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I've been enjoying "Earth" on Monday nights. It's an update of Life on Earth I suppose. Anyway millions of years, volcanoes, ice ages, evolution, disasters, extinctions and that's all before the dinosaurs appeared.

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8 hours ago, tamthebam said:

I've been enjoying "Earth" on Monday nights. It's an update of Life on Earth I suppose. Anyway millions of years, volcanoes, ice ages, evolution, disasters, extinctions and that's all before the dinosaurs appeared.

I watched the whole set in one go on the iPlayer. Properly fascinating look at the history of the planet.

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Serves me right for watching it I suppose but it's annoying that creepy voiceover Tim Wonnacott on the Antiques Road Trip can't make the slightest effort to learn the pronunciation of Scottish placenames. King-Goosie ffs.. There was more.

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20 hours ago, tamthebam said:

I've been enjoying "Earth" on Monday nights. It's an update of Life on Earth I suppose. Anyway millions of years, volcanoes, ice ages, evolution, disasters, extinctions and that's all before the dinosaurs appeared.

It is good. As is A Year On Planet Earth with Stephen Fry about how various animals cope with the four seasons. (Not Vivaldi)

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8 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said:

Binged the two series of World on Fire, pretty good and keeps you interested with the different storylines going on. Excellent cast too with the likes of Sean Bean, Mark Bonnar, Blake Harrison and Lesley Manville.

enjoyed series 1,got about 15 minutes into s2 and just thought,"nah,this is drivel"

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2 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said:

Finished watching The Sixth Commandment over the last few nights, really enjoyed it despite the grim subject matter. Some fantastic acting in there but Timothy Spall was a standout. Definitely worth a watch 

Just watched that as well, Timothy Spall is always good value. The actor playing Ben Field was chillingly good, a right narcissistic nutter.

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Stanley Tucchi: Searching For Italy on iPlayer is about the most middle class programme I’ve ever seen.  A documentary version of the film Sideways.  It’s lively and relaxing, but it does make Italian people out to be universally weird.  Great Sunday morning viewing.  

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On 03/08/2023 at 22:50, highlandmac said:

enjoyed series 1,got about 15 minutes into s2 and just thought,"nah,this is drivel"

Tried to watch this series, but as a WWII nerd there were just too many 'haha, f**k off, as if...' moments in it for me to take it seriously.

Seems to be a recurring theme with WWII drama. There is a desperation to shoehorn things into it that are completely incongruous, presumably because modern audiences expect to see minorities and 'unconventional' relationships in drama, even though it's contextually completely out of place. There was a somewhat interesting German series made a few years back, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_War but even that was rendered ridiculous by portraying completely sanitised versions of reality designed to appeal to younger audiences, and depicting certain events/relationships that would have been so contextually improbable that they were patently absurd.

I get that projects have to get funding to get off the ground, and sometimes you have to shave off rough corners for the sake of TV, but suspension of disbelief is one thing, and being expected to just blindly accept utterly ridiculous premise for the sake of drama is entirely another.

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