Let's have a TV shows thread.

[ajthefox]

Been binging Colin from accounts at my parents as I'd heard lots of good things and I don't have a TV license at home.

 

Very funny. My kind of show.

[whoareyaaa]

Gavin and Stacey was class just watched it.

[Parafox]

22 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

Gavin and Stacey was class just watched it.

 

Highest viewing figures for any Christmas show for several years.

[Parafox]

Started to watch Bad Sisters. It seems a bit slow. Is it worth persevering with?

 

Ted Lasso, meh.

 

Day Of The Jackal, class.

 

I realise I'm a bit late to the party with these but we've decided to chuck some money at Apple+ Etc.

[leicsmac]

53 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Started to watch Bad Sisters. It seems a bit slow. Is it worth persevering with?

 

Ted Lasso, meh.

 

Day Of The Jackal, class.

 

I realise I'm a bit late to the party with these but we've decided to chuck some money at Apple+ Etc.

If you're on an Apple+ binge, The Silo, For All Mankind and Slow Horses all are greatly recommended.

[Dr Marco]

Gavin and Stacey was good! Glad it ended that way

[Will1981]

11 hours ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Not similar shows other than being Korean but try watching Bloodhounds or All of us are dead. Not started season 2 of Squid Game yet but I'll definitely be annoyed when I finish it that those two above haven't got second seasons out yet.

Alice in Borderland is pretty similar to squid game and very good.

[CWC1983]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

If you're on an Apple+ binge, The Silo, For All Mankind and Slow Horses all are greatly recommended.

I'd add Shrinking, Trying, Black bird, Bad Monkey, The Morning Show as well. 

 

Bad Sisters gets better. 

[RonnieTodger]

Agreed with consensus of BBC Christmas shows.

 

Gavin & Stacey really good

Wallace & Gromit excellent

Outnumbered was shite 

[Dunge]

6 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

Agreed with consensus of BBC Christmas shows.

 

Gavin & Stacey really good

Wallace & Gromit excellent

Outnumbered was shite 

I didn’t see Outnumbered. I wondered whether I’d be missing something.

It seems not?

[RonnieTodger]

34 minutes ago, Dunge said:

I didn’t see Outnumbered. I wondered whether I’d be missing something.

It seems not?

Nope, really poor. There weren’t many gags and the ones they did have were a bit shit.

 

I think the kids being adults made it dull. 

[Parafox]

44 minutes ago, Dunge said:

I didn’t see Outnumbered. I wondered whether I’d be missing something.

It seems not?

 

9 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Nope, really poor. There weren’t many gags and the ones they did have were a bit shit.

 

I think the kids being adults made it dull. 

 

I think the loss of the writing of Andy Hamilton and the semi-improv dialogue by the kids that was a feature of the original, has brought the show down. 

[ithuriel]

Thinking of buying the entire run on Bluray, used to watch the series as it aired back in the day, Brett was the best TV version of Holmes, this is a very well done version of the theme.

Brett....

 

Edited 30 December 2024 by ithuriel

[ozleicester]

5 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

 

I think the loss of the writing of Andy Hamilton and the semi-improv dialogue by the kids that was a feature of the original, has brought the show down. 

Didnt realise they had lost a writer, but that explains some of the lack of edge/humour... I also felt that they tried to fit too many stories in to a short time...felt like it was a 75 minute show in about 40?

[Free Falling Foxes]

14 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Didnt realise they had lost a writer, but that explains some of the lack of edge/humour... I also felt that they tried to fit too many stories in to a short time...felt like it was a 75 minute show in about 40?

Also some 'box ticking'

The eldest lad in a mixed race relationship and the daughter in a same sex relationship.

 

I think the original series merits were because of the script/improv and, of course, the quite extraordinary performances, considering their age, of the children.

[FoxesDeb]

4 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Also some 'box ticking'

The eldest lad in a mixed race relationship and the daughter in a same sex relationship.

Both these things are true in real life so I wouldn't call it 'box ticking'

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Also some 'box ticking'

The eldest lad in a mixed race relationship and the daughter in a same sex relationship.

 

The actors that play the roles have those exact relationship circumstances in real life, swing and a miss here pal

 

EDIT @FoxesDeb got here before me  

Edited 30 December 2024 by Miquel The Work Geordie

[Free Falling Foxes]

3 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

Both these things are true in real life so I wouldn't call it 'box ticking'

 

55 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

The actors that play the roles have those exact relationship circumstances in real life, swing and a miss here pal

 

EDIT @FoxesDeb got here before me  

As this is a TV related thread, I believe a great deal of 'box ticking' and quotas (not phrases I've created) does occur in TV land.

I'll preface the rest of my reply firstly though, by stating I have absolutely no problems at all with mixed race and same sex relationships. Indeed, I have close friends and dear colleagues who are in such relationships. The absolute main thing is that they are devoted and loving to each other.

 

I wasn't 'Swinging and missing' at anything, other than the portrayal on TV and films.

 

It is an absolute fact that, at this moment in time, a vast, vast  majority of relationships in life, are not mixed race and are also hetrosexual.

But in TV land, this is flipped on its head for some reason. Why?

 

With regard to the characters in Outnumbered having such relationships in the real world, then that is fine of course, but why was it felt that story needed to be included?

As @ozleicestermentioned previously, they seemed to try and cram too much into a short show.

Edited 30 December 2024 by Free Falling Foxes

[FoxesDeb]

24 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

 

As this is a TV related thread, I believe a great deal of 'box ticking' and quotas (not phrases I've created) does occur in TV land.

I'll preface the rest of my reply firstly though, by stating I have absolutely no problems at all with mixed race and same sex relationships. Indeed, I have close friends and dear colleagues who are in such relationships. The absolute main thing is that they are devoted and loving to each other.

 

I wasn't 'Swinging and missing' at anything, other than the portrayal on TV and films.

 

It is an absolute fact that, at this moment in time, a vast, vast  majority of relationships in life, are not mixed race and are also hetrosexual.

But in TV land, this is flipped on its head for some reason. Why?

 

With regard to the characters in Outnumbered having such relationships in the real world, then that is fine of course, but why was it felt that story needed to be included?

As @ozleicestermentioned previously, they seemed to try and cram too much into a short show.

Why would it not be included in the TV programme, when it is quite literally an exact representation of their lives in real life?

 

You call it box ticking, I call it inclusivity.

 

I'm not really sure I understand why anyone would question it tbh, or equally why it would bother you?

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Don’t mean to sound like a bigot and I’m a white man who has a child with a black woman myself but when was the last time you saw an advert where a family in it wasn’t all the colours of the rainbow? It’s a bit weird it’s like higher ups are scared to have a same race relationship.

[Mike Oxlong]

The world's gone mad !  They'll be having women football pundits next 

[Foxdiamond]

19 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

Don’t mean to sound like a bigot and I’m a white man who has a child with a black woman myself but when was the last time you saw an advert where a family in it wasn’t all the colours of the rainbow? It’s a bit weird it’s like higher ups are scared to have a same race relationship.

One of problems is that as soon as someone raises the point for discussion regarding accurate representation of UK society now or in the past it is easy to suggest bigotry without knowing the person.

[ithuriel]

40 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

Don’t mean to sound like a bigot and I’m a white man who has a child with a black woman myself but when was the last time you saw an advert where a family in it wasn’t all the colours of the rainbow? It’s a bit weird it’s like higher ups are scared to have a same race relationship.

Saw an ad once where there was a white and black parent with a south east asian child,  must have been adopted or she was cheating on him was what my mind went to, what the ad was for, who knows 

Edited 30 December 2024 by ithuriel

[ajthefox]

I've just started on Ted Lasso, very meh a few episodes in. When does it get good?

[The Bear]

22 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

I've just started on Ted Lasso, very meh a few episodes in. When does it get good?

Believe.