What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[ash]

Just finished Chloe, which was a bit silly but also quite gripping.

I really liked it

 

[kittyP]

I don't know if the full mini-series ever got shown last year when you wrote that. It's on the iplayer now, and it's really well done. Rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but very touching and well acted.

I'd guessed that the four teen leads were from that background, but it was interesting to learn that an awful lot of the crew were too, and taken on as apprentices.

I only saw the piolet.

That's really good to all that too.
Will watch the rest.

 

[Part 2]

Liked Sherwood overall, the performances were good and lots of twists but some of the dialogue wasn't great.... long speeches beginning 'you young uns don't know what it was like' followed by long rant just felt a bit lazy.

 

[MBV]

Thought the text message scene was a little forced but overall I enjoyed the series.

 

[editor]

Sherwood

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

www.bbc.co.uk

Watched Sherwood tonight and it looks promising. Murder amid a Nottinghamshire community still riven with resentment from the Miners' Strike.

One episode in and loving it. What a cast!

 

[Hellsbells]

I loved the whole of Sherwood until the last episode which I thought was pants

 

[MrCurry]

There's a new comedy called PRU, about a, er, PRU.

Obviously self-interest here but I watched the pilot last night (the pilot is only 17 minutes long) and while not being brilliant it was certainly ok and is a quite good reflection of life in a PRU. The writers are ex-PRU staff and one of the kids is an ex-PRU pupil. In fact she liked them so much she went to four.

Full series is 4 episodes I think and starts on Friday (but the pilot is there now). Also, one of the teachers is the woman who played Gervais's dead wife in Afterlife. And I like her.

Won't change your life but it's nice to see things like that on TV.

Good tip, thanks First new tv comedy which has got me laughing hard for many a year.

I’m even learning some new words, as the young lead characters seem to speak a version of English an old fart like me is not familiar with

 

[Epona]

I loved the whole of Sherwood until the last episode which I thought was pants

Everyone's been raving about it, but I thought it was fairly average, and despite binge-watching it just a few days ago, I can't now remember who did it. Or most of the characters.

 

[stavros]

I'm far too young to have seen it when it was first screened, so I'm eager to watch Boys from the Blackstuff, which is appearing episode by episode.

 

[Sue]

I'm far too young to have seen it when it was first screened, so I'm eager to watch Boys from the Blackstuff, which is appearing episode by episode.

It's very good but depressing.

 

[oryx]

I'm far too young to have seen it when it was first screened, so I'm eager to watch Boys from the Blackstuff, which is appearing episode by episode.

Thanks for that. Been wanting to see it for years - I don't think I had a TV when it first came out!

 

[Hollis]

The documentary on AIDS is superb, albeit heart breaking.

 

[Part 2]

Series 5 of snowfall

 

[Elpenor]

Series 5 of snowfall

Started that last night.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Sit Com Two Doors Down - Series 5 all episodes now available.
Love this...

 

[Part 2]

Started that last night.

I forgot I'd already watched it earlier in the year,

 

[sojourner]

I'm far too young to have seen it when it was first screened, so I'm eager to watch Boys from the Blackstuff, which is appearing episode by episode.

Absolute classic. There's a scene with Julie Walters and Michael Angelis in one of the episodes, that summed up exactly what it was like in our house when I was growing up. Tears me in two just to think about it.

 

[sojourner]

It's very good but depressing.

And very authentic too.

 

[nottsgirl]

Everything I know about love is quite watchable if a bit annoying.

 

[MrCurry]

Just got to the end of Michael Palin’s Around the World in 80 days, which someone (can’t remember who) kindly mentioned as being back up on iplayer on another thread. Haven’t seen it in 20 years or so but really enjoyed becoming reacquainted with Palin’s struggle to keep pace with the fictional Phileas Fogg. Bit of a downer at the very end, but overall loved it.

 

[t0bytoo]

Started that last night.

Prompted by this thread, I just started season 1. Reckon it’ll keep me entertained through this heatwave and the next.

 

[stavros]

This doc from last night, where Prof. Hannah Fry tries to understand those who've refused the Covid vaccines. She does a very good job at maintaining her cool. One of those studied is a proper conspiracy nutjob, but oddly not the least likeable.

 

[BCBlues]

Absolute classic. There's a scene with Julie Walters and Michael Angelis in one of the episodes, that summed up exactly what it was like in our house when I was growing up. Tears me in two just to think about it.

I watched it when it came out and yesterday binged the whole series. I never realised how sad most of it is but it is compelling and brilliant. The episode with Chrissie and Angie has stuck in my mind all these years and I found it just as powerful this time.

Excellent programme.

 

[stavros]

Big Oil vs the World, an excellent three-parter on the lobbying success of Exxon et al over the last 40-50 years.

 

[miss direct]

Enjoyed Life After Life, based on the Kate Atkinson book.

 

[Elpenor]

I'm really enjoying Industry. I think it's pretty good, I know a few people on here didn't like it but I like it.

I’ve decided to give this a rewatch.

Coincidentally the second series begins tomorrow in the US, though a UK date of airing isn’t known

 

[thismoment]

Started watching Avoidance - Romesh Ranganathan's miserabilist sit com about a man who avoids conflict. It's one note, unfunny and genuinely depressing. Totally recommended.

Oh gosh I really should’ve read this before watching the first episode. Thought I’d go all out and treat myself to watching a programme that’s not on CBeebies for the first time in months (no exaggeration) and watch this because I like Romesh and goodness it is depressing! I should have done for Killing Eve Oh well, might as well watch one more episode

 

[oryx]

The Newsreader. Aussie drama set in 1986 about a newsroom, its characters and the romance between a young reporter and an established, somewhat highly strung newsreader. Very watchable.

The Newsreader

Star newsreader Helen and rookie reporter Dale join forces to survive a 1980s newsroom.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[thismoment]

I definitely prefer the second episode of Avoidance even if I might bawl my eyes out. I love Courtney

 

[thismoment]

There's a new comedy called PRU, about a, er, PRU.

Obviously self-interest here but I watched the pilot last night (the pilot is only 17 minutes long) and while not being brilliant it was certainly ok and is a quite good reflection of life in a PRU. The writers are ex-PRU staff and one of the kids is an ex-PRU pupil. In fact she liked them so much she went to four.

Full series is 4 episodes I think and starts on Friday (but the pilot is there now). Also, one of the teachers is the woman who played Gervais's dead wife in Afterlife. And I like her.

Won't change your life but it's nice to see things like that on TV.

Just watched this. It’s good. the effect of the teenager and his tablets is so true. I wonder if that’s how the other kids feel about irl