Recommended Television Programmes

[cloughie]

All Together Now last night and was delighted, after watching a few mediocre acts, to see a really good female singer blowing the other entrants out of sight with 96 points. Her tuning was spot on and when she went for the higher notes reach them without any problem and stuck to the notes without feeling the need to warble around them. I then watched the end of The Voice - congratulations to worthy winner Molly, and I’m not just saying that because she is from Cornwall! Her final opponent I feel murdered Autumn Leaves - tuning not perfect and too many added wobbles!

[Nick Armstrong]

Last night BBC1 started a re-run of the most recent series of 'Would I Lie to You'. If you didn't catch it last time, and even if you did, try to catch the wonderful performance of Bob Mortimer talking about Chris Rea and a bath - my face was sore laughing - and even better, David Mitchell's reaction. Great episode.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...s-12-episode-1

Absolutely brilliant. All Mortimer's appearances on this show are hilarious (inc. as you say, Mitchell's reactions). The one where he recounts his early legal fame as "The Cockroach King" is equally funny....)

[LezLee]

Absolutely brilliant. All Mortimer's appearances on this show are hilarious (inc. as you say, Mitchell's reactions). The one where he recounts his early legal fame as "The Cockroach King" is equally funny....)

Bob Mortimer is reliably hilarious. Another of my favourites is Ed Balls and the ballpit. I rarely laugh out loud but that had me spluttering my coffee.

[LMcD]

....I always thought I was a current affairs junkie, but one thing I have noticed {inc a prolonged month long being fairly much cut adrift by illness for a month and on settee} Through watching Parliam,ent Channel 232 and BBC News 231 is that an enormous amount of Dosh being spent on News....6 or 7 Brussels corres', 2 Strasburg etc etc COllosal; mounts (at £50-100 K per corres')....In Uk 50 Presenters of one kind and another etc etc....travel, expenses + camera crews and producers and producers ass', rresearchers....blaa blaa etc etc....GOODNESS, People being dragged in that I haven't seen for years.....a deluge 20+ different weather people, just on Network TV....etc etc

....May I put in a word of thanks and admiration to Ruth Fox and Mark D'Arcy who have given succinct and unhysterical commentary and guidance on the Parliament Channel.

May I express my thanks and admiration to the BBC's correspondents based in the heart of Euroland - Katya Adler, Adam Fleming and Damian Grammaticas? I don't know whether they've 'gone native', but they seem to me to offer a less hysterical and more balanced view of things. Others flown in from London from time to time seem to bring all the Westminster nonsense with them, and add nothing to the discussion that the three I've mentioned above haven't already dealt with perfectly well. The fact that we've never understood Europe and probably never well doesn't make their job any easier.

[jayne lee wilson]

Yes, but huge credit to Laura Kuenssberg (BBC News & website summaries and explication de texte) and my personal favourite, Mr Good-Looking Nick Watt on BBC2 Newsnight...

Another big story tonight for all of them to make sense of....!

[LMcD]

Yes, but huge credit to Laura Kuenssberg (BBC News & website summaries and explication de texte) and my personal favourite, Mr Good-Looking Nick Watt on BBC2 Newsnight...

Another big story tonight for all of them to make sense of....!

Good though Laura Kuenssberg is, I feel that she has, let's say, a more highly developed sense of self-awareness than the three I've mentioned.

[teamsaint]

Yes, but huge credit to Laura Kuenssberg (BBC News & website summaries and explication de texte) and my personal favourite, Mr Good-Looking Nick Watt on BBC2 Newsnight...

Another big story tonight for all of them to make sense of....!

I've been dragged back into current affairs and politics viewing against all my better judgement, after many years of fruitful abstinence.
And I have to say that Laura K , and Katya Adler have been superb at their jobs through all this. Nick Watt is also good, but somehow ( to me) seems to just give a little less away in nods and winks, but he too has been very good.
'spose he's ok , in a good light.......


Oh yes, Bristol City v WBA last night. Well bits of it anyway. Classic " almost " comeback. Proper football that Jayne, cold nights on half empty terraces , many miles from home.....

[oddoneout]

Surgeons:At the Edge of Life last night BBC2 was thought provoking on several levels.
I've seen footage of patients having brain surgery while awake before but this example where the speech was being monitored while a tumour was removed was something else.
What will stay in my mind for some time though is the artificial aorta replacement. The factory in Glasgow that makes the tubes was very much as one might expect - hi-tech spinning and knitting frames, with one anomaly; the smaller vessels that are joined to the main artificial aorta( and used to supply liver, kidneys etc) are stitched on by hand. Apparently machines were tried but the results were not as good, so now folks all kitted out in anti-contamination gear and gloves, wielding needle and thread, join smaller tubes onto bigger ones. Not a job that's easy at the best of times...

[Stanfordian]

'Pervert Park'
BBC 4 Documentary
Residents of a trailer park in St. Petersburg, Florida - all convicted sex offenders discuss their experiences living in the outside world.
A real eye-opener!

[Once Was 4]

'Pervert Park'
BBC 4 Documentary
Residents of a trailer park in St. Petersburg, Florida - all convicted sex offenders discuss their experiences living in the outside world.
A real eye-opener!

I have been watching the 'Murder, Mystery and My Family' series and starting to get disturbed by this. Clear attempts made to cast blame for murders onto other, named, people who are not now around to defend themselves.

[Nick Armstrong]

I have been watching the 'Murder, Mystery and My Family' series and starting to get disturbed by this. Clear attempts made to cast blame for murders onto other, named, people who are not now around to defend themselves.

Nice and safe from the libel lawyers...

I know what you mean. The formulaic 'examination' of the evidence is superficial at best, spurious/meaningless at worst, and the superannuated ex-Judge hardly inspires confidence.

[Conchis]

Watched the two series of Fleabag back to back. Really didn't like the first one at all: far too much female masturbation and not actually that funny. Second series was like a night and day difference. I really loved the character of the sister and the performance by Sian Clifford.

[LezLee]

Watched the two series of Fleabag back to back. Really didn't like the first one at all: far too much female masturbation and not actually that funny. Second series was like a night and day difference. I really loved the character of the sister and the performance by Sian Clifford.

I haven’t been watching Fleabag but caught the last one and liked the look of it. My friends have been praising it so I’ll give it a go on catch-up.

[LMcD]

I would like to add Kevin Connolly to my list of admirable Europe-based BBC correspondents.

[LezLee]

Watched the two series of Fleabag back to back. Really didn't like the first one at all: far too much female masturbation and not actually that funny. Second series was like a night and day difference. I really loved the character of the sister and the performance by Sian Clifford.

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Pedants’ corner:

The ridiculous ‘Back to back’ is one of my (many) pet hates. You mean ‘consecutively’.

(Not getting at you personally!)