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A place to discuss what's on TV that might be of interest to others. (exc. Top Gear, F1, for example - which have threads of their own)
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Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 25 Jul 20 at 20:07
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There are 2 seasons of this, both of which were broadcast in one week early last month on CH4. I don't go in for binge-watching and the title put me off anyway. It was recommended later by someone who has never raved about anything on TV to me before, so I felt I had to watch.
It's currently on Netflix, but unfortunately only Season 1 at the moment. Expressed simply, it's about two teenage runaways on a road trip. At the beginning they come over as thoroughly appalling individuals, but, by the last episode, I was overwhelmed by their regard for each other.
So, I recommend it too.
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Some great cars as well ! Watched Series 1...may catch up Series 2 this week
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£1.98 for two pints and Lewis is taken aback by the cost!
It was 1987 but it did make me laugh!
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£3 in my local. £3.20 for special guest beers. Proper beer with a nice head on it.
Sunday nights there are always mountains of free nosh....home made canapés, sausage rolls, pies, homemade chutneys. Good for business, but not served until 18:30...if you’ve been in since finishing a walk at 16:00 and on your fifth pint it takes staying power.
But free food, hey!
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>> £3 in my local. £3.20 for special guest beers. Proper beer with a nice head
>> on it.
>> Sunday nights there are always mountains of free nosh....home made canapés, sausage rolls, pies, homemade
>> chutneys. Good for business, but not served until 18:30...if you’ve been in since finishing a
>> walk at 16:00 and on your fifth pint it takes staying power.
>> But free food, hey!
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Grrrr. :-)
£4.50 here. Never see any free food!
Worst was in Paris around 10 years ago. 20Euro for a pint of larger - work had booked me in to a nice city centre hotel and I had arrived late on a TGV from St Etienne so I went to the bar down stairs to get a pint and a bite to eat. The steak et frites was 45Euro or there abouts.
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>> Worst was in Paris around 10 years ago. 20Euro for a pint of larger -
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....should have had the smaller glass......
(My first, well remembered pint, over 50 years ago, was 1/11d - Theakstons Best)
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How does 39 quid for three glasses of sparkling english wine at St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel grab you?
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Not averse to a few beers. Varies between £3.20 and £3.80 here - up the road in Rhyl, rumour has it that there is a sub £3.00 pint to be had...but you have to go to Rhyl to drink it...
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>>(My first, well remembered pint, over 50 years ago, was 1/11d - Theakstons Best)
Someone's going to be along in a while to claim their first cost 1d when Benjamin Disraeli was their Prime Minister ;-)
Cheapest I ever paid was about 80p but recall it quickly rose to £1 when I was still underage.
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>> Cheapest I ever paid was about 80p but recall it quickly rose to £1 when
>> I was still underage.
Cheapest was 29p for keg bitter in public bar of a pub called the Queensway in Scunthorpe c1978. Usual lounge prices at time were around 35p.
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>> >>(My first, well remembered pint, over 50 years ago, was 1/11d - Theakstons Best)
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>> Someone's going to be along in a while to claim their first cost 1d when
>> Benjamin Disraeli was their Prime Minister ;-)
When I first started to get served in pubs, its was about half a crown a pint in the public bar, 2 'n seven pence in the lounge
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>> Worst was in Paris around 10 years ago. 20Euro for a pint of larger -
>> work had booked me in to a nice city centre hotel and I had arrived
>> late on a TGV from St Etienne so I went to the bar down stairs
>> to get a pint and a bite to eat. The steak et frites was 45Euro
>> or there abouts.
I like a larger pint. Was that steak, or biftek?
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>>Was that steak, or biftek?
Biftek, though you do need to be careful in Paris. I got a kangaroo steak once at a hotel near La Opera! It was very nice, but my stomach wouldn't settle all night! :-)
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When I was in Egypt recently someone suggested camel steak was nice. I found a place that did it but on the last night, which was too late. Next time...
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>> I found a place that did it but on the last night, which was too late....
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...did you get the hump.....?
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>>which was too late. Next time...
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I'd have got the right hump with that!
I'll get my coat!
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Dearest pint i remember was in doha and norway £11/12 a pint. No shortage of people buying. Cheapest middle east weirdly, 45p a can a couple of years ago.
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....the camel hair one...?
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There's a joke there somewhere...Zero
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Found this, Designing the new Aston SUV
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz1zl
Excelent
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"John Pilger's new documentary, The Dirty War on the NHS, is a powerful and timely investigation into the National Health Service.
Is time running out to save this institution?"
www.itv.com/hub/the-dirty-war-on-the-nhs/2a5959a0001
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bwqdbg
Absolutely fabulous story and stunning photography covering the journey of a She Wolf along the European Alps for a safe place to give birth and to raise her young.
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Sounds like my kinda programme. Thanks for posting.
Not put the tv on since I returned home late on the 23rd but will make an exception for that
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Sorry LL. It appears I may have misled you. A little research shows that this infact was a dramatisation. I thought some of the camera work was a bit too efficient. It was the showing of a bear in the Dolomites that raised a hint of suspicion.
Still good if only for the scenery and storyline.
Last edited by: Fullchat on Sat 28 Dec 19 at 19:10
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Trentino/Alto Adige is one of my favourite areas, not only for the Dolomites, but also for the wider scenery and 'ambience'.
AFAIK, there is a small but relatively stable bear population.
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Ok. I’ve had a cracking walk today with list ticking long distance walking friends and told them to watch it....another big walk New Year’s Day so will put them in the picture.
Not to worry..I love the Dolomites scenery. Must return there ASAP
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Looks a good bet for tonight's viewing . Written by the writers of Sherlock, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.
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Brilliant first episode. Perhaps the nuns at the gate went on a bit too long but overall scary and very funny.
“I may be undead but I’m not unreasonable”
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Scared the living crap out of me. Even the Springer took to its bed.
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Well episode two was brilliant too but it jumped the shark in the third. Shame really I had great expectations.
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Won't be everyones cup of tea, and I don't watch the show ever, but the bloopers shows which were on over Christmas gave us a good laugh. I've previously seen some on Youtube.
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OK so I'm nostalgic - After the Goldrush was probably my favourite record of 1971/2.
For those with Amazon Prime - the film Neil Young: Heart of Gold is on prime currently. A 2005 concert in Nashville. Not bad at all.
Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 31 Jan 20 at 12:37
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...drove me mad at the time. The guy in the room opposite in University hall of residence played it almost unendingly, and to the early hours of the morning, until we "procured" a master key and removed the fuse for his room.
Ironically, I am (now) a great Neil Young fan, and he is without doubt, and with no concession to his age, the best live (rock) performer I've seen in the last 15 years.
Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 31 Jan 20 at 12:50
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He performed at Desert Trip a couple of years back, which I attended. I was inclined to give him a miss based on my recollection of his dreary stuff but I didn't ,and he was very very good. (Except some of the druggie stuff which was just a bit of hype as far as I was concerned)
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Can't remember if I've put this on here but watched it on Netflix, excellent. Jonathan pryce is very good and Anthony hopkins isn't far behind. A good way to spend a couple of hours.
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"Jonathan pryce is very good"
Odd really, I'm not a fan of Jonathan Pryce but one of my favourite films and favourite tunes is tied together with him. He plays Ken, the sax player.
A gritty film about a singer and her manager (Phil Daniels) trying to make ends, stolen by a record company who manipulate her from rise to self-destruction. Very Quadrophenia.
I love this video cos it plays the whole film in 5 minutes. And the sax solo... oh, man... Course it's not Jonathan Pryce, but pretend it is. He's only in it for a few seconds. And it always reminds me of him. Terrible really, he's just an actor. No idea who the sax player was. Don't wanna know.
tinyurl.com/wvy8oug
Play it loud.
And I do intend to watch the Popes when I have a bit of time.
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There's a decent bit of blues sax after some amusing to'ing and fro'ing between Buddy Guy on guitar and Jay Moynihan on sax on a live version of Five Long years. See approx 10:42 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7u23KuAmc
EDIT Catch the guy on keyboards at about 5:50 too, if you like that mind of music.
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Buddy Guy eh....that's a blast from the past.
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...still playing, and recording. The latest album "The Blues is Alive and Well", just over a year old, is a cracker!
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Saw him on stage at his club in Chicago a few years ago. He was downing shorts like they going out of fashion. He introduced a young protege who was about twelve then, an amazing blues guitarist. Look out for Quinn Sullivan, terrific.
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He has played very small venues in north Wales - someone I'd happily go to see...
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I wasn't that lucky when I went to his Chicago place. But Nick Moss and the Fliptops were there and they were pretty good... Spoke to them afterwards and they had just flown in from playing at... Bury...
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Caught a couple of good episodes on BBC iPlayer. Very good TV.
I have had a rummage in my EPG, but can't find it, so had to resort to iPlayer. BBC Wales, do you see?
No more padding or repetition than is necessary.
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Silent Witness. Gosh that was a bit of a dramatic shock at the end of this series, never saw that coming.
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>> Silent Witness. Gosh that was a bit of a dramatic shock at the end of
>> this series, never saw that coming.
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I was forced by Mrs Z to watch the first 20 years of Silent Witness back to back last year.
I was traumatised - one double episode a night!
It was a superb episode and for a while I thought they were going to kill off Jack as well.
Not happy about Clarissa going!
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Not watched it yet. Boss likes it, I find it laughably improbable that a bunch of forensic investigators would be leaping about like James Bond. It did improve a bit when Amanda wotsit went. Her acting method seemed mainly to be gurning in an attempt to convey emotion.
Amanda Burton, I meant.
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I used to enjoy it but now just sit through it. Also because of the improbability of the plot, though there are much worse on the telly.
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Wireless, not TV. I listen to lots on headphones instead of reading in bed.
Some interesting observations from a geneticist. About an hour in total. Still available in 15 minute episodes but this is the omnibus.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fg0s
I wonder who would broadcast stuff like this if they kill the BBC.
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Not quite TV, but in my defence, I did watch it on a TV with an Amazon Firestick running the YouTube App ;)
Anyway, it interested me. Car nut Jonny Smith (aka 5th Gear and a few other tv progs) meets a jeweller with an amazing attention to detail.
youtu.be/JSS7uBzDOio
He also has a couple of real Escorts too.
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I'd copied the link myself yesterday to post and got distracted.
Comes across as a very down to earth geezer. Followed the MK2 Escort build and his craftsmanship is just something else.
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BBC1 mid afternoon. I know, but am having to self isolate.
It's a quirky, Aussie serial about five people buying a house so they get on the property market. Whimsical, although there are a few laugh out loud moments and also a little near the knuckle for pre-watershed I reckon.
Last of eight episodes today.
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www.imdb.com/title/tt9686194/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Now showing on Fox with catch up available.
Not true to the HG Wells story at the moment but its far superior to the disaster that the BBC made late last year.
Based in France and the UK so some subtitles. More of a horror than Sci-Fi, quite good.
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I've been watching this series and enjoyed it. But then the bad guys showed up with an extra leg and not quite as threatening as I'd expected.
Two of the actors:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxrmussq4E
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Fort William to Mallaig. 120mins of minute by minute recording of the journey. Steam engine meandering through beautiful Scottish countryside in awesome weather.
The cameras are attached to the train interspersed with drone footage. The sound of the train moving over the tracks and the steam driven components has a very hypnotic effect.
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>> Fort William to Mallaig. 120mins of minute by minute recording of the journey. Steam engine
>> meandering through beautiful Scottish countryside in awesome weather.
>> The cameras are attached to the train interspersed with drone footage. The sound of the
>> train moving over the tracks and the steam driven components has a very hypnotic effect.
The loco is a West Coast Railway LMS Black 5. Dont think about doing it now tho, yesterday WCR announced the season, due to start for easter, is postponed.
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Three a similar thing on Netflix, camera on front of train, very hypnotic. It's seven hours, real-time journey in Norway.
There's a boat one as well.
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If it is repeated or else where, New Zealand.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dl2m
I recorded it and then the recorder failed so lost it :-((
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Might be useful as a gift to some online friends (none on this forum of course!)
www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Feeling-Building-Empathy-Tech-Obsessed-ebook/dp/B07PSGFN34/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+future+of+feelings&qid=1585743722&sr=8-1
"The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World"
"An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves.
"There’s no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It’s also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers—or even acquaintances—when you can troll them, block them, or just click “Unfriend” and never look back? However briefly satisfying that might be, it’s also potentially eroding one of our most human traits: empathy."
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If you have the Smithsonian channel (160 Sky) and you go by the name of Bromptonaut, you might want to watch In the Factory in 10 minutes. The 'secrets' of the folding bike in West London.
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Missed this the first time around on Ch4, I think it was 2012. Upto episode 2, so far very good some very good actors in it. If you've not seen it it's on ch4 catch up.
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Having watched it to the end, I was slightly disappointed by the ending, all felt a bit rushed perhaps they needed another episode. Nevertheless it was worth watching.
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This is a BBC Four documentary about a shepherd and friends bringing sheep down from Scafell Pike in the Lake District for shearing. That's all, but I enjoyed all 99 minutes of it. It used cameras all over the place, including one on a sheep's back. On BBC iPlayer for another 26days.
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I used to watch One Man and his Dog, competitive sheep dogging (?!?!). Great programme, whatever happened to Phil Drabble? (I can guess...!!!)
So I'll have a look for that one, thanks
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Are you sure it was on a sheep’s back, not a Welsh tourist too close with his GoPro ?
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"We s**g 'em, you eat them" as a farmer once said.
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I'm currently watching this series on Talking Pictures and am really surprised to see that deliberate blurring has been added to adult sections - no ruder than page 3 material.
The thing is broadcast after 9PM, it seems rather prudish and they put all of these "you may be offended warnings" and a recommended age rating at the start of each episode.
Nanny TV companies gone mad!
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Was on Film 4 last night.
It’s available on catch up on Sky for a couple of days.
Quite an insight in to racial treatment in 60’s America and how African American women overcame it to become important figures in the space race.
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Enjoyed it! - Didn't realise America were so far behind Russians in just getting a man into space!
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>> Enjoyed it! - Didn't realise America were so far behind Russians in just getting a
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My guess was that they didn’t see Russia as a threat until they realised that an atom bomb could be put on a missile and sent in to the USA.
The film is simplified and sympathetic. John Glenn was much older in real life and a senior rank and degree qualified engineer. The scene where he asked the figures to be rechecked by the lady computer is true, though it wasn’t that close to the launch.
The scene where he wanted to meet all the ladies including the African American ladies is also true.
Struck me as a man that valued a person’s ability and not the colour of their skin.
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Great film. Saw it at the cinema, one of the better freebie choices we made.
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Another WW2 goody is on BBC catch up on Sky probably on iPlayer too.
{hopefully one day you'll see the "PLEASE NOTE" request at the start of the thread and follow the advice for posting a new article ;) }
Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 9 May 20 at 20:39
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On BBC Parliament channel today 10am-16.30.
Day, Whicker, a clutch of Dimblebores, Frost, Michelmore and fascinating vox pops. A different world, that I grew up in. Seems to be some preoccupation with the Soviet Union - which there was of course.
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On More4 this evening, a 60 minute documentary. 21:00-22:00 Probably available on Catch Up
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Just launched on Prime. Watched it last night and it's pretty good.
Story of the Krays, and all that. Intriguing in that Tom Hardy plays both brothers. So lots of camera trickery to achieve that, but it's convincingly done. Bit violent here and there of course, but seen worse. Unusual twist with the occasional narration too.
Very watchable, with the mild observation that Ronnie makes you think of Alan Partridge crossed with Griff Rhys-Jones.
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Legend?
Biggest pile of cinematic poop ever inflicted on your eyeballs. Rubbish acting by Tom Hardy in the dual role made it almost comedic.
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Had a look, worth a punt tonight maybe.
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Better tell Miss Z, she thinks Tom Hardy is the bees knees!
There’s no accounting for taste!
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Anyone else caught this?
David Tennant and Michael Sheen (supposedly) rehearsing a play via internet, while in lockdown.
I enjoyed their interaction in Good Omens, so thought I'd give this a try.
Confirms my belief that if a program's good enough, it doesn't need to be advertised.
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How did they get Samuel L Jackson!!!
It's very silly and very enjoyable!
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Late review.
Just starting watching this. It’s really rather good.
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>> Late review.
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>> Just starting watching this. It’s really rather good.
Blimey, cutting edge TV viewer from the flat lands alert.
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Can't say I've watched it. One of those things that passed me by.
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It's on catch up TV.
Worth a go. Six 15ish minute episodes done with smartphones by the looks of things. Done very well due to the calibre of the actors.
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Zippy....what you talking about?
I began binge watching BB several years ago whilst staying with my USA friends. After a few beers we would watch 3 episodes a night, and sometimes another 2 early in the morning. We were properly addicted to it.
The best series I’ve ever seen on TV. I’ve just finished the final series to air of the prequel ‘Better call Saul’ which I’ve also hugely enjoyed.
And I’ve got it on DVD.
Purely by coincidence the daughter of a friend lives in Albuquerque, and one of her colleagues lives in the street where Walter W lived in the storyline. She could make $$ out of tourists but chooses not to. How’s that for a freaky coincidence.
And there is some fabulous walking country on the outskirts of Albuquerque. He’s a member of the NM Mtn Club and I hope to join them for some back country hiking within a few years once things are reasonably back to normal.
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>>Breaking Bad
Yeh my bad, didn't notice the change of title from Staged to Breaking Bad.
Absolutely brilliant!
And loved Better Call Saul - loved the interaction with the older brother, who was a right POS in my opinion.
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>>Just starting watching this. It's really rather good.
I only ever watched one episode but I agree, it really was rather good. But i try to avoid serials which require me to remember every week so I never watched it again.
Mind you, now with the streaming services and the ability to watch on demand, probably I should give it a go.
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Well have now seen all five series - 62 episodes in all and I revise my review to extremely good, in fact one of the best series on TV. Excellent acting and some memorable characters and plenty of action. The love of money is truly the root of al evil.
One of my favourite characters was the Criminal lawyer Saul so now embarking on the spin off series "Better Call Saul" Very good reviews and only 50 episodes to catch up with!
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Babylon Berlin. Finished the first series tonight. Germans series set in the 1920s. Very evocotive of the period, both the politics and the sleaziness of post Great war Germany. Well worth watching. On Amazon but not Prime so had to pay. I think its free on Sky.
Also rewatching the first series of Fargo. If you like black homour and plenty of violence this is the series for you. I loved it first time round and its just as good the second.
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How does the Fargo series compare to the film, which is one of my all time favourite films?
I love the accent in Fargo...Frances McD was equally brilliant in 3 Billboards outside......
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I loved the original film. The series is only loosely based on the film but is in my opinion even better.
There are threee series in all. They are all good. The first stars Billy Bob Thornton who absolutely steals the show.
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Thanks.
With light nights I’m out most evenings until late....walking, carousing with friends ( it’s good for your mental health to socialise and drink beer outside several nights a week) or sitting with neighbours in their gardens.
I’ll add Fargo to the list of things to watch when the dark nights draw in. I saw a few episodes of Lilyhammer when staying with friends so need to watch that also.
But first I need to subscribe.
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Just finished watching this, l liked it and thought it was pretty funny. Some of the humour is a bit slapstick but still worth watching. John malkovich is very good in it as the head scientist.
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Brilliant film, appears to have been made in real time. An Airbus 319 is Hijacked en-route from Berlin to Paris. I enjoyed the drama of it rather than the effects. Sparingly filmed within a 319 flight-deck - would have worked very effectively on stage. Well crafted, well made. The actual flight procedures seem pretty authentic. No doubt there are flaws, but not a bad way to spend 90 minutes - quite suspenseful to the end.
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Would it be at all possible for responses on this thread to either change the Subject to whichever film, drama or show etc the comment is being made about or make it the first sentence.
To me it sometimes seems disjointed in respect of what it is that the recommendation/review is actually referring to.
I'm obliged :)
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>> Would it be at all possible for responses on this thread to either change the
>> Subject to whichever film, drama or show etc the comment is being made about or
>> make it the first sentence.
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>> To me it sometimes seems disjointed in respect of what it is that the recommendation/review
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>> I'm obliged :)
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Doesn't it say that in the first post in this thread?
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On BBC Iplayer for a couple of weeks.
Just seen this film about Lauda and Hunt. Really enjoyable and typical of Ron Howard films.
Some great racing scenes.
Don't know how I missed it since 2013!
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A great film, I really enjoyed. I particularly enjoyed Lauda's brief monologue at the end.
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The End of the F***ing World - John Boy
