Recommended Television Programmes

[johncorrigan]

Re: Detectorists.

My wife and I are on our fourth time round for this wonderful series (and I'm sure that's nothing compared with some other folks!) It is so peaceful to watch, so funny, so poignant. And the acting... just superb!

One of my all time favourite programmes, JSB.

[LMcD]

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One of my all time favourite programmes, JSB. [/QUOTE

Memorable for so many reasons, not least what I believe was the last occasion on which Diana Rigg and her daughter Rachael Stirling acted on screen together.

[smittims]

Next week on BBC4 Take Me Home is repeated, a powerful marital-crisis drama serial set in Telford in the 1990s I think, with Keith Barron, Maggie O'Neill and Reece Dinsdale . It's based on the eponymous novel by Deborah Moggach, who seems tospecialise in moral dilemmas, as in her other novels , Final Demand and To Have and to Hold. I hope they will also be shown , as fine TV versions were made at the time.

[johncorrigan]

Re: Detectorists.

My wife and I are on our fourth time round for this wonderful series (and I'm sure that's nothing compared with some other folks!) It is so peaceful to watch, so funny, so poignant. And the acting... just superb!

I also thoroughly enjoyed Mackenzie Crook's reworking of Worzel Gummidge all of which seem to still be on the i-player, JSB.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000csng/worzel-gummidge-series-1-1-the-scarecrow-of-scatterbrook

[LMcD]

I also thoroughly enjoyed Mackenzie Crook's reworking of Worzel Gummidge all of which seem to still be on the i-player, JSB.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000csng/worzel-gummidge-series-1-1-the-scarecrow-of-scatterbrook

Again - !
Both he and Martin Freeman obviously benefitted from working in 'The Office'.

[Nick Armstrong]

I thoroughly enjoyed 'Towards Zero', the latest Agatha Christie adaptation on the Beeb. Great to see Angelica Huston and Clarke Peters in there. I thought that the guy who played Inspector Leach, Matthew Rhys, was particularly good, but it was a fine series. Call me old-fashioned but I do enjoy an Agatha Christie, partly, I think, because I know there's going to be some kind of resolution and I don't have to turn up for another season.

Oh dear - having finally got to the end of this, I found it almost intolerable. The prettified, camp broodiness strewn with visual clichés squeezed out anything approaching dramatic tension, imvho. Only the basic urge to find out ‘whodunnit’ kept me going plus some easy-on-the-eye land- and sea-scapes, and the excellent Matthew Rhys (particularly in episode 3).

[antongould]

Oh dear - having finally got to the end of this, I found it almost intolerable. The prettified, camp broodiness strewn with visual clichés squeezed out anything approaching dramatic tension, imvho. Only the basic urge to find out ‘whodunnit’ kept me going plus some easy-on-the-eye land- and sea-scapes, and the excellent Matthew Rhys (particularly in episode 3).

I’m with Rumpole ….. but then I’m easily led ….

[Nick Armstrong]

Re: Detectorists.

My wife and I are on our fourth time round for this wonderful series (and I'm sure that's nothing compared with some other folks!) It is so peaceful to watch, so funny, so poignant. And the acting... just superb!

I’m with John Corrigan on this, in agreement with you: it’s among the very best things television has produced!

[Nick Armstrong]

I’m with Rumpole ….. but then I’m easily led ….

The ideal juror

I’d add that I would (as others have said) like to see Ella Lily Keene again in something more challenging - a new name and face to me, lots of potential.

Also, the most interesting aspect was the developing closeness between Rhys’s detective and the hapless orphan ward - subtly done and nicely rounded off at the end

[eighthobstruction]

The ideal juror

I’d add that I would (as others have said) like to see Ella Lily Keene again in something more challenging - a new name and face to me, lots of potential.

Also, the most interesting aspect was the developing closeness between Rhys’s detective and the hapless orphan ward - subtly done and nicely rounded off at the end

....Oh good I'm glad you found some good in it....I don't think I lasted the whole of the first episode set up....yet another BBC A Christie all Glitz and Piss (and slow slow pace, lingering camera work , coz that's what it was like in the 30's - coz time was different).... the smell of Poliakov about the glamour (actors these days can't even light a cigarette properly).....................how many more times is that Devon hotel on the island going to be used eh??....Ah yeah so as you can get a boat ride back to reality....I might buy that....might buy me a ticket back to the 30's when every thing was whish....the ¬^?}¬¬-*{¬ stink of Poliakov....makes me think of 3 week old Mackeral on a silver platter....this is what we see - the future of directing and producing (media babes playing marbles with your rubles)....I bet they had the best B&Bs too, but "Me Too" has put pay to the prompt girl perks....no body wants ya when you stink....

[vinteuil]

... ah well, like I seppaphor, I loved it




{ can't be doing with that Poliakoff though... }

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[Nick Armstrong]

....Oh good I'm glad you found some good in it....I don't think I lasted the whole of the first episode set up....yet another BBC A Christie all Glitz and Piss (and slow slow pace, lingering camera work , coz that's what it was like in the 30's - coz time was different).... the smell of Poliakov...

[Nick Armstrong]

• My Brain: After the Rupture is on BBC Two, Friday 28 March, 9pm

Extraordinary programme.

There but for the grace…. &c.