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Brekkie
Ultimately I assume in such films the virus is defeated, so maybe that is what people need to see.
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Brekkie
Have you not thought about who is going to play you when the inevitable Coronavirus movie comes around? Very Happy
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JAS84
Someone has got a very sick sense of humour by scheduling the film Contagion on ITV2 this evening.

This is surely misreading the mood of the nation.
Seriously, it's uncanny how similar that film's events are to real life. Shocked Someone nine years ago when it was made must've been a prophet.

Ultimately I assume in such films the virus is defeated, so maybe that is what people need to see.
Yes, the ending is that a vaccine or cure is created.
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Whataday Founding member
Someone has got a very sick sense of humour by scheduling the film Contagion on ITV2 this evening.

This is surely misreading the mood of the nation.


As has been said, it's one of the most requested on-demand movies at the moment so I'm afraid it's you miscalculating the demand for such content during times such as this.
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davidhorman


As has been said, it's one of the most requested on-demand movies at the moment so I'm afraid it's you miscalculating the demand for such content during times such as this.


It's possible for something to be both in demand and in bad taste, athough I don't necessarily agree that's the case here.

A terror attack might lead to a spike in interest in Four Lions but it'd be likely to be pulled if it was scheduled for broadcast soon after.
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gottago
Well Contagion got 920k for its first part last night so they were clearly onto something scheduling it when they did.
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Capybara
JAS84 posted:
Seriously, it's uncanny how similar that film's events are to real life. Shocked Someone nine years ago when it was made must've been a prophet.


If you think somebody there was a prophet, you should see the Korean 2018 series that's been doing the rounds on the Internet, because it predicted the Coronavirus with surprising accuracy. It's called My Secret Terrius, and it's on Netflix, although I don't know if they will have removed it by this point:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/my-secret-terrius-netflix-coronavirus-prediction-south-korea-a9429021.html
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Thistle
BBC Scotland has dropped their daytime schedule for the foreseeable. They show education programmes from 10am to 11am and then revert back to SCOTSUS (the never ending repeating barker). They then come out of SCOTSUS for FM's statement roughly 12:30pm till 1:15pm and then revert back to SCOTSUS until 7pm. After that, channel runs as normal.
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JCB
Well Contagion got 920k for its first part last night so they were clearly onto something scheduling it when they did.


The only thing worse than wall to wall news is wall to wall "feel good TV" which is apparently what we're all demanding. There's only so much faux sunshine and smiles people can take before it becomes nauseating and clearly, for some, that is already the case.
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thegeek Founding member
BBC Scotland has dropped their daytime schedule for the foreseeable. They show education programmes from 10am to 11am and then revert back to SCOTSUS (the never ending repeating barker). They then come out of SCOTSUS for FM's statement roughly 12:30pm till 1:15pm and then revert back to SCOTSUS until 7pm. After that, channel runs as normal.

It looks like they're also repeating Still Game from the beginning, starting tonight.

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