What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[sojourner]

Here We Go

Here We Go

Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs. Chaotic comedy with Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson.

www.bbc.co.uk

Was worried cos I love almost all of the actors, and thought it may be shite, but it's actually really funny.

 

[Part 2]

Here We Go

Here We Go

Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs. Chaotic comedy with Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson.

www.bbc.co.uk

Was worried cos I love almost all of the actors, and thought it may be shite, but it's actually really funny.

Weird that says 29th April 2022 but I've definitely seen it before....maybe there was a pilot episode that's been stretched out?

Ah yes it was called Pandemonium.

Here We Go - Pandemonium

2020 has been an absolute nightmare for the Jessop family. To boost morale, they decide they are going to have a summer holiday after all, even if it is in Margate in October.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[sojourner]

Weird that says 29th April 2022 but I've definitely seen it before....maybe there was a pilot episode that's been stretched out?

Ah yes it was called Pandemonium.

Here We Go - Pandemonium

2020 has been an absolute nightmare for the Jessop family. To boost morale, they decide they are going to have a summer holiday after all, even if it is in Margate in October.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ooo I've not seen that one! Ta - will watch that later

 

[sojourner]

Nice one Part 2 , watched it and it was great

 

[stavros]

This was on just now.. excellent programme. Probably need to be in the right mood for it..

Paul Merson - A Walk Through My Life

I watched that last night. You're right, it's a very well done programme, just letting him ruminate on his life and the countryside.

 

[stavros]

Here's your chance to fully utilise the fact that the iplayer volume dial goes up to 11.

 

[stavros]

Not by a long chalk the best Scorses-De Niro partnership, but Cape Fear is quite edgy at times.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The Gazza documentary is worth a look, although it probably doesn't offer much new it focuses on the media in particular Rebecca Wade and Piers Morgan, phone hacking etc. Score by Blanck Mass is good too.

What a desperately sad story this is.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

This is actually pretty good so far.

Darren McGarvey's Addictions - Series 1: 2. Drugs

Darren sets out to discover why there are so many drug-releated deaths in Scotland, meeting the people living in the midst of the crisis every day.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Part 2]

Floodlights, drama about footballer Andy Woodward who exposed the Barry Bennel abuse case. I hadn't followed the story in the news and it's a difficult watch but very good. Another great score by Blanck Mass aswell.

 

[sojourner]

Floodlights, drama about footballer Andy Woodward who exposed the Barry Bennel abuse case. I hadn't followed the story in the news and it's a difficult watch but very good. Another great score by Blanck Mass aswell.

Ah, been meaning to catch that, cheers for the heads up mate.

 

[Smangus]

Noticed The Truffle Hunters has appeared as a Storyville. Would recommend.

Just watched this , great bucolic entertainment. Brilliant last scene too. Made me laugh.

 

[Mation]

We watched Together tonight - I almost gave up after the first few minutes cause the constant breaking of the fourth wall and manic style was a bit much, but once you get used to that it ended up really good. Some genuinely powerful bits.

I saw this last night. A bit abrasive at first, but fascinating and, as you say, some very powerful stuff. Cried quite a lot.

 

[Epona]

I saw this last night. A bit abrasive at first, but fascinating and, as you say, some very powerful stuff. Cried quite a lot.

I found it one of the most moving and relevant lockdown related things I have seen - it captured the claustrophobia and resulting despair well I thought.

(Has been a while since I saw it though! I know some people sailed through lockdown, I didn't though. OH had to take me outside for a bit in the middle of the night a few times during the first lockdown to get me out of panic attack mode).

 

[8ball]

I found this thing called “Inside No. 9” that I was going to take a look at 3 years ago then got distracted.

Anyway, it’s def worth a look.

 

[PR1Berske]

I found this thing called “Inside No. 9” that I was going to take a look at 3 years ago then got distracted.

Anyway, it’s def worth a look.

I wouldn't binge them all in one sitting.

 

[8ball]

I wouldn't binge them all in one sitting.

Nah, I binged a bunch the other night. Going a bit slower now.

 

[kittyP]

The Art That Made Us

A really engaging, non fusty, often subversive look at art in the UK from the prehistoric to the modern.
From carvings to music and everything inbetween.

A part of this piece by multimedia artist Phoebe Boswell was featured in episode 3 and it really got inside me.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Inside No. 9 is still rocking it.

 

[stavros]

Storyville: Hillsong Church, God Goes Viral.

there's one in Liverpool!

I watched this yesterday, and you're right, they're a fucked up bunch.

 

[tinman]

A Celebration of Play for Today: BBC Four - Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today. Bit biased as friend worked on it but it is a superb overview. There is nothing like it on BBC or any other channel as beeb is so frightened of annoying the establishment. Roll on the 70s.

 

[oryx]

A Celebration of Play for Today: BBC Four - Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today. Bit biased as friend worked on it but it is a superb overview. There is nothing like it on BBC or any other channel as beeb is so frightened of annoying the establishment. Roll on the 70s.

Really want to see that.

 

[rubbershoes]

This is Spinal Tap

 

[8ball]

Just watching “Drag Me To Hell”, which is pretty funny so far.

 

[BCBlues]

A Celebration of Play for Today: BBC Four - Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today. Bit biased as friend worked on it but it is a superb overview. There is nothing like it on BBC or any other channel as beeb is so frightened of annoying the establishment. Roll on the 70s.

This was really good.
They're also showing Abigails Party in full. I used to watch all these back in the day. If it was about Ireland or Strikes my dad would watch it with me. Otherwise he would call it arty rubbish

 

[Mattym]

I enjoyed Life and Death in the Warehouse on last night on BBC3. 'Enjoyed' isn't the correct word to use, because it's quite a hard hitting drama.
Life and Death in the Warehouse

 

[T & P]

Talking Pictures is a short series about titans of the silver screen, featuring not just their bios but interviews they had given to the BBC during the span of their careers.

All I’ve watched so far have been very good, but if you watch only just one, pick the one about Christopher Lee. Suberb and highly enjoyable. My already very high estimation of the man has gone up even higher.

 

[MrSki]

Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story

A story told by ten men who fought together in the Falklands War, with unflinching honesty, discussion of life-changing moments of combat and how they have come to terms with them since.

www.bbc.co.uk

Watched this last night. Very powerful documentary. Would recommend it.

 

[kittyP]

Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story

A story told by ten men who fought together in the Falklands War, with unflinching honesty, discussion of life-changing moments of combat and how they have come to terms with them since.

www.bbc.co.uk

Watched this last night. Very powerful documentary. Would recommend it.

Yes, couldn't deal with it last night but plan to watch

 

[girasol]

Anyone say "Glow Up" Season 4 yet? Ding dong darling!