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One of my all time favourite programmes, JSB.
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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I also thoroughly enjoyed Mackenzie Crook's reworking of Worzel Gummidge all of which seem to still be on the i-player, JSB.Originally posted by JSB Rules View Post
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Again -Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
I also thoroughly enjoyed Mackenzie Crook's reworking of Worzel Gummidge all of which seem to still be on the i-player, JSB.
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Both he and Martin Freeman obviously benefitted from working in 'The Office'.Comment
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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).Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I’m with John Corrigan on this, in agreement with you: it’s among the very best things television has produced!Originally posted by JSB Rules View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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The ideal jurorOriginally posted by antongould View Post
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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....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....Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
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 endLast edited by eighthobstruction; 28-03-25, 23:25.bong chingComment
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... ah well, like I seppaphor, I loved it
{ can't be doing with that Poliakoff though... }
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Extraordinary programme.Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
There but for the grace…. &c."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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We've watched some of the episodes of Point Zero, but broke off as I took out a Netflix subscription to see Adolescent - and need to watch anything else there of worth before I cancel. We only watch and hour or two in an evening, and when I shared access with one of the offspring spent too much time searching for the few things to find and watch which, according to our preferences rose above middle of the road/hollywood style material which is the content there. Too easy to let the subscription run on, unused....
I record Rumpole and the french Maigret on Talking Point TV, an occasional film - and have indulged myself on sampling a few reminiscence byways. I thought I might watch Family at War but missed a few as the scheduler seemed to go haywire. I was trying to decide whether my fondness for the best of the past was influencing me when I thought these programs (+archive iPlayer programs surfacing nowadays - Memento Mori, Play for Today etc) - much less sophisticated and lower budget but that it really doesn't matter that much - great acting, the words can be heard!
I watched Miss Austen - Keeley Hawes as the surviving sister of Jane and the others deliver fine performances, dealing with the past events, Cassandra retrieving Jane's letters. Its clear the series is not on a limitless budget - none of the glossy, super smooth finish of the likes of Point Zero but still costly I should think; no paring back on costumes or horse and carriages, and plenty of, if not mostly location filming. I suspect we are lucky to have it, perhaps there won't be many more - the BBC funding paring back all over the piece, although I'd like to be reassured the middle, senior and executive management are reducing as much as the journalism and programme makers...... BBC4 is now a repeats only channel (correct? - I think) so we will get few new programs on Art, Archaeology, Science, History etc.
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