the RAF and British intelligence during WWII.
   After the war, Lee secured a seven-year contract with the Rank Organization.
   His film debut came in Terence Young’s 1947 Gothic romance “Corridor of Mirrors”; the same year he had a brief uncredited role in Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of “Hamlet.” Lee appeared in nearly 30 films, mostly forgettable adventure pics, over the next decade, although he did have an uncredited role in John Huston’s “Moulin Rouge” (1952) playing the painter Georges Seurat.
   The incredibly prolific actor — IMDb listed more than 270 credits as of 2011 — appearing in some films outside the horror genre even during his Hammer years.
   Lee appeared in the studio’s 1959 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” as Lord Henry Baskerville; Cushing played Sherlock Holmes. (Lee later played Holmes himself in the non-Hammer “Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace,” then played the detective’s brother Mycroft in Billy Wilder’s 1970 film “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” and played Sherlock Holmes in a pair of British telepics in the 1990s.)
   He appeared in a terrible 1970 adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” that starred Charlton Heston, Jason Robards and John Gielgud and played a respectable gunsmith in the British-produced Raquel Welch Western “Hannie Caulder.”
   Even outside the horror genre, however, Lee’s characters were rarely virtuous, even if it was all too easy to root for them.
   As the assassin Francisco Scaramonga in 1974 Bond pic “The Man With the Golden Gun,” he was a singular villain in the 007 pantheon — not a mad scientist or a megalomaniacal industrialist but an effortlessly sexy enemy who is perhaps James Bond’s dark reflection. (Ian Fleming is said to have offered Lee the part of Dr. No in the first Bond film, not knowing that the part had already been cast.)
   He played Rochefort, chief henchman to Charlton Heston’s villainous Cardinal Richelieu, in Richard Lester’s highly successful “The Three Musketeers” and “The Four Musketeers” films; he didn’t have much to say but skillfully tackled the semi-comical swordplay. (Lee returned to the role in Lester’s 1989 “The Return of the Musketeers.”)
   Lee did some American TV work, appearing in the miniseries “How the West Was Won” and Harold Robbins adaptation “The Pirate,” but largely appeared in adventure films. He showed a comedic side as guest host on “Saturday Night Live” in 1978 and in Steven Spielberg’s “1941,” in which he played a German officer.
   He had a character arc on the British children’s sci-fi show “The Tomorrow People” in 1995 and was a series regular on the brief CBS drama “Street Gear” the same year. In 1998 Lee starred in the film “Jinnah” in the title role as the founder of modern Pakistan — his best performance, the actor declared at one point. He also appeared in a number of British or American miniseries, including “Ivanhoe” and “Gormenghast,” and had a small role in Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow.” (Lee later did voice work for several Burton projects, including 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland,” and appeared in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”)
   There was no reason to suspect, in short, that Lee would have his profile raised substantially during the 2000s, in his 80s. Lee was, however, the only actor to make substantial appearances in both the “Lord of the Rings” and “Stars Wars” film franchises. In the trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s books (Lee’s appearance in the third film was cut from the theatrical version but restored for DVD), he played the duplicitous and ultimately villainous wizard Saruman; he repeated the role in the three “Hobbit” movies. In the “Star Wars” pics “Episode II — Attack of the Clones” and “Episode III — Revenge of the Sith,” he played Count Dooku (the name chosen almost certainly in tribute to Lee’s most famous character), who becomes the evil Darth Tyranus. The highlight of Lee’s appearance in the “Star Wars” films was the six-foot-five actor’s lightsaber duel with a fully digitized and diminutive Yoda.
In the 2009 film “Triage,” Lee had an interesting and effective supporting turn as a Spanish psychiatrist with a dark past who helps a war photographer, played by Colin Farrell, suffering from survivor’s guilt.
   Lee’s autobiography “Tall, Dark and Gruesome” was published in 1977 and republished in 1999; a revised and expanded edition called “Lord of Misrule” was issued in 2004.
   Lee was a step-cousin of Ian Fleming. He is survived by wife, Birgit “Gitte” Kroencke Lee, whom he married in 1961; a daughter; and a niece, British actress Harriet Walter.
----Article from Variety

Wednesday 10 June 2015

Video Update - 10 June 2015

Bless This House - 2x04 - Another Lost Weekend
Bless This House - 2x05 - Parents Should Be Seen And Not Heard
Bless This House - 2x06 - Strangers In The Night
Bless This House - 2x07 - Get Me To The Match On Time.
Bless This House - 2x08 - Wives And Lovers
CTV National News - 20150609
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150609
Global National News - 20150609
Royal Palace in Brussels
This Week in History - 3x01 – Joe Shires 
This Week in History - 3x02 – Webster
This Week In History - 3x03 - Scotch Thistle
This Week In History - 3x04 - Josephine Hart
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150609
Webster! - January 9, 1980 

Tuesday 9 June 2015

Video Update - 9 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150608
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150608
Global National News - 20150607
Global National News - 20150608
iZombie - 1x13 - Blaine's World
My Sister Sam Season - 1x01 - Samantha Russell, Man Stealer 
My Sister Sam Season - 1x02 - Patti's Party 
My Sister Sam Season - 1x04 - What Makes Samantha Run
My Sister Sam Season - 1x05 - Roomies 
My Sister Sam Season - 1x06 - The Aunt Elsie Crisis, Day 1
The Whispers - 1x02 - Hide & Seek
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150608

Mary Ellen Trainor, Dies at 62

   Actress and philanthropist Mary Ellen Trainor, who appeared in every “Lethal Weapon” film and played the mother in “Goonies,” died at her home in Montecito, Calif., on May 20. She was 62.
   The San Francisco-born Trainor moved in 1980 to Los Angeles, where she married director Robert Zemeckis and discovered her calling as an actress. She started a career in television and film, beginning with the role of Elaine in “Romancing the Stone” and Mrs. Walsh in “The Goonies.” She also appeared in all four “Lethal Weapon” movies, “Die Hard,” “Scrooged,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Back to the Future Part II,” “Forrest Gump,” the 2003 “Freaky Friday” and racked up scores of television appearances, including leading roles in “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” and “Relativity.”
   While studying broadcast journalism at San Diego State, she was discovered by a radio station manager and asked to be an on-air personality for KSDO. She soon earned a position at KCBS as station editor, paving the way for a career in entertainment.
   She and Zemeckis divorced in 2000. She supported dozens of causes, from education and disaster relief to cancer research and safe water for developing countries.
   She is survived by her son, Alex; her mother, Jane; and siblings Ned, Jack, Barbara and Carolyn.
   A memorial service will take place June 19 at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 1300 E. Valley Road, Montecito, CA.
   Donations may be made to Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and Wounded Warriors.
--- Article from Variety

Monday 8 June 2015

Video Update - 8 June 2015

Bless This House - 1x11 - If the Dog Collar Fits……Wear It
Bless This House - 1x12 - The Morning After The Night Before
Bless This House - 2x01 - Two Heads Are Better Than One
Bless This House - 2x02 - Love Me, Love My Tree
Bless This House - 2x03 - It's All In The Mind
CTV National News - 20150607
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150607
Global National News - 20150605
Global National News - 20150606
House Of Anubis - 2x01,02 - House of Hello House of Dolls
House Of Anubis - 2x07,08 - House Of Myths House Of Nightmares
House Of Anubis - 2x09,10 - House Of Combinations House Of Heartbreak 
House Of Anubis - 2x11,12 - House Of Tunnels House Of Goodbye 
Lost Legions of Varus 
Sense8 - 1x10 - What Is Human?
Sense8 - 1x11 - Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes
Sense8 - 1x12 - I Can't Leave Her
The Last Romans 
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) - 20150607

Sunday 7 June 2015

Video Update - 7 June 2015

Armada 12 Days to Save England - 1x03 - Endgame
Beauty and the Beast(2012) - 3x01 - Beast of Wallstreet
CTV National News - 20150606
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150606
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x01 - The Friends of English Magic
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x02 - How is Lady Pole?
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x03 - The Education of a Magician
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - 1x04 - All the Mirrors of the World
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard - 2 of 3 - Street Life
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard - 3 of 3
National Geographic - Mammoth Back From the Dead
Penny Dreadful - 2x06 - Glorious Horrors
Sense8 - 1x06 - Demons
Sense8 - 1x07 - WWN Double-D?
Sense8 - 1x08 - We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150606
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150606

Saturday 6 June 2015

Video Update - 6 June 2015

CTV National News - 20150605
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150605
Empire of the Seas - 3 of 4 - High Tide
Empire of the Seas - 4 of 4 - Sea Change
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard - 1 of 3 - All Roads Lead to Rome
Orphan Black - 3x08 - Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method
Pinewood 80 Years of Movie Magic
Sense8 - 1x01 - Limbic Resonance
Sense8 - 1x02 - I Am Also A We
Sense8 - 1x03 - Smart Money's on the Skinny Bitch
Sense8 - 1x04 - What's Going On?
Sense8 - 1x05 - Art Is Like Religion
Sense8 - 1x09 - Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150605
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150605

Friday 5 June 2015

Video Update - 5 June 2015

Clash of the Worlds (Episode 1 of 3) Mutiny 
Clash of the Worlds (Episode 3 of 3) Palestine 
CTV National News - 20150604
CTV News (1130 Vancouver) - 20150604
Empire of the Seas - 1 of 4 - Heart of Oak
Empire of the Seas - 2 of 4 - The Golden Ocean
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
Global National News - 20150603
Global National News - 20150604
Life Below Zero - 5x09 - No Easy Out
Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries - 3x05 - Death and Hysteria
Olympus - 1x09 - Pandora's Tomb
Tagesschau 2000 Uhr, 20150604
Ukraine News - TCH(TSN) 1930 - 20150604