Streaming Content for Cult Fandom

So I went poking around trying to find a free streaming source for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and stumbled on this YouTube account of a guy named Owen Davies who is remastering some series that are difficult to find streaming these days. His mission is charming:

Somehow, my channel seems to have turned into a project to remaster and preserve pre-HD media (films, TV shows, miniseries, etc.). I hope you enjoy what's here. [...] I don't monetise my channel or any of its content. It wouldn't be right to do so, since most of it is original work by industry professionals that I've just attempted to clean up and polish with a modern HD/4K shine. YouTube is my hobby, not my source of income. If you run across any ads on my content, I assure you they've been put in place by the legal rights holders in order to gather revenue - which is what allows me to legally make most of this content public :^)

If you need a free, easy way to stream the following shows, he has them in lovely organized playlists ready to go:

Stephen King's Rose Red (2002)

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

Dead Like Me (2003)

Farscape (1999)

Merlin (1998)

Jim Henson's The Storyteller (1988)

Roar (1997)

...and lots more! A lot of "cult" TV content that has been kicked to the curb by its original streaming providers, or is only available in specific countries. In an age when digital content is just disappearing because CEOs consider it too expensive to bother retaining, it's really cool to see someone doing restoration work that also makes things available to the public for free.

ETA: I know there's debate around losing the "grittiness" of old media and whether 4k restoration removes that magic. I get that debate! For me, this is more about preserving content that is disappearing/hard to access. Okay, enjoy the show!

So just sit the fuck down and smile

Yes, nothing screams Christmas like books on witchcraft/occult history.🖤

(This is what I read for fun.)

It's so cool that the entire Torchwood staff is poly and in love with each other and are simultaneously cheating on everyone in the polycule with the rest of the polycule and sometimes strangers.

BLACK MIRROR (2011 —) · S03, E04: San Junipero — dir. Owen Harris

A small (and by no means complete) collection of phantoms going Above and Beyond the Call of Horny

@meilas this one's for you

Greg Mills (w. Mary Michael Patterson, Broadway 2014)

Davis Gaines (w. Tracy Shayne, Broadway 1995)

Ethan Freeman (w. Anne Görner, Essen 2006)

Michael Crawford (w. Dale Kristien, Broadway 1988)

Michael Crawford (w. Dale Kristien, LA 1989)

Akutagawa Eiji (w. Hanaoka Hisako, Sapporo 1994)

Ian Jon Bourg (w. Olivia Safe, Hamburg 2001)

Scott Davies (w. Meredith Braun, West End 2000)

The same

John Owen Jones (w. Rachel Barrell, West End 2005)

heyyy!! idk if this has been stated already, and if it has just link me to that post, but could we get a list of the new names and the names theyre replacing? ty!! <3

I mentioned it in the Updated Tags post but I'll put it here for convenience! :) Names in brackets are the old names)

Mark Owens (Mark Heathcliff)

Cesar Hernández (Cesar Torres)

Cian Daniels (Thatcher Davis)

Rebecca Bailey (Ruth Weaver)

Sam King (Dave Lee)

Father Liam McLoughlin (Father O'Brien)

Adam Turner (Adam Murray)

Azrael Faust (Jonah Marshall)

Eve Cooper (Evelin Miller)

Bethany Owens (Sarah Heathcliff)

Benjamin Davies (Joel Hayes)

All other character names (family members, mimics, angels, etc.) will be revealed soon in Character Introduction Posts alongside new redesigns and such!

...God give me courage to show you, you are not alone...

(the Final Lair hug in the Restaged Tour)

John Owen-Jones, Katie Hall and Simon Bailey, UK

Earl Carpenter and katie Hall, UK

John Owen-Jones, Katie Hall and Simon Bailey, UK

Mark Campbell and Julia Udine, US

Quentin Oliver Lee and Eva Tavares, US

Cooper Grodin (?) and Julia Udine, US

Quentin Oliver Lee and Eva Tavares, US

Derrick Davis and Emma Grimsley, US

Derrick Davis and Katie Travis, US

Chris Mann and Katie Travis, US

Josh Piterman and Amy Manford, Australia

Josh Piterman and Amy Manford, Australia

The bisexual urge to want to kiss every member of Torchwood square on the mouth

Jack: Am I in trouble?

Ianto: Take a guess.

Jack: No?

Ianto: Take another guess.

Shoot 'Em Up - Michael Davis 2007 @skeletonfumes

Decades after he had left it, Jack Harkness slipped through time and found himself once more back in 1941 where he encountered the REAL Captain Jack Harkness whose identity “Jack Harkness” had stolen after the real Jack Harkness’ death in World War 2. ("Captain Jack Harkness", Torchwood, TV)

KoRn + Cordyceps + The Last of Us = KoRdyceps?

Currently Reading: Grimoires, A History of Magic Books, by Owen Davies

Been eyeing this one for a while now, since I do like my magic and witchcraft history books. About 60-something pages in at the moment. Owen Davies is nice and straightforward, but so far it's been a little... list-y? In that we're getting a lot of "Here's this book/supposed author/actual author. Now here's this book/supposed author/actual author. And now onto this—" Which hopefully will change a little as we move out of ancient and medieval history into more modern history, where sources are a bit more plentiful...

(Davies is also the author of Popular Magic: Cunning-Folk in English History)

Photo 1 from the Beachwood Confidential newsletter, 1995.

A look at some backing vocals on Stranger Things Have Happened... “It’s Mike and Micky you’ll hear [on backing vocals on ‘Milkshake’]. Thanks, guys, it made my day.” - Peter Tork, Stranger Things Have Happened liner notes (x) "Why didn’t Davy sing on this recording?" Peter: "We actually wanted him to, and we had him here in the studio, but he’d brought along Anita and his daughters, Sarah, Jessie, and Annabelle, and by the time we got done talking over all the family stuff, it was time for them to go, and we never got Davy back in the studio. Incidentally, Jessie played us a piece of her own composition that was seriously good work. James and I were knocked out by it. Look for great things from her. And she’s only twelve." - Beachwood Confidential newsletter, 1995 “Davy was just such a personable, funny guy, and very available, you know. I remember he came to the studio and just cracked us up. And Peter and I realized, we didn’t get him to sing! It was a funny hour.” - James Lee Stanley, The Monkees Pad Show "My first solo album [Stranger Things Have Happened], I used Cass’ daughter, Owen, and John Phillips’ daughter, Mackenzie, as background singers on a song ['Giant Step‘], and you can hear it, it sounds like the Mamas and the Papas back there. It’s fabulous.” - Peter Tork, Rolling Stone, 2007, published February 2019 "[Peter] was always so lovely and kind to me.” - Owen Elliot, comment on a post by Nurit Wilde in 2021 (x)

**Shots of the Episode**

One Piece (2023)

Season 1, Episode 1: “Romance Dawn” (2023) Director: Marc Jobst Cinematographer: Nicole Hirsch Whitaker