Recommended Television Programmes

[LMcD]

Thanks very much indeed ferney. Oh, and LMcD of course!

Don't mention it!

[MrGongGong]

Someone I know made this
which I found by accident but is rather wonderful IMV

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009h27

[Richard Tarleton]

Just watched the first two episodes of series 2 of The Kominsky Method, now on Netflix - Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin (and new character Jane Seymour) - pure gold.

[Flay]

PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster is worth a watch, although sadly it is over-dramatically presented by Clarkson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03n3297 via @bbciplayer

[edit] My link was taken directly from the iPlayer, perhaps that's why it may not work. Try this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03n3297

[Constantbee]

Unreported World Channel 5

An admirable series providing documentary coverage of international disasters that evade the headlines in the mainstream media, this episode ably crafted by Seyi Rhodes looking at the humanitarian crisis affecting Haitian migrant workers caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

[LMcD]

PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster is worth a watch, although sadly it is over-dramatically presented by Clarkson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...ia @bbciplayer

I've never been a Clarkson fan, but I thought that on this occasion his presentation was just right - dispassionate at times, angry at others and with just the right amount of grim humour.
Your link doesn't seem to work - but I saw this programme recently on PBS America.

[Bryn]

Unreported World Channel 5

An admirable series providing documentary coverage of international disasters that evade the headlines in the mainstream media, this episode ably crafted by Seyi Rhodes looking at the humanitarian crisis affecting Haitian migrant workers caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

You appear to have rather overestimated the quality of Channel 5's documentary programming. Channel 4+1 is not Channel 5.

[Serial_Apologist]

You appear to have rather overestimated the quality of Channel 5's documentary programming. Channel 4+1 is not Channel 5.

The episode mentioned by Constantbee was the first of a new series which are broadcast every Friday evening at 7.30, following neatly after the Channel 4 news at seven, arguably the best mainstream broadcast news on any UK network. Here's the RT blurb for the next one:

Ep 2 Reporter Adrian Sarwar meets the pupils, parents and teachers trying to survive at a primary school caught in the turf war in Cape Town, between lawless, drug-dealing gangs. As Sarwar and his director Tom Cross discover, the Cape Flats have long had a notorious reputation for lawlessness and violence. But with 279 children killed in the last year alone, the government has now sent in the military.

With a failing capitalism inflicting its worst consequences on areas of the world used to build unsustainable riches for the few and and false underlying justificatory value systems for the rest, the series provides and promises an inexhaustible range of plot lines for viewers to fill in details and outcomes.

[Bryn]

The episode mentioned by Constantbee was the first of a new series which are broadcast every Friday evening at 7.30, following neatly after the Channel 4 news at seven, arguably the best mainstream broadcast news on any UK network. Here's the RT blurb for the next one:

Ep 2 Reporter Adrian Sarwar meets the pupils, parents and teachers trying to survive at a primary school caught in the turf war in Cape Town, between lawless, drug-dealing gangs. As Sarwar and his director Tom Cross discover, the Cape Flats have long had a notorious reputation for lawlessness and violence. But with 279 children killed in the last year alone, the government has now sent in the military.

With a failing capitalism inflicting its worst consequences on areas of the world used to build unsustainable riches for the few and and false underlying justificatory value systems for the rest, the series provides and promises an inexhaustible range of plot lines for viewers to fill in details and outcomes.

Indeed. The curtailment of the Channel 4 News on Fridays to offer Unreported World is one of the week's musts. The specific documentary referred to can be viewed via All 4. My point was that Unreported World is a Channel 4, not a Channel 5 programme.

[LMcD]

PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster is worth a watch, although sadly it is over-dramatically presented by Clarkson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03n3297 via @bbciplayer

[edit] My link was taken directly from the iPlayer, perhaps that's why it may not work. Try this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03n3297

That works - I would definitely recommend this programme.
In 1981 the BBC broadcast a Play For Today called 'PQ17' in which Richard Briers played Capt Jack Browne. Sadly, it doesn't appear to be available online.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Unreported World Channel 5

An admirable series providing documentary coverage of international disasters that evade the headlines in the mainstream media, this episode ably crafted by Seyi Rhodes looking at the humanitarian crisis affecting Haitian migrant workers caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

As mentioned, a Channel 4 programme, available here:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world

[Anastasius]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?

Ooh, yes.

[LMcD]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?

Definitely a guilty pleasure, in the same league as 'Tutti Frutti' and 'Takin' Over The Asylum'

[vinteuil]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but anyone else also enjoying Guilt ?

... o, very much. And tonite we are promised Bill Paterson as someone not to be messed with. And a Big Reveal....



Am also still much enjoying Giri/Haji, and - even tho' it's a bit battered and showing its age, Spiral series 7.

Last night's Gold Digger a complete hoot, compulsively watchable in a mad-as-a-box-of-frogs way : and anything with Alex Jennings, Julia Ormond, Jemima Rooper gets my vote...


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