Been enjoying the uncomplicated fun of 'Gentleman Jack'. For two episodes I was sure the lead was played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag). Her resemblance to Suranne Jones is uncanny. So much so that I thought it rather vulgar that Jones, in her role as Anne Lister, also winks at and speaks to the camera ocassionally, breaking the 4th wall. Turns out it isn't Waller-Bridge at all.. Regardless, it's good.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 June 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005mr0/episodes/player
"New Weird BritainMusic Journalist John Doran seeks out a new wave of radical music being made in the margins of Britain."
would've been nice on tv, i guess, but this was radio4. nothing new to listeners of Freak Zone or Late Junction but nice to see this stuff on radio 4 on a monday afternoon.
the one thing someone (Jennifer Walshe) said in episode 4 has stayed with me. "Online used to be an escape from the real world. But now the real world is the escape from online"
― koogs, Friday, 28 June 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007737 (BBC2 21:00 27 July 2019)
"Hip hop legend and art lover Fab 5 Freddy saddles up to explore 15th-century Italian renaissance art in 15th-century style – on horseback."
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Ysqw6ltYbd6FWLSXNOykcAHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
The Fab 5 Freddy thing was both good fun and very interesting. More of this.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
(he popped up on imagine (iirc*) as well, that same weekend) was an interesting, slightly different take at the art of the period.
(* there was something on about cindi sherman, might've been that. the other alternative was the thing about the new tate show by the Olafur Eliasson guy)
as mentioned elsewhere, the george clark thing on council houses was v watchable.
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
and the deller thing about rave culture / riots
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
There's a documentary about Bruce Chatwin made by Werner Herzog on iPlayer. Nomad, it's called.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Saturday, 21 September 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
yeah i was gonna watch this on broadcast last night but decided to go to sleep cos iplayer exists, looks good tho
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 September 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
howtf is 4od still not HD ? it's 2019
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Sunday, 13 October 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
mate they're still using flash.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Sunday, 13 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
The original series of The Demon Headmaster is on iPlayer just now if you fancy a wander down memory lane before the reboot airs
― boxedjoy, Monday, 14 October 2019 07:45 (four years ago) link
anyone else watching giri/haji? really liked the 3 episodes so far though the ending of episode 3 strains credibility beyond breaking point. the lead actor/character is dull but the supporting ones are great. love the pre-episode recaps as well.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 8 November 2019 07:52 (four years ago) link
Giri/Haji should be total catnip to me - stylish Japanese/London police gangster drama with lots of dry humour. But yeah the lead guy is lacking spark or something.
― kinder, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Gold Digger is good for four episodes then another one of those annoying/frustrating wastes of time that move the goalposts off the playing field.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 15 November 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bh0n
Greg Davis looks back at Kes.
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
warning: contains Greg Davies
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
8(
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
There's a new show started on CH4 tonight called My Grandparent's War where actors talk about their ancestors' war experiences, obv. The four actors chosen are: Helena Bonham-Carter, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Mark Rylance and Carey Mulligan. Does anyone else see a problem here? In related news, Christopher Eccleston's episode of Who Do You Think You Are was, allegedly, dropped because the researchers thought his working-class background was not interesting enough.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
This country is actually making me feel ill.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Yeah I was rolling my eyes at the trailer for that one
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Surprised at Rylance for playing along with this horseshit tbh
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Rylance is a Shakespeare-didn't-write-Shakespeare nutter, would fall for any old horseshit
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 November 2019 04:43 (four years ago) link
biker gang in worzel gummidge was top drawer
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah the first episode was competent and good in places but the second knocked it out of the park. I'm still chuckling at "leather milk balloon".
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
he didn't know and didn't watch the Pertwee version before he'd finished shooting and it has a very different feel.
unthanks on music duties too, which came out of him asking to use magpie song on detectorists
― koogs, Sunday, 29 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Sounds:
<3 these Stand Up For The Classics that have all just been made into podcasts (meaning they won't expire for over a year)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077x8pc/episodes/guide
― koogs, Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
🚨 🚨 "NEW PRINT" OF ANDREI RUBLEV ON FILM 4 TONIGHT 🚨 🚨
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000gwzd/how-to-make-series-1-1-the-trainer
this was great, felt like old-school science tv, somehow, like Tomorrow's World. she knows her stuff and is enthusiastic. nice to see behind the scenes at UAL in Granary Square too (given that there probably won't be a degree show this year)
― koogs, Friday, 3 April 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
The adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People is incredibly intense and moving. I don't think I've seen anything this deeply felt from the BBC for a long time.It's actually unlike anything I've seen on TV - I have to keep pausing because I'm feeling quite emotionally overwhelmed although I'm feeling that a lot anyway rn. It's a BBC3 co-production with hulu but fate has found it on BBC1 - I assume this was a last-minute programming decision because other series' have not been completed due to we know what. It's probably the least BBC1 thing imaginable but is available in full on the iPlayer. I'm on episode three and haven't read the book so please, no spoilers.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 30 April 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
I think the lead time is such that there's enough TV for now, especially drama stuff, but the problem is that nothing is being filmed and that'll lead to problems later. Outside of drama, a friend went to the filming of Christmas QI in October, suggesting the lead time there is a couple of months. But Robin Ince has said that he had to sit on his Celeb Pointless win for over a year before it was broadcast.
The bbc3 on bbc1 slot has been a thing lately. This Country recently. There is plenty more that didn't get a traditional airing, not all of it good.
― koogs, Thursday, 30 April 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
There's been lots of decent Art on TV recently too. Bbc4 have been going around museums that are on lockdown giving you a peep at, say, the Warhol at the Tate modern that nobody will get to see.
The Basquiat documentary had a repeat last week. There was another about the us art market that had some nice things in it even if the focus was all wrong.
Highlight for me, though, was Grayson Perry just pottering(!) around at home with Philippa, talking to the odd celeb artist on zoom (lycett, lemon), just generally chilling.
― koogs, Thursday, 30 April 2020 06:12 (four years ago) link
Started Giri/Haji. Took an episode to realise that the rent boy is the one who wrote Flowers.
― koogs, Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
Apparently Normal People is the most watched programme on iplayer ever at this point. I must say that by the time I finished it I didn't like it any more for reasons I don't realy care to go into atm. Not personal reasons really, I'm glad that it has had the impact that it has because it's so unique and its success is so unexpected.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
wait, it's the most requested (whatever that means) BBC3 thing not the most-watched thing on the platform.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
i think that honour still belongs to rupaul’s drag race
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
:)
I probably liked both equally.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
This is great. BBC iPlayer has announced plans to bring 23 classic RKO films to the service on 18 May.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Anyone catch Brookers 'Antiviral Wipe' last night? I was most pleased he hadn't forgotten about BoJo's 350m Magic Bus
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 May 2020 07:55 (four years ago) link
i enjoyed DEVS, (8 x 45m) which is still on iplayer.
i'm refusing to go back to the office until they make us a mag-lev Menger sponge to work in (the vacuum aspect is probably too fiddly though - no toilets?)
― koogs, Friday, 15 May 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
also finished Giri / Haji mentioned above and that was great, all sorts of everything in there, including comtemporary dance.
those two and Normal People make it feel like a purple patch for tv at the mo.
― koogs, Friday, 15 May 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
A thread for Devs, the new Alex Garland show on FX/HBO (with SPOILERS) in case you have thoughts
― coptic feels (seandalai), Friday, 15 May 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
The Windrush Scandal drama on BBC1 tonight was very good. It's called Sitting in Limbo.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 8 June 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
I finally went in on I May Destroy You and holy fuck. Best show I've seen in a long time.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
That show is very confused, imo but there are enough great things in it to keep me watching. I may expand once I've seen this week's episodes.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
fwiw, I think the great things are very admirable and the things that I consider to be bad are very confusing, personally. Morally, it seems incredibly weird, at times, but I'm willing to accept that that's part of a greater pattern that is yet to be revealed.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
BBC4 seems to be having a black history month all of its own. Which means I get to see The Long Song which I missed at the time.
Also enjoyed the Keith Haring thing on bbc2 recently.
― koogs, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
jed I'd be v interested to hear about the things you think are bad. I'll admit there's a lot of the milieu that I'm just kind of taking on faith.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 07:47 (three years ago) link
just got aound to watching 'trigonometry' which i'm really enjoying. unless the charcters take a sudden heel turn over the last couple of episodes it's just been nice watching a series where most of the characters are really nice.
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 9 July 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
Searching For Shergar is back on for a month, FYI
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 6 September 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
(Missions, that is)
― kinder, Monday, 23 August 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUEcS6B1OQ
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 23 August 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
That was just recommended to me too. worth starting at the start?It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 06:32 (two years ago) link
(the second series felt a bit wooly to me) (Missions, that is)
I'd have gone for 'bonkers' but yeah it's not hard sf. Given that the revelation in the first series was in blatant contradiction of everything we know about genetics and the fossil record, it was probably to be expected. Some cracking moments though, and some very silly ones. Especially why they didn't just shoot Alice again when she was tied up on the ground.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Thursday, 2 September 2021 08:02 (two years ago) link
Just started it and was enjoying the Lost-ness of it (up to a point) and was joking about the lottery numbers just before they did! That one guy keeps reminding me of Will Self.
― kinder, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
Is this thread the only mention of Unforgotten on this board? Hadn't heard much about it but I quite liked it for a police procedural. I wouldn't say there's a lot to distinguish it, but the pacing and execution was on-point
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
I watched all of them not that long ago. There's something quite soothing about the neatly parcelled-out clues coming to light and guessing who dun what. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.I'd say it's more character-driven than your average procedural.
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Yeah, we hadn't watched it at the time, but rattled through them all on Netflix and ITV player a few weeks ago. Very likeable.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
That's a good point, kinder, about it being more character-driven than similar shows. It's funny because in S1 the few moments where they focus on Cass's personal life felt distracting to the main story, but by S4, I was as invested in her personal life as I was the case!
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
I've watched 2 episodes of Hollington Drive and it's so awful, it's mildly reminiscent of The Room (the Tommy Wiseau one)
― kinder, Sunday, 10 October 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Showtrial is very well put together, particularly if you're into the process side of things. More straightforward but better written than Vigil.After the execrable Hollington Drive and duuuullll as ditchwater The Long Call it was v welcome.(I've been burnt twice by trying ITV drama - is the Tower any good, anyone?)
― kinder, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
New thread for '22 here
iPlayer 2022 (and All4 etc etc)
― koogs, Thursday, 6 January 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that all the shows that run on iTV in 2021 are nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link