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Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: wighty on September 21, 2020, 19:24
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I don't 'do' soaps or football. Everything just seems to be a repeat of what we watched six months ago. I know they've had problems filming new stuff but surely there must be some other stuff in their back catalogue that they could put on. The films were only shown recently. I now have the radio on a lot more than I used to.
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Yes, I agree with you, I seem to be watching dvds I bought years ago, rather than anything on TV ::)
Mind you they are rerunning Inspector George Gently, which I loved first time around..
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Obviously big problems creating new programmes this year. :(
If you have internet access Wighty, there is a huge back catalogue of material available online now going back far longer than 6 months via the respective TV apps (there has to be something there you either missed first time round or would love to watch again...)
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Quizzy Mondays are back :D
Only Connect started a new series this evening, followed by Uni Challenge. I love having absolutely no idea about any of the answers :lol:
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Aaaaah, but don't forget that it takes nearly 60,000 licence fees to pay just 33 bods at the BBC for a year!
That money could have been used to make some decent progs, they had to make some cuts...
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Yorkie I know the feeling, although we did manage to get two correct answers in Only Connect last night, more than the entire previous series.
Lack of decent TV not been too much of a problem so far but now evenings are closing in its a different story. Have a NOW stick which has given access to quite a lot. Just starting a rerun of Death in Paradise.
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I know all of Mon.Poirot's dialogue inside out. !! Vet programmes, life on farms, something actually funny would be nice. I only have basic tv and basic freeview, but when I look at what I am missing on all the others, I don't think I am missing much. Like Wighty, no soaps, no football, and no effing and blinding - difficult.
What exactly did I pay my licence for :unsure: :unsure: Mrs Bouquet
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Mrs Bouquet, we pay our licence to support poor impoverished celebrities.
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We have Netflix and Prime always something to watch :D
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I'll probably get modded for this, but Mrs Growster and I are fed up to the back teeth with the dross which is churned up by the BBC these days.
We're probably going to cancel our TV tax soon, as we never watch the stuff, and prefer to see DVDs of great programmes that we've loved over the years - some even by the BBC, but nowadays, the progs they're doing are just unwatchable as far as we're concerned!
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Watching Bake off at the moment. Also like another slice which is on on Friday, but otherwise???
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We’ve recently watched the new series of Strike that was good, I also watched bake-off last night & just because it was Sandi Toksvig on after wards carried on to watch Write Offs (I think that was what it was called) that was excellent, very interesting & very moving & I’ll be watching the next episode either when it is aired or will stream it tonight. It was about 8 adults of varying ages who had difficulty reading. Life is so difficult in so many ways. Well worth a watch even if it’s not ‘your thing’. I was in the education/care provision for 40 years & had never really considered how it might fully impact on someone’s lives. Sandi’s son was severely dyslexic & hence I suppose why she got involved, our son was diagnosed as dyslexic at last year of junior school after I’d been telling them there was a discrepancy in his reading & his intelligence since he began learning to read. Luckily he did learn but still has difficulties but is a very skilled engineer, so it’s not down to lack of intelligence.
Have I sold it to you yet lol :lol:
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The Talking Pictures channel is very good for people of a certain age.
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We’ve recently watched the new series of Strike that was good,
Yes, I forgot about Strike, that was excellent and I've also been watching the Diagnosis Detectives and George Clarke's National Trust Unlocked...
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If you have Amazon Prime, it is well worth looking at the Fire Stick. You get Prime TV, which has hundreds of series and films. It is a one-off cost and plugs into the back of your TV. I think you can use it without Prime, but that opens up lots of extras.
Netflix is also pretty good, but you do have to pay extra for the apps that let you stream the shows.
It might be worth investigating sooner rather than later, if you would want someone round to help you set it up. We set it up for my mum a while back, before the pandemic. She only had basic TV and Freeview before that. It has such a boon for her while shielding. and she found lots of stuff she really enjoyed.
I only watch the BBC if OH has it on for the news or the breakfast show, but I have a tolerance level of about 5 minutes before I get sick of the bias and blame game and go and find something else to do ::)
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We have a similar piece of kit to a Firestick - a Chromecast plug-in, which does something similar via our iPads!
As long as the signal stays awake, we often watch old faves like 'Not the nine o'clock news', and if I'm in there by myself, a damned good live concert by 'Pink Floyd', or 'Yes' - all via YouTube!
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Stardate Saturday night - BBC1 happened to be on while I cleaned out the aquarium.
So, prime time viewing was 'The Hit List' (minus a significant leading consonant between R and T!) :ohmy:
The recordings on my Youview box will be my friend for the rest of the evening! ;)
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I’m ok at the moment because I enjoy a bit of cricket, tennis and snooker. So at present I am having a bit of trouble getting my rear off my chair. :lol:
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We watched an Australian crime series on Iplayer, Mystery Road, which was reasonable. Currently started Ratched on Netflix - an everyday story of psychopaths. Not sure about it.
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started Ratched on Netflix
Mind Hunters on Netflix is good. It is about the early days of profiling in the FBI and is a sort of prequel of Criminal Minds. I also enjoyed Messiah. It has enough is he/isn't he about it to keep you guessing. I'm currently on season 2 of Justified on Prime which is about a maverick sheriff in Kentucky. Has some wickedly funny red neck dialogue, plus plenty of conventional cop show action, but with a twist :D
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We bought the full set of Bergerac DVDs recently, and started them a couple of nights ago.
The first scenes seemed a bit 'slow', but the story was strong enough to build up into a good mystery, and we both realised several reasons why - no mobiles, no mention of politics or current nasties, plenty of good photography, and some decent acting from several good names! Everything about it made for a relaxing and rewarding programme.
Seeing that the box set has nine series, I suppose it's proof that they got it about right back then (this is 1981 after all), and new writers could learn a thing or two about what citizens actually want to watch rather than just tick boxes and chuck any old tosh around!
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Ghosts season 2, season 1 on BBC i player
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Sci-fi fans - The Expanse on Amazon Prime is brilliant. A cross between Star Trek and Firefly (sadly killed off too early), thoughtful with real characters.
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Big thumbs up for The Expanse from Mrs P1P!
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Can't remember if I mentioned it earlier, but All Creatures Great and Small is an absolute delight. Channel 5 on Tuesday evenings or repeated on Sundays :D
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If you don't mind reading subtitles there are loads of really good series on Walter Presents on All4. Some only run to 6 episodes and others have up to three series of programmes. I used to think that Swedish and Norwegian programmes were very dark and dismal, but they have some great series out. Among the many that I've watched over recent weeks are The Lawyer, Moscow Noir, Thou Shalt Not Kill, The Other Mother, Inspector Cain, The Adulterer and quite a few more.
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As I have tinnitus, sub-titles are really useful even on the English programmes!
There's some great foreign crime dramas on Netflix too - Signs from Poland, Braco from France and a Finnish series called Bordertown was very good. A political drama from Norway called Occupy is brilliant.
One off-beat series from Norway is Lillyhammer about a Mafia boss from New York moving to rural Norway. When he ends up in a Norwegian prison at one point it's hysterical. The guard asks if he's happy with his cell and he sarcastically complains about the curtains. They change them!
A blast from the past is Black Books (on Netflix, possibly All4 too) - so funny I've ended up with tears of laughter in some episodes. Bit Marmite - you'll either love it or hate it.
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Aaaaah, but don't forget that it takes nearly 60,000 licence fees to pay just 33 bods at the BBC for a year!
That money could have been used to make some decent progs, they had to make some cuts...
Have you factored in Mr Lineker's pay packet?
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Have you factored in Mr Lineker's pay packet?
I thought he worked for crisps :D
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Have you factored in Mr Lineker's pay packet?
I thought he worked for crisps :D
Ha ha ha!
As a mattererfack, we tend not to have Walker's stuff at 'The Turrets!
As Wolfie Smith would say, 'Power to the people'!...:0)
(Two things - was Wolfie any member of the real Smith's crisp company! He once said that he was an agent for MI5, and his landlady mentioned that they got their sideboard from them...)!
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Have you factored in Mr Lineker's pay packet?
I thought he worked for crisps :D
IMO he ought to work for peanuts. ::) Mrs Bouquet
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Last evening I watched the 3rd episode of "US". It makes me feel so anxious and unsettled that I have to watch a pre-recorded Bargain Hunt. ::) ::) Mrs B
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Ooooooo next Monday, a short. Series of Who Do You Think You Are is starting. I really enjoy that programme.
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Have you factored in Mr Lineker's pay packet?
I thought he worked for crisps :D
IMO he ought to work for peanuts. ::) Mrs Bouquet
:lol: :lol: :lol: that really made me laugh Mrs B, very good
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Being of a certain age, if we'd even learned that Robert Dougal, or Kenneth Kendall had a whiff of scandal around them, my lovely parents, and - I suppose us little kids - would have been horrified!
We relied on the BBC back then, but not now.
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Have you factored in Mr Lineker's pay packet?
I thought he worked for crisps :D
IMO he ought to work for peanuts. ::) Mrs Bouquet
Post of the year Mrs B. :D
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Great laugh from a YouTube of 'Smack the pony'!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8aIt-CmDaI&ab_channel=johann10000 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8aIt-CmDaI&ab_channel=johann10000)
It really is much more fun seeing good programmes on outlets like this, you can choose exactly what you want to see, and if I want to watch Pink Floyd, and Mrs Growster doesn't, there are always earphones!
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I'm with Mrs growster on that one ;)
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I'm with Mrs growster on that one ;)
Ha ha ha!
A while back I was also slated for not liking their earlier stuff, but as mentioned then, there wasn't the cash around for such luxuries, so I never bothered!
Caught up much later though...
;0~
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Last night I watched a programme about Agatha Christie, selling her manuscript. It was so boring and the adverts ran for more than the programme itself. It was like watching paint dry ::) Mrs Bouquet
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Have you seen "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet"? A very interesting documentary.
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Have you seen "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet"? A very interesting documentary.
He's a National Treasure! :) - actually a Global Treasure..
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They said a new series of Montalbano was starting, so I set the Sky box to record it :)
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This was gentle and thought provoking, about farming and soil..
and worth a watch if you can still use BBC's iplayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000n9hg/hardtalk-james-rebanks-shepherd-and-author
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Enjoyed a Sci-fi film on Amazon yesterday - Predestination - it's based on R A Heinlein's short story 'All you zombies'. It was actually faithful to the original story which is quite complex but fascinating. Even when you know the final plot twists and reveals, it's still very watchable.
This was gentle and thought provoking, about farming and soil..
and worth a watch if you can still use BBC's iplayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000n9hg/hardtalk-james-rebanks-shepherd-and-author
Have licence - will give it a go, thanks :)
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They said a new series of Montalbano was starting, so I set the Sky box to record it :)
I missed the start of the programme on Saturday evening, but caught up mid-flow. Fabio was always so youthful, he's the one who is now showing the years more than the others, I think!
But the essence is still there :D
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Watched Montalbano last night. At first I thought it was a'new' Fabio. Thoroughly enjoyed it though.
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I missed the start of the programme on Saturday evening, but caught up mid-flow. Fabio was always so youthful, he's the one who is now showing the years more than the others, I think!
But the essence is still there :D
I know, but considering the first programme was made in 1999, when he was in his late 30s I think it's expected that Luca Zingaretti would show his age a bit, sad as that is .. :lol: :lol:
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Will you girls stop objectifying this Luca Zingaretti. Terrible!!! :tongue2:
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Used to like it when they showed him swimming
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Right, that's it! Go and take a cold shower immediately! Now! I mean it!
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Just had a large glass of well chilled white wine, nicer than a cold shower.
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I think I shall have to have a look at him now! Still have dreams about Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy coming out of the lake in Pride and Prejudice. Please forgive me, I may be in that cold shower for a very long time! :)
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I'll leave you girls to calm down and watch an uplifting tale of zombie folk on Now TV. The Walking Dead S10 finale :ohmy:
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Used to like it when they showed him swimming
Yes, me to. :) :) Mrs B