What TV programmes have you been watching lately?

[Marc Meakin]

Douglas Is Cancelled.
Binged it on ITV X
Very well made series (4 x 42 minute episodes ) that's more about the Me too movementthan cancelling per se.
Thedialogye is cracking and the last episode was almost like Sorkins Newsroom.
Karen Gillan and Hugh Bonneville are excellent here and the support is great too.

I've just finished watching this. I think the way it was tied up in the last episode worked quite well, but that was starting from a pretty ropey premise. Spoiler alert:

Someone tweeting that they'd heard Douglas telling a sexist joke at a wedding with no further context would get no traction at all. And it wouldn't be countered by "I don't remember the joke so I don't remember what I said" leading people to say that if he doesn't remember what he said how can he know how bad the joke was. He would say from the start that as far as he's concerned there was no sexist joke. It's just internet trolling, and there's no footage so that's that.

Yes I found it irritating too , just tell us the joke already but overall it got the balance right in wokery and Metoo #
Any thing that misses off gen Zers is OK me (apparently thumbs up is passive aggressive)

[Adam S Latchford]

Love is blind is sensational - UK one just dropped.
If you love trash TV (which everybody should) then well worth it

[Gavin Chipper]

I watched Ludwig. Thought it was pretty good.

But I've finally watched the last series of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I thought it was very good. I've said before but it's one of my top three sitcoms - the others being Red Dwarf (series 1 to 6 only) and Blackadder.

[Marc Meakin]

I watched Ludwig. Thought it was pretty good.

But I've finally watched the last series of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I thought it was very good. I've said before but it's one of my top three sitcoms - the others being Red Dwarf (series 1 to 6 only) and Blackadder.

Ludwig was great , I worries David Mitchel was going to be Mark Corrigan as a detective.
He kind of was but it worked and Anna Maxwell Martin was excellent also.
I can see an American version of this would work too as its got that case of the week and a long running story at the same time.
Re : Curb.
Welcome to the party pal.
An excellent series with a very poignant ending.
I do love the show even if the real Larry David defends Woody Allen in real life , which is baffling.

Red Dwarf was great and Blackadder too but I would put Alan Partridge ahead of both

[Conor]

Have been watching Breeders on Now / Netflix. Main character is called Paul Worsley!

[Gavin Chipper]

I've heard you're a breeder now.

[Paul Worsley]

Have been watching Breeders on Now / Netflix. Main character is called Paul Worsley!

I was made aware of this. They pronounce it War-sley, though.

[Marc Meakin]

I watched at couple of seasons , it goes from bad to Worsely.
The last season had a 5 year time time jump but unlike the superior , Outnumbered , the children have different heads

[Jon O'Neill]

I like David Mitchell but Ludwig was crap. A poor man's Jonathan Creek.

[Marc Meakin]

I like David Mitchell but Ludwig was crap. A poor man's Jonathan Creek.

It's Jonathon Creek without Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin.
A winner in my book.
Obviously David Renwick is a better writer than whoever is responsible for Ludwig , I will give you that

[Ian Fitzpatrick]

I like David Mitchell but Ludwig was crap. A poor man's Jonathan Creek.

It's Jonathon Creek without Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin.
A winner in my book.
Obviously David Renwick is a better writer than whoever is responsible for Ludwig , I will give you that

They need a lighting engineer on set when filming. so much of it is in semi-darkness!

[Marc Meakin]

I like David Mitchell but Ludwig was crap. A poor man's Jonathan Creek.

It's Jonathon Creek without Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin.
A winner in my book.
Obviously David Renwick is a better writer than whoever is responsible for Ludwig , I will give you that

They need a lighting engineer on set when filming. so much of it is in semi-darkness!

This is a trend lately of semi dark TV shows are they making them on the cheap ?

[Mark Deeks]

Married At First Sight. Boy, do they ever edit these with a healthy dollop of misandry.

[Marc Meakin]

Married At First Sight. Boy, do they ever edit these with a healthy dollop of misandry.

There is a continuing trend of pendulum swinging prejudice.
I watched an episode of Dear White People recently and was shocked at the racism.

Maybe after years of sexism and misogeny and also racism against ethnic minorities the worm has turned

[Gavin Chipper]

There does seem to be this idea that one prejudice somehow cancels out the other. It's absolutely ridiculous and should be stamped out. The acceptance of words like "mansplaining" and the fact that some people think a reasonable counter-argument can ever be "But you're a straight white male" demonstrate the insidiousness of it. Where I used to work, if someone couldn't find something it might get the response "You didn't just do a man look did you?"

A lot of this is from people who you'd say are broadly on the "left". I generally criticise a lot of "right" politics on here, but it should be about critical thinking and being able to logically defend your views, not just following what you consider to be the prevailing view of your "tribe". People on all wings are guilty.

[Gavin Chipper]

I've never watched Married at First Sight but it seems like one of those programmes that in a few years they'll be looking back on it wondering how did we ever find this exploitative stuff acceptable?

[Marc Meakin]

There does seem to be this idea that one prejudice somehow cancels out the other. It's absolutely ridiculous and should be stamped out. The acceptance of words like "mansplaining" and the fact that some people think a reasonable counter-argument can ever be "But you're a straight white male" demonstrate the insidiousness of it. Where I used to work, if someone couldn't find something it might get the response "You didn't just do a man look did you?"

A lot of this is from people who you'd say are broadly on the "left". I generally criticise a lot of "right" politics on here, but it should be about critical thinking and being able to logically defend your views, not just following what you consider to be the prevailing view of your "tribe". People on all wings are guilty.

This

[Marc Meakin]

I've never watched Married at First Sight but it seems like one of those programmes that in a few years they'll be looking back on it wondering how did we ever find this exploitative stuff acceptable?

In a time where we have Donald Trump as a likely returning president.
Racist Tory Kemi Badenoch the likely leader of the opposition and a Prime Minister who makes John Major look like a statesman.
Society is yet to plunge into more ridiculousness before it can look back with any sense of 'what where we like. "
Given that 1970s stuff has only become unacceptable 40 or 50 years later I will be long dead until the next wave of reflexion

[Gavin Chipper]

Last night I watched an episode of Doomwatch from the 1970s. The episode I watched was Tomorrow, The Rat available on Dailymotion. Quite interesting and very strange.

[Marc Meakin]

Last night I watched an episode of Doomwatch from the 1970s. The episode I watched was Tomorrow, The Rat available on Dailymotion. Quite interesting and very strange.

Doomwatch was great iirc Kit Pedlar made this either during his stint on Dr Who or after it

[Gavin Chipper]

I have watched all of Generation Z (the zombie thing). It was OK I thought, but largely what you'd expect. Presumably the Z is a pun that can be used to refer to "Gen Z" as well as the generation of old people that turned into Zombies.

[Marc Meakin]

I have watched all of Generation Z (the zombie thing). It was OK I thought, but largely what you'd expect. Presumably the Z is a pun that can be used to refer to "Gen Z" as well as the generation of old people that turned into Zombies.

It's on my list.
But along with vampire stuff I am least impressed with Zombie stuff....Shaun of The Dead and 28 days later being the exceptions

[Ian Volante]

Last night I watched an episode of Doomwatch from the 1970s. The episode I watched was Tomorrow, The Rat available on Dailymotion. Quite interesting and very strange.

Doomwatch was great iirc Kit Pedlar made this either during his stint on Dr Who or after it

It's a shame Pedler went into TV rather than flogging sports equipment.

[Gavin Chipper]

Last night I watched an episode of Doomwatch from the 1970s. The episode I watched was Tomorrow, The Rat available on Dailymotion. Quite interesting and very strange.

Doomwatch was great iirc Kit Pedlar made this either during his stint on Dr Who or after it

It's a shame Pedler went into TV rather than flogging sports equipment.

Nice. Got in there before Meakin himself.

[Marc Meakin]

Last night I watched an episode of Doomwatch from the 1970s. The episode I watched was Tomorrow, The Rat available on Dailymotion. Quite interesting and very strange.

Doomwatch was great iirc Kit Pedlar made this either during his stint on Dr Who or after it

It's a shame Pedler went into TV rather than flogging sports equipment.

He did however do a stint studying the minds of budgerigar and the like.
He was a parrot psychologist.....I will indeed get me coat but it's been a challenging week

[Marc Meakin]

After The Party (channel 4)
Oh boy this is so good
Gone are the days when Aussie and NZ dramas were considered a joke
I haven't seen a better limited series than this for years.
It's about a woman's ex husband coming back after 5 years after been accused by her odmf being a paedo
Lots of twists and turns and Robyn Morgan is so good as a spiky feminist who's life starts to unravel.
6 episodes and I binged the lot

[Jamie Weisenberg]

Did anyone enjoy the tv reboot of 'Day of the Jackal' ?

[Marc Meakin]

Did anyone enjoy the tv reboot of 'Day of the Jackal' ?

It's not finished yet but yes so far so good
I was a bit worried as the book is one of my favourites and the 1974 film did it justice but the Bruce Willis led remake was awful
This contemporary set reboot is very stylish cinematic and a bit silly sometimes
The character of Bianca is so horrible you kinda root for the antagonist
Sky and Peacock though are bastards having just announced that
Spoilers below.

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It's been recomissioned for a second season
Probably makes me a bustard too if you are reading this

[Jamie Weisenberg]

It's not finished yet but yes so far so good
I was a bit worried as the book is one of my favourites and the 1974 film did it justice but the Bruce Willis led remake was awful
This contemporary set reboot is very stylish cinematic and a bit silly sometimes
The character of Bianca is so horrible you kinda root for the antagonist
Sky and Peacock though are bastards having just announced that
Spoilers below.
It's been recomissioned for a second season
Probably makes me a bustard too if you are reading this

I must be the only one who likes the Bruce Willis remake, particularly its soundtrack was excellent. Why do u think it's awful ?

Enjoyed the novel and the classic 1974 film too.

I finished episode 7 today, was good fun. Bianca has one sombre expression throughout the entire series, does she actually know how to act ?

That said, the show should've ended in one season. This franchise is not cut out for mutiple seasons; tis hard to replicate the suspense that u get from the novel or films over a long duration.

[Marc Meakin]

I'm a little harsh saying Jackal was awful , I know Freddie Forsythe wasn't keen as he refused to let them use the title for the film.
It wasn't that bad tbh a C+ compared to an A- for The 1974 version.
Can't believe there's still 3 more episodes to go.
I'm guessing UDC will get it in the end

[Marc Meakin]

Only Child.
A good old British sit com (remember those)
Set in a small town in Northern Scotland.
Gregory Fisher (aka Rab C Nesbit) is very funny here .
Lots of wacky characters.
Toilet humour is still one of the last bastions of comedy unsullied by the modern world.
On BBC IPlayer

[Gavin Chipper]

Just finished watching Time on the iPlayer - a prison drama starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. It was quite interesting. Apparently people have said that it was very realistic. Having never been to prison, I can't say too much, except that a couple of things didn't seem remotely plausible, including the whole storyline with the prison officer.

Just watched series 2 of this. I'd recommend it. Definitely good for people who like emotional stuff.

[Marc Meakin]

Just finished watching Time on the iPlayer - a prison drama starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. It was quite interesting. Apparently people have said that it was very realistic. Having never been to prison, I can't say too much, except that a couple of things didn't seem remotely plausible, including the whole storyline with the prison officer.

Just watched series 2 of this. I'd recommend it. Definitely good for people who like emotional stuff.

Season 2 was a tough watch but a brilliantly well acted drama

[Callum Todd]

Just watched The Read in BBC4 with Reece Shearsmith doing Jekyll & Hyde. I thought it was fantastic and the concept seems really cool, I'd not heard of the show before. Looking on iPlayer they've done some other great stories with top actors performing the readings so I'm keen to watch more.

[Gavin Chipper]

Just watched The Read in BBC4 with Reece Shearsmith doing Jekyll & Hyde. I thought it was fantastic and the concept seems really cool, I'd not heard of the show before. Looking on iPlayer they've done some other great stories with top actors performing the readings so I'm keen to watch more.

How does that work? Presumably they can't just read the book as the episodes would be too long.

[Callum Todd]

Just watched The Read in BBC4 with Reece Shearsmith doing Jekyll & Hyde. I thought it was fantastic and the concept seems really cool, I'd not heard of the show before. Looking on iPlayer they've done some other great stories with top actors performing the readings so I'm keen to watch more.

How does that work? Presumably they can't just read the book as the episodes would be too long.

Based on this one and only episode I've seen, seems to be reading an abridged version. But the words used are exactly as written.

[Philip A]

Jumped on the Adolescence bandwagon (Netflix).

One shot, one camera.

Unbelievably good.

[Marc Meakin]

Jumped on the Adolescence bandwagon (Netflix).

One shot, one camera.

Unbelievably good.

Especially episode 3.
Erin Doherty was amazing as was the boy tbh

[Philip A]

Jumped on the Adolescence bandwagon (Netflix).

One shot, one camera.

Unbelievably good.

Especially episode 3.
Erin Doherty was amazing as was the boy tbh

Googling, “Who plays the boy in adolescence” returns, “Hand that boy the Emmy!!!”

There are now calls to show it in every secondary school.

[Jon O'Neill]

Jumped on the Adolescence bandwagon (Netflix).

One shot, one camera.

Unbelievably good.

Especially episode 3.
Erin Doherty was amazing as was the boy tbh

Googling, “Who plays the boy in adolescence” returns, “Hand that boy the Emmy!!!”

There are now calls to show it in every secondary school.

Who has called for that? That's utterly absurd. Brilliant programme by the way. But if it had some central message, learning or moral guidance (which I don't really think it did) then it would definitely not be for school-age people. And especially not for 4 hours.

I found the brilliance to be in the acting, the pacing, and the impressive technical achievements that had me itching to find out how they'd done it afterwards.

[Jon O'Neill]

Last One Laughing UK (Prime)
This was very very very funny.

[Marc Meakin]

Last One Laughing UK (Prime)
This was very very very funny.

I concur.


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The best person won in my opinion , a minor spoiler because , no one likes Joe Lycett surely