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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 29, 2013 6:34:08 GMT
Person of Intetest, or as Mrs Shockers calls it- The Man with the Numbers, is back on one of the '5' channels! Brilliant show.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2013 20:22:29 GMT
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Post by legios on Mar 19, 2013 21:06:26 GMT
S'good, an enjoyable little short. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2013 21:42:25 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2013 21:54:18 GMT
<clicks series record>
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2013 22:02:07 GMT
Cybermen on the TV Centre night advert - this is EXCELLENT NEWS ! <clenches fist>
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2013 22:04:04 GMT
You must watch this if you haven't already. FAN-TAS-TIC!!
Andy
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Post by legios on Mar 19, 2013 23:11:40 GMT
I,Claudius is superb television. It is something everyone should give a go.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2013 17:37:01 GMT
Doesn't seem to be on Iplayer. Boooooo.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 21, 2013 19:40:48 GMT
Disappointing.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2013 21:48:26 GMT
Sarah and Duck: charming 7 minute cartoons on the Iplayer. Quack!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2013 22:09:35 GMT
Sarah and Duck: charming 7 minute cartoons on the Iplayer. Quack! -Ralph The idea of Roger Allam narating a kids cartoon is disturbing by itself somehow..... I'd watched this with Jonathan and though it was OK. Then a friend pointed out to me how dodgy it was to have a little girl going to the shops by herself and going round to the house of an old lady she's just met and I started to have my doubts about it |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2013 22:17:19 GMT
Oh come on! It's harmless!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 24, 2013 14:50:43 GMT
Bruce Willis in RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous), tonight at 9pm on Channel 4.
Enjoyed it in the cinema and looking forward to seeing it again.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 26, 2013 22:57:41 GMT
I, Claudius Episode 2. Now with added Manimal.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Apr 1, 2013 21:45:25 GMT
Well, Jonathan Creek was a bit rubbish, wasn't it?
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 7, 2013 20:39:01 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2013 9:13:30 GMT
Youtube roulette found me the 1956 BBC version of 1984 starring Peter Cushing. It's gripping stuff, in that understated way that old telly can be. It's 1hr and 47 mins yet just flew in. Watch out also for a young Donald Pleasance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8u9I_62FbM-Ralph |
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Post by legios on Jun 19, 2013 18:40:50 GMT
I'm currently watching the first series of "Luther", the BBC cop-melodrama with Idris Elba. Fantastic stuff - Elba puts in a suitably operatic performance which shows a fine grasp of the tone of this sort of material, and Ruth Wilson gives us one of those smooth, charismatic "hollywood sociopaths" which works so well as a foil to Elba's performance. The rest of the cast is great as well. Yes, it is often well beyond the bounds of realism but we have plenty of cop-shows that want to think they are in some way realistic, it is nice to see us doing a proper larger-than-life crime series every so often.
Karl
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Post by legios on Jul 28, 2013 18:35:47 GMT
I have started doing a reappraisal of Gerry Anderson's UFO. I've seen some of the series before , but the only thing I really carried away from that viewing was that I really liked the funky 1960's theme tune, and that the model work was up to the same absolutely fantastic standard that one would expect from a show involving Derek Meddings.
What is striking me this time around is quite how grim in tone and implication UFO can be. Two discs into the season and there is no sense that S.H.A.D.O are looking for any kind of endgame - they are getting really good at stopping UFO's getting through their defences, but they have no real sense of where they are coming from, and no apparent plan or capacity to even contemplate actually stopping the UFO's from trying. Even more so that SPECTRUM in Captain Scarlet, S.H.A.D.O is locked into an apparently endless defensive war which they can never win, only not lose.
Ed Bishop's Commander Straker comes across as a bit of a piece of work as well - he arranges to recruitment of one character by the simple expedient of showing him too much of the truth and then hitting him with the "you can work for us, or be locked up forever as a security risk" pitch. As methods of recruitment go that is a bit dark.
The fact that the aliens don't even seem to want to invade the Earth is notable as well - they have a use for humanity, but they seem to be quite happy to raid the Earth for individual humans at a time, they appear to lack the interest, or perhaps the capacity, to take over the entire planet in any meaningful way (not that what they intend to do with the humans which they take is anything less than horrible in implication).
And yet, there is something almost optimistic about the world that is being protected. There is progress being made in tackling racial discrimination we hear, the world is sufficiently unified that there is an implication of S.H.A.D.O recruiting from both East and West. It is an odd tone.
Karl
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Post by legios on Aug 7, 2013 22:39:36 GMT
So, I've been watching Season Three of Luther and I am nearly finished it. Whilst I don't think it is anywhere near as strong as the first season (something one can say of the second as well, they've never quite recaptured that sense of coiled-spring tension that powered the first season), I do think it is still quite good stuff. Luther's new nemesis seems to have caught a lot of flak from the TV critics, who have taken a look at his raspy voice, staring-eyed demeanour and somewhat absurd level of head-games "for the greater good" and decided that he is a a cartoonish figure. I think they've missed the fact that Luther, being a sort of cross between Batman and a wrecking ball, is hardly a grittily realistic portrayal of a police officer! It is definitely not a realistic police procedural, but I am rather liking it from the point of view of being a melodrama about justice, vengeance and points in between.
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 9, 2013 5:49:54 GMT
We're really enjoying Ted Danson in CSI. Very watchable actor and character.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 9, 2013 15:43:03 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 9, 2013 21:30:37 GMT
Fantastic! Anything with Ted in it is a winner.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 27, 2013 8:07:10 GMT
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot on Channel 4 tonight, repeats tomorrow.
Anyone got any idea if it's supposed to be any good?
Martin
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Post by legios on Sept 27, 2013 16:11:24 GMT
Not sure to be honest. All I've seen online so far is people talking about which C-List Marvel characters they are hoping might appear in later episodes, nothing about the actual quality of the show.
I'll give it a go and see what the opener is like I think.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 27, 2013 16:59:33 GMT
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot on Channel 4 tonight, repeats tomorrow. Anyone got any idea if it's supposed to be any good? Martin I have been annoyed by loads of UK folk torrenting it. For feck sake, it's on Council TV only two days after US broadcast! -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Sept 27, 2013 17:52:54 GMT
Seriously? People have been torrenting something that they would have been able to watch legally in 36hrs? I shouldn't be surprised I guess? But still...
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 27, 2013 21:52:55 GMT
Yep. And it's on 4d and the Chanel 4 app ffs.
Anyway, watched it with Mrs Ralph. We were both very bored. Dull. Thunderingly dull. Also looked and felt cheap and very early 90's. Main characters mostly annoying. Will skip it till mid-season I think. See it if gets better then. Some shows take a while to get going.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 28, 2013 16:04:13 GMT
I felt it was painfully generic, as if it had been assembled from parts of other shows, bolted together and kind of out out there. Didn't really care one way or another about any of the characters because there really wasn't any sense of who any of them were as people. The fight and stunt work was competent, but again nothing that really stood out from the crowd.
All told, it didn't really leap out as a must-watch for me. Might come back for the sweeps week episode, or alternatively wait for the DVD release and just get the occasional rental disc like I did for stuff like Burn Notice.
Karl
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