The TV Thread

[Futtocks]

I have just been watching all the episodes of The Peter Serafinowicz Show, first aired almost exactly 10 years ago. A shame they never gave him a second series.

[Amber Avenger]

35 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I have just been watching all the episodes of The Peter Serafinowicz Show, first aired almost exactly 10 years ago. A shame they never gave him a second series.

I really liked it and it was a bit odd it never got a series two. It did get a couple of Christmas specials the following year though but no series. Still those specials had one of my favourite sketches in, old fashioned sillyness 

 

[Wiltshire Rhino]

The Punisher premiers on Netflix on 17 November. I hope it lives up to my expectations. 

 

 

Edited October 19, 2017 by Wiltshire Rhino

[John Drake]

Meet the cast on the all new series of Doctor Who
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/ff2d130a-e278-4978-bf22-48cba0a5c9da

So the Bradley Walsh rumours were true. Blimey. 

[jacksy]

Mindhunters brilliant series

[Tongs ya bas]

Just finished watching the Vietnam war series on bbc4

The testimonies of the participants of both sides would break your heart

[Amber Avenger]

9 hours ago, John Drake said:

Meet the cast on the all new series of Doctor Who
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/ff2d130a-e278-4978-bf22-48cba0a5c9da

So the Bradley Walsh rumours were true. Blimey. 

I think Bradley will be brilliant in it, he's been pretty good in the dramas I've seen him in in the past. 

[Futtocks]

1 hour ago, Tongs ya bas said:

Just finished watching the Vietnam war series on bbc4

The testimonies of the participants of both sides would break your heart

I missed some of the early episodes, but have watched the rest and thought it was excellent.

[John Drake]

9 hours ago, Amber Avenger said:

I think Bradley will be brilliant in it, he's been pretty good in the dramas I've seen him in in the past. 

Yeah me too.

The show has a good track record of unexpected casting decisions proving to be successful. Billie Piper, Catherine Tate and Matt Lucas spring to mind.

I remember Bradley Walsh being in Corrie n'all.

[Griff9of13]

10 hours ago, Tongs ya bas said:

Just finished watching the Vietnam war series on bbc4

The testimonies of the participants of both sides would break your heart

I'm three episodes in. It really is sobering stuff and heavy going at times. Ultimately a complete waste of time, effort and lives.

[Futtocks]

I was going through an old stack of DVDs and found my copy of 'Neverwhere'. So that's me sorted for the evening.

[Tongs ya bas]

Just watched Saturday's 'Gunpowder'. Good box, and the gruesome stuff perfectly justified. 

[Shadow]

Blue Planet 2

 

just

 

wow

[Bedford Roughyed]

5 minutes ago, Shadow said:

Blue Planet 2

 

just

 

wow

Worth

 

Licence

 

fee

 

alone

[Futtocks]

Already spotted someone on Twitter claiming that it is all CGI and scripted.  

[Bedford Roughyed]

And Louis Theroux is just brilliant at what he does.  

[Griff9of13]

12 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Already spotted someone on Twitter claiming that it is all CGI and scripted.  

Look out for a Daily Mail exposé coming your way soon telling us some of the shots were staged.

 

[ckn]

We finally got around to trying Criminal Minds Beyond Borders again tonight. And that’s it permanently off our watch list.

Weak writing, gross stereotypes of foreigners, American heroes saving the day from incompetent foreigners and so on.

The worst part of it was a staunch Muslim woman who refused to listen to someone saying her son was gay. She then suddenly turned into a helpful supporter of her son’s lover because one of the FBI guys showed her a picture of them holding hands.

It's almost as if it were written by someone whose experience of foreigners and foreign culture is limited to what they see on Fox News.

[Tongs ya bas]

I'm catching up on the Coogan and Brydon Spanish trip.

They are smug and irritating, the food and the setting are the star

[Griff9of13]

1 hour ago, Tongs ya bas said:

I'm catching up on the Coogan and Brydon Spanish trip.

They are smug and irritating, the food and the setting are the star

It's not the show that the first one was; that I found actually entertaining.

[Derwent]

The new series of Dice is excellent.

[Tongs ya bas]

8 hours ago, Griff9of13 said:

It's not the show that the first one was; that I found actually entertaining.

I enjoyed the first series.

In the current series, Spain has been a revelation and worth watching for that and I love the food aspect. But the format, self satire, they try to outdo each other's impersonations has lost its appeal for me.

[Amber Avenger]

12 minutes ago, Tongs ya bas said:

I enjoyed the first series.

In the current series, Spain has been a revelation and worth watching for that and I love the food aspect. But the format, self satire, they try to outdo each other's impersonations has lost its appeal for me.

I don't mind the chat when they are sat down eating food and impressions etc and the first few episodes of every series are good value for that. It's always later on in the series when they introduce other characters and it moves away from improvisation into scripted stuff where it bores me. The last episode of the current run was dreadful I thought, especially the ending!

[Moose]

Weds 8th Nov sees the long awaited return of The Detectorists on BBC4 at 10:00pm. Mackenzie Crook who as well as acting also writes  and directs the programme says that this will probably be the final series.

[Tongs ya bas]

Babylon Berlin Sunday night nine o clock. SKY Atlantic. Top box. The books are really good as well

Edited November 5, 2017 by Tongs ya bas