Is an 'upcoming horror movies' on British tv helpful?

spudthedestroyer

I'm wanting to know if such a feature for the mainpage is helpful. I use a scheduling program for the pc called digiguide and it can be modified to make picks of programs.

Code:

<programme>
  <name>Batman Returns<name>
  <description>Having successfully helmed the original, Tim Burton returned for the sequel, once again starring Michael Keaton as Batman. This time, he must face the dual challenge of the Penguin, who is determined to become Mayor of Gotham at any price; and Catwoman, who may be playing both ends against the middle.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Michael Murphy
 (Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, 15, 4 Star)</description
   <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>01/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>23:35</starttime>
    <duration>145</duration>
    <channel>Channel 4</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
 <name>Dog Soldiers<name>
    <description>Darkly comic action horror in which a military training exercise in the Scottish Highlands turns into a nightmarish battle for survival as a group of soldiers discovers that vicious werewolves are on the prowl in the area. (Including five News Update).
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer, Darren Morfitt
 (Stereo, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2002, 15, 3 Star)</description
    <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>29/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>22:00</starttime>
    <duration>125</duration>
    <channel>five</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
  <name>Piranha II - the Spawning<name>
   <description>Sci-fi horror tale about mutated fish that develop the ability to fly and attack holiday-makers after a series of secret genetic engineering experiments. The terrifying creatures are soon hunted down by an undercover biochemist and a scuba diver. James Cameron's first feature film prior to making 'Terminator' and 'Alien'.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen, Ricky G Paull, Ted Richert, Leslie Graves
 (Stereo, Subtitles, 1981, 18, 2 Star)</description
    <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>00:20</starttime>
    <duration>110</duration>
    <channel>five</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
  <name>The Death of The Incredible Hulk<name>
    <description>Full-length feature film about chemist David Banner, who, as a result of an experiment gone awry, finds himself periodically transformed into a terrifying superhuman avenger. Banner takes a job with a scientist who he thinks may have a cure for his condition, but before any potion has an opportunity to work, the scientist is kidnapped and Banner's raging green alter-ego is forced back into action.
Director: Bill Bixby
Starring: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Elizabeth Gracen, Philip Sterling, Barbara Tarbuck, Ana Alexander
 (Stereo, Subtitles, Made For TV, 1990, PG, 3 Star)</description
    <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>13:30</starttime>
    <duration>120</duration>
    <channel>five</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
  <name>War of the Worlds<name>
   <description>Adaptation of H G Wells's classic science fiction novel, updated to 1939 California and heavily influenced by Orson Welles's hoax radio broadcast. Seemingly unstoppable Martians abandon their dying planet and instigate a ruthlessly destructive colonisation of the Earth. Winner of an Oscar for special effects.
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin
 (Stereo, Subtitles, 1953, PG, 4 Star)</description
    <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>15:30</starttime>
    <duration>95</duration>
 <channel>five</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
  <name>Gattaca<name>
 <description>Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman star in this slick vision of a cold, sterile, genetically perfect future. Can one man hide his flawed humanity and realise his life's dream?.
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Xander Berkeley, Jayne Brook
 (1997, 15, 3 Star)</description
 <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>02:00</starttime>
    <duration>120</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>The Contaminated Man<name>
    <description>Thriller starring William Hurt and Peter Weller. A chemical accident leaves a man unwittingly killing everyone he touches. A doctor and young journalist race to stop him.
Director: Anthony Hickox
Starring: William Hurt, Natascha McElhone, Peter Weller, Katja Woywood, Michael Brandon, Nikolett Barabas
 (Best of Day, 2000, 12, 2 Star)</description
  <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>22:00</starttime>
    <duration>110</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Dead Ringers<name>
    <description>David Cronenberg's shocking erotic thriller with Jeremy Irons. Two gynaecologist twin brothers pose as one man to seduce a patient, but it gets more twisted when one of them falls in love with her.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevi?ve Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack
 (1988, 18, 4 Star)</description
  <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>01/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>01:50</starttime>
    <duration>130</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Ginger Snaps<name>
    <description>This cult horror movie is a brilliant, dark tale of adolescence. Two teenage sisters find their world changed when one is bitten by a werewolf and begins a scary transformation.
Director: John Fawcett
Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton
 (Best of Day, 2000, 18, 3 Star)</description
   <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>01/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>22:00</starttime>
    <duration>120</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Control Factor<name>
  <description>Adam Baldwin thinks he's Mr Average, but is surprised to find himself the target of a secret, black-op organisation who specialise in mind control.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Berkley, Tony Todd, Conrad Dunn, John Neville, Ann Marin
 (2003, 12, 2 Star)</description
  <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>00:00</starttime>
    <duration>100</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>976-EVIL<name>
    <description>When Spike dialled 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive premium-rate call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul!.
Director: Robert Englund
Starring: Robert Picardo, Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis, Jim Metzler, Mar?a Rubell
 (1989, 18, 2 Star)</description
  <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>01:40</starttime>
    <duration>105</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Ginger Snaps: Unleashed<name>
 <description>Ginger's little sister Brigitte tries to avoid the werewolf curse that claimed her big sis, but it's proving tricky in this outstanding horror sequel to the critically acclaimed Ginger Snaps.
Director: Brett Sullivan
Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Tatiana Maslany, Janet Kidder, Eric Johnson, Pascale Hutton
 (Best of Day, 2004, 18, 3 Star)</description
    <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>22:00</starttime>
    <duration>110</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Possessed<name>
   <description>Timothy Dalton stars as a priest who performed the only officially recorded exorcism in the USA.
Director: Steven E. de Souza
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Henry Czerny, Jonathan Malen, Michael Rhoades, Shannon Lawson, Christopher Plummer
 (1999, 15, 2 Star)</description
  <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>02/07/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>23:50</starttime>
    <duration>125</duration>
    <channel>SCI FI</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Bloody Murder<name>
   <description>Teenagers at the misleadingly named Camp Placid find themselves menaced by legendary chainsaw wielding psycho Trevor Moorhouse.
Director: Rafe M. Portilo
Starring: Jessica Morris, Peter Guillemette, Patrick Cavanaugh, Crystalle Ford, Michael Stone, Justin Martin
 (2000, 18, 1 Star)</description
  <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>00:00</starttime>
    <duration>120</duration>
    <channel>The Horror Channel</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Bloody Murder 2<name>
 <description>Five years after his original rampage, Trevor Moorhouse returns to bring death and destruction to the misleadingly named Camp Placid.
Director: Rob Spera
Starring: Katy Woodruff, Tyler Sedustine, Amanda Magarian, Kelly Gunning, Tiffany Shepis, Raymond Novarro Smith
 (2003, 18, 2 Star)</description
   <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>02:00</starttime>
    <duration>110</duration>
    <channel>The Horror Channel</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Hunting Humans<name>
  <description>Aric Blue is a brutal and devious serial killer. No one can detect the complex pattern behind his murders. Then someone gets to his next victim before he does.
Director: Kevin Kangas
Starring: Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa Michele, Trent, James Fellows, David M. Gil
 (2002, 18, 3 Star)</description
   <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>03:50</starttime>
    <duration>100</duration>
    <channel>The Horror Channel</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>The Phantom of 42nd Street<name>
  <description>A haughty theatre critic and a cop team up to find the serial killer of Shakespearean actors. Film Noir with Dave O'Brien. B&W.
Director: Albert Herman
Starring: Dave O'Brien, Kay Aldridge, Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks, Edythe Elliott, Jack Mulhall
 (1945, PG, 3 Star)</description
 <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>10:00</starttime>
    <duration>120</duration>
    <channel>The Horror Channel</channel>
</programme>

<programme>
    <name>Spooks Run Wild<name>
 <description>Bela Lugosi meets the East Side Kids in this comedy horror which sees the delinquent boys sent to a mountain camp where a serial killer is lurking.
Director: Phil Rosen
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Ernest Morrison, Dave O'Brien
 (1941, PG, 3 Star)</description
    <category>Film</category>
   <startdate>30/06/2005</startdate>
   <starttime>12:00</starttime>
    <duration>120</duration>
    <channel>The Horror Channel</channel>
</programme>

*snip*

I have horror and scifi filters highlighted, hence Batman... although it is pretty horrifying :lol:

It would be parsed to readable form and filterable/listing by channel, but it requires me writing a straight forward script and i want to know if people will find it useful in anyway before spending the time... It would be a frontpage feature to go with the redesign.

so is it useful? Unfortunately, uk only unless someone has the ability to do it for the states as well.

See No Evil · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:25 pm **Post subject:**

I "use" didiguide, stuck with 6.1 though because thats the only one that you can
use after the trial period, if you delete a file then reinstall it the trial resets itself.

do you pay for yours spud?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:29 pm **Post subject:**

yeah, it was like ?8.99, and it at least lets me know whats on tv, otherwise i'd never watch tv.

johnathome · **Posted:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:05 pm **Post subject:**

It would be useful to me as i never really 'read' tv guides, and only realise things have been 'on' when people at work are talking about it.

killingjokezzz · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:59 am **Post subject:**

See No Evil - which file do you delete to get digiguide to carry on after the trial period?

Sorry spud OT I know

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:19 am **Post subject:**

yeah a guide to show uk films would be good

See No Evil · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:23 am **Post subject:**

sorry killingjokezzz, didn't see your post.

i found this workaround on another forum about a year ago, havent seen it anywhere
else since.

you need to get didiguide 6.0 build 245 ONLY (this doesnt work with any other version
and this is the only crack, serial or workaround ive found actually works with any
digiguide version. and ive tried them all!) install it as a 30 day trial as normal. then
once the 30 days are up, it will tell you so, and refuse to list any programmes.
you need to unistall it, the delete '62378D89G.dat' in your 'C:\windows' directory. you
should then be able to reinstall a new trial for another 30 days.

ed2k: digiguide%206.0%20+%20reg%20code.zip [1.46 Mb] [Stats]

i think (?) this is the right version, im d/l it myself so i'll edit this post if it's not. ignore
the reg code which comes with this d/l it doesnt work.

killingjokezzz · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:04 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks See No Evil. That link you provided looks like the right one - v6.0 build 245. I suppose I'l have to wait 30 days now to check :wacky:

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:55 pm **Post subject:**

im using one that doesnt say its that build but seems to work, found a serial that worked aswell and says its valid til august 2008

See No Evil · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:35 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

found a serial that worked aswell and says its valid til august 2008

ive found a few serials floating around, but since digiguide has to connect to their
servers to update its listings, it doesn't work for very long.

maxpayne2409 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:43 pm **Post subject:**

ah i see, good point well made

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:10 pm **Post subject:**

yeah it works for 6.0 don't get any updates. That screenshot is from 8.2, but it works a lot the same, just most its features are crippled.

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:58 pm **Post subject:**

did you ever implement this spud? wou.d like it pls

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:01 am **Post subject:**

well i mentioned it here and somewhere else before, but it didn't seem that popular.

That said i think it would be neat. I have lots of work over the next two weeks, but then i've broken up for xmas.

Will try and load up eclipse and get cracking on it though over xmas, when i'm not working on completing my FYP.

Is an 'upcoming horror movies' on British tv helpful?

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