What have you watched on TV?

[Ricey]

Finished watching Killing Eve, it’s alright easy watch and look forward to a second series.

 

[Mad Cyril]

People Just Do Nothing.

Not a classic finale and I am sad to see it go but the last series and a half ran out of ideas.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Agreed, it was a good finale though.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Sally4Ever - very rude, very funny Julia Davis comedy. Don't watch with your mum!

 

[KevinJH]

Watched the three hour-long episodes of The Long Story Song on BBC1 yesterday evening - very well done. Set just at the time the Brits abolished slavery it touched just about every emotion. Recommended.

 

[The Big Dady]

Watched the three hour-long episodes of The Long Story on BBC1 yesterday evening - very well done. Set just at the time the Brits abolished slavery it touched just about every emotion. Recommended.

Think you may mean "The Long Song" which was on over the last 3 nights, watched this and loved it, if you liked The Long Song I highly recommend you watch "Imagine" on BBC iPlayer it was on BBC 1 at 10.45pm on Weds 19th Dec.

It is all about Andrea Levy who wrote The Long Song, and her in depth research to the actual people that appear in the book.

Imagine: Andrea Levy: Her Island Story Alan Yentob presents a profile of the novelist Andrea Levy, charting her journey to become one of the country's best loved contemporary novelists. He looks back at her best-selling novel, Small Island, which captured the imagination of readers around the world, and her most recent novel, The Long Song, has recently been adapted by the BBC,

BBC iPlayer "Imagine" link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bw9d69/imagine-2018-andrea-levy-her-island-story

 

[KevinJH]

That's the one - apologies. And thanks for the link to Imagine, I'd missed that

 

[OldBlueLady]

ABC Murders - indisputably loosely based on the Agatha Christie book of the same name, and starring John Malkovich with the weirdest Belgian accent on earth.

So appalled at the treatment of a classic Christie by Sarah Phelps, that I've roused her into responding on Twitter telling me to "shush now"! Fed up with over-sexualising by the Beeb of Christie's books. So many inaccuracies and chronological errors in this one, plus the fact Poirot weirdly has a back story placing him as a priest and sports a grey beard, when even up to his final case, he used hair dye and boot polish to maintain a black moustache!

 

[Shrimper]

ABC Murders - indisputably loosely based on the Agatha Christie book of the same name, and starring John Malkovich with the weirdest Belgian accent on earth.

So appalled at the treatment of a classic Christie by Sarah Phelps, that I've roused her into responding on Twitter telling me to "shush now"! Fed up with over-sexualising by the Beeb of Christie's books. So many inaccuracies and chronological errors in this one, plus the fact Poirot weirdly has a back story placing him as a priest and sports a grey beard, when even up to his final case, he used hair dye and boot polish to maintain a black moustache!

I've only watched one episode and I have a rough understanding of the book. My dad is a massive Christie lover, specifically Poirot and he was fuming over it. Not the only one. From what I can see, the characters changed, the places changed and the reasoning changed?

Oh dear.

I saw your tweet on the BBC feed as well.

 

[Freedom for Tooting]

I've only watched one episode and I have a rough understanding of the book. My dad is a massive Christie lover, specifically Poirot and he was fuming over it. Not the only one. From what I can see, the characters changed, the places changed and the reasoning changed?

Oh dear.

I saw your tweet on the BBC feed as well.

I thought it was crap. Make a new story rather than mess with original quality. Clearly trying to make it "relevant" with pseudo-political references and cod-psychology. BBC does so much quality without this sort of stuff.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Sally4Ever - very rude, very funny Julia Davis comedy. Don't watch with your mum!

Sorry for quoting myself, but the end of Episode 4 was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I laughed until it hurt and I haven't done that in years.

 

[RHB]

Grizzly Bear cubs and me. A two parter from BBC. Gordon Buchanan joins the Pazhetnovs, a pioneering family of biologists, in snowy Russia to rehabilitate the six orphaned grizzly cubs back to the wild. Absolutely enchanting viewing. 10/10

 

[OldBlueLady]

I thought it was crap. Make a new story rather than mess with original quality. Clearly trying to make it "relevant" with pseudo-political references and cod-psychology. BBC does so much quality without this sort of stuff.

Exactly - don't advertise it as a Christie if it's not one!

Oh, and thanks @Napster for searching out Sarah Phelps's response to me to "like" it!!!

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Exactly - don't advertise it as a Christie if it's not one!

There is an off button - I liked it

 

[Supernaut]

There is an off button - I liked it

Me too - a highly original re-imagining, and I’ve been a Christie fan for 40+ years.

 

[KevinJH]

The Lake District - A Wild Year - one of the most visually stunning and beautifully shot programme's I've ever seen of the U.K. Available on the Beeb i-Player and an hour well spent....

 

[MK Shrimper]

TV/Film/Documentary: Bros: When The Screaming Stops.

Now I'm in no way a Bros fan, but this was a good documentary about the brothers Goss (no mention of Ken). Spinal Tap moments of comedy, touching sentiment about their family and the unresolved tension of a front man and a drummer. Recommended even if their music leaves you cold - it's on Iplayer.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

There is an off button - I liked it

Thanks for the heads up.I watched all 3 parts of the ABC murders last night and enjoyed it too.

 

[Ricky Otto]

TV/Film/Documentary: Bros: When The Screaming Stops.

Now I'm in no way a Bros fan, but this was a good documentary about the brothers Goss (no mention of Ken). Spinal Tap moments of comedy, touching sentiment about their family and the unresolved tension of a front man and a drummer. Recommended even if their music leaves you cold - it's on Iplayer.

very funny!

I didn't really get any sentiment from it though, just two guys who over indulge themselves and their feelings. No doubt they had tragedy in their lives but everybody does it is just their ego's that make them build everything into a massive deal.

With lines like "it's because of Stevie Wonder I made a conscious decision not to be superstitious" you know you are going to be entertained. It's like Gervais and Merchant created the Goss brothers.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Has anyone had a crack at the new Black mirror interactive episode Bandersnatch?

Not sure if it is brilliant or distinctly average? the more I think about it I'm edging towards brilliant, Black Mirror always seems to have you thinking about the episode for days after. This one is a bit of a mind ****, is choice an illusion?