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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #325 on: September 15, 2024, 07:10:46 PM »
I started watching Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix, but since it has now been cancelled (due to issues regarding Neil Gaiman) I can't see it's worth continuing.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #326 on: September 15, 2024, 07:17:05 PM »
I started watching Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix, but since it has now been cancelled (due to issues regarding Neil Gaiman) I can't see it's worth continuing.
I suspect no Good Omens 3 on the allegations of sexual assault against Neil Gaiman either. I do find the allegations seem to being downplayed as opposed to those against Weinstein.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #327 on: September 18, 2024, 11:12:28 AM »
Watching Nightsleeper on BBC.

Totally unbelievable and yet I can't stop watching.

Excellent fun.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #328 on: September 18, 2024, 11:22:54 AM »
Watching Nightsleeper on BBC.

Totally unbelievable and yet I can't stop watching.

Excellent fun.

We watched it for about 15 minutes, NO THANKS.

We are watching, 'Saving lives in Cardiff', which is more to our taste.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #329 on: September 18, 2024, 06:50:09 PM »
Watching Nightsleeper on BBC.

Totally unbelievable and yet I can't stop watching.

Excellent fun.

Agree. Just watching episode 4, classic line from one of the characters: "how am I going to even know when the drugs have worn off, when things like this keep happening?"
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #330 on: September 21, 2024, 03:04:32 PM »
Die Hard With A Vengeance pops up on TV in Portugal so you have to watch - the concept of Jeremy Irons and Alan Rickman being German brothers is so fabulous.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #331 on: September 21, 2024, 03:50:56 PM »
We watched a film from 2012 called "The Scapegoat" on Netflix last night. It is an adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier story which has been filmed before. It is about two men who are identical, one of whom ends up assuming the identity of the other.

It is very nicely done and stars Matthew Rhys, Eileen Atkins and Andrew Scott - to name but a few venerable actors.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #332 on: September 21, 2024, 03:59:39 PM »
We watched a film from 2012 called "The Scapegoat" on Netflix last night. It is an adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier story which has been filmed before. It is about two men who are identical, one of whom ends up assuming the identity of the other.

It is very nicely done and stars Matthew Rhys, Eileen Atkins and Andrew Scott - to name but a few venerable actors.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will look out for when back in UK. I do love Andrew Scott's acting.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #333 on: October 10, 2024, 08:10:42 PM »
Threads on iPlayer. Not cheery but very good


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02kgkkg/threads

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #334 on: October 15, 2024, 03:15:13 PM »
Watched 'Don't Look Up' on Netflix last night: brilliant combination of apocalyptic disaster film and political satire, with Meryl Streep, Len DiCaprio, Mark Rylance etc. A comet the size of Mt Everest is due to land in the Pacific, in what will be a "planet-killing" event.
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« Reply #335 on: October 17, 2024, 09:50:08 PM »
Just discovered that there's an Aussie version of 'The Office', so I've started watching it on Amazon Prime. The David Brent character is Hannah Howard, played by Felicity Ward.
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« Reply #336 on: October 18, 2024, 09:06:28 AM »
Watched Deadpool and Wolverine at the cinema yesterday. Thought it was a fun film. All the Deadpool films have been good. As a bonus Electra (Jennifer Garner) is in it, albeit briefly.
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« Reply #337 on: October 18, 2024, 05:12:43 PM »
Watching Nightsleeper on BBC.

Totally unbelievable and yet I can't stop watching.

Excellent fun.
Couldn't put it better myself. Loved it.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #338 on: October 18, 2024, 08:50:25 PM »
Just finished watching Ludwig on IPlayer - enjoyed it: a bit daft but great fun nonetheless.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0022wvz/ludwig?seriesId=m0022ww2

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« Reply #339 on: October 20, 2024, 05:58:17 AM »
I loved Ludwig. I hope there will be more of it/him.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #340 on: October 22, 2024, 04:07:09 PM »
I stayed away from the Shakespeare: Rise of A Genius at the time but it's not bad at all. It doesn't really do anything new but it has some great performances.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0gjkv0t/shakespeare-rise-of-a-genius

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #341 on: October 22, 2024, 05:02:30 PM »
And following on from that I ended up at Welles, Wheldon, and O'Toole talking about Hamlet


https://youtu.be/smMa38CZCSU?si=Y1Qf7rWSIGi5VC-d

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #342 on: October 23, 2024, 07:10:00 PM »
I loved Ludwig. I hope there will be more of it/him.
Just finished it, enjoyed it. I think given its success in the ratings, there is definitely going to more.


https://tellymix.co.uk/uktv-viewing-figures-30sept-6oct/

Just wondering given that it takes place in Csmbridge where Professor T is also set whether the 2 consultants could have a crossover
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #343 on: October 24, 2024, 12:57:43 PM »
Couple of plays by Peter McDougall  set in and around his and my hometown of Greenock made in the 70s.

Elephant's Graveyard is the less bleak of the 2 but I prefer Just A Boy's Game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001fgz4/play-for-today-series-7-the-elephants-graveyard


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p032kjg0/play-for-today-series-10-just-a-boys-game


And there's a short documentary interview with McDougall on his memory of making the Elephant's Graveyard


https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024983/peter-mcdougall-remembers-the-elephants-graveyard
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #344 on: October 25, 2024, 12:40:38 PM »
Thanks for the recommendation. Will look out for when back in UK. I do love Andrew Scott's acting.

If you like Andrew Scott have you caught Ripley on Netflix?

It has been very good so far (three episodes). However, I do feel that maybe Scott is a wee bit too old for the part, although I don't think an age is stated for Ripley in the first book. I had just imagined him younger. Shot in B&W, it is very atmospheric and filmed on location in a beautiful part of Italy.

I also binged Ludwig. As everyone else has said, I found it very enjoyable. However, every so often, I did catch myself thinking, will this go the same way as Death in Paradise, with repeat murders solved in a supposedly ingenious way? Time will tell, I guess. The cast were all very good, and I liked it a lot.
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« Reply #345 on: October 25, 2024, 01:27:37 PM »
If you like Andrew Scott have you caught Ripley on Netflix?

It has been very good so far (three episodes). However, I do feel that maybe Scott is a wee bit too old for the part, although I don't think an age is stated for Ripley in the first book. I had just imagined him younger. Shot in B&W, it is very atmospheric and filmed on location in a beautiful part of Italy.

I also binged Ludwig. As everyone else has said, I found it very enjoyable. However, every so often, I did catch myself thinking, will this go the same way as Death in Paradise, with repeat murders solved in a supposedly ingenious way? Time will tell, I guess. The cast were all very good, and I liked it a lot.
I watch Death In Paradise for the sun and the music.

Haven't caught up.with Ripley, and I would agree Andrew Scott is too old. I'm not sure I've ever thought any of the adaptations work fully but Plein Soleil with Alain Delon felt the closest. In part that's because Delon was the age I had Ripley in my head.


I liked the use of a back story in Ludwig which meant that the murder puzzles were less central. Not sure how that will work with the change in circumstances. Part of my mentioning Professor T is that It's a little difficult to separate out the murders in my head as needing the characters.. it's also odd that Ben Miller moved on from playing an odd policeman in DiP to an odd police consultant in Professor T.

I did at one point in the midst of all of it bewail the lack of ordinary detectives but I think that is what Midsomer Murders is for.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #346 on: October 30, 2024, 07:59:33 PM »
Just finished a 'rewatch' of the series Supernatural. I put rewatch in quotes because I hadn't seen much of the last 3 series for a variety of reasons. It should have ended after 5 series on the original plan, and I think that would have been best but the extension to 15 allowed it to become very meta, even more than it had been.
 
 

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #347 on: October 31, 2024, 07:40:31 PM »

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« Reply #348 on: November 01, 2024, 06:56:10 AM »
Excellent news about Ludwig!

I've seen good reports for series 2 of 'The Diplomat' on Netflix - apparently Rory Kinnear plays the UK Prime Minister with a nod toward Boris the Liar.

I haven't seen series 1 yet - wondered if anyone here had.

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« Reply #349 on: November 01, 2024, 08:33:59 AM »
Excellent news about Ludwig!

I've seen good reports for series 2 of 'The Diplomat' on Netflix - apparently Rory Kinnear plays the UK Prime Minister with a nod toward Boris the Liar.

I haven't seen series 1 yet - wondered if anyone here had.

I watched it, it was very good but a little cold, perhaps a bit too pleased with itself. Dinner is excellent in it as he pretty well always is.