Really enjoying Shrinking on Apple.
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It’s surprisingly fresh and funny.
Watching “ Until I kill you” on ITVx. Brilliant acting from Anna Maxwell Martin and Shaun Evans. True unpleasant murder story. But recommended.
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Just finished Mark Gattiss’s production of A Christmas Carol on BBC streaming. Recorded a live stage performance. Outstanding and refreshing after the various modern film adaptions.
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Just finished four programmes on BBC IPlayer. Hebridean Baker: Nordic Islands – Coinneach MacLeod visits Lofoten (Norway), the Faroe Islands, Gotland (Sweden) and Bornholm (Denmark). In Gaelic with Norwegian, Faroese, Swedish and Danish with English subtitles. Naturally there’s plenty of food and the landscapes are stunning. But there’s also an attempt to give an insight into nordic island life.
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Watching “The Hack” on ITVx. Star studded cast covering the News International phone hacking story. Reviews were mixed, probably because it is slow. We are enjoying it. Serious acting. Feels real.
Stars David Tennant, Toby Jones, Robert Carlyle etc. Unusual as Tennant talks to the camera/viewer at times.
I always watch the Christmas ghost story from Mark Gatiss on BBC2. The last couple of years have been a bit meh but last night’s, The Room in the Tower, was properly scary. Good turn by Joanna Lumley
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Just watched that on catch up. Was good. Looked up the writer which is quite interesting. Story written in 1912.
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Filmed at Cobham Hall Gravesend.
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Definite improvement - that Gattis one about stone statues a few years ago was the pitts. Still think that the original series from the 70s (plus ‘Schalcken The Painter’) was by far the best, especially viewed on blu-ray.
The dream sequences were pretty well done I thought - and Joanna Lumley well cast.
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I absolutely love Schalcken The Painter but my all time favourite is Dicken’s The Railwayman with Denholm Elliott
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“Department Q”.
This Netflix series is surprisingly good! It is a police drama that takes place in Scotland. I was hooked in the first 5 minutes!
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A second series on its way apparently
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Just watched “The Great Escaper” which was on on Christmas Eve. True story of 89 year old Bernard Jordan goes AWOL to the D Day commemorations in France. A fine conclusion to the careers of Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson imho. Very moving.
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Had I not read the books I would have thought it very good. Having done so I found it OK.
The TV adaptation lacked the humour of the books which balanced out the many grim scenes.
The star of the books was Assad. Presumably renamed Akram on TV to avoid having the same name as the deposed Syrian president. He played a more significant part in the books than he has, so far, on TV. His frequent mangling of the English language is extremely funny but totally absent on TV. It therefore comes as a surprise how effective a detective he is.
Carl appears far more violent than depicted in the books.
Why it was set in Edinburgh as opposed to Copenhagen is also a mystery.
I will be watching further episodes in the hope of them adhering more to the books, especially with the character development element.
Did anyone else spot the Sierra changing model from an L to a Ghia (and back again) along with registration plate changing year ?
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Just into the 2nd episode of the new TV series, Amadeus. Oh dear.
Ricky Gervais: Mortality. Not as good as I was expecting, but still good.
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Having recently joined Netflix, I’m watching Yellowstone, which appears to be a melting pot embracing elements of The Sopranos & The Wire (in the way anyone who gets in the way disappears - and then we see a war between parties), and Succession, due to the family dysfunctionality, the gift which keeps on giving. You don’t mess with Beth Dutton!
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My view as well.
And he never, when ‘reviewing’ a new place on YT, tells us if the meal was comped.
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