What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[kittyP]

I have only seen the first episode of Colin From Accounts but I thought it was light but still very funny.

 

[oryx]

I highly recommend 'Blue Lights', all 6 parts are up, it's a fast paced drama that follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, bloody brilliant IMO.

Watching this at the moment and it is indeed really good - gripping, well-acted and hard-hitting. Recommended.

 

[Serge Forward]

Dreaming Whilst Black is a great 30 minute BBC3 comedy-drama. As it's a one-off there's sadly no binge option.

 

[stavros]

Dreaming Whilst Black is a great 30 minute BBC3 comedy-drama. As it's a one-off there's sadly no binge option.

You got a link for that? I can't find it.

 

[Serge Forward]

Aww... they must have just taken it off iplayer. I watched it only a couple of weeks ago. Here's the info in case it pops up again elswhere: BBC Three - Dreaming Whilst Black

 

[nagapie]

I recommend Bowelbabe the documentary about Deborah James' fight with cancer. Incredibly sad but what an amazing person, she gave a lot of hope and support to a friend of mine who died last year of bowel cancer.

 

[surreybrowncap]

I'm enjoying Ripping Yarns by Michael Palin & Terry Jones.
First broadcast in the 70's - still extremely funny.
Particularly Tomkinson's Schooldays
Four episodes available on the iplayer.
Two more to be broadcast tomorrow night on BBC4...

 

[cupid_stunt]

All 4 parts of the third and final series of 'Guilt' are up, the best series IMO, excellent drama, lots going on, plenty of twists and turns, well worth watching.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Storyville: Nelly and Nadine - I caught this by accident, it was the most amazing story of two women who met as prisoners in Nazi Ravensbrook concentration camp and went on to live a happy life together in Venezuela after the war. Lots of cine film footage. I found it fascinating, beautiful and heartrending.

 

[stavros]

Apocalypse Now.

 

[PR1Berske]

Watching this at the moment and it is indeed really good - gripping, well-acted and hard-hitting. Recommended.

There's a part in the final episode of Blue Lights where I'm convinced they wanted to use the phrase 'in the line of duty' but realised they probably couldn't

 

[han]

A friend recommended "Couples therapy", which is what it says on the tin: (American) couples doing couple's therapy sessions. I thought "that sounds painful, awkward and probably boring" but it's actually very interesting and helpful too. I'm glad I gave it a chance. 3 seasons, 6 episodes of approx 25m each.

I absolutely love this programme, I've binged it in a week . It's so so good. Very thought provoking and the therapist is very very skilled.

 

[sojourner]

I have only seen the first episode of Colin From Accounts but I thought it was light but still very funny.

Absolutely loved it.

 

[Chz]

Absolutely loved it.

I caught half of it last night. Let's just say I don't get it and leave it there. I thought Flowers was painful but funny, but this was just the pain.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I caught half of it last night. Let's just say I don't get it and leave it there. I thought Flowers was painful but funny, but this was just the pain.

I watched the first part and thought it was absolute shit TBH.

 

[MapWatcher]

Currently watching Paris Police 1905 (you can guess where it's set by the title....) which I count as part of my French studies. It's pretty good I thought. I didn't realise there's actually one before that (1900), so I'll have to watch that sometime.

 

[Serge Forward]

I'm enjoying Ripping Yarns by Michael Palin & Terry Jones.
First broadcast in the 70's - still extremely funny.
Particularly Tomkinson's Schooldays
Four episodes available on the iplayer.
Two more to be broadcast tomorrow night on BBC4...

The testing of Eric Olthwaite was one of my favourites when that programme first came out.

 

[nagapie]

All 4 parts of the third and final series of 'Guilt' are up, the best series IMO, excellent drama, lots going on, plenty of twists and turns, well worth watching.

All three series are excellent. I love how diaglogue heavy it is even though there's loads of gangsters and plot, with some things I can multitask without missing anything but with this you miss key character insight through long passages of diaglogue delivered by one character at a time. Very cleverly constructed.

 

[stavros]

Black Ops, where two PCSOs in East London are sent undercover with a drug gang, is pretty funny. Brief cameos from Terri from The Thick of It and Lynn from Alan Partridge.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Black Ops, where two PCSOs in East London are sent undercover with a drug gang, is pretty funny. Brief cameos from Terri from The Thick of It and Lynn from Alan Partridge.

Yeah, that's nuts!

 

[stavros]

I watched the third episode of Colin today, and it was the best so far, especially Gordon's doctor.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I watched Edward Scissorhands last night. I don't think I have seen it since the 80s.


I'm also quite enjoying Our Flag Means Death.

 

[nagapie]

I am watching Jerk, which is pretty good and I have definitely had some loud snorty laughs watching it.

 

[Epona]

Not normally into war films, but 1917 was on BBC2 last night and it's really quite good - hard hitting and kind of cinematically brilliant (mostly long tracking shots, which make you feel like you are there in the horror of it).
Currently on iPlayer

 

[PR1Berske]

Not normally into war films, but 1917 was on BBC2 last night and it's really quite good - hard hitting and kind of cinematically brilliant (mostly long tracking shots, which make you feel like you are there in the horror of it).
Currently on iPlayer

Watched it at the cinema and at times genuinely stopped breathing

 

[Epona]

Watched it at the cinema and at times genuinely stopped breathing

There is I think one visible cut (which is very noticeable because there aren't any others) - it is really quite an extraordinary feat the way it was filmed.
It's really poignant and hard hitting (and I say that as a generally anti-war person, it didn't do anything to glorify war in fact quite the opposite).

Highly recommend. I do actually wish I'd seen it on the big screen simply due to how brilliant it is as a film wrt to the sets and the tracking shots - it looks like it should be seen big if that makes sense.

(I also liked Dunkirk btw - the claustrophobia of everyone being gathered on the beach and the way that was shot, very evocative. Not normally into war films)

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I'm also quite enjoying Our Flag Means Death.

Mrs [62] likes it, but I've given up. Has its moments, and it's well-made, but just not getting the laughs and the plots seem very stretched out. Would have been better condensed into fewer episodes IMO.

Another vote for Colin From Accounts. Love it. The interaction between the main characters feels very real.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Mrs [62] likes it, but I've given up. Has its moments, and it's well-made, but just not getting the laughs and the plots seem very stretched out. Would have been better condensed into fewer episodes IMO.

I'm only two episodes in so this makes me a bit nervous. . .

Another vote for Colin From Accounts. Love it. The interaction between the main characters feels very real.

I guess I should have a look

 

[Indeliblelink]

I see my guilty pleasure, Glow Up, has just started it's 5th series. Yay, I love Val & Dom.

 

[May Kasahara]

I see my guilty pleasure, Glow Up, has just started it's 5th series. Yay, I love Val & Dom.

Hooray, another fan