GordonD Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 13 hours ago, jimmy boo said: It is good. As is A Year On Planet Earth with Stephen Fry about how various animals cope with the four seasons. (Not Vivaldi) Didn't know animals ate pizza. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 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. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 6 hours ago, GordonD said: Didn't know animals ate pizza. Turtles are pretty well known for it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandmac Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 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" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Mrs Boo is watching her one show shite and they are talking about revealing folk on the strictly dancing pish.....in August!!! Does it not finish near christmas so we've got to put up with this shite for months? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 On 02/08/2023 at 19:59, Derry Alli said: Enjoying 'hijack'. Finished this off today. Highly recommend. I'll admit to shedding a wee tear towards the end. I'm in no way an Elba fan but he was excellent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted August 7, 2023 Share Posted August 7, 2023 (edited) 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. Edited August 7, 2023 by Boo Khaki 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 @The Naitch How do you improve on Only Murders in the Building Seasons 1 and 2? Add Paul Rudd and Meryl Fucking Streep for season 3. Brilliant start 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: @The Naitch How do you improve on Only Murders in the Building Seasons 1 and 2? Add Paul Rudd and Meryl Fucking Streep for season 3. Brilliant start Both episodes were absolute crackers. They really can do no wrong at this point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Ghosts Of Beirut.........Four parter where CIA & Mossad go after swarthy terrorist. It'll upset the green brigade so all the better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 On 04/08/2023 at 19:15, jimmy boo said: and they are talking about revealing folk on the strictly dancing pish It's all the BBC has these days. It'll be fuckin everywhere soon enough. The drones lap it up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan. Same every week, and joyous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 (edited) "I, Claudius" is back on the iPlayer. Well, the first three episodes, at least. They seem to be adding them in threes. If you haven't seen it before, get it watched. It's one of the greatest programmes ever made. Will also help P&B Quiz League members memorise the order of the Emperors (well, the first five, anyway). Edit: it's actually the first four episodes on there, they seem to have merged episodes one and two into an extra-long opener. Edited August 18, 2023 by Bully Wee Villa 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 I like a cooking program but sitting here watching Jason Atherton on STV, they seem to have basically commissioned a Dubai promo series (it's even sponsored by VisitDubai) with a few recipes thrown in. Annoy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 The Joy of Painting with... Steve Ross? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 You know what annoys me? Reports on BBC news where the voiceover - being delivered in the past tense because it's reporting on events which have happened - is done as an event is happening. It happens with sport, it happens with politicians giving speeches, it looks like an editorial decision to make the events feel as if they're being reported on as soon as they happen and it looks so utterly contrived it drives me nuts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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