belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I may have posted this on the wrong thread....
What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?
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Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
No worries, I'll stop trying to find it on iPlayer
Numbers
an ting!
Did you finish this?Just starting S4 of Love/Hate now. Fucking hell lol, what a journey!
Cracking stuff!
e2a: On ITVx now for those who haven't seen it.
I started from the beginning (on S4 again) fuck me it’s nuts, Nidge Weasel is such a cunt.
davesgcr
Reading books
One of all time faves (unsurprisingly) fine film with very authentic railway shots before it all changed for ever. Based and embelished from the real case - where the cargo got no further than the Ceinture around Paris thanks to the resistance and cheminots. Favourite shot - "Hello Metz , it's on time" (interior shot of blacked out Verdun signal box , one light on the level frame , as train comes screaming past with that unique , high pitched Etat whistle )
It could never have happened in the UK - most of the art treasures were stored in rehabilitated ex slate mines at Manod near Blaenau Ffestiniog for the duration. They would never have found them.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
We did, loved every episode! There’s some characters that’s for sure.
Numbers
an ting!
Excellent
Fran and Paddy were my fav’, I remember at first I thought Robert Sheehan as Darren was too much of a pretty boy but I’ve known people like him IRL, look like butter wouldn’t melt but proper ruthless. Have met pretty much all the characters IRL.
Nidge Weasel was the proper cunt tho’.
The Wire / Top boy / Love/Hate - all very much a much the same, L/H edges it for me tho’ but I’m probably a tad biased.
Numbers
an ting!
Not sure if you ever read the old thread about it.
Love/Hate - Dublin gangster nonsense
After @Buckaroo mentioned it, I gave the first two seasons of Irish gangster drama Love/Hate a spin. Frankly, it seemed a bit silly to start with, but after a first series where there's a distinct lack of actual profitable crime, season two seems to pick up a head of steam and offer returns on...
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Girls Aloud: Tangled Up - Live from the O2
The best singles band of the last 25 years? And they knew how to put on a show.
The best singles band of the last 25 years? And they knew how to put on a show.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Sherwood season 2 starts Sunday. Sherwood season 2 release date | Trailer and latest news | Radio Times
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
On Chesil Beach is on for another nine days, highly recommend it.
"Romantic drama based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
Young university graduates from different social classes get married after an intense but non-physical affair. She is a talented and ambitious classical violinist from a supercilious striving family, he is from humbler stock, but despite their intense love for each other, the honeymoon proves to be a huge challenge to their relationship."
Don't be fooled by 'romantic drama' though, it's heavy on the drama, it's not a twee, soppy, feel-good romcom style movie.
It's a period piece, 1950s? 1960s? A couple who have little prior experience in relationships are on honeymoon, so there's fumbling, repressed feelings, some not-so-repressed anger, and also a fair amount of backstory, and some context to the difficulties that arise.
I watched it a week or two ago, and found it understated but powerful, with characters more complex than they initially seem. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Hole are both superb in it, the latter uncomfortably so.
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"Romantic drama based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
Young university graduates from different social classes get married after an intense but non-physical affair. She is a talented and ambitious classical violinist from a supercilious striving family, he is from humbler stock, but despite their intense love for each other, the honeymoon proves to be a huge challenge to their relationship."
Don't be fooled by 'romantic drama' though, it's heavy on the drama, it's not a twee, soppy, feel-good romcom style movie.
It's a period piece, 1950s? 1960s? A couple who have little prior experience in relationships are on honeymoon, so there's fumbling, repressed feelings, some not-so-repressed anger, and also a fair amount of backstory, and some context to the difficulties that arise.
I watched it a week or two ago, and found it understated but powerful, with characters more complex than they initially seem. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Hole are both superb in it, the latter uncomfortably so.
BBC Two - On Chesil Beach
Graduates from different social classes get married, but the honeymoon proves a challenge.
Yeh, we watched 4 last night, funny as fuck.
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
Oh I saw that a while back, it's very well done but quite a difficult watch in a lot of ways.On Chesil Beach is on for another nine days, highly recommend it.
"Romantic drama based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
Young university graduates from different social classes get married after an intense but non-physical affair. She is a talented and ambitious classical violinist from a supercilious striving family, he is from humbler stock, but despite their intense love for each other, the honeymoon proves to be a huge challenge to their relationship."
Don't be fooled by 'romantic drama' though, it's heavy on the drama, it's not a twee, soppy, feel-good romcom style movie.
It's a period piece, 1950s? 1960s? A couple who have little prior experience in relationships are on honeymoon, so there's fumbling, repressed feelings, some not-so-repressed anger, and also a fair amount of backstory, and some context to the difficulties that arise.
I watched it a week or two ago, and found it understated but powerful, with characters more complex than they initially seem. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Hole are both superb in it, the latter uncomfortably so.
BBC Two - On Chesil Beach
Graduates from different social classes get married, but the honeymoon proves a challenge.
But yeah, worth it.
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
I've only watched the first one, on the build up to and outcome of the first Iraq war, but it was quite interesting. It may have been on before, because quite a few of the interviewees (Powell, Albright, Kissinger) are dead.
It's good that one of them is on Sudan, the conflict that got hardly any coverage, in the UK at least.
I've only watched the first one, on the build up to and outcome of the first Iraq war, but it was quite interesting. It may have been on before, because quite a few of the interviewees (Powell, Albright, Kissinger) are dead.
It's good that one of them is on Sudan, the conflict that got hardly any coverage, in the UK at least.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
I watched Alfred Hitchcock at the NFT - from 1969 I think - and it’s very good, he is in conversation with Bryan Forbes and taking questions from the audience
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Hitchcock at the NFT
In his 70th year, Alfred Hitchcock came to the National Film Theatre in London to talk to fellow director Bryan Forbes and to answer questions from an audience of film enthusiasts.
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Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
This is quite a decent 6 part comedy with half hour episodes. Mid life crisis Dad with hot new partner in a wheelchair.
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Your tastes may vary. I liked it, but it’s flawed… so don’t be coming at me.
We Might Regret This
When tetraplegic artist Freya moves to London for her new lover, her chaotic best mate comes too, making an awkward blended family. Messy, tender comedy from Kyla Harris.
www.bbc.co.uk
Your tastes may vary. I liked it, but it’s flawed… so don’t be coming at me.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Also I struggled to find Love/hate on the crappy ITVx interface. But typing in “lovehate” found it. So thanks for the reminder, thread people.
Thanks for the recommendation. The first episode was a bit slow, but the second really worked for me, especially Gemma recounting the names of her female friends.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
BBC One - Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams
Freddie Flintoff tries to create a brand new cricket team from an unlikely group of teens.
Have unexpectedly found myself loving this series. The young lads are so funny and endearing, very reminiscent of so many of the teenagers I work with. It's great to see them being given some screen time in all their imperfect, messy glory. Freddie Flintoff also comes across as thoughtful and likeable.
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Numbers
an ting!
Enjoy.
America's New Female Right, a very Theroux-ish doc on three extreme right influencers. I suspect the 16 year-old might realise at some point how much she's been brainwashed by her dad, if she ever pops the bubble she's in.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Colin From Accounts S2 has begun!
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
There's a good interview with the Colin From Accounts people on Front Row:
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Front Row - TV: Colin from Accounts; Musical: Why Am I So Single? Hak Baker performs - BBC Sounds
The writers of Why Am I So Single? and SIX talks about writing hit musicals.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Laughing so much from the offset. It actually does the job. So many highly praised sitcoms on iplayer are mostly laughter-free, so this makes a welcome change.
Humberto
talk to the hand
You shouldn't miss this if you've er missed it.
S2.Case 1
Uncanny - Series 2 - S2. Case 1: The Boy in Room 3 - BBC Sounds
Every night 19-year-old Marie hears a phantom boy crying. What is the secret to Room 3?
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Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Watched Get Carter a few nights ago instead of the first three episodes of Rings of Power that I was planning to watch as I felt bad about never having seen it. Well worth it
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
One of my favourite films of the last couple of years...
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BBC Four - Decision to Leave
A detective's investigation leads him to a dead man's mysterious and beguiling widow.
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