What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[Mrs Miggins]

New drama sitcom on called Back to Life about a woman released from prison after 18 years. I binged it over last couple days and enjoyed it

Ghosts was good too - sitcom from the Horrible Histories lads.

apologies. I didn't see these earlier.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I love Sandra Oh's face. I mean, like, really love her face.

 

[Part 2]

I'm rewatching Killing Eve. It's more brilliant than I imagined first time.

Make the most of it, I'm not hearing good things about series 2

 

[Part 2]

Louis Theroux: Mother's on the Edge

A sensitive look into post natal mental health with a number of new mums in a specialist unit. Not an easy watch at times but one of his better programs of late.

 

[sojourner]

Binged on Surgeons: Life on the Edge. Think someone on here mentioned it. Right up my street - love stuff like that!

 

[sojourner]

Louis Theroux: Mother's on the Edge

A sensitive look into post natal mental health with a number of new mums in a specialist unit. Not an easy watch at times but one of his better programs of late.

Sorry, Louis Theroux and 'sensitive'? Doesn't really chime does it? Slimey yes, patronising smug fucking twat, yes, but sensitive?!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

There's a new sitcom called Ghosts - I think it's pretty funny. Much funnier than I thought it would be when I read the synopsis. Check it out.

My daughter loves it. I liked the first two episodes which set the whole thing up, but would have liked a slower progression into acceptance of the ghosts. Episode 3 went straight into weekly sitcom territory.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

My daughter loves it. I liked the first two episodes which set the whole thing up, but would have liked a slower progression into acceptance of the ghosts. Episode 3 went straight into weekly sitcom territory.

Yeah you've got a point there. The last 2 I've watched were less funny than the first 2. It's got a charm though and I will continue to watch. I like all the people in the basement

 

[Orang Utan]

Sorry, Louis Theroux and 'sensitive'? Doesn't really chime does it? Slimey yes, patronising smug fucking twat, yes, but sensitive?!

I don't think he's any of those things. The last thing i saw of his was very sensitively handed.

 

[Part 2]

Sorry, Louis Theroux and 'sensitive'? Doesn't really chime does it? Slimey yes, patronising smug fucking twat, yes, but sensitive?!

The program is a sensitive look...well I thought so.

I've no issue with his approach and the people he speaks to don't seem to take offence. Acting a bit naive and asking questions people know the answers to is something I've managed to do throughout my career though so maybe I identify with that. If it gets people to think and come to their own conclusions then that's a positive thing.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yeah you've got a point there. The last 2 I've watched were less funny than the first 2. It's got a charm though and I will continue to watch. I like all the people in the basement

I will also continue. Just a bit of a shame after such a strong start. Just little bits like driving up to the house and her feeling as if she had always belonged. . . and then it was the wrong road. Could have been really shit, but was done well. . . or the doctor quick and surprising diagnosis, that she could see dead people because of her near death experience. . . because he was dead.

Now it's all the same jokes about privacy etc.

Also slightly annoyed by the film crew who would have still have had to pay. They would have had to do their own assessment and had insurance.

 

[sojourner]

I don't think he's any of those things. The last thing i saw of his was very sensitively handed.

I stopped watching him years ago tbh, because he was all of those things.

 

[sojourner]

The program is a sensitive look...well I thought so.

I've no issue with his approach and the people he speaks to don't seem to take offence. Acting a bit naive and asking questions people know the answers to is something I've managed to do throughout my career though so maybe I identify with that. If it gets people to think and come to their own conclusions then that's a positive thing.

As said to OU, I stopped watching him years ago. It wasn't so much as acting naive, it was leading people on, with a knowing look to camera, and trying to make them look small (and him look like an intellectual giant). Can't stand the fucker.

 

[Orang Utan]

Theroux doesn't look at the camera like that.

 

[sojourner]

Theroux doesn't look at the camera like that.

He used to. Maybe he's changed.

 

[D'wards]

Theroux was on Desert Island Discs yesterday.

He did say in his early days in America he was a bit snide, trying to get people to say stupid things.
But when he got his own TV show, circa 1998, he changed his tune.

He talked of another incident which changed his approach when they were in a consulting room with parents being told their son was never coming out of his coma. The patents were like "this is the most devastating news we've ever heard, and what the fuck is this camera crew doing in here?".

I love Theroux and all he's done - never saw the Michael Moore stuff - but that's Moores's schtick innit- goad people into saying something stupid or offensive then stand back and gloat

 

[D'wards]

Tonight's Ghosts was great I thought.

The girl who plays the lead is brilliant- I've liked her in everything I've seen her in

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I don't know whether it could be classified as "good" in the same way that we usually mean "good" on this thread but any fans of the gentle detective show genre might like to take a look at Shakespeare & Hathaway.

I like it but then I also like Rosemary &Thyme...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Surgeons: At the edge of life.

Absolutely bloody fascinating and the surgeons I've seen so far come across as very human rather than arrogant.

I watched one where a woman had a 25cm section of her aorta replaced and it was incredibly intense viewing as her body cavity filled with blood and it was spurting everywhere and yet they carried on, calm, decisive and effective. I can't even imagine how intense it must be to actually be involved in these operations.

Watching what they do and the level of technology that has been developed to allow these procedures to happen leaves me with a great sense of how absolutely amazing human beings can be.

I was just going to say this.

Amazing programme, absolutely amazing. And makes me bloody love the NHS even more.

 

[Libertad]

"Don't Forget the Driver" written by and starring the sainted Toby Jones:

BBC iPlayer - Dont Forget the Driver - Series 1: Episode 6

 

[T & P]

‘Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?’ New series, not the one from 2017. Very, very interesting. The first two episodes available, four more to come as it is running live weekly on BBC2. Lapping up every minute of it so far.

 

[ska invita]

only 16 days!

BBC iPlayer - Nae Pasaran

 

[stavros]

Romesh Ranganathan's new show last night had a bit of Partridge about it, but also raised a fair few smiles.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

BBC iPlayer - Arena - Paris Is Burning

 

[Part 2]

Caught this in the car a few weeks ago. The Puppet Master, Vladislav Surkov...the mysterious man who helped create the post-truth world.

BBC Radio 4 - The Puppet Master, Omnibus edition

 

[Plumdaff]

Back to Life
Now I don't say it often, but this is brilliant.

Thanks for the recommendation of this, it was great.

 

[Plumdaff]

I needed a palate cleanser from Chernobyl and The Virtues and have worked my way very quickly through the sitcom Mum. It's the gentlest of gentle comedies about a recently widowed woman and her family, but often very moving, and the two central performances from Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan are pitch perfect.

 

[stavros]

All of The Thick of It, including the specials, are currently available.

 

[Orang Utan]

Minding The Gap, a documentary about three skateboarder friends' transitioning to adulthood and dealing with the damage inflicted by their troubled childhoods. Saw this at the cinema earlier this year and can thoroughly recommend it.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Watched the last episode of Gentleman Jack last night. I wasn't sure about it to start with but I grew to really love it.

Pretty much all of the actors in it are excellent but special mentions for Amelia Bullimore and Gemma Whelan. Suranne Jones is of course always wonderful.

It gave superlative frock as well! Absolutely superlative!