Ssshh…Finishing tomorrow ‘live’
I’m cheating here a bit because this ISN’T on TV, though it can be tracked down in French on YouTube.
Judging by the annual this must be 50 years ago. What a series that was! My brother and I watched it as kids. I still remember some of the plots. We watched it for the Mirages and this post was triggered by a picture my sister sent me of a Mirage on static display, on her way through France towards the mountains. She would watch it for Jacques Santi.
We saw the over-dubbed version on the BBC with a Rick Jones theme tune rather than Johnny Halliday. The Aeronauts as opposed to Les Chevaliers du Ciel. These days I try and follow the French language versions that have been posted.
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Departure.
Total hokum but an acceptable piece of escapism of an evening.
steve
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Absolutely loved the book but couldn’t take to the TV version. Perhaps I should give it another try
Second series of Invasion on Apple TV. The gloomy cinematography, even outside, is irritating.
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After watching The Woman in the wall ep.1 last night, which was really rather good, I did a bit of internet research into The Laundries.
It is unbelievably shocking stuff and I can’t say here what I really think about the ‘organisations’ behind these for fear of censure but dare I say it only reaffirms my belief about how these shelter behind collective righteousness to carry out their atrocities. The last laundry only closed in 1996 ffs!!
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As a huge fan of the books, I really hope they don’t mess this up. The teaser looks promising.
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Haven’t quite figured out why the pilots were parading around in their white shirts and pristine underpants in Episode One of those uploaded videos!
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This was probably key to gaining my sister’s viewership back in the day!
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I can recommend Lupin on Netflix; it’s a French crime caper.
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The original Thunderbirds on Talking Pictures TV at 3pm Saturdays. One for kids of all ages 
Warning – the YT clip is for this week’s coming episode.
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I won’t be able to sleep tonight now.
Added dimension to Minder repeats when they add a signer in the corner who attempts to deal with some of the colourful prose 
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Yellowstone was one of the things I was interested in seeing.
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Well having watched 5 or 6 episodes of Season 1 I’m not at all sure it’s what I was expecting, it’s good but rather dark.
For some reason started watching the 1883 prequel last night - now that’s brilliant and right up my street. It even has Virgil from Tombstone in it!
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Watched the 1st episode of The Long Shadow. Very well acted/directed/produced, so it’s a good start. Toby Jones is a bit… usual Toby Jonesish, but he’s fine.
Before seeing it, I saw headlines of MailOnline complaining about the poor sound. Loads of comments about poor low speech and loud background noise, so I was quite interested to see what they’re all talking about. I didn’t have any problems at all. I wrote a while ago about how taking the sound from the analogue out of the tv gave a much more smoother natural sound and the background street noises went into the…er, background.
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BBC4 ‘Black Snow’ set inland of the Gold Coast is pretty good.
G
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I haven’t seen the original movie The Boiling Point, but heard lots of good things about it. So I was interested to see what the 4 part BBC drama was like. What an absolute pile of trash. Garbage camera work & directing, typical tv drama ‘Coronation Street’ acting and a stream of corny lines. No thanks, I won’t go beyond episode 1.
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I’ve been bingeing on “Crime” the Irvin Welsh detective series on ITV X. Set in Edinburgh and starring Dougray Scott, who on this evidence has been under-utilised elsewhere.
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Just finished the first series. Will start the second this weekend.
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