What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

[nagapie]

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.

I like some of the more serious sitcoms because there's a whole sub genre of serious funny ones. But Colin is a good laugh.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

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?

www.bbc.co.uk

I've done them all!! It's creepy AF that one.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Did you finish this?

I started from the beginning (on S4 again) fuck me it’s nuts, Nidge Weasel is such a cunt.

jsut starting watching Love/Hate based on recomendations here - tis very good, great charachters, very immersive. And yes Nidge - he is an absolute cunt. He even walks like a cunt. However - it is not on iplayer - I paid for sereis one on amazon. Sneaking suspicion it might be free on channel 4 or ITV though. (still - only cost about £6)

 

[Numbers]

jsut starting watching Love/Hate based on recomendations here - tis very good, great charachters, very immersive. And yes Nidge - he is an absolute cunt. He even walks like a cunt. However - it is not on iplayer - I paid for sereis one on amazon. Sneaking suspicion it might be free on channel 4 or ITV though. (still - only cost about £6)

It's on ITV at the moment.

 

[Kaka Tim]

It's on ITV at the moment.

right urban owes me £6.00 for listing it in the iplayer thread.

 

[Elpenor]

Some archive interviews with screen icons being shown on BBC4

Scene by Scene - Lauren Bacall

In a rare interview, Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall speaks to Mark Cousins about her career, her marriage to Humphrey Bogart and her friendships with Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson.

www.bbc.co.uk

Recently it was Janet Leigh and this week it was Lauren Bacall

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

One of my favourite films of the last couple of years...

BBC Four - Decision to Leave

A detective's investigation leads him to a dead man's mysterious and beguiling widow.

www.bbc.co.uk

I can't really remember the specifics now, but went to see that at the cinema and have a general recollection that it was very good.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Just watched the first two episodes of “Nightsleeper”.

BBC One - Nightsleeper

Real-time thriller about the hacking of a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not sure it’s meant to be a comedy, but I haven’t laughed so much in ages.

 

[Chz]

It is just a touch ridiculous, isn't it?

 

[scifisam]

We're enjoying The Turkish Detective. Fairly standard crime procedural, but pretty well done - the older cop is very likeable.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It is just a touch ridiculous, isn't it?

The train geek part of me was creating a very long list of things

 

[Chz]

The train geek part of me was creating a very long list of things

My wife couldn't suspend disbelief when she saw the moquette on the "Gatwick Express". And she really isn't a train geek.

Eta: Even if she wasn't familiar with the GatEx livery, the fact that it changed externally between two clearly different trains (actual gatex 387 and a 321 with gatex vinyl) would have given up the game. That's laughably poor editing, irrespective of what the train should be.

 

[Spymaster]

Just watched the first two episodes of “Nightsleeper”.

BBC One - Nightsleeper

Real-time thriller about the hacking of a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not sure it’s meant to be a comedy, but I haven’t laughed so much in ages.

We watched the first part last night.

It's ultra-lightweight pap, and felt like a disaster thriller done by the people who brought us Death In Paradise, but it kept me engaged for the best part of an hour and I reckon it could be a bit of fun, so will watch another couple of episodes.

 

[Spymaster]

My wife couldn't suspend disbelief when she saw the moquette on the "Gatwick Express". And she really isn't a train geek.

Eta: Even if she wasn't familiar with the GatEx livery, the fact that it changed externally between two clearly different trains (actual gatex 387 and a 321 with gatex vinyl) would have given up the game. That's laughably poor editing, irrespective of what the train should be.

I'm actually rather pleased to say that I didn't notice that!

 

[Cerv]

in all my years I have never heard anyone refer to a "nightsleeper" train.
"Night train" yes; "sleeper train" yes. But not this clunky portmanteau.

this does seem like absolute guff. and I wish they'd stop with the constant trailers on the radio.

 

[danny la rouge]

I have no intention of watching this, lol. It seems like something I’d go and make a cup of tea during if it was a ten minute segment in a film. But a series? Thanks, but no.

 

[Spymaster]

Even if she wasn't familiar with the GatEx livery, the fact that it changed externally between two clearly different trains (actual gatex 387 and a 321 with gatex vinyl) would have given up the game.

in all my years I have never heard anyone refer to a "nightsleeper" train.
"Night train" yes; "sleeper train" yes. But not this clunky portmanteau.

There's nothing like the mention of trains to turn everyone into Roy Cropper!

 

[starfish2000]

Nightsleeper is utter crap. All this has convinced me is that the media is run by posh kids.

You’d be better off with my railway novel. About a train manager who kills a passenger by accident and gets promoted to a secret department that’s murdering passengers for profit. It’s far superior.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/martin-martin-and-the-death-express/sebastian-sullivan/9781739661007

 

[Chz]

Nightsleeper is utter crap. All this has convinced me is that the media is run by posh kids.

You’d be better off with my railway novel. About a train manager who kills a passenger by accident and gets promoted to a secret department that’s murdering passengers for profit. It’s far superior.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/martin-martin-and-the-death-express/sebastian-sullivan/9781739661007

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I've read it, and I rate it.

 

[Spymaster]

You’d be better off with my railway novel.

Did you write it?

 

[Santino]

What I'm enjoying about Nightsleeper is that it's a searing critique of railway deregulation disguised as a low-budget thriller.

 

[belboid]

I love how a 'lifestyle trends' blogger is taken even vaguely seriously as a journalist and not told to just fuck as far off as possible straight away.

And the fact that in the second ep someone is said to have 'Liz Trussed' their way into a job. Even tho its utterly meaningless.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Does Joe Cole have any facial expressions in other tv shows he has appeared on?

 

[sojourner]

We've started watching Pretty Little Liars, cos all the seasons are on iplayer. Decent fluff.

 

[Orang Utan]

Did you write it?

That’s what he said! ‘My railway novel’

 

[Spymaster]

That’s what he said! ‘My railway novel’

“A Bonkers Brilliant Surreal Joyride!”​

This book is so entertaining. It reminded me of an old Ealing comedy film remade by Guy Ritchie. It’s a proper caper.

Basically a shy retiring young railway employee is attacked by a violent drunk. But as he tries to escape him. The train lurches to the wrong angle and a gory accident occurs. Martin Martin is convinced he’ll go to jail for killing a passenger. Instead the book takes a surreal left turn.

Instead of going to jail. It turns out the railway has a secret department that’s killing off fare evaders. All because they can’t make their repayments to the government. At this point I was expecting a full leftie polemic. But instead I get a cast of fruity miscreants. A psychotic CEO who leads a gang of equally unhinged ticket inspectors. All armed with guns and falsified documents who gleefully murder a cast of dislikable characters in increasingly creative ways. Plus they take out a cabinet minister who’s threatening to renationalise them. The scene with the “strap on Queen” is straight out of Blott On The Landscape. But incredible fun.

In a nation where no one can afford to heat their home this winter. This is a fantastic satire on modern capitalism and our governments inability to protect us from morally irresponsible corporations. Yet it’s a page turning action packed caper from start to finish. I shall never look at the staff on trains in the same light ever again. Just in case the Special Collections Unit are watching me.

I just bought it.

 

[starfish2000]

Did you write it?

Yes. I’ve been on the railway for 22 years. So it’s both technically more accurate than Nightsleeper, plus it’s actually entertaining and enjoyable. Also it’s way way more action packed. I even consulted an ex Royal Marine to advise on the close quarter combat sequence.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

it’s both technically more accurate than Nightsleeper

Thomas the Tank Engine is more accurate

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I've been stuck in a hotel for a couple of nights and watched all of Nightsleeper. It really was 24 on a shoestring budget. I'd be shocked If they did more than 1 or 2 takes per scene. Some of those actors didn't even seem to be trying; just delivering the lines. The arrivals board at Victoria Station had more facial expressions than Joe Cole.

Yet, I kept watching it!!!!

 

[Spymaster]

Yes. I’ve been on the railway for 22 years. So it’s both technically more accurate than Nightsleeper, plus it’s actually entertaining and enjoyable. Also it’s way way more action packed. I even consulted an ex Royal Marine to advise on the close quarter combat sequence.

Yes. I read your bio somewhere yesterday with the picture of a cat!

Looking forward to reading the book.