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What are we watching on TV?
- Thread starter Carole
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arthur
Nixon Garden Neatness
I binged watched it too - thought that Kiera Knightly and Ben W were excellent in it. The comedy was tied up with a range of emotions.
littleme
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Gramaisc
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We're currently a quarter of the way through the annual rewatching of the Beiderbecke Trilogy.
It's been remarkably cold here today - still white anywhere that the sunlight hasn't reached, so we've popped up to the house from the Shed.
For a couple of days, I've had a suspicion of a possible trespasser under the cooker, but no hard, or soft, evidence to back that up.
I've said nothing about this, but it's nice to have my suspicions backed up by an industry professional.
It's been remarkably cold here today - still white anywhere that the sunlight hasn't reached, so we've popped up to the house from the Shed.
For a couple of days, I've had a suspicion of a possible trespasser under the cooker, but no hard, or soft, evidence to back that up.
I've said nothing about this, but it's nice to have my suspicions backed up by an industry professional.
littleme
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Watching 
Missing you
Missing you
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Her'll get piles sat on the floor like that. You could at least supply her with a heating pad.
Carole
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Arrived home last weekend from our hot holiday, we’ve whacked up the central heating and hunkered down.
So catch up on the Christmas Stuff….
Bad Tidings (made us laugh)
The Wheel (made us laugh)
All Creatures Great and Small (made me cry)
Madame Blanc (made me cringe)
Death in Paradise (made me nostalgic for the Caribbean)
Then back to the Good Old Traitors again.
So catch up on the Christmas Stuff….
Bad Tidings (made us laugh)
The Wheel (made us laugh)
All Creatures Great and Small (made me cry)
Madame Blanc (made me cringe)
Death in Paradise (made me nostalgic for the Caribbean)
Then back to the Good Old Traitors again.
Gramaisc
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Having finished the annual replay of the Beiderbecke Trilogy, I've started rewatching UFO. It really is very good. The predictions of life in the early 80s look quite amusing from here, but it was made in 1969 and the pace of technological advance at that time meant that the future really was another place.
Having said that, Wanda Ventham always seemed to struggle with the technology of the button.
Having said that, Wanda Ventham always seemed to struggle with the technology of the button.
Studio Tan
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I unwittingly caught a few minutes of this horror movie being shown around teatime today. Surely material like this should be screened after the ‘Watershed’.
littleme
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The Breakthrough
Carole
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We watched that as well, really enjoyed it.
Also, Playing Nice.
Missing you, enjoyed it but nowhere near as good as the book.
Patience.
But everything stops for The Traitors.
littleme
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Trumpet
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Great film.
Carole
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Over the last few weeks I have watched two series (10 episodes) of Funny Woman with Gemma Arterton which I thoroughly enjoyed, I could watch it all over again.
Also Death in Paradise and Grantchester.
Also watched a few episodes of North Shore.
Then the last few nights I watched the Boyzone documentary which was much more interesting than I anticipated it to be.
Also Death in Paradise and Grantchester.
Also watched a few episodes of North Shore.
Then the last few nights I watched the Boyzone documentary which was much more interesting than I anticipated it to be.
Gramaisc
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I finished my rewatching of UFO last night and it is still a 'good thing' - I'll probably do it again in a year or two. Highly recommended.
Some things stood out in the predictions of the future, even though it was set 40+ years ago, in the early 1980s. There was a great reliance on computers, of course, but they still ran on magnetic tape - sometimes even on paper tape - and the output was produced by golf-ball teletype printers. In one episode, an urgent report was delivered and included sheets of carbon paper. Screens were still all CRT, which, to be fair, they still were in the 80s.
There is a brief discussion about racism in relation to a promotion - and a reference is made to the fact that it had largely died out 'five years ago' - i.e., 1975ish...
There was a huge amount of smoking, even on Moonbase - and occasional gunfire within the pressurised structure, this seemed a bit iffy.
A lot of the cars were gas turbine powered, with powered gull-wing doors and the UK was driving on the right by then - but nobody has repainted the road markings.
There is an untethered spacewalk, which would have seemed almost ridiculous in 1969, surely.
There seemed to be a huge advance in psychology and 'mind control' in various forms.
The aliens, despite being able to fly across the galaxy, seemed to have personal weapons based on the technology of the Sterling sub-machine gun. This was despite their vehicles seeming to have powerful laser weapons.
There was very little differentiation in gender roles - even extending to women in string vests on the submarine, but there are continual, and possibly tongue-in-cheek, requests to women to get chaps a cup of coffee.
Some of the episodes are a bit 'hard' and would not have been regarded as "kid's TV" at the time, I suspect. In one, a woman is trapped inside a torpedo tube on a sinking submarine - and it is not nice.
I have now moved onto a rewatching of The Prisoner again. I do two or three episodes a week, rather than 'binge-watching'. I'm hoping this will help improve my resistance to the cat's control techniques.
Some things stood out in the predictions of the future, even though it was set 40+ years ago, in the early 1980s. There was a great reliance on computers, of course, but they still ran on magnetic tape - sometimes even on paper tape - and the output was produced by golf-ball teletype printers. In one episode, an urgent report was delivered and included sheets of carbon paper. Screens were still all CRT, which, to be fair, they still were in the 80s.
There is a brief discussion about racism in relation to a promotion - and a reference is made to the fact that it had largely died out 'five years ago' - i.e., 1975ish...
There was a huge amount of smoking, even on Moonbase - and occasional gunfire within the pressurised structure, this seemed a bit iffy.
A lot of the cars were gas turbine powered, with powered gull-wing doors and the UK was driving on the right by then - but nobody has repainted the road markings.
There is an untethered spacewalk, which would have seemed almost ridiculous in 1969, surely.
There seemed to be a huge advance in psychology and 'mind control' in various forms.
The aliens, despite being able to fly across the galaxy, seemed to have personal weapons based on the technology of the Sterling sub-machine gun. This was despite their vehicles seeming to have powerful laser weapons.
There was very little differentiation in gender roles - even extending to women in string vests on the submarine, but there are continual, and possibly tongue-in-cheek, requests to women to get chaps a cup of coffee.
Some of the episodes are a bit 'hard' and would not have been regarded as "kid's TV" at the time, I suspect. In one, a woman is trapped inside a torpedo tube on a sinking submarine - and it is not nice.
I have now moved onto a rewatching of The Prisoner again. I do two or three episodes a week, rather than 'binge-watching'. I'm hoping this will help improve my resistance to the cat's control techniques.