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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Jacqui Harvey on August 02, 2015, 10:53:25 AM
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I downloaded the first series of Outlander onto my kindle for our last holiday. I was totally hooked. It is such a great series and filmed totally in Scoltland. The scenery is wonderful and the story fabulous.
It is a big success around the world and particularly in the States.
I am amazed it has not been shown on T.V. in the U.K. it is available to download and is also in book form.
I read that the reason it was not shown on British T.V. was because of the Scottish Independence Vote and at the time it was thought it would be biased to show it.
To the ladies, a lovely man in this series, that you will fall in love it. To the men lots of fighting and a very strong storyline. To all those who live in Scotland, you wll recognise a lot of the places and also a lot of our great Scottish actors such as Bill Patterson.
Give it a go you will not be disappointed.
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I am amazed it has not been shown on T.V. in the U.K.
That is because Amazon obtained the UK rights, not a TV company.
JF
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Looks like it may be on T.V. this year. It is a huge worldwide hit, being shown in 80 countries.
I hope it will be shown on T.V. they are filming Series 2 again in Scotalnd.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13193191.Outlander_will_finally_be_screened_on_UK_television_next_year/
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Series 2 will mostly be filmed In Prague, which substitutes for France, which is where the storyline takes up after Jamie and Claire have to flee Scotland, after Jamie's recovery from his extremely brutal and explicitly filmed rape at the hands , ( and everything else !) of Black Jack Randall . Lorraine has her own forum with thousands of " Outlander " followers/members worldwide, and also a Facebook page. Every single episode is freely available to Forum Members 4 hours after screening in the U.S. of A !! ..... Brilliant story, a bit like Highlander meets The Time Lords !!!!
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By the way, The Herald article, above, was written in December 2014, and filming/shooting changes have subsequently been decided upon since then. Any persons wishing to watch in the U.K. will need to subscribe to the channel which has won the contract to screen it ; Amazon, or Lorraine's Forum !!!! ;)
You are welcome !! 8)
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"Season 2 of Outlander will reportedly feature a more urban setting as the story is set to continue in France. However, most of the filming will take place in Scotland, the south of England, and Prague, according to the show's executive producer Ron Moore's "
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/outlander-season-2-filming-updates-set-photos-jamie-claire-costume-leaked-online-1504594
I hope a lot WILL be filmed in Scotland as it is really good for our economy. I read on T.A. all the time questions from visitors and particularly Americans, who want to visit all the film sites. Visit Scotland (our Tourist organisation) now has a web page with a map of all the locations. I particularly like Falkland in Fife, near where I used to live. I love Falkland and it looks the same today as it did 400 years ago in the town centre with the magnificent Falkand Palace.
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I love Falkland and it looks the same today as it did 400 years ago in the town centre with the magnificent Falkand Palace.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Falkland_Palace_12.jpg)
I didn't realise that they had cars, traffic lights, yellow lines and parking restriction signs, blue wheelie bins, park benches, etc 400 years ago.
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It's all down to " Time Travel " Alan, and I wonder just how many are aware that Falkland Palace used to be in the South Atlantic, until the " Argy's " got their eye on it, and it was transported to it's present location by H.G. Wells ?? Now, THAT is true,.. : :).............. just as sure as I am milking this giraffe !! :o
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A bit sad that you have the time to search the net for picture with a car and people, but thoroughly expected of you, who seem to take delight in trolling all the posts on this Forum.
Falkland in Outlander. Easy to take out yellow lines and new cars for a film company. Easy for me too as I can use my imagination. The 20th Century trappings are minuscule compared to the bigger picture of the whole wonderful conservation village.
(http://s24.postimg.org/9ca5iki5t/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/9ca5iki5t/)
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I know, I believe you. As sure as I'm riding this unicycle. ;)
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Jacqui, I know this is going to come as a huge disappointment to you, but, I really don't care what you think of me.
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My sister-in-law ( Gordon's sister) started reading this series of books 20years ago, she often in that time foisted the books on me, but they are really thick books, 8-900 pages, I just could not get on with them, the first book is so slow and I returned it to her, she tried again and again to get me to read the series, eventually I gave in and read the first book, I nearly returned it half way through but kept going as she would only try and get me to read it again, well it did pick up and I started to enjoy the story. I have now read 8 books and soon to start the last one, not the final book as I believe that Diana Gabaldon has begun another.
The series was due to air in the USA, its was funded by UK National Lottery, with mainly Scottish and English Actors/Actresses, using Sony and USA Starz productions. My sister-in-law and a few friends were upset that they were going to miss out on the series. The series started to air 9pm usa time on a Saturday, I would get up at 4am UK time and download the episode and post it to YouTube, after the 2nd episode Youtube slapped my knuckles and told me not to do it again. I then made a small forum for approx 10 family and friends to view the series, by episode 4 over 3000 people had found my site, these were from around the world, Vietnam, iceland, Tasmania and the list went on. at the time USA had the only viewing privilege.
The forum is still going as many of the countries have the series dubbed into their own language and they want to hear the original Scottish. We have members who are Tour operators for the Outlander Experience, and many who make their own way to the locations used and have watched the filming.
For those who want to see if it is for them here is a link to series 1 Episode 1, download and watch on your computer. http://1drv.ms/1fX7sIg (http://1drv.ms/1fX7sIg)
Unfortunately it is not on normal TV Channels, it is Amazon Streaming that has bid for the Season 1 and 2, there are no plans for it to air on TV other than Amazon. The DVD for Season 1 is due to be released in the UK in October.
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All sixteen espisodes of Series 1 are available to download (or stream) from icefilms.
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That is another that is now available, but the ones that are members of my forum could not possibly come to grips with click this click that, block Ads, they are hard work, When the Series first aired a year ago in USA it was not readily available on sites like icefilms, Netflix and Amazon are a proverbial pain to watch if you don't have a good internet connection.
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Hi Loz, you could always download it to your hard drive or a pen drive, watch it using a free video player such as VLC and then you are not reliant on your internet speed or connection.
I've just tested a download of Outlander Episode 1 from icefilms and I can achieve it in 6 clicks, with the first click to select it and the sixth click to start the download. It's going to take 23 minutes to download so I don't think that's too onerous considering it's free. ;)
Each to his (or her) own
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I downloaded the first series on my Kindle and it took very little time. Really passed the time watching it on our journey to and from Southampton.
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Steve I use torrents for all my films, download near as it is being screened, then I save to my computer for me, and cloud to share with a link for everyone, as in my post, click and play for anyone, as it is my cloud there are no Ads no unexpected nasties,
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Loz - whatever works for you, Icefilms works ok for me, I don't share so I don't use any cloud storage.
I've sent you a PM
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If anyone has a smart TV box then you can easily find and watch it as I am doing now :)
Icefilms is one of several streams available.
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Thanks for the recommendation Jacqui, just finished watching Outlander. Loved it!
Stunning photography by Neville Kidd just makes me want to tour Scotland all the more and they have been filming a second Outlander series...
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13211354.Face_to_Face_interview__Neville_Kidd__cinematographer/
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Come and see us if you do that tour Nicola, we have some lovely views from our place.
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Not to miss out on anything, I have just downloaded the first season via a torrent site ( naughty me ). Will watch later when we have watched the end of Madam Secretary, ( also very good ).
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Definitely will do Jacqui. We would love to do a tour in our motor home so we can really get around and see as much as possible. We have so many friends from Scotland too that we have come to know through the restaurant and it would be lovely to see them in their natural habitat ;)
Madam Secretary - I will check it out Chris.
Does anyone else have any good drama series recommendations?
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Definitely will do Jacqui. We would love to do a tour in our motor home so we can really get around and see as much as possible. We have so many friends from Scotland too that we have come to know through the restaurant and it would be lovely to see them in their natural habitat ;)
Madam Secretary - I will check it out Chris.
Does anyone else have any good drama series recommendations?
Breaking Bad, Orange is the new black, 24, The Good Wife, Banshee, Sons of Anarchy
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Breaking Bad I have seen - brilliant!
24 a little tired now, maybe, yes/no? Not sure you will agree with me about that though ;)
The rest I will check out. I have saved Madam Secretary to my favourites, it looks right up my street along with House of Cards.
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Nichola you know I will never tire of Jack ;D And yes I know I'm sad! Check out The Good Wife...I think you'll enjoy that. xx
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I know, I do :) will defo check out The Good Wife and the others you mentioned...
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Chris
Which torrent site was that. Please PM
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PM sent.
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Outlander second series has just finish filming in the South of England, Salisbury Wilton House, they were there for approx a week to film the Paris Palace of Versailles scenes, now to continue in Prague for the rest of the Paris scenes and Scotland for ummmm Scotland? ;-)
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Do you know when it is going to be shown Loz...
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We have to be really patient, the word is the second season is not due until April next year :-[
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All good things are worth waiting for: something to look forward to :)
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Have you seen Ripper Street Nichola? The first series was excellent and the Beeb disappointed a lot of people by saying that it would cost too much money for a second series. However, after a lot of pressure they relented and the new series is now on. It is a Victorian Drama Series,great costumes and street scenes. Think you may like it.
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Thanks Jacqui, I will add it to the list.
I like to watch series from beginning to end and I particularly like the costume dramas; a lot of the textiles used come from Turkey.
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I also love costume and the costumes in this series are fabulous as are the street scenes of Victorian life. This is why the Beeb did not want to make another series as this first one cost so much to make because it is so authentic to the era. Tip... the American Doctor (who is a bit of a rogue) is really my favourite...perhaps he will be yours?
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Ripper Street ran for a third season, It was paid for and shown shown on Amazon Prime and later the BBC...
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I have all three seasons saved to my favourites on my lovely still newish smart tv box :)
Recommended to me which I enjoyed was Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell...
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Yes, spoke to Phil this evening, I had forgotten there were two series. The one on at present is No.3.
So, all the more for you to watch Nichola.
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I've just watched the pilot episode of a series called Blindspot.
A large bag is discovered dumped in Times Square, inside is a naked woman. She is covered head to toe in tattoo's but she has absolutely no memory of who she is, how she got there and what the tattoo's mean. An FBI agent is assigned to her case and realises that she is a walking treasure map. Can they unravel the clues?
Looks like it's going to be a good 'un :D