Never like the British one hardly likely to watch any other. I think it’s a dislike of clarkson more than anything else
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I think my favourite TV series ever. Perhaps!! Having a think.
I’ve just watched a BBC 3 parter called ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’ about a gay couple trying to adopt a child. Really good and moving. There is an unnecessary twist at the end of episode 2 and it gets a bit maudlin but overall it’s definitely worth watching
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The Hour, a 2011 BBC political thriller, set in the fifties, on Netflix.
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There does seem to be a touch too much maudlin and bleak telly on at the moment. They might be well made but frankly I could do with cheering up sometimes!
Compare The Responder to Tokyo Vice for example, both well made and not too dissimilar in thrust but while we devoured s2 of Tokyo, we’re dragging our feet on sitting down to catch up with Liverpool’s finest…
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I loved Tokyo Vice S2 but couldn’t get to the end of The Responder 
I couldn’t get past the first episode of series 1 with the responder. Not a fan of the acting the main character. Very one dimensional I thought.
I am now struggling with Rebus. Like many I’m a big fan of the books and have liked the previous Rebus TV incarnations. This one though just seems to be too obvious and too much screen violence. No surprise from episode 1, that the brother was going to be tied in to Cafferty in some way.
Does the violence really have to be shown to make it obvious? Surely the threat shown, but the detail? Poor writing and not as subtle as the books, perhaps because of the time frame of a TV series and episode lengths.
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I know everyone raves about Martin Freeman in The Responder but I think his best TV acting is in Breeders. Although it’s a ‘family comedy’ it is actually very dark and Freeman really isn’t afraid to portray himself in a very unflattering light. Really, really good
Bays of Fire on ITVX.
Just watched a good film called, The Best of Men.
Charts the new approach to the treatment for spinal injuries during WW2, the beginning and history of the Paralympic Games, starting in Stoke Mandeville by Dr Ludvig Guttmann.
DG…
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Just watched episode 1 of 3 of “The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot” on Channel 4.
It’s a docudrama based on the true story of a woman who miraculously survived a 4,000 foot parachute jump following someone tampering with her main and reserve parachutes. The “someone” was her husband.
I do remember the story in the news at the time. It combines real life interviews and footage with some of the main participants at the time, notably the wife and the two detectives who brought the case to justice, with dramatic reconstructions of some of the key events.
I’m not sure I like the way the “tricksy” ways the directors have used to interweave fact and drama, but it is a bizarre case and the husband is chillingly psychopathic. I will watch the remaining two episodes tonight.
The last Inside No.9, a little welling up in the room.
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Just read that 2 more seasons of Shogun have been commissioned. I assume it’s next two books in the series, Tai-Pan and Gai-Jin.
Not sure how I feel about this. Shogun was a stonkingly great piece of TV, whether the next two are as good or not, the risk is that its magnificence will be diluted.
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Started to watch Presumed Innocent on Apple but am immediately put off by the gloomy picture quality which is a common feature of their productions.
An offering from Walter Presents on 4: The Silence.
I’m on series 2 and it’s gripping, if you don’t mind subtitles.
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Mrs Pete and I really enjoyed Austin a joint ITV/ABC production starts off in Canberra and ends in London.
Just finished watching Orphan Black on ITVX. I was a little late to this one only discovering it a couple of months ago. Five series follow the stories of cloned sisters (mostly played by Canadian actor Tatania Mislany) and their battle against the scientists who created them. It’s serious, violent and funny. Worth watching.
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There seems to be an increasing number of car resto type programmes these days, which is fine, however some are significantly better and more interesting than others mind.
The one that fascinates me is Wheeler Dealers, talk about maximum effort for minimum profit!
Their mechanic invariably does a bang up job and they end up selling the car for a profit typically somewhere between $/£10 and $/£3,000, not including labour! And often for what seems to me a ridiculously low price.
Wish I knew when and where they’re selling.